BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:icalendar-ruby CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Virtual Jelena Notaros - Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiD AR\, Augmented Reality\, and Beyond X-WR-TIMEZONE:Eastern Time (US & Canada) BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260517T123902Z UID:tag:localist.com\,2008:EventInstance_32998299971171 DTSTART:20200326T161500Z DTEND:20200326T171500Z DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nBy enabling optical microsystems with new functiona lities\, improved system performance\, and reduced size\, weight\, and pow er\, integrated photonics is positioned to enable next-generation optical technologies that facilitate revolutionary advances for numerous fields sp anning science and engineering\, including computing\, sensing\, communica tions\, displays\, quantum\, and biology. \n\nAn emerging class of integra ted photonic systems is integrated optical phased arrays\, which enable ma nipulation and dynamic control of free-space light in a compact form facto r\, at low costs\, and in a non-mechanical way. As such\, integrated optic al phased arrays have emerged as a promising technology for many wide-reac hing applications\, including light detection and ranging (LiDAR) for auto nomous vehicles\, augmented-reality displays\, free-space optical communic ations\, and trapped-ion quantum computing.\n\nThis talk will present rece nt advances in integrated optical phased array architectures\, results\, a nd applications. First\, the first beam-steering optical phased arrays mon olithically integrated with on-chip rare-earth-doped lasers and heterogene ously integrated with CMOS driving electronics will be shown and the first single-chip coherent integrated LiDAR results will be presented\; these d emonstrations are important steps towards practical commercialization of l ow-cost and high-performance integrated LiDAR sensors for autonomous vehic les. Next\, the first integrated optical phased arrays that focus radiated light to tightly-confined spots in the near field and that generate quasi -Bessel beams will be discussed\; these near-field modalities have the pot ential to advance a number of application areas\, such as optical trapping for biological characterization\, trapped-ion quantum computing\, and las er-based 3D printing. Finally\, a novel transparent integrated-phased-arra y-based holographic display will be proposed as a highly-discreet and full y-holographic solution for the next generation of augmented-reality head-m ounted displays\; the first integrated passive near-eye displays that gene rate holograms\, the first integrated visible-light liquid-crystal-based m odulators\, and the first actively-tunable visible-light integrated phased arrays will be presented.\n\nBiography\n\nJelena Notaros is currently a P h.D. student and researcher in the Photonic Microsystems Group at the Mass achusetts Institute of Technology. She received her B.S. degree from the U niversity of Colorado Boulder in 2015 and M.S. degree from the Massachuset ts Institute of Technology in 2017. Her research interests are in integrat ed silicon photonics devices\, systems\, and applications.\n\nJelena's wor k has been published in top-tier Nature\, OSA\, and IEEE journals and conf erence proceedings. She is a Top-Three DARPA Riser\, a DARPA D60 Plenary S peaker\, an MIT Presidential Fellow\, a National Science Foundation Gradua te Research Fellow\, an MIT EECS Rising Star\, and an AIM Photonics Academ y Supporting Instructor. Jelena was an invited speaker at 2020 SPIE Photon ics West\, 2019 OSA CLEO\, 2019 OSA IPR\, 2020 OSA NETWORKS\, and 2019 IEE E Photonics North. She was the recipient of the 2019 OSA CLEO Chair's Pick Award\, 2014 IEEE Region 5 Student Paper Competition Award\, 2019 MIT MAR C Best Overall Paper Award\, 2019 MIT MARC Best Pitch Award\, 2018 and 201 4 OSA Incubic Milton Chang Student Travel Grant\, 2014 Sigma Xi Undergradu ate Research Award\, 2015 CU Boulder Chancellor’s Recognition Award\, 20 15 CU Boulder College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate for Academic Ach ievement Award\, and 2015 CU Boulder Electrical Engineering Distinguished Senior Award. GEO:42.444921;-76.482268 LOCATION:Virtual SUMMARY:Virtual Jelena Notaros - Integrated Optical Phased Arrays: LiDAR\, Augmented Reality\, and Beyond URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.cornell.edu/event/jelena_notaros_-_integrated_ optical_phased_arrays_lidar_augmented_reality_and_beyond CATEGORIES:Seminar END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR