Andrei Caliman

Andrei Caliman received the master’s degree in solid state physics from Moldova State University in 1983. He has more than 30 years of work experience in Research and Development as well as manufacturing of semiconductor devices: edge emitting semiconductors lasers, VCSELs and VECSEL for different applications such as gas sensing and optical data communications. Since 2002, he has been involved in developing and fabrication of long wavelength wafer fused VCSELs and VECSELS at LPN Laboratory EPFL, Switzerland, BeamExpress SA, Switzerland, and LakeDiamond SA, Switzerland. He is currently working on development and fabrication of diamond-based high-power IR disc lasers with LakeDiamond SA. He is a coauthor of two patents and more than 100 scientific articles and conference communications.