Faculty
Professor
Lukas Chrostowski
Lukas Chrostowski received his BEng in Electrical Engineering from McGill University in 1998, and a PhD in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2004. He joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, in 2005, and promoted to full Professor in 2015.
With research interests in silicon photonics, optoelectronics, high-speed laser (VCSEL) design, fabrication and test, for applications in optical communication systems and biophotonics, he has published more than 200 journal and conference publications. He co-authored the book “Silicon Photonics Design” (Cambridge University Press, 2015). Dr. Chrostowski was the co-director of the Advanced Materials and Process Engineering Laboratory (AMPEL) Nanofabrication Facility (ANF), 2008-2016. Dr. Chrostowski is the Program Director the NSERC CREATE Silicon Electronic-Photonic Integrated Circuits (Si-EPIC) training program in Canada, and has been teaching numerous silicon photonics workshops and courses since 2008. Chrostowski received the Killam Teaching Prize at the University of British Columbia in 2014. He was an elected member of the IEEE Photonics Society 2014-2016 Board of Governors and serves as the Associate VP of Education. He was awarded a Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery Accelerator Supplements Award in 2015.
Students interested in getting hands-on experience in the design and test of silicon photonics devices may consider the new online course - Silicon Photonics Design, Fabrication and Data Analysis - offered on edX, the graduate nanophotonics course (EECE 584), and the SiEPIC workshops.
Research Areas
Research Groups
Courses
| ELEC 413 |
Semiconductor Lasers An introduction to lasers and applications. Theory, modeling, fabrication and performance of semiconductor lasers. Optical communications links. |
| ELEC 584 |
Nanophotonics Fabrication Design, fabricate, and test a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) using silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology. Modelling and design of optical components. |
| ELEC 463 |
Micro/Nanofabrication and Instrumentation Laboratory Microfabrication methods and nanofabrication techniques. Imaging and characterization of micro and nanostructures. [2-4-0] Course Objective Fabricate and measure a silicon photonic circuit, using methods similar to what is used for CMOS electronics design an optical circuit using an open-source layout tool, optical modelling TCAD software (Technology Computer Aided Design), and Matlab |
| EECE 571Q |
Electrical Engineering Seminar and Special Problems - Active Silicon Photonics Design Course Structure/Operation Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology. The layout is designed based on the fabrication technology available from IME Singapore, providing students with an opportunity to design into an advanced photonics manufacturing process. Fabrication is available, at additional cost, via CMC Microsystems. |
| EECE 571Z |
CMOS Design for Optoelectronics Applications Course Structure/Operation This is a one semester course involving lectures, projects and exams. In the previous years, this used to be only a project-based course (since September 2013). Learning Objectives By the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to: |
| ELEC 581 |
Active Silicon Photonics Design Course Structure/Operation This is a one semester, project-based course. Students propose, model, design, and layout a Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) using active silicon photonics technology. The layout is designed based on the fabrication technology available from IME Singapore, providing students with an opportunity to design into an advanced photonics manufacturing process. Fabrication is available, at additional cost, via CMC Microsystems. |
Latest Publications
| 2016 |
Effects of backscattering in high-Q, large-area silicon-on-insulator ring resonators Journal Article | Optics letters |
| 2016 |
Broadband 2$\times$ 2 adiabatic 3 dB coupler using silicon-on-insulator sub-wavelength grating waveguides Journal Article | Optics Letters |
| 2016 |
Schematic driven silicon photonics design Conference Paper | SPIE OPTO |
| 2016 |
Automatic Wavelength Tuning of Series-Coupled Vernier Racetrack Resonators on SOI Conference Paper | Optical Fiber Communication Conference |
| 2016 |
A review of wireless-photonic systems: Design methodologies and topologies, constraints, challenges, and innovations in electronics and photonics Journal Article | Optics Communications |
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