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Welcome to
EPM LAB
INTEGRATED ELECTRONIC-PHOTONIC CO-DESIGN
Our group studies integrated electronic-photonic co-design with the goal of improving the performance of electronic systems using photonic devices and improving the performance of photonic systems by incorporating electronic devices and techniques. Applications of electronic-photonic co-design include communication, imaging, Radar, LIDAR, and multi-modal bio-sensing. We design both electronic and photonic chips and package our fabricated chips to form the electronic-photonic system and we measure its performance. In monolithic approach, both electronic and photonic systems are designed and fabricated on a single platform.
We are also interested in low power integrated RF, mm-wave, and sub-mm-wave circuits and systems with applications in detection and sensing, communication, and bio-technology.
OUR RESEARCH IS SUPPORTED BY
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NEWS
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Congratulations to Farshid for publishing his Coherent multilayer photonic nanoatenna array paper (to appear on the cover of ACS). 2021.
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Congratulations to Henry for being awarded a 2021 NDSEG Fellowship.
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2020 Bell Labs Prize.
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Congratulations to Han for his Best Student Paper Award – 1st Place at RFIC 2020.
Welcome to our new PhD students Amirreza & Claire.
Congratulations to Mohamad, co-recipient of the 2019-2020 Joseph, D’16, and Rosaline Wolf Award, Best dissertation from an ESE PhD candidate.
Congratulations to Mohamad and Farshid for their PhD defense.
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Congratulations to Mohamad for publishing his Nanophotonic phase noise filter paper.
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Congratulations to Zhe Xuan for publshing his Integrated coherent optical receiver with feed-forward carrier recovery paper.
Congratulations to Zhe for defending his PhD thesis and joining Intel.
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Congratulations to Farshid for making the cover of Optica
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Penn-led Team Receives DARPA Grant to Develop Electronic-photonic Chips for Highly Efficient Data Transfer
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Penn Engineers’ New Chip Poised to Enable Hand-Held Microwave Imaging
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Firooz receives the 2019 Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award from the Office of Naval Research
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Firooz receives 2019 NASA Early Stage Innovation Award
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Congratulations to Farshid for publishing his NxN optical phased array with 2N phase shifters paper.
Congratulations to Vinay – recipient of 2018-2019 ESE Graduate Award for Best Master’s Thesis.
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Congratulations to Zhe Xuan for publishing his Frequency Locking of Lasers to RF Oscillators paper.
Congratulations to Mohamad for publishing his Laser Spectral Linewidth Reduction paper.
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Congratulations to Farshid, Pouria & Mohamad for publishing their High-resolution Optical Frequency Synthesis paper.
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Penn Engineers Develop Microchip Laser Stabilizer, Enabling Faster Data Transfer
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Congratulations to Mohamad for publishing his Integrated PDH paper.
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Congratulations to Farshid for publshing his Integrated EOPLL paper.
Congratulations to Han – recipient of 2016-2017 ESE Graduate Award for Best Master’s Thesis.
Congratulations to Pouria – recipient of 2015-2016 ESE Graduate Award for Best Master’s Thesis.