Current PhD Students (8)
- Hyunah Kim – Quantum cascade photonic devices, noise properties and squeezed light (Expected 2026)
- Mingzhao Shi – Frequency combs, quantum dot lasers on silicon (Expected 2026)
- Nour Nawfal – Integrated photonics for coherent free-space optical communications in the mid-infrared (Expected 2026)
- Emmanuel Bourgon – Semiconductor lasers in a high-quality factor cavity through hybrid integration (Expected 2026)
- Alberto Breton – Adaptive optics for wireless optical telecommunications through fog and clouds (Expected 2026)
- Zhangdi Chen – Integrated Mach-Zehnder Modulators on InP for Applications in 800Gb/s Data Center (Expected 2026)
- Sara Zaminga – Modeling of quantum cascade lasers, chaos communications in the mid-infrared (Expected 2025)
- Shirley Prado De La Cruz – High-speed transmitters based on integrated photonic circuits for optical access networks (Expected 2025)
People from the group interacting with Prof. John Bowers from UC Santa Barbara
Former Visiting Professors and Research Scholars
- Dr. T. Poletti
- Prof. M. Osinski – The University of New Mexico, USA
- Dr. T. Newell – Air Force Research Laboratory, USA
- Dr. K. Schires – not self-entrepreneur
- Dr. J. Duan – now at Harbin Institute of Technology
- Dr. C. Wang – now at ShanghaiTech University
- Dr. O. Spitz – now at CREOL, University of Central Florida
- Dr. R. Raghunathan – now at VirginiaTech
Completed PhDs (15)
- Di Cui – Noise and dynamics of hybrid plasmonic semiconductor lasers for integrated optical communications (2025)
- Shiaho Ding – Exploring the nonlinear dynamics and amplitude-squeezing of quantum dot lasers (2024)
- Shiyuan Zhao – Noise, dynamics and squeezed light in quantum dot and interband cascade lasers (2023)
- Pierre Didier – Mid-infrared quantum cascade devices for FSO, security, and microwave photonics (2023)
- Jannik Ehlert – Modeling of external cavity semiconductor lasers for metrology (2022)
- Bozhang Dong – QD lasers on silicon: nonlinear properties, dynamics (2021)
- Sandra Gomez – Dynamics and feedback in hybrid III-V/silicon lasers (2020)
- Olivier Spitz – Coherent QCLs for MIR applications (2019)
- Jianan Duan – Nonlinear dynamics of QD lasers for PICs (2019)
- Antonin Gallet – Hybrid III-V silicon lasers (2019)
- Jean-Maxime Sarraute – Modulated optical transmitters for short links (2018)
- Heming Huang – Nonlinearities in QD lasers for high-speed comms (2017)
- Louise Jumpertz – Nonlinear photonics in QCLs (2016)
- Cheng Wang – Dynamical properties of nanostructure lasers (2015)
- Kiril Veselinov – Simulations of optoelectronic QD components (2007)