Title: Towards large scale silicon photonic integration

Speaker: Prof. Zhiping Zhou(Peking University, China and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

Time: 9:00(AM), Oct. 19, 2009

Venue: Academic Meeting Room, Institute of Semiconductors, CAS

Abstract：Silicon photonic integration has received a great deal of attention due to its potential as a more efficient and lower cost optical solution for high density data communications in optical fiber system and computer system. It is expected that a successful monolithic integration of silicon based photonic devices and microelectronic devices will lead to a more significant "micro optoelectronics revolution" than the well-known "microelectronics revolution".From this point of view, this talk will present recent development in silicon based photonic devices and efforts in chip scale integration, particularly, the attempts in reducing device size and energy consumption. Along the line, our own research on silicon based light sources, modulators, and other passive devices will also be presented and discussed.

About speaker：Zhiping (James) Zhou received his Ph.D. (EE) degree from Georgia Institute of Technology (GT), USA, in 1993. He was a Founder and the Vice President of Production at Hengnan Transistor Factory in China (1971-1978) and a guest scientist of NIST in USA (1987-1989). He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of SPIE, a member of OSA and a life member of PSC.From 1993 to 2005, he was with the Microelectronics Research Center at GT, where he engaged research and development in the areas of semiconductor devices and sensors; photonic devices and sensors; ultra-fast optical communications; integrated optoelectronics; nanotechnology; and vector rigorous diffraction analysis. From 2005 to 2008, he was with HUST as a “Changjiang” special professorship appointed by the Ministry of Education of China. He is now a “Changjiang” Professor at Peking University, Beijing, China. He is also an Adjunct Professor at School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of GT, USA. He has over 160 technical papers and presentations, and holds 9 patents.