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John Bowers receives 2017 IEEE Photonics Award

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UC Santa Barbara professor honoured for research in silicon photonics, hybrid silicon lasers, PICs and ultra low-loss waveguides

John Bowers, a professor of electrical and computer engineering and of materials at UC Santa Barbara, has been selected to receive the 2017 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Photonics Award.

The honour recognises Bowers "pioneering research in silicon photonics, including hybrid silicon lasers, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and ultra low-loss waveguides."

"Silicon photonics has the potential to revolutionise photonics and electronics by enabling low-cost, high-volume manufacturing of optical interconnects with a path toward embedding high-capacity fibre optics on circuit boards and eventually on electronic chips," said Bowers, who holds the Fred Kavli Chair in Nanotechnology at UCSB and is director of the campus's Institute for Energy Efficiency.

An internationally renowned authority on optoelectronics, Bowers has focused his expertise on silicon photonics and optoelectronics, with the goals of developing energy-efficient technology for the next generation of optical networks.

As the demand for bandwidth increases so will the strain on existing communications infrastructure. To satisfy both capacity and performance requirements, experts say, optics and photonics must be more deeply integrated into our electronics and telecommunications systems. However, fibre optics uses InP wafers and foundries, which is incompatible with electronics' silicon wafers and foundries.

The answer lies in integrating optics and electronics on the same chip so the electrical signal is converted into an optical one without equalisation. It's a process Bowers has been investigating heavily in his research and also as director for the West Coast center for AIM Photonics, a federally funded manufacturing consortium established to boost photonics manufacturing and create more skilled, high-tech jobs to the country.

Bowers, who came to UCSB in 1987, is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Inventors, a fellow of the IEEE, Optical Society of America (OSA) and the American Physical Society. He is a recipient of the OSA Holonyak Prize, and the IEEE LEOS William Streifer Award. He and colleagues received the 2007 Annual Creativity in Electronics Award for Most Promising Technology for the hybrid silicon laser.

"This is a major award," said Rod Alferness, dean of the UCSB College of Engineering, who received an IEEE Photonics Award in 2005, before coming to UCSB. "The IEEE Photonics Award is the most prestigious recognition of contributions to the field of photonics and optics. John Bowers' work in integrated silicon photonics is leading the way to the future of electronics and telecommunications."

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