Speaker: Dr. Aram Mooradian, CTO & Founder, Novalux
Title: High Power Surface Emitting Semiconductor Lasers and Applications
Abstract: Recent advances in high brightness surface emitting semiconductor diode lasers will be discussed. CW power levels of several hundred mW and several watts pulsed in a TEM00 mode beam has been achieved. Power can be scaled to hundreds of watts from arrays. These laser devices are highly manufacturable at low cost and have been efficiently frequency doubled into the visible. Application to several markets will be discussed with emphasis on projection display, a multi-billion dollar emerging market.
Speaker Background: Aram Mooradian is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Novalux, Inc., a company located in Sunnyvale, CA that manufactures high power surface emitting semiconductor lasers and laser arrays intended for the multi-billion dollar projection display markets.
Dr. Mooradian received his Ph.D. degree at Purdue University where he studied semiconductors and lasers and then joined the MIT Lincoln Laboratory as a staff member and later became the Leader of the Quantum Electronics Group. In this role, he led research efforts in semiconductor and tunable lasers, laser communications, photochemistry, nonlinear optics, remote sensing, gas lasers and materials processing with lasers. He founded his first Company, Micracor, Inc. in 1992, an MIT spin-off that developed new technology such as high power optically pumped, surface emitting semiconductor lasers.
Aram Mooradian has been involved as an advisor for the Department of Defense, industry and NASA as well as a scientific advisor for NATO, the Canadian Government, the United Kingdom, France, Kuwait and the United Nations. He has led or been a member of several scientific delegations or an advisor to various countries for the Organization of American States, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the United Nations, the US State Department, NATO, the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Defense.
He has been invited under the Fulbright program to lecture in the former Soviet Union and has served as an associate editor for the Journal of Quantum Electronics and the Optical Society of America. He is a fellow of both the American Physical Society and the Optical Society of America, a member of the IEEE and was awarded the distinguished alumnus award from Purdue University in 1989, the Computer World Honors award and the Robert H. Goddard award in 2004. He has presented more than 300 invited talks at conferences, universities, research institutes and corporations in more than 20 countries, has been awarded more than 30 U.S. and foreign patents and published more than 120 papers. He served as Vice Chairman of the Committee on Optical Science and Engineering, a two-year study for the National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council on optical technology and the economic, scientific and defense impact on the United States.
Location: Tyco Campus
302 Constitution Drive
Menlo Park, CA 94025.
The Security booth will require that you check in with them briefly and will then give you a map of the campus that will indicate where the meeting will be held. It will be in a conference room named “The Commons” in the 302 building
Post-Seminar Dinner:The seminar is free. Pizza will be served after the meeting (approximately 7pm)