Prof.Mario Dagenais of University Of Maryland, College Park, MD

In this presentation, we will discuss our recent results on nanophotonic integration using a SiN/SiO2 platform. In particular, we will discuss high quality factor (Q) Fabry-Perot Bragg grating resonators, theremoval of OH emission lines in the earth atmosphere for astrophotonics applications, high resolving power (/) spectrometers-on-a-chip that uses arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs), 3-point astigmatically compensated AWGs, a new high resolving power AWG based on reusable delay lines(ADL-AWG), an add-drop multiplexer with complex Bragg gratings for quantum applications, andapplications of filters for achieving narrow linewidth semiconductor lasers.

Biography:

Mario Dagenais received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Rochester in 1978 workingin Quantum Optics and photon correlations under the direction of Professor Leonard Mandel. He made the first observation of photon antibunching. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University from 1978 to 1980, where he worked in nonlinear optics with Professor Nicolaas Bloembergen. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at GTE Laboratories on photonic switching and semiconductor lasers. He joined the University of Maryland in 1987 where he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1991. He has more than 300 archival and conference publications. He has co-chaired several national and international meetings. From 1994 to 2000, he was co-director of the NSF sponsored industry-university cooperative research center (IUCRC) on optoelectronic devices, interconnect and packaging. He was also previous associate editor for Optics Letters, Applied Optics and IEEE Photonics Journal. Professor Dagenais was VP membership for the Americas for the IEEE Photonics Society. Professor Dagenais is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, a Fellow of IEEE, and a Fellow of the Electromagnetic Society.

Address:Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering, , University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland , United States