Colin Mitchell
Colin Mitchell received his PhD from UMIST in 2005 for work in strained and strain compensated materials for intersubband optical devices (QCL and QWIP). He is currently employed as a Research Fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the University of Southampton. His work focuses mainly on laser integration (on-chip) with group IV materials and developing nanoparticle-enhanced rare earth-doped dielectric waveguide lasers. Other work include projects on the germanium platform for detection and optical integration across the infrared spectrum and systems for standoff detection.
He worked at The University of Manchester between 2005 and 2010 investigating materials for optical and high speed devices. He has also worked for Hyundai Semiconductors Europe and on projects with various industrial and government partners leading to professional qualifications in project management – Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) with the Project Management Institute (PMI). During his PhD he won an IEEE best conference paper for his work on high strained and strain compensated near infrared intersubband optical devices.
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Ali Khokhar
Dr Khokhar has an MSc and PhD from the University of Glasgow. He is working in the field of micro and nano device fabrication since 2001. He is an electron beam (e-beam) lithography specialist and holding the post of Senior Research Fellow at the University of Southampton.
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Xia Chen
Dr. Xia (Ken) Chen is a senior research fellow at ORC, University of Southampton. Xia received his BEng and PhD degrees in Electronic Engineering from the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), in 2006 and 2010, respectively. After graduation, he worked on the UK Silicon Photonic Project in University of Surrey and University of Southampton. In December 2013, he joined Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd as a Senior Engineer to work on photonic packaging for silicon photonic devices. In 2015, he rejoined University of Southampton. He was awarded the TSMC Outstanding Student Research Award in 2010, and the Newton International Fellowship by the Royal Society in 2011. He has authored or coauthored over 80 papers in technical journals and international conferences and 4 patent applications.
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Ke Li
Ke Li (M’10) received his MSc.degree in radio-frequency communications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic engineering from the University of Southampton U.K, in 2005 and 2010, respectively. He has nine years (14 chips) silicon proven experience in fully customized analogue and microwave signals (>40Gb/s) CMOS IC design down to 28nm by using variety industry standard processes. He is currently a research fellow with the silicon photonics group in Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton. He is also working with Wireless Communication Group in the School of Electronics and Computer Science to investigate the physical implementation of fully parallel LDPC/Tuobe decoders. His Research interest includes design of high speed modulator driver and TIA circuit, modelling and design of ultra-wide band VCO and PLL circuit.
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Callum G. Littlejohns
Dr Callum Littlejohns completed his PhD in the field of Silicon Photonics at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton in March 2015, having previously obtained a First Class Honours degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Surrey. He has now begun his career as a Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, but remains part of the Silicon Photonics group as a visitor. He has a track record of excellence, having received multiple awards throughout his academic life, including the Information Overload category winner at the 2015 EPSRC ICT Pioneers Award and the runner-up prize in the Best Student Poster award at the 2014 Optoelectronics Research Centre Photonics Day. His work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed journals including Scientific Reports, a Nature Publishing Group journal. His work was also selected as a prestigious post-deadline paper at the IEEE Group IV Photonics conference in Paris, 2014. The work completed during Callum’s PhD has been protected by two separate patents, both fully supported by the University of Southampton.
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Antulio Tarazona
Antulio Tarazona has combined commercial activities, at corporate and start up level, with academic research. He has over 20 years’ experience carrying out research and development in thin film deposition systems, computational chemistry, vacuum design and surface characterisation in different countries; including, Venezuela, Japan, Germany and the UK. From 2001 until his departure in 2006, after 4 years in R&D in BOC Edwards, he focused with the same company on business activities ranging from technical sales to business development in the semiconductor and solar sectors. Amongst his commercial achievements with BOC Edwards was the conception and introduction of an integrated system for treating and recycling the exhaust stream in the solar thin film production, generating revenue potential in excess of £6M.
He joined the Silicon Photonics group in April 2014 to develop low temperature Silicon as part of an EPSRC-funded programme to investigate multi-layered silicon photonics platforms.
He has a Physics degree from UCV in Caracas (Venezuela), a MsEng in Electronics from Tohoku University in Sendai (Japan) and a PhD in Applied Physics from Duesseldorf Univeristy (Germany).
He is fluent in English, German, and Spanish plus conversational Japanese knowledge.
