Enabling chip-scale trace-gas sensing systems with silicon photonics

Event details
Date | 22.03.2018 |
Hour | 15:15 › 16:15 |
Speaker | Will GREEN, PhD, Senior Manager of the Material, Devices and Integrated Systems Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center |
Location | |
Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Natural gas leaks from production wells and pipelines pose a significant environmental risk due to the strong greenhouse effect caused by its main constituent, methane. We present a silicon photonic trace-gas sensing platform, which uses laser spectroscopy to realize cost-effective sensor networks for fugitive methane emission monitoring.
Bio:
Dr. Will Green is Senior Manager of the Materials, Devices, and Integrated Systems Department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. He received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 2005. His primary research activities encompass design and enablement for optical devices and integrated optoelectronic systems, in support of next-generation high-speed optical interconnects. In addition, Dr. Green has studied near- and mid-infrared silicon photonic platforms for nonlinear optical generation and on-chip molecular trace gas spectroscopy, with applications to environmental monitoring. His work has been acknowledged through awards including the 2016 IBM Outstanding Technical Accomplishment Award, 2012 IBM Corporate Award, and the 2012 IEEE Photonics Society Young Investigator Award. Dr. Green has served on the technical organizing committees for numerous OSA and IEEE conferences. He is a Senior Member of both the IEEE and the OSA.
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Organizer
- Tobias Kippenberg
Contact
- Philippe Gay-Balmaz