A History of PICs and VCSELs: Tribute to the Career of Larry Coldren

A History of PICs and VCSELs: Tribute to the Career of Larry Coldren

PROGRAM & LOCATION

Thursday, March 15, 2018

7:30 p.m. Bus departs from OFC Conference to UCSB Marriott Marquis, San Diego

Friday, March 16, 2018

12:00 p.m. Registration & Light Lunch Loma Pelona Center
1:00 p.m. Rod Alferness, Introduction
1:05 p.m. Henry Yang, Welcome Remarks
Session I: PICs
1:10 p.m. Rod Alferness, Session I Chair Loma Pelona Center
1:15 p.m. Milan Mashanovitch
1:25 p.m. Yasuharu Suematsu
1:35 p.m. Tetsuhiko Ikegami
1:45 p.m. Jon Klamkin
1:55 p.m. Yuliya Akulova
2:05 p.m. Gary Boyd
2:10 p.m. Tom Koch
2:20 p.m. Leif Johansson
2:30 p.m. Yoshi Nakano
2:40 p.m. Ron Nelson
2:45 p.m. Greg Fish
2:50 p.m. Steve DenBaars
3:00 p.m. BREAK
Session II: VCSELs
3:30 p.m. John Bowers, Session II Chair Loma Pelona Center
3:35 p.m. Waguih Ishak
3:45 p.m. Kenichi Iga
3:55 p.m. Herb Kroemer
4:05 p.m. Jack Jewell
4:15 p.m. Kent Choquette
4:25 p.m. Connie Chang-Hasnain
4:35 p.m. Ran Yan
4:45 p.m. Art Gossard
4:55 p.m. Brian Thibeault
5:05 p.m. Karl Ebeling slides
5:15 p.m. Open Mic
5:45 p.m. Symposium ends
6:00 p.m. Reception The Club & Guest House
7:00 p.m. Dinner
8:00 p.m. Dinner open mic

The symposium will be held at UC Santa Barbara, in the Loma Pelona Center, a 5-minute walk away from The Club & Guest House. 

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Speakers
Larry Coldren Career Slideshow Slideshow Slideshow
Art Gossard Bio
Brian Thibeault Bio Presentation
Connie Chang Bio Presentation
Gary Boyd Bio
Greg Fish Bio
Herb Kroemer Bio Presentation
Jack Jewell Bio Presentation
John Bowers Bio Presentation
Jonathan Klamkin Bio Presentation
Milan Mashanovitch Presentation
Ken Iga Bio Presentation
Kent Choquette Bio Presentation
Leif Johansson Bio Presentation
Milan Mashanovitch Bio Presentation
Ran Yan Bio Presentation
Rod Alferness Bio
Ron Nelson Bio Presentation
Steve DenBaars Bio Presentation
Tetsu Ikegami Bio Presentation
Tom Koch Bio
Waguih Ishak Bio Presentation
Yasuharu Suematsu Bio Presentation
Yoshi Nakano Bio Presentation
Yuliya Akulova Bio Presentation

GALLERY

Larry  Coldren

ABOUT LARRY

After receiving the BS in Electrical Engineering and BA in Physics in a 5-year dual-degree program from Bucknell University, Coldren joined Bell Laboratories in 1968. Under Bell Lab’s support he then attended Stanford University and received the MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1969 and 1972, respectively. After 13 years in the research area with Bell Laboratories, he joined the Electrical Engineering Department of the University of California at Santa Barbara (UCSB) in 1984. In 1986 he became a founding faculty member of the Department of Materials. From 2009 to 2011, he was acting Dean of the College of Engineering. In 1990, he co-founded Optical Concepts, later acquired as Gore Photonics, to develop novel VCSEL technology, and, in 1998, he co-founded Agility Communications, later acquired by JDSU (now Lumentum), to develop widely-tunable integrated transmitters.

At UCSB, he has worked on multiple-section widely-tunable lasers and efficient vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). He is the inventor of the ‘differing multi-element mirror’ laser, the basis of the Sampled-Grating DBR laser and several other related commercially successful embodiments, and he was first to propose VCSELs with gain elements placed only at the E-field standing wave maxima, key to all commercial VCSELs today. More recently, his group has developed high-performance InP-based photonic integrated circuits as well as high-speed, high-efficiency VCSELs. He has authored or coauthored over a thousand journal and conference papers, eight book chapters, a widely-used textbook, and 63 issued patents. These have resulted in over 20,000 citations and an H-index of 71. Most of the patents are licensed or assigned. He is a fellow of the IEEE, OSA, IEE, and the National Academy of Inventors as well as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He was a recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall Award, the 2009 Aron Kressel Award, the 2014 David Sarnoff Award, the 2015 IPRM Award, and the 2017 Nick Holonyak, Jr. Award.

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