Optoelectronics Technology Center
Professor Larry Coldren's Group
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
University of California, Santa Barbara

Janet is working on packet-switching. Particularly, time-delay in optical communication systems using wavelength converters and fiber Bragg gratings. The work is acheived by using fiber grating arrays to make different time-delays depend on the wavelength.

Recent Publications:

“Ultra-Compact Grating-Based 2x2 Beam Splitter for Miniature Photonic Integrated Circuits,” C.-H. Chen, M.N. Sysak, J. Klamkin, and L.A. Coldren

"Demonstrations of 40 Gbit/s Optical Packet Synchronisation Using Fiber Bragg Gratings and Fast-Tunable Wavelength Converters," C.-H. Chen, D. Wolfson, L. Johansson, D.J. Blumenthal, and L.A. Coldren, Electronics Letters, 42, (6) pp. 367-369 (March 16, 2006)