The Life Fellow is a former IEEE-USA president and Region 6 director
IEEE Life Fellow Thomas M. Coughlin has been elected as the 2023 IEEE president-elect. He is set to begin serving as president on 1 January 2024.
Coughlin, who was nominated by the IEEE Board of …
I am starting my column on my way back from the European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) that was held in Basel, Switzerland on September 18-22. The atmosphere was great as many researchers rekindled after years of not seeing each other in-person. A few remarked …
“If you want to be leading the world, you have to be learning,” states David Perring, Director of Research, Fosway Group as part of the recently published LinkedIn Learning report on “The Transformation of L&D”.
Learning and Development (L&D) is defined by the Association for Talent …
In this edition of the “Photonics Worldwide – This is my Lab” column, we would like to introduce you to Benjamin Crockett and Sameer Ahmad Mir from Canada and India, respectively. Benjamin works on optical signal processing and has provided a modern reinterpretation of the …
The success of a high-tech startup will depend very strongly on the strength of its team. This is a self-evident truth. It is true for all companies, of any size, but it is particularly true for smaller organizations that are in the early stages of …
Quantum wells have become an indispensable part of modern laser design. The incorporation of quantum wells in a semiconductor laser’s active region has afforded the laser designer the ability to precisely tune the energies of radiative transitions thus yielding access to lasing wavelengths not naturally …
In this series partnered with WaveJobs, we invite people at different career stages to share their experience in Photonics and lessons learned in professional development. Today we interviewed Min Cen, Ph.D., who holds a doctorate from University Mons in Belgium and was a former intern …
The IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting Series 2022 (IEE SUM 2022) which was held on the 11th to 13th of July 2022 in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico was one for the books! I was extremely honored to have received the IEEE Women in Photonics …
In this edition, I would, first of all, like to welcome Amol Delmade, who is taking over the “Photonics Worldwide – This is my Lab” column from now onwards. I would like to thank all the researchers who have contributed to this column so far. …
Time flies and we are almost into the Fall of 2022. It is the time to return to school for many students and professors, with the return of in-person classes for most.
Two Society conferences are approaching. The first is IEEE Research and Applications of Photonics …
