The path from the invention to the commercialization of quantum cascade lasers will be reviewed along with recent developments such as intracavity nonlinear optics with high conversion efficiency, Raman and photonic crystal quantum cascade lasers.

Federico Capasso is the Robert Wallace Professor of Applied Physics at Harvard University, which he joined in 2003 after a 27 years career at Bell Labs where he did research and held several management positions including VP for Physical Research.

He holds a doctor of Physics degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Rome, Italy. His research has spanned a broad range of topics from applications to basic science in the areas of electronics, photonics, mesoscopic physics, nanotechnology and quantum electrodynamics. He is a co-inventor of the quantum cascade laser, a fundamentally new light source, which has now been commercialized.

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