Advanced Laser Diode Reliability

Massimo Vanzi is Full Professor of Electronics at the University of Cagliari, Italy. Previously, he worked for 14 years at the Italian telecom company, Telettra, in the Quality and Reliability Department. His research focuses on general reliability, failure physics and diagnostics of solid state devices

Laurent Béchou is Full Professor in Electronics and Physics at the University of Bordeaux, France, and Visiting Senior Researcher at the Laboratoire Nanotechnologies et Nanosystèmes (CNRS) at the University of Sherbrooke, Canada. His research mainly addresses advanced electro-optical characterization techniques, physical and failure mechanisms modeling, as well as statistical methods for lifetime prediction of optical devices and emerging photonic systems.

Mitsuo Fukuda is Senior Researcher and Professor Emeritus studying plasmonic devices at the Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan. Previously, he was a researcher studying optical semiconductor devices used for various optical fiber communication systems at the NTT Electrical Communication Laboratories.

Giovanna Mura is Assistant Professor at the University of Cagliari. Her research is mainly focused on failure physics, diagnostics of microelectronics by electron microscopy (SEM and TEM) and general methods for reliability with a special emphasis on photonic devices.