Matt Sysak

ECE Department
Engr. Science Bldg., Rm. 2221D
UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Tel: (805) 893-4235
Fax: (805) 893-7990
Email: msysak [at] yahoo [dot] com

Matt received his B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University in 1998, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California Santa Barbara in 2002 and 2005, respectively. His PhD thesis focused on material design as well as device design, fabrication, and testing of monolithically integrated, widely tunable, optoelectronic wavelength converters and signal regenerators. He has authored and coauthored over 30 conference and journal papers, and is a member of OSA, IEEE, and SPIE. Matt is currently working on novel photonic circuit design and fabrication for analog, phase modulated links.

Journal Publications

"Dynamic Characterization of Distortion in Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Phase Modulators," N. Nunoya, A. Ramaswamy, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak and J. E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 21 no. 13, pp. 833-35, 2009

"Hybrid silicon evanescent approach to optical interconnects," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, O. Raday, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, J. E. Bowers, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, invited, 2009

"Photonic Integration on Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform," H. Park, A. W. Fang, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-H. Chang, B. R. Koch, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, R. Jones, and J. E. Bowers, Advances in Optical Technologies, Article ID 682978,, 2008

"Experimental and theoretical thermal analysis of a Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser," M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, and M. Paniccia, Optics Express, Vol., 15 No. 23 Pg: 15041-15046, 2007

"1310nm silicon evanescent laser," H.-H. Chang, A. W. Fang, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Opt. Express 15, 11466-11471 (2007), 2007

"Hybrid Si evanescent devices," A. W. Fang, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, D. Liang, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Materials Today, VOLUME 10, NUMBER 7-8, 2007

"A hybrid AlGaInAs-silicon evanescent waveguide photodetector," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, Issue 10, pp. 6044-6052, 2007

"High Output Saturation and High-Linearity Uni-Traveling-Carrier Waveguide Photodiodes," J. Klamkin, A. Ramaswamy, L. A. Johansson, H. –F. Chou, M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, N. Parthasarathy, S.P. Denbaars, J. E. Bowers, L.A. Coldren, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 149-151, 2007

"A Dynamic Measurement Technique for Third Order Distortion in Optical Phase Modulators," M. N. Sysak, L. A. Johannson, J. Klamkin, L. A. Coldren, J. E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no.3, pp.170-172, 2007

"Broadband Return to Zero (RZ) Signal Regeneration and Wavelength Conversion Using a Monolithically Integrated, Photocurrent Driven Wavelength Converter," M. N. Sysak, L. A. Johannson, J. W. Raring, H. N. Poulsen, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, no. 25, 2006

"Extinction ratio regeneration, signal re-amplification (2R), and broadband wavelength switching using a monolithically integrated photocurrent driven wavelength converter," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, J. S. Barton, H. N. Poulsen, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 23, pp. 11348-11353, 2006

"40-Gb/s Series-Push-Pull Mach–Zehnder Transmitter on a Dual-Quantum-Well Integration Platform," A. Tauke-Pedretti, M. N. Sysak, J. S. Barton, L. A. Johansson, J. W. Raring, L.A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 18, pp. 1922 - 1924, 2006

"A Single Regrowth Integration Platform for Photonic Circuits Incorporating Tunable SGDBR Lasers and Quantum Well EAMs," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, J. S. Barton, M. Dummer, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 1630-1632, 2006

"40 Gbit/s photonic receivers integrating UTC photodiodes with high- and low-confinement SOAs using quantum well intermixing and MOCVD regrowth," J. W. Raring, L. A. Johansson, E. J. Skogen, M. N. Sysak, H. N. Poulsen, S. P. DenBaars, L. A. Coldren, IEE Electronics Letters, vol. 42, no. 16, pp. 942 - 943, 2006

"Single-Chip, Widely-Tunable 10 Gbps Photocurrent-Driven Wavelength Converter Incorporating a Monolithically Integrated Laser Transmitter and Optical Receiver," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, J. S. Barton, M. Dummer, A. Tauke-Pedretti, H. N. Poulsen, D. J. Blumenthal, and L. A. Coldren, IEE Electronics Letters, Vol. 42, no. 11, pp 657-658, 2006

"Widely Tunable Negative-Chirp SG-DBR Laser/EA-Modulated Transmitter," J. W. Raring, E .J. Skogen, L .A. Johansson, M. N. Sysak, S .P. DenBaars, L .A. Coldren, Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 80-86, 2006

