ITEE seminar: Associate Professor Kamal Alameh, 10.00AM, Thu 23 Oct 2003

Reconfigurable MicroPhotonic Systems

Speaker: Associate Professor Kamal Alameh, Research Director, Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems (CMPS), Edith Cowan University

When: 10.00AM, Thursday 23 Oct 2003

Venue: 78-420

Host: Professor Stuart Crozier

Abstract:

  This seminar will discuss two areas of MicroPhotonics
  research. First among them will be a review of research on
  MicroPhotonic devices based on Opto-ULSI processors. Topics to be
  covered will be successes in qualitatively and quantitatively
  demonstrating the steering and multicasting capabilities of
  Opto-ULSI processors as well as novel algorithms that allow
  real-time optimisation of MicroPhotonic devices.  This portion of
  the seminar will also discuss integration to facilitate the
  commercialization of MicroPhotonic devices.  The other part of the
  seminar will be a brief overview of other MicroPhotonic research
  areas including MicroPhotonic RF signal processing, MicroPhotonic
  based broadband smart antenna beamforming, and optical header
  recognition for packet switched optical networks.

Biography:

 
  Kamal Alameh is an Associate Professor, with the School of
  Engineering and Mathematics, and the Research Director of the Centre
  of Excellence for MicroPhotonic Systems, Edith Cowan University,
  WA. He is currently engaged in research on (i) novel integrated
  Opto-ULSI processors that realise dynamic photonic components for
  future optical telecommunications networks, (ii) intelligent passive
  optical networks for fibre-to-the-home applications, (iii)
  Multifunction MicroPhotonics processors for intelligent optical
  networks, (iv) multiport optical amplifiers, (v) intelligent
  photonics-based broadband smart antenna architectures for wireless
  communications networks, and (vi) reconfigurable RF photonic signal
  processors. His strategic plan and research directions and write-ups
  enabled Edith Cowan University to win the $40m WA-government-funded
  Centre of Excellence for MicroPhotonics Systems, in which Kamal is
  now the Research Director.

  Before joining Edith Cowan University Kamal was the Director of
  Photonics Engineering with Intelligent Pixels, Incorporation, USA,
  working on developing a 64?64 LCOS-based intelligent reconfigurable
  optical switch for future telecommunications networks. At
  Intelligent Pixels, he made fundamental contributions towards the
  development of RayChip, which is the biggest 4-phase
  polarization-insensitive Opto-VLSI processor in the world.

  He formerly occupied the post of Senior Research Fellow with the
  Photonics Group at the University of Sydney, where he worked for 10
  years. At Sydney University, he was an active member of Australian
  Photonics Cooperative Research Centre (APCRC). He made fundamental
  contributions in the field of photonic systems: He was the first to
  (i) propose new concepts for microwave high-Q notch filtering based
  on non-commensurate photonic transversal filter structures, (ii)
  propose novel WDM Bragg-grating-based beamforming networks for
  multi-beam phased array radar, (iii) provide a novel analytical
  expression for the intermodulation products in subcarrier
  multiplexed (SCM) lightwave transmission systems. Furthermore, he
  made exceptional contributions in the design and development of
  superposed Bragg gratings that realise picosecond true time delay
  and in the area of tuned optical receivers. He has had 7 patents and
  published more than 60 papers and has given a number of invited
  presentations at national and international conferences, generally
  on the topics of high-speed photonic signal processing, RF photonic
  signal processing, in-fibre Bragg gratings, photonics-based phased
  array antennas, and liquid-crystal-based Opto-VLSI processor
  applications.

  Associate Professor Kamal Alameh in collaboration has won several
  ARC research grants as well as a collaborative project grant with
  the Optical Fibre Technology Centre, Sydney University, and acted as
  a consultant in 10 externally-funded projects for the photonic
  industry. He is an OSA reviewer, and an IEEE Member. He has served
  as a co-chair in SCI2003 Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2003,
  CCCT2003 Conference, Orlando, Florida, USA, 2003, and APMC, Sydney,
  2000, and he is the publication chair for the 2nd International
  Workshop on Electronic Design, Test and Application (DELTA 2004),
  Perth, January 2004, and Chair of the Special Session on
  MicroPhotonics Systems and Test.

Contact:

Professor Stuart Crozier, seminar host (stuart@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator) (guido@itee.uq.edu.au)

ITEE seminar web page: http://www.itee.uq.edu.au/~seminar

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