Special Seminar
Bridging Photonics and Computing
Dr. Mario Paniccia
Intel Fellow
Director, Photonics Technology Lab
Corporate Technology Group, Intel Corporation
Friday, November 13, 3:15 PM, Applied Physics 200
Refreshments at 3:00 PM
Presented by the Stanford Student OSA/SPIE
Abstract:
The silicon chip has been the mainstay of the electronics industry for the last 40 years and has revolutionized the way the world operates. Today a silicon chip the size of a fingernail contains over one billion transistors and has the computing power that only a decade ago would take up an entire room of servers. Silicon photonics based mainly upon silicon on insulator (SOI) has recently attracted a great deal of attention since it offers an opportunity for low cost optoelectronic solutions for applications ranging from telecommunications down to chip-to-chip interconnects as well as possible applications in emerging areas such as optical sensing and biomedical applications.
Recent advances and research breakthroughs in silicon photonic device performance over last few years have shown that silicon can be considered as a material onto which one can build future optical devices. While significant efforts are needed to improve device performance and to “commercialize” these technologies, progress is moving at a rapid rate. If successful, silicon photonics may similarly come to dominate the optical communications as it has the electronics industry.
This keynote will provide overview of silicon photonics research at Intel Corporation, describe some of the recent advances in device performance and discuss the key building blocks needed for “siliconizing” photonics. In addition the presentation will provide an overview and discussion on potential applications and future opportunities for enabling “photonics” in and around the PC and platform. For more info: www.intel.com/go/sp
Dr. Mario Paniccia is an Intel Fellow and Director of the Photonic Technology Lab at Intel Corporation. Mario currently directs a research group focused in the area of Silicon Photonics. The team is developing silicon-based photonic building blocks for future use in enterprise and data center communications. Mario has worked in many areas of optical technologies during his career at Intel including optical testing for leading edge microprocessors, optical communications and optical interconnects. His team’s pioneering activities in silicon photonics have led to many firsts such as the first silicon modulator with bandwidth >1GHz (2004) and then the first at 40Gb/s (2007), the first continuous wave silicon laser breakthrough (2005) and, together with UCSB, the world’s first “Hybrid Silicon Laser” (2006). Mario has won numerous awards including being named one of the top 50 researchers by Scientific American in November 2004 for his team’s work in the area of silicon photonics. In October 2008 Dr Paniccia was named by R&D Magazine as “Scientist of the year.” He has published numerous papers, including 3 Nature papers, 3 book chapters, and has over 65 patents issued or pending. He is a senior member or IEEE and a Fellow of OSA. Mario earned a B.S. degree in Physics in 1988 from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Ph.D. degree in Solid State Physics from Purdue University in 1994.
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