"High Saturation Power and High Gain Integrated Photoreceivers," A. Tauke-Pedretti, M. Dummer, J.S. Barton, M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, L. A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2167-2169, 2005

"10Gbit/s Wavelength Conversion Using a Widely-Tunable Series Push-Pull Photocurrent-Driven Transmitter," J. S. Barton, A. Tauke-Pedretti, M. Dummer, M. N. Sysak, M. L. Mašanovic, J. W. Raring, E. J. Skogen, L.A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 1902-1904, 2005

"Photocurrent Spectroscopy for Quantum-Well Intermixed Photonic Integrated Circuit Design," G. B. Morrison, E. J. Skogen, C. S. Wang, J. W. Raring, Y.-C. Chang, M. N. Sysak, L. A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 17, no. 7, pp. 1414-1416, 2005

"Single-chip wavelength conversion using a photocurrent-driven EAM integrated with a widely tunable sampled-grating DBR laser," M. N. Sysak, J. S. Barton, L.A. Johansson, J. W. Raring, E. J. Skogen, M. L. Masanovic, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 16, no.9, pp.2093-2095, 2004

"2.5 Gbit/s error-free wavelength conversion using a monolithically-integrated widely-tunable SGDBR-SOA-MZ transmitter and integrated photodetector," J.S. Barton, E.J. Skogen, M. L. Masanovic, M. N. Sysak, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 16, no. 6, pp.1531-1533, 2004

"Demonstration of Widely-Tunable Single-Chip 10 Gb/s Laser-Modulators Using Multiple-Bandgap InGaAsP Quantum-Well Intermixing," J. Raring, E. Skogen, L. Johansson, M. N. Sysak, J. Barton, M. L. Mašanović, L. Coldren, Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 16, no. 7, pp. 1613-1615, 2004

"Indium Phosphide-Based Optoelectronic Wavelength Conversion for High-Speed Optical networks," J.M. Hutchinson, J. Zheng, J.S. Barton, J.A. Henness, M.L. Mašanovic, M. N. Sysak, L.A. Johansson, D.J. Blumenthal, L.A. Coldren, H.V.Demir, V.A. Sabnis, O. Fidaner, J.S. Harris, and D.A.B. Miller, Intel Technology Journal, , 2004

Conference Publications

"A High Power Ge n-i-p waveguide photodetector on Si-on-Insulator Substrate," A. Ramaswamy, N. Nunoya, L. A. Johansson, J. E. Bowers, M. N. Sysak, T. Yin, Group IV Photonics, WB4, San Fransisco,CA, 2009

"A Hybrid Silicon Sampled Grating DBR Tunable Laser," M. N. Sysak, J. O. Anthes, D. Liang, J. E. Bowers, O. Raday, R. Jones, IEEE GFP 2008, WD1 (Invited), Sorrento Italy, 2008

"Integrated Hybrid Lasers and Amplifiers on a Silicon Platform," R. Jones, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, H.-H. Chang, Y.-H. Kuo, J. E. Bowers, O. Raday, O. Cohen, OFC 2009, San Diego, CA OWM1, 2008

"Experimental and Theoretical Analysis of Thermal Impedance in a Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Laser," M. N. Sysak, H. Park, A. W. Fang, J. E. Bowers, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, and M. Paniccia, LEOS annual meeting 2007, ThR2, 2007

"1310nm Silicon Evanescent Laser," H.-H. Chang, A. W. Fang, M. N. Sysak, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, 4th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Tokyo Japan, wb3, 2007

"A hybrid silicon evanescent photodetector," H. Park, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. N. Sysak, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, Device Research Conference (DRC 2007), Notre Dam, IN, 2007

"Characterization of Distortion in InGaAsP Optical Phase Modulators Monolithically Integrated with Balanced UTC Photodetector," M. N. Sysak, L. A. Johannson, J. Klamkin, L. A. Coldren, J. E. Bowers, Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 19th Annual Meeting, TuU2, 2006

"Optical 2R and 3R Signal Regeneration in Combination with Dynamic Wavelength Switching Using a Monolithically Integrated, Widely Tunable Photocurrent Driven Wavelength Converter," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, L. Johansson, H. N. Poulsen, J. S. Barton, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, European Conference on Optical Communications (Invited), Th3.4.1, 2006

"Monolithically Integrated, Sampled Grating DBR Laser Transmitter with Asymmetric Quantum Well Electroabsorption Modulator," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, G. P. Morrison, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, International Semiconductor Laser Conference, TuB6, 2006

