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SUMMARY:EE Distinguished Speakers Seminar: Recent trends in silicon photon
 ics
DTSTART:20191011T131500
DTEND:20191011T141500
DTSTAMP:20260510T064955Z
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DESCRIPTION:Roel Baets is full professor at Ghent University (UGent) and i
 s associated with IMEC. He received an MSc degree in Electrical Engineerin
 g from UGent in 1980 and a second MSc degree from Stanford in 1981. He rec
 eived a PhD degree from UGent in 1984. From 1984 till 1989 he held a postd
 octoral position at IMEC. Since 1989 he has been a professor in the Facult
 y of Engineering and Architecture of UGent where he founded the Photonics 
 Research Group. From 1990 till 1994 he has also been a part-time professor
  at Delft University of Technology and from 2004 till 2008 at Eindhoven Un
 iversity of Technology.\nRoel Baets has mainly worked in the field of inte
 grated photonics. He has made contributions to research on photonic integr
 ated circuits\, both in III-V semiconductors and in silicon\, as well as t
 heir applications in telecom\, datacom\, sensing and medicine. \nAs part 
 of a team of 9 professors Roel Baets leads the Photonics Research Group. W
 ith about 90 researchers this group is involved in numerous (inter)nationa
 l research programs and has created six spin-off companies. The silicon ph
 otonics activities of the group are part of a joint research initiative wi
 th IMEC.\nRoel Baets has led major research projects in silicon photonics 
 in Europe. In 2006 he founded ePIXfab\, the globally first Multi-Project-W
 afer service for silicon photonics. Since then ePIXfab has evolved to beco
 me the European Silicon Photonics Alliance. Roel Baets is also director of
  the multidisciplinary Center for Nano- and Biophotonics (NB Photonics) at
  UGent\, founded in 2010. He was co-founder of the European MSc programme 
 in Photonics.\nRoel Baets is an ERC grantee of the European Research Counc
 il and a Methusalem grantee of the Flemish government. He is a Fellow of t
 he IEEE\, of the European Optical Society (EOS) and of the Optical Society
  (OSA). He is also a member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sc
 iences and the Arts.\nAbstract: In the past 20 years silicon photonics ha
 s evolved from a purely academic field to an industry-relevant field with 
 millions of devices deployed in the market. Silicon photonics uses the tec
 hnology base of CMOS fabs to implement advanced photonic functions on a co
 mpact chip. Today the industrial interest is mostly focused on high speed 
 transceivers (100Gb/s and more) for datacenters and communication links\, 
 but the future potential goes far beyond datacom and telecom and encompass
 es as diverse areas as LIDAR\, sensing devices for environmental and medic
 al applications\, quantum applications\, machine learning and AI\, and muc
 h more.\nIn this lecture I will start with a brief tutorial of the field a
 s a whole. Then I will move on to a number of exciting developments that w
 ill enable novel functionalities for future applications. This will includ
 e light source integration\, nonlinear functions\, sensing functions and p
 rogrammable functions.\n 
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