CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Speaker: Jonathan Klamkin, Professor, UC Santa Barbara and Director of UCSB Nanofab

Talk Title: Integrated Photonics: It's Always About High Performance

Series: CA DREAMS - Technical Seminar Series

Abstract: Photonics integrated circuits (PICs) are now widely deployed for optical communications. And more recently, the demand for higher speed, lower latency, and lower power consumption interconnects has increased significantly to support AI infrastructure. These optical interconnects are also a viable approach to move data from array-based systems such as focal plane arrays and RF phased arrays. This presentation will describe highly complex PICs for RF photonics, optical interconnects, and sensors, as well as heterogeneous integration methods to bridge high-performance active components with silicon photonics. While the community tends to think of silicon as the means to low cost, integrated photonics has always been about high performance.

Biography: Jonathan Klamkin received the B.S. degree from Cornell University, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB). From 2008-2011 he was a member of the Technical Staff at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. From 2011-2013 he was an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Communication, Information and Perception Technologies (TeCIP), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy. From 2013-2015 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) and Materials at Boston University. In 2015 Professor Klamkin joined the ECE Department at UCSB where he leads the Integrated Photonics Laboratory (iPL) and serves as Director of the UCSB Nanofab. He has published 250 journal and conference papers, more than 30 issued and pending patents, and has delivered more than 120 invited, keynote and plenary presentations. Professor Klamkin is the recipient of the NASA Early Career Faculty Award, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, the DARPA Director's Fellowship, and the PIERS Young Scientist Award. He is a Fellow of Optica.

Host: Dr. Steve Crago

More Info: https://www.isi.edu/events/5730/integrated-photonics-its-always-about-high-performance/

Webcast: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon

WebCast Link: https://usc.zoom.us/j/97017422125?pwd=Dbrt8MNMrmBV3xalKQJcAiNsggFJjJ.1&from=addon

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Amy Kasmir

Event Link: https://www.isi.edu/events/5730/integrated-photonics-its-always-about-high-performance/

This event is open to all eligible individuals. USC Viterbi operates all of its activities consistent with the University's Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or any other prohibited factor.

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