Biography

Associate Professor, University of Delaware , Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has 14 years professional experience in the fields of optoelectronics and optical fiber communication, resulting in over a hundred refereed journal papers, numerous invited talks and conference proceedings, and 67 patents. After receiving B.S. ('83) and PhD ('88) degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of California at Santa Barbara and Princeton University, respectively, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, first as part of AT&T, then Lucent Technologies. While there he invented and demonstrated the world fastest micromechanical optical modulator, which was used in system demonstrations for ultra broadband fiber-to-the-home networks and dynamic wavelength management in Wavelength Division Multiplexed networks. He also invented and demonstrated flip-chip bonding techniques for integrating electronic and photonic chips, particularly short-wavelength Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) chips, which resulted in the first demonstration of optical transceiver chips capable of transmitting, receiving, and processing up to a terabit/second of data. He co-founded Aralight , Inc. as Chief Scientist in the year 2000 to commercialize this technology for optical backplane applications, and guided the engineering development which resulted in a full product demonstration two years later of 36 channel, 90 gigabit/second transmit/receive parallel optical modules. After reaching this prototype stage he joined the University of Delaware, to reengage in the pursuit of technology research, including extending dense parallel optical modules to long wavelengths for metro applications, exploring the per channel data rate limitations of VCSEL's and developing external modulator technologies to surpass those limitations, and using the principles of optical fiber communication to develop metropolitan wide sensor net technology for advanced societal impact and benefit of metrology. Dr. Goossen is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.