Seminar: Integrating Electro-optic Modulators and Nonlinear Optical Devices with Silicon Photonics

Speaker: Shayan Mookherjea, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD)

Abstract: Alongside a summary of the field, I will present our results in high-bandwidth and low-voltage (100 GHz, 1-2 V) electro-optic modulators, efficient (~1000 %/W) wavelength conversion between NIR and telecommunications bands, and bright and nearly-ideal parametric photon-pair sources integrated with silicon and/or silicon nitride photonics.

These high-performance devices cannot be achieved in conventional silicon photonics. Our results are recent outcomes of high-risk, high-reward projects (including international collaborators) which benefit from a study of hybrid materials, cross-disciplinary device design, and innovative fabrication of microchips leveraging the capabilities of both foundries and universities, and have been published in major journals such as Optica and Physical Review Letters, and the post-deadline papers of the OFC and CLEO conferences.

Bio: Shayan Mookherjea received the BS degree with honors from Caltech, the SM degree from MIT, and the PhD from Caltech in Electrical Engineering with a minor in Physics. He is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He leads the Integrated Photonics Group at UCSD and is a Fellow of the Optica (formerly OSA) since 2013.

https://integratedphotonics.ucsd.edu/index.html