Abstract
Integrated photonics has the potential to greatly reduce the size, weight, and power (SWaP) while improving the performance and reliability of photonic systems. This technology has already impacted telecommunications and is expected to transform data center communications, high performance computing, microwave photonics, and sensing. This talk will describe examples of integrated photonic technologies being developed in our research group and also discuss a novel application for integrated photonics, namely, space optical communications. In addition to enhancing space exploration, space optical communications can deliver broadband connectivity to remote locations and can assist in disaster recovery. Integrated photonics is an ideal technology for deploying high performance, space qualified, and low SWaP photonic systems into space.
Biography
Jonathan Klamkin is an Associate Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) where he leads the Integrated Photonics Group. He received the B.S. degree from Cornell University in 2002, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from UCSB in 2004 and 2008, respectively. From 2008-2011 he was a Member of the Technical Staff in the Electro-Optical Materials and Devices Group at MIT Lincoln Laboratory. From 2011-2013 he was an Assistant Professor and Director of the Integrated Photonic Technologies Center at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. From 2013-2015 he was an Assistant Professor in ECE and Materials at Boston University. Prof. Klamkin is an Associate Editor of Photonics Technology Letters. He received best paper awards at the 2006 Conference on Optoelectronic and Microelectronic Materials and Devices and the 2007 Microwave Photonics Conference. He is the recipient of a NASA Early Career Faculty Space Technology Research Grant, an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship, and a Marie Curie Fellowship. Prof. Klamkin has authored or coauthored 100 papers and holds 3 patents. He is a senior member of both the IEEE and the OSA.