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December 2018: Works on Topographically Anisotropic Photonics selected for OPN’s special issue on Optics in 2018 that “highlights 30 major achievements of the year in optical science, engineering and technology” 

December 2018: Invited paper Heterogeneous Nonlinear Integrated Photonics is featured on the cover of the corresponding issue of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

September 2018: S. Fathpour shares three stories on OSA webpage: His work in integrated photonics, his mentorship, and how he decided on his career path

April 2017: Topical review paper chosen as paper of the week in the Journal of Optics

February 2017: Research and commercialization efforts featured in Florida High Tech Corridor magazine

May 2016: Paper coauthored by S. Fathpour among the most impactful papers from third of a century history of Journal of Lightwave Technology 

December 2014: Paper coauthored by S. Fathpour entitled “Silicon Photonics” among top 20 cited papers in Journal of Lightwave Technology

April 2013: S. Fathpour receives the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award

January 2012: S. Fathpour receives the NSF CAREER Award for proposal on “Mid-Infrared Photonic Devices and Integrated Circuits on Silicon”

January 2012: New book, co-edited by S. Fathpour published by CRC Press: “Silicon Photonics for Telecommunications and Biomedicine“

Press Coverage

─2023: Photonics.com, “Electro-Optic Modulators Improve Signal Quality and Cancel Noise”
https://www.photonics.com/Articles/Electro-Optic_Modulators_Improve_Signal_Quality/a69395
 

─ 2017: Florida High Tech Corrido Magazine, “Sending Data at the Speed of Light”
http://www.floridahightech.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/FHT-2017-Magazine-PDFcompressed.pdf

 
─ 2014: Opli Magazine, “CREOL Researchers Develop Key Photonic Device at Challenging Wavelength”
http://www.opli.net/opli_magazine/eo/2014/creol-researchers-develop-key-photonic-device-at-challenging-wavelength-ucf-nov-news/
 
─ 2013: Laser Focus World, “CREOL researchers create integrated optical lithium-niobate-on-silicon devices”
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/articles/2013/11/creol-researchers-create-integrated-optical-lithium-niobate-on-silicon-devices.html
 
─ 2013: Orlando Business Journal, “Two UCF researchers awarded $1.2M in grants”
http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/news/2013/04/09/two-ucf-researchers-awarded-12m-in.html
 
─ 2011: Nature Photonics, “Electronically tunable delays”
http://www.nature.com/nphoton/journal/v5/n9/full/nphoton.2011.227.html
 
─ 2009: Photonics.com, “Silicon Chips May Go ’Green’”
http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=40049
 
─ 2006: Photonics Spectra, “Raman Amplifier in Silicon Generates Electrical Power”
http://www.photonics.com/content/spectra/2006/September/tech/84212.aspx

Archive

─ EE Times: “Silicon laser harnessed”
─ MIT Technology Review: “Self-Powered Silicon Laser Chips”
─ The New Scientist: “Energy harvesting can boost optoelectronic efficiency”
─ Science News: “Power Play: Shift from loss to gain may boost silicon devices”
─ Photonics Spectra: “Raman Amplifier in Silicon Generates Electrical Power”
─ Electronic Design: “Military R&D 101 (Free Energy)”
─ PhysOrg.com: “Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Laser Focus World Magazine: “UCLA Engineering announces another silicon photonics breakthrough”
─ Photonics.com: “New Approach Announced in Si Photonic Devices”
─ Optics.org: “Silicon photonics solves its “fundamental problem””
─ United Press International: “UCLA creates new silicon photonics devices”
─ Technology News Daily: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Planet Analog: ”Silicon laser harnessed””
─ ACM Tech News: “UCLA Engineering Announces Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ ZP Energy: “Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Engineer Online (UK): “Silicon Photonics Breakthrough”
─ Azom.com: “Silicon Photonic Breakthrough”
─ Advanced nanotechnology: “other tech: Silicon photonics advance”
─ DailyIndia.com: “UCLA creates new silicon photonics devices””
─ Post Chronicle: “UCLA Creates New Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Political Gateway: “UCLA creates new silicon photonics devices”
─ Science Blog: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Iran Daily: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Technology-blog.com: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Daily Bruin: “Silicon uses may advance technology”
─ Mediabong.com: “Scientists Announce Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ The All I need: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Net World Directory: “Breakthrough in Silicon Photonics Devices”
─ Inovacao Tecnologica: “Componente de silício combina amplificação de luz e efeito fotovoltaico”

Book on silicon photonics

co-edited by Prof. Fathpour:

Invited paper featured on the cover of the issue of Journal of Quantum Electronics:

Featured article makes it to the cover of Optics and Photonic News: