Lehigh UniversityCenter For

Optical Technologies

Army Research Office

June 29, 2001

Lehigh University: $15,000,000 for Optoelectronics/Photonics, Information Technology, over the next 5-7 years

Sources of Funding – Current and Planned

Pennsylvania Technology Investment Authority (PTIA): $1,000,000 awarded for FY00-01 to create the center A proposal for $25,000,000 over the next 5 years has been submitted for initial funding in FY01-02 Private Industry: $7,500,000 over the next 5 years from joint university – industry research and liaison programs

Partners

Brashear LPCircadiant SystemsIQE, Inc.Optical CrossLinksOpticalisOptronX, Inc.Synergistech, Inc.T-Networks, Inc.Tycom Ltd.Wavefront Research, Inc.

Major Industry Local Industry

Lehigh Interdisciplinary Research ProgramsOptical Networks-Design and Characterization

•Optical Networks

•System Architecture

•Optical Communications

•Routing

•WDM Systems

Advanced Optical Materials

•Specialty Fibers and Waveguides

•Photonic Packaging and Automated Manufacture

•Optical Nanostructures

•Photonic Crystals

Optoelectronic Devices and Integrated Optics

•Device Optics

•Integrated Optics

•Design/Modeling and Characterication of Optoelectronic Devices

•Guided Propagation

Novel Device Concepts and Effects

•New Effects and Processes

•Theory and Simulation

•Quantum Computing

•Quantum Cryptography

Faculty Slade Cargill Martin P.

Harmer James Hwang Himanshu Jain Mike Stavola Jean Toulouse George

Watkins

Faculty

Rick Blum Terry Boult Alastair

McAulay Aylen Yener

Faculty

Demetrios Christodoulides Miltiadis K. Hatalis Ralph Jaccodine Ray Pearson Rick Vinci

Faculty

Volkmar Dierolf Jerome Licini Daniel Ou-

Yang Meghanad

Wagh

ARO/Center for Optical Technologies – Potential Integration

Center for Optical TechnologiesInterdisciplinary Research Programs

Ultra-secure, Wireless Communications and Networks

Detection and Imaging Technology

Sensors and Electron Devices

Advanced EO Materials and Devices

EO-IR Image Analysis and Processing

Advanced Optical Materials

Specialty Fibers and WaveguidesPhotonic Packaging and Automated ManufactureOptical NanostructuresPhotonic Crystals

Optoelectronic Device & Integrated Optics

Device OpticsIntegrated OpticsDesign/ Modeling and Characterization of Optoelectronic DevicesGuided Propagation

Optical Networks – design and

characterization

Optical NetworksSystem ArchitectureOptical CommunicationsRoutingWDM Systems

Novel Device Concepts and Effects

New Effects and ProcessesTheory and SimulationQuantum ComputingQuantum Cryptography

LEHIGH

Creol/UCF

Princeton

Oxford/UK

U of Glasgow/UKU of San Francisco

Jena/GermanyOsnabrück

ANU/Australia

U of Arkansas

TechnionWeizmann

/ Israel

Johns Hopkins

Penn State

Optics Research Collaborations

Cambridge/UK

Pardubice/Czech Republic

Brookhaven National Lab

U of Ohio

Dortmund/Germany

Proposed Department Changes

New Electrical and Computer Engineering Department

15 new faculty; net increase of 9 facultyOptoelectronics is 1 of 3 foci

New Computer Science and Engineering

18 new faculty; net increase of 14 facultyConcentration on computer science for optical networking

Summary

Research will build on Lehigh strengths in optoelectronics, photonics, and materialsMajor investment from Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Lehigh UniversityProximity and commitment of existing large companies and new start-up companiesStrategic alignment with ARO priorities