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Milan Milosevic
Dr. Milan Milosevic is a research fellow at the Optoelectronics Research Centre, University of Southampton, working on both industry and research council funded projects, led by Prof. Graham Reed. Previously he was working as an engineer and technology consultant in the US and Japan, and as a research fellow at the University of Surrey where he also obtained his PhD degree and received the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Early Career Excellence in 2012. He is particularly involved in high speed optical transceiver technology and is one of the pioneers in mid-infrared silicon photonics technology for emerging applications.
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Jordi Soler Penades
After my graduation with a BEng (Hons) in electronic engineering from the University of Surrey in 2012 I enrolled in a PhD programe with the Silicon Photonics group at the University of Southampton. My research has been based in mid-infrared passive devices for sensing applications. We developed waveguides, slot waveguides, sub-wavelength suspended waveguides, multimode interferometers (MMI), angled MMI, grating couplers and Mach–Zehnder interferometers both in SOI and in materials transparent in a wider transmission band in the mid-IR like suspended silicon, germanium on silicon and amorphous germanium. The main of my current research is to produce a sensing platform for the mid-IR region of the spectrum.
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Cosimo Lacava
Cosimo is a Senior Research Fellow in the ORC. He graduated with honours in Electronic Engineering at the University of Pavia in 2011. He then joined the Quantum Electronics research group at the University of Pavia, as PhD student, working on nonlinear optical properties of compact, integrated waveguides, mainly made by using the silicon photonics platform. He obtained his PhD in Optoelectronics and Electronic Engineering in 2014. He continued working at the Quantum Electronics Laboratory as Postdoc researcher, working on the development of novel Silicon Photonics transceiver device for the next generation optical network, in the frame of the “Fabulous” European Project. At the end of 2014 he moved to Southampton to join ORC. His research interests are: nonlinear optics , all optical signal processing, silicon photonic devices and integrated optics.
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Milos Nedeljkovic
Milos is a research fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre in the University of Southampton, working on the EPSRC funded project DzMIGRATIONdz, lead by Prof. Goran Mashanovich. His research is in the field of mid-infrared group-IV material photonics, focusing on integrated photonic devices with possible applications in a broad range of sensing related applications. He has authored or coauthored more than 80 papers in technical journals and international conferences. He was also selected to attend the Global Young Scientists Summit in Singapore in 2014, and received the Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering Dean’s Award for Early Career Excellence in 2015. He completed his Ph.D., entitled DzSilicon photonic modulators for the mid-infrareddz at the ORC in 2014, having started his PhD at the University of Surrey and moved to Southampton with the other members of the Silicon Photonics group in 2012. Previously he received his undergraduate Master’s degree in Communications Engineering from Durham University in 2009.
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Mehdi Banakar
Mehdi received his bachelor’s degree in 2005 and a Master degree with distinction from the University of Southampton in 2008. His PhD at University ofSouthampton was in DzSub-micron texturing for photovoltaic antireflection and light-trappingdz, he has explored 3 novel anti-reflection schemes based on sub-micron scale texturing of silicon and received his degree in 2015.He has a strongbackground in photovoltaic, extensive experience with micro/nanofabrication processes. Mehdi joined The Silicon photonic Group in 2015 to explore optical modulation/detection and integration.
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Abdul Shakoor
Abdul Shakoor received PhD in optoelectronics from University of St Andrews, Scotland and he is Erasmus Mundus scholar, which funded his 2 years European masters in photonics programme run jointly by university of St Andrews, Scotland, University of Ghent, Belgium and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden. He obtained first degree (Bachelors of Engineering in Avionics) from National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan. His main interest is developing novel integrated photonic devices for telecommunication and sensing applications. Since February 2017, he has been working as a research fellow in the silicon photonics group of Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC). Prior to joining ORC, he worked as a research associate at University of Glasgow and Basic Research Laboratories of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT-BRL), Japan. His research highlights include development of electrically pumped on-chip silicon nano light source operating at telecommunication wavelengths with high power spectral density, development of silicon electro-optic modulator operating with sub fJ/bit switching energy and monolithic integration of nanophotonic structures with CMOS detectors for sensing applications.
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Han Du
Han Du received his BS degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) in 2012 and his PhD degree from University of Singapore (NUS) in 2016, respectively. Currently he is working as Research Fellow in the silicon-photonics group at Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC), University of Southampton. His research areas include silicon photonic devices, optomechanics, MEMS/NEMS, etc. Han is special in fabrication of micro/nano silicon photonic devices. He has authored and co-authored over 10 journal and conference papers.