"Single-Chip 40Gb/s Widely-Tunable Transceivers with Integrated SG-DBR Laser, QW EAM, UTC Photodiode, and Low Confinement SOA," J. W. Raring, L. A. Johansson, E. J. Skogen, M. N. Sysak, H. N. Poulsen, S. P. DenBaars, L. A. Coldren, International Semiconductor Laser Conference, TuA1, 2006

"A High efficiency, Current Injection Based Quantum-Well Phase Modulator Monolithically Integrated with a Tunable Laser for Coherent Systems," M. N. Sysak, L. A. Johansson, J. W. Raring, M. Rodwell, L. A. Coldren, J. E. Bowers, Coherent Optical Technology and Applications (COTA), CFC6 Whistler, BC, 2006

"Widely Tunable Single-Chip Transceiver for 10 Gb/s Wavelength Conversion," M. M. Dummer, M. N. Sysak, J.W. Raring, A. Tauke-Pedretti, and L. A. Coldren, Device Research Conference, II.A-3, 2006

"A Quantum Well EAM-SGDBR Widely Tunable Transmitter Fabricated in a Novel Dual-Quantum-Well Integration Platform," M. N. Sysak, J. W. Raring, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Device Research Conference, IIA-2, 2006

"Improved Functionality and Performance in Photonic Integrated Circuits," L. A. Coldren, J. W. Raring, J. S. Barton, M. N. Sysak, and L. A. Johansson, Proceedings IPRM (Invited Plenary), PLE1, 2006

"Low Drive Voltage, Negative Chirp 40 Gb/s EA Modulator/Widely-Tunable Laser Transmitter, Using Quantum-Well-Intermixing," J.W. Raring, L.A. Johansson, E.J. Skogen, M. N. Sysak, H.N. Poulsen, S.P. DenBaars, and L.A. Coldren, Optical Fiber Communications Conference - Postdeadline, PDP26, 2006

"Advanced Integration Schemes for High-Functionality/High-Performance Photonic Integrated Circuits," J. W. Raring, M. N. Sysak, A. Tauke-Pedretti, M. Dummer, E. J. Skogen, J. S. Barton, S. P. Denbaars, L. A. Coldren, Proceedings SPIE, paper no. 6126 -19, 2006

"Widely-Tunable Transmitters and Photonic Integrated Circuits," L. A. Coldren, J. W. Raring, J. S Barton, M. N. Sysak, and L. A. Johansson, Device Research Conference (Invited), vol. 1, pp. 11-14, 2005

"10 Gb/s Photocurrent Driven, Widely Tunable Electroaborption Modulator Based Wavelength Converter," M. N. Sysak, J. S. Barton, J. W. Raring, M. Dummer, A. Tauke-Pedretti, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Optical Fiber Communications Conference, OTuM4, 2005

"Quantum Well Intermixing for Monolithic Integration: A Demonstration of Novel Widely-Tunable 10Gb/s Transmitters and WavelengthConverters," J. W. Raring, E. J. Skogen, L. A. Johansson, M. N. Sysak, J. S. Barton, M. L. Masanovic, L. A. Coldren, Integrated Photonics Research and Applications, IWC3, 2004

"Minimal Dispersion Penalty at 10 Gb/s, Over 75 km, Using a Quantum-Well-Intermixed Electroabsorption-Modulator/Widely-Tunable Laser Transmitter," J. Raring, E. J. Skogen, L. Johansson, M. N. Sysak, L. Coldren, Optical Fiber Communications Conference - Postdeadline, PDP 13, 2004

"Monolithically Integrated InP-Based Tunable Wavelength Conversion," J. M. Hutchinson, J. S. Barton, M. L. Mašanovic, M. N. Sysak, J. A. Henness, L. A. Johansson, D.J . Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Proceedings SPIE Photonics West, paper no. 5349-25, 2004

"A Novel Monolithically-Integrated Widely-Tunable Wavelength Converter Based on a SGDBR-SOA-MZ Transmitter and Integrated Photo-Detector," J. S. Barton, M. L. Mašanovic, M. N. Sysak, E. J. Skogen, J. Hutchinson, D. J. Blumenthal, L. A. Coldren, Proceedings Photonics in Switching, PS.Mo.A9, pp. 34-36, 2003

"Photonic Integrated Circuits Based on Sampled-Grating Distributed-Bragg-Reflector Lasers," J. S. Barton, E. J. Skogen, M. Mašanovic, J. Raring, M. N. Sysak, L. Johansson, S. P. DenBaars, L. A. Coldren, Proceedings SPIE (Invited), vol. 4998, pp. 43-54, 2003