OSA/SPIE Seminar: Prof. Richard De La Rue, Wednesday Jan. 23 2008, 3:15pm

OSA / SPIE Stanford Student Chapter presents

Richard De La Rue

Professor of Optoelectronics
Glasgow University

Title: Photonic crystal, Photonic Wire and Metamaterial Nanophotonics

Wednesday, January 23, 2008
3:15pm, Ginzton building, AP 299
Refreshments at 3:00pm

Abstract

This presentation will describe recent work that pushes the performance envelope of device structures based on photonic
crystal and photonic wire principles - both in terms of optical confinement and in terms of propagation and transmission
loss reduction. Fabrication technology aspects are crucial for success in this domain. Much of the work has used the
silicon-on-insulator platform that is currently 'de rigeur' in integrated photonics, but other material combinations will
make an appearance. Silicon will also re-appear as an interesting base, i.e. substrate, for tunable metamaterial structures
that test the fabrication capabilities of even the best electron-beam lithographic machines.

About our Speaker

Richard De La Rue has been Professor of Optoelectronics at Glasgow University in Scotland since 1986. His research is
now particularly concerned with photonic crystal and photonic wire structures and with waveguide micro-cavities. His
research in the area of photonic crystals has now evolved to cover compact lasers, planar micro-cavities, photonic-crystal
light extractors for LEDs, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), synthetic opal and inverse opal structures.

Other research interests include integrated optics technology more generally, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), DFB and
DBR semiconductor lasers, quantum well intermixing, phase masks for silica waveguide photorefractive grating devices
and Terahertz electrooptics. His historic interest in lithium niobate integrated optics is currently reviving in the context of
photonic crystal structure fabrication. He has published more than 300 articles and papers in journals, as book chapters
and as conference presentations.

Current involvement in European Community funded collaborations is through the IOLOS and SPLASH projects. He has
been involved in European-scale research activity through the SMILED and PICCO projects, as well as being co-leader
for working group 2 (WG2) in the COST 268 Action on 'Wavelength Scale Photonics'. He is also deputy leader for the
COST P11 Action 'Linear, Nonlinear and Active Photonic Crystals' and participates in the ePIXnet Network of
Excellence.

He is currently general co-chair for CLEO-Europe/EQEC (Munich 2009) and leading co-chair for the 'Photonic Crystal
Materials and Devices' conference at Photonics Europe (Strasbourg 2008). For two years from mid-1999 he served as
IEEE-LEOS Distinguished Lecturer. He is a Fellow of the IEEE (FIEEE, 2003) and Fellow of the Royal Academy of
Engineering (FREng, 2002), Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE, since 1989) and Fellow of the Institution
of Electrical Engineers (now Institution of Engineering and Technology, FIET, since 1997). In 2007 he was further
honored by election as Fellow of the Optical Society of America (FOSA).