2017 Light Science Workshop

Join the UCSB Photonics Society for their 2017 Light Science Workshop for a day of talks and presentations about the cutting edge in photonics research and career opportunities in this blossoming industry. The event will feature a keynote speaker, technical and non-technical presentations, Q&A panels, a job fair and a poster session!

Transportation Energy - What is Best?

The use of petroleum in transportation causes air pollution, water pollution, climate change, instability in energy markets, and other problems. In this talk, I draw on a wide range of energy, economic, environmental, and socio-demographic analyses to show that the best way to address these problems is to electrify transportation as part of an energy system based (almost) entirely on wind, water, and solar power.

Where Imperfections Lead to Opportunity: Photonic Defect-Based Devices in SiC

There is often a natural assumption that “perfect form” of a material is required to produce “perfect functioning” of a device, where the function may relate to precision sensing, or the storing or transmission of information. Recently, however, there has been excitement about the performance of defects in crystalline semiconductors such as diamond and SiC. The defects are deviations from perfect, periodic crystalline order, yet can manifest optical emission at a variety of wavelengths, distinctively coupled to long spin coherence times.

Nonlinear Integrated Silicon Photonics

Silicon photonics offer a tight integration of a variety of active and passive optical and electrical components, and gained so much interest in the last decade that it is now considered one of the most promising technology for photonics applications [1]. Building on the mature fabrication techniques first developed for microelectronics allows creating photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with a high density of optical components, in high volumes and at low costs.

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