Daniel Blumenthal

Dr. Blumenthal is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of ECE at UCSB, Director of the Terabit Optical Ethernet Center and heads the Optical Communication and Atomic Quantum Photonic Integration (OCAQπ) Lab.  He holds 23 patents and has published over 480 papers in the areas of optical communications and optical packet switching, ultra-narrow linewidth integrated lasers, optical gyro sensors, and photonic integration integrated circuits, integrated atom cooling photonics, nano-photonics and microwave photonics. He is Co-Founder of Packet Photonics Inc. and Calient Networks and co-author of Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources (New York: IEEE–Wiley, 2005).

Dr. Blumenthal is recipient of the 2020 OSA C. E. K. Mees Medal, a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI), Fellow of the IEEE and Fellow of the Optical Society of America. He is recipient of a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award and an Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award.  Blumenthal received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado, Boulder (1993), the M.S.E.E. from Columbia University (1988) and the B.S.E.E from the University of Rochester (1981).