Discover how nonreciprocal devices such as optical isolators and circulators serve a key performance function in photonic integrated circuits, preventing cross-talk and feedback. Learn about their design, test characterization and PIC process integration.
Discover how nonreciprocal devices such as optical isolators and circulators serve a key performance function in photonic integrated circuits, preventing cross-talk and feedback. Learn about their design, test characterization and PIC process integration.
Nonreciprocal devices such as optical isolators and circulators prevent undesired cross-talk and feedback between different parts of a photonic circuit and are therefore essential components of photonic integrated circuits (PICs).
Basic background in passive and active integrated photonics devices.
Professor Hu earned a BS in materials science and engineering at Tsinghua University in 2004 and a PhD in the same discipline at MIT in 2009. Before joining MIT, he was an assistant professor at the University of Delaware from 2010 to 2014. Professor Hu is a fellow of professional societies the American Ceramics Society, Optica, and SPIE.
Caroline Ross is Toyota Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She received her undergraduate and PhD degrees from Cambridge University, UK, was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard, and worked at Komag, a hard disk company, before joining MIT.
Prof. Ross studies the magnetic properties of thin films and nanostructures for data storage and logic applications, and methods for creating nanoscale structures based on directed self-assembly and lithography.