Larry Coldren

Professor

Contacts

ECE Department, Mail Code 9560
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

tel: 805-893-4486
fax: 805-893-4500
coldren@ece.ucsb.edu

Personal web site

Research Description

Investigation of functional photonic integrated circuits and the fabrication technologies required for them. MBE and MOCVD growth of InP-based materials; advanced patterning, etching and fabrication technologies for InP wafers; optoelectronic device design; high-speed characterization of photonic ICs

Research Groups

• Optoelectronics Technology Center

Biography

Larry A. Coldren is the acting Richard A. Auhll Dean of Engineering and a leading researcher with the Institute for Energy Efficiency’s Electronics and Photonics Solution Group. Coldren is the Fred Kavli Professor of Optoelectronics and Sensors and holds appointments in Materials and Electrical & Computer Engineering. Coldren received his Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1972. After 13 years in the research area at Bell Laboratories, he joined UC Santa Barbara in 1984 and is Director of the Optoelectronics Technology Center. In 1990 he co-founded Optical Concepts, later acquired as Gore Photonics, to develop novel VCSEL technology; and in 1998 he co-founded Agility Communications, later acquired by JDSU, to develop widely-tunable integrated optical transmitters. Coldren has authored or co-authored over a thousand papers, 7 book chapters, a textbook, and has been issued 63 patents. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, OSA, and IEE, the recipient of the 2004 John Tyndall Award, the 2009 Aron Kressel Award, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Awards/Honors

• Elected to the National Academy of Engineering, 2004
• John Tyndall Award, 2004

Selected Publications