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John Bowers

John Bowers, Director, Institute of Energy Efficiency, University of California, Santa Barbara

John Bowers, Director, Institute of Energy Efficiency, University of California, Santa Barbara

After nearly 40 years at UC Santa Barbara, Prof John Bowers is a distinguished pioneer in the field of silicon photonics and PICs.

His work developing laser integration in silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs) has been commercialised by Intel, HPE, and Juniper, while millions of transceivers using his team’s licensed technology have been used in data centres. He has also worked on high-speed and high-data-rate transceivers, with data rates of up to 58 Tbps per fibre.

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