Dr. Thomas R. Clark of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Pushing the wireless communications capacity above 100 Gbps will require new spectral regions, technologies and techniques.  Millimeter wave photonics technology appears poised to meet the new bandwidth and fidelity challenges and offers novel architectures, techniques, and system capabilities.  In this presentation we will discuss recent work developing and demonstrating millimeter wave photonic carrier generation, upconversion, downconversion and photonic millimeter wave arrays as well as how they fit into a new class of wireless communications architecture.

Biography:

Dr. Thomas R. Clark is Supervisor of the Electro-Optical and Infrared Systems and Technologies Group and a member of the Principal Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. He received the B.S. degree from Loyola College of Maryland in 1991, the M.S. degree from Lehigh University in 1993 and the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. Dr. Clark’s current research interests include the development and characterization of low-noise and ultrafast lasers, photonic systems and devices, and the application of photonics to problems in optical communications and microwave and millimeter wave systems. He has more than seventy archival publications and has been awarded nine patents to date in these and related technical areas. Dr. Clark was the General Chair for the 2016 IEEE Photonics Conference, as well as the 2015 Member-at-Large and the 2014 Program Chair. He has also been the co-Chair of the IEEE Microwave Photonics Conference Technical Program Committee, was the 2010-2012 Chair of the IEEE Photonics Society Conference Technical Committee on Microwave Photonics and the 2011 Chair of the OSA Optical Fiber Communications Conference Technical Committee on Optical Processing and Analog Subsystems.

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Dr. Thomas R. Clark of The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Biography:

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