OSSD Meeting
April,
2005
"Wavelength-Agile Photonic Integrated
Circuits
For Optical Wavelength Conversion"
Dr.
Milan L. Mašanovic
ECE Department
University of California Santa Barbara
This
meeting repeats a paper from the OSA's Integrated Photonics Research and Applications
(IPRA) conference which will be held the same week at a nearby location on Mission
Bay. Dr. Mašanovic will present an invited paper he gave at the IPRA meeting.
ABSTRACT:
Tunable wavelength converters represent one of the enabling technologies for future
Wavelength Division Multiplexed (WDM) optical networks, where the switching and
routing functions are expected to be pushed into the optical layer.
The
topic of this lecture will be recent developments in tunable photonic integrated
circuits for optical wavelength conversion. Special emphasis will be given to
the work leading to the world's first monolithically integrated widely tunable
all-optical wavelength converter (TAOWC), a.k.a. "tunable photon copier". Several
generations of these devices, with operation up to 40Gbps have been realized in
the indium phosphide (InP) material system, at the University of California in
Santa Barbara, as part of DARPA's Chip-Scale WDM and "Data in optical domain"
programs.
As
part of this lecture, important aspects of the monolithic integration will be
addressed including the benefits and challenges of monolithic integration, different
integration platforms and their properties, fabrication complexity, and tradeoffs
stemming from the common platform in the different component designs.
Some
useful links: http://xanadu.ece.ucsb.edu/~mashan/publications.htm
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/release/Display.aspx?PKey=1136
http://www.engineering.ucsb.edu/Announce/photon_copier.html
BIOGRAPHY:
Dr. Milan L. Mašanovic received his Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering
from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2004, where he is currently
a Research Scientist at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His research
is in the area of photonic integration, with emphasis on InP and applications
to optical wavelength conversion and other advanced optical network functions.
He has authored and co-authored more than 50 papers in the field. Dr. Mašanovic
received the 2004 IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) Graduate Student
Fellowship award as well as the 2003 Best Student Paper Award at Indium Phosphide
and Related Materials Conference. http://xanadu.ece.ucsb.edu/~mashan
