Conference on Lasers and Electro-optics started today:
osa.org
4:00pm
JMD2
Recent Advances and Future Prospects in Semiconductor Lasers
Donald R. Scifres, SDL, Inc., USA
Today's semiconductor lasers come in a variety of shapes, sizes, materials, wavelengths, speeds, powers, and designs. Performance levels include wavelengths from 400 nm to 10 m and beyond, average powers up to kilowatts, and direct modulation rates of better than 20 GHz. These results are achieved by configurations ranging from single emitters to
dense arrays, with emitter geometries that include edge-emitting FabryPerot lasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers, flared lasers, alpha-DFB lasers, EMLs, and quantum cascade lasers, among many others. This talk will provide an overview of the state-of-the-art in the field of semiconductor lasers as well as highlight some of the applications that are enabled by the rapidly developing semiconductor laser technology.
Donald R. Scifres is chairman and chief executive officer of SDL, Inc., a manufacturer of semiconductor lasers, fiber optic related products and optoelectronic-based systems with headquarters in San Jose, California. In 1983, Dr. Scifres helped to found SDL.
Dr. Scifres received his BS degree from Purdue University in 1968, and the MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Illinois in 1970 and 1972, respectively. From 1972 to 1983, Dr. Scifres was a Xerox Research Fellow and Manager of Opto-Electronics at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Dr. Scifres and his colleagues have made many contributions to the fields of semiconductor lasers, fiber optics and optoelectronic integrated circuits. He has been issued over 100 U.S. patents and has published over 300 technical articles including contributions to the books Molecular Beam Epitaxy (Pergammon Press, 1980) and Diode Laser Arrays (Cambridge University Press, 1994). In 1985, Dr. Scifres and his colleagues were awarded the IEEE Jack Morton Medal for their work on distributed feedback injection lasers and high power laser diode arrays. Dr. Scifres has also received the IEEE LEOS Award for Engineering Excellence, the Optical Society of America Edward H. Land Medal and the American Physical Society 1997 George E. Pake Prize.
Dr. Scifres is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of IEEE as well as the Optical Society of America. He presently serves on the OSA Board of Directors. He is a past president of the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society of IEEE and served as a member of the LEOS Board of Governors for a number of years. Dr. Scifres also served as President of LEOMA, the Lasers and Electro Optics Manufacturers Association, the US industry trade group. Dr. Scifres is a member of the American Physical Society and SPIE.
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