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| Title
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High Index Contrast Silicon-On-Insulator Photonics: From
Practical Limitations To New Opportunities
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| Speaker
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Prof. Shayan Mookherjea
University of California at San Diego |
| Day and Time
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Thursday, October 29, 2009, 11:15 a.m. |
| Location
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Room GB 244, Galbraith Building
University of Toronto
35 St. George Street
map - select GB |
| Organizer
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IEEE Circuits & Devices Chapter |
| Contact
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Emanuel Istrate, E-mail:
All are welcome. Refreshments will be served. |
| Abstract |
I will discuss my group's recent work on silicon on insulator (SOI)
photonics for on-chip lightwave circuits in linear and nonlinear
optics. Part of the talk will focus on disorder effects which are much
more severe for high index contrast sub-micron scale SOI photonics
than in any previous generation of integrated optics. We have shown
that some proposed
applications, such as slow light, are severely impacted by disorder.
On the other hand, disorder in SOI photonics can also enable the
realization of phenomena such as light localization, which may offer
new approaches to achieve desired functionality.
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| Biography |
Shayan Mookherjea received the BS degree from Caltech, the SM degree
from MIT, and the PhD from Caltech in Electrical Engineering. He is
Assistant Professor (2003-2008) and Associate Professor (2008-) in the
Electrical and Computer Engineering department at the University of
California, San Diego. He is an Associate Editor for Optics Express,
and program committee member for CLEO, OSA Annual Meeting, and SPIE
Photonics West. He is a member of OSA and a senior member of the IEEE
Photonics Society.
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