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Alexandre Bazin
Alexandre Bazin graduated with a Master in Quantum Devices and Nanosystems from Université Paris-Diderot (France) in 2009. His PhD work focused on Hybrid Silicon-On-Insulator/III-V photonic crystal nanolasers at the Laboratoire de Photonique et de Nanostructures-CNRS (now C2N) in the south of Paris where, in particular, he demonstrated optical memory effects lasting more than 2s with ultra-low switching energy (sub-fJ). After the completion of his PhD in 2013, he worked as a post-doc researcher at the University of Tokyo on thermoelectric applications using a silicon phononic approach, before joining, in 2014, the Photonic department at Ghent University & IMEC (Leuven) to study optomechanical effects (Stimulated Brillouin Scattering, Cavity Optomechanics) in the Silicon-On-Insulator platform and integration of 2D material (Graphene, TMDCs). His current work is granted by the COSMICC European project and will be dedicated to the development of new generations of ultra-fast SiGe modulators as well as new demonstrators in the hybrid SiN/SOI platform. He joined the Silicon Photonics Group in in May 2017.
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Xingzhao Yan
Xingzhao Yan received his B.Eng. in Telecommunication Engineering from the School of Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University of Essex and M.Sc. in Nanoelectronics and Nanotechnology from the School of Electronics and Computer Sciences, Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering, University of Southampton. From 2013 to 2017, he was working towards to his PhD in rare-earth-doped solid-state nanowire waveguide lasers with intensive cleanroom working experience. He joined the Silicon Photonics Group in July 2017 and is working with the CORNERSTONE project.
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Vinita Mittal
Vinita received her PhD entitled ‘Mid-infrared integrated photonics devices for biosensing’, supervised by Prof. James Wilkinson and Dr. Senthil Ganapathy, at the ORC in 2017. She received her master’s degree in Materials Science and Engineering, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India in 2012. Her research focuses on the fabrication and characterisation of integrated photonic devices for applications in the near and mid-infrared regions. Her interests lie in exploring novel photonics materials, device fabrication and characterization, and spectroscopy.
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Weiwei Zhang
Weiwei Zhang joined the group from September 2017 as research fellow, focusing on advanced silicon modulator design and fabrication. Previously, he received his B.S. from East China Normal University (Shanghai, 2012) and Master degree of nanoscience from École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (2013, now is École Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay). From 2013, he joined the Center for NanoScience and Nanotechnology, University Paris Sud (University Paris Saclay) for his PhD/Postdoc under ANR POSISLOT project (Erbium-doped material hybrid integration, on-chip optical amplifier), and CARTOON FP7 project (Carbon nanotube photonic devices on silicon). His research fields include silicon photonic device design and fabrication, nanomaterial integration on chip and photoluminescence characterization, photonic/plasmonic cavities, slow light, sensing and nonlinear optics.
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Thalia Dominguez Bucio
Dr. Thalia Dominguez Bucio is a research fellow in the Silicon Photonics group at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. She recieved her B.S degree in electronic and computer engineering from the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico, 2012) and her M.Sc in photonic technologies from the University of Southampton (UK 2013). In 2018 she recieved her PhD degree for her thesis entitled "NH3-free PECVD Silicon Nitride for Photonic Applications" at the ORC. Her research interests lie in the development of new material platforms, particularly silicon nitride, for photonic applications.
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Dave Rowe
Dave is a research fellow in Silicon Photonics, specialising in clinical applications and microfluidic integration for mid-infrared spectroscopy. He joined the group in 2018, having previously spent five years in the Integrated Photonic Devices group at the ORC. He received his BEng in Electronic Engineering from Cardiff University in 2009. He completed his PhD (‘Microfluidic microwave resonant sensors’) between the Schools of Engineering and Pharmacy at Cardiff University in 2012. He has received various undergraduate and postgraduate awards including the 2011 Institute of Physics Mansell Davies Award.
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Bigeng Chen
Dr. Bigeng Chen received his BEng and PhD degree in 2010 and 2016 from Zhejiang University, respectively. After graduation he started his post-doc career in School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southampton, on the subject of hybrid plasmonic/photonic integrated circuits. In 2018 he joined Silicon Photonics Group as a research fellow working on silicon-based high speed optoelectronic modulators for near-infrared range. He has authored or co-authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in high-impact journals such as Nature Communications, Nano Letters, and Optics Express. He also received the award of National Excellent Doctoral Thesis on Optics for 2016 awarded by The Chinese Optical Society.
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