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Driving Force

By Guest PostOctober 20, 2012Sciencechip scale, couplers, delaware, electronic, fabrication, fiber optics, integration, john wright, michael hochberg, modulators, opsis, optical equivalents, optoelectronic, photonic, photonic circuits, photonics devices, photonics revolution, shuttle runs, silicon, silicon substrate, silicon wafers, startups, system, systems, university, waveguides

UD prof leads photonics revolution to help researchers access high-tech foundry services

Michael Hochberg joined the University of Delaware in the spring of 2012 as an associate professor in electrical and computer engineering.

An industry leader in silicon photonics and large-scale photonic-electronic integration, Hochberg is renowned for establishing Optoelectronic Systems Integration in Silicon (OpSIS), a high-tech foundry service for silicon photonics in which the community shares the cost of fabricating complex chip-scale systems across many projects. (more…)

Laser-based Missile Defense for Helicopters being Developed

By Guest PostSeptember 2, 2010Weaponsafghanistan, combat, fiber optics, helicopters, Iraq, laser technology, mid-infrared supercontinuum lasers, missiles, mohammed islam, shoulder-launched missiles, university of michigan

ANN ARBOR, Mich.— Protecting helicopters in combat from heat-seeking missiles is the goal of new laser technology created at the University of Michigan and Omni Sciences, Inc., which is a U-M spin-off company.

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