IEEE Photonics Society Meeting on October 9, 2014
Topic: SILICON PHOTONICS
Thursday, October 9, 2014, 12:00 PM CT.

Location: Virtual (webex)
Link will be sent after sending request to umnovjp@yahoo.com

Abstract: Silicon Photonics has acquired a reputation as the technology of the future for Photonic Integration that has lasted for more than two decades. This talk will present recent activities in this field at Kotura, Inc. and other companies that strongly suggest the future has arrived. Starting with basic principles of silicon photonics, the presentation will cover performance of variable attenuators, wavelength mux and demux structures, structures for coherent QPSK receivers, monolithic integration of Ge detectors, silicon high-speed modulators and system-on-a-chip concepts for data communications. As illustrations of these building blocks, the talk will also present product concepts applicable to WDM telecom networks.

Biography: Dr. Lawrence Stark received his MSc and PhD at Cornell University in the field of high-speed semiconductor devices. In 1986, he joined Ortel Corporation where he managed the development and commercialization of fiber optic products for RF and microwave transmission over fiber optic links, including Ortel’s products for HFC networks in the CATV field. At Kotura, he was responsible for product management and sales of Kotura’s high-speed silicon photonics products. A long-time member of the IEEE, Dr. Stark has been a speaker on numerous topics related to broadband fiber optic networks and optical device performance. He was earlier a chairman of the IEEE MTT-S chapter in the San Francisco area and co-chairman of the Local Arrangements committee for the MTT-S technical conference in San Francisco in 1984. Currently he is working on startup opportunities in the field of integrated optics for 100G interconnect cables.