| Name: |
Juerg Leuthold |
| Position: |
Professor, Institutsleiter des Instituts für Photonik und Quantenelektronik (IPQ) und Institutsleiter des Instituts für Mikrostruktur Technologie (IMT) |
| Am Institut seit: |
1. Juli 2004 |
| Lebenslauf: |
Prof. Leuthold wurde wurde 1966 in der Schweiz geboren und studierte an der Eidgenössischen Technischen Hochschule (ETH) in Zürich Physik. Anschliessend promovierte er an der ETH auf dem Gebiet der optischen Kommunikationstechnik. Von 1999 bis 2004 arbeitete er bei den Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, USA, auf dem Gebiet der optischen Bauteile und Systemforschung mit Schwerpunkt Hochgeschwindigkeits-Telekommunikation. Seit Juli 2004 ist er ordentlicher Professor am Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT) und leitet das Institut für Photonik und Quantenelektronik.
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| Gegenwärtige Forschungsinteressen: |
Hochgeschwindigkeits Optik-Kommunikation
Integrierte Optik für Kommunikation (Diclicon Photonics, InP Photonics)
Nicht-lineare Optik und voll-optische Kommunikation
Modellierung von
Halbleiterlasern und -Verstärker
Hochintegrierte
Optik
Photonische Kristalle, Plasmonics |
| Ehrungen und Auszeichnungen: |
2011 |
Hector Fellow Research Price |
| 2010 |
Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| 2009 |
Award of the „Landesforschungspreis“ of the state of Baden-Württemberg worth 100’000 € for achievements in silicon nanotechnology. This is the highest funded research prize of a German state. |
| 2009 |
Elevation to the rank of “Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)” |
| 2007 |
Election to „Top five Innovators in the field of Optics in Germany of the year 2007“ by the German VDI. |
| 2002 |
“Central Bell Labs Teamwork Awards” for the development of the “RZ-DPSK System” |
| 1999 |
Award of the “1999 Lucent President’s Award for Team Excellence” (In recognition of the first fully integrated 100 Gb/s InP optic chip for data encryption) |
| Publikationen und Vorlesungen: |
250 Publikationen in Zeitschriften und Tagungsberichten |
| Committee Work in Professional Organizations |
| Since 6/2011 |
Member of the Helmholtz Association Think Tank |
Since 6/2010
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Board of Trustees member of the Fraunhofer IAF Institute in Freiburg, Germany |
| 6/2010 |
General chair of the “OSA Optics and Photonics Congress Karlsruhe”. This is tentatively going to be the first large OSA congress in Europe and will encompass 7 topical meetings. |
| 2008 - 2011 |
Photonics and Electrooptics Division Chair of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
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| 7/2008 |
Organizer of the 2008 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting (21 - 23 July)
in Acapulco, Mexico) on the topic of “Optical Signal Regeneration” |
| 2009 - 2011 |
Technical Program Committee of the CLEO US |
| 2008 – 2010,2012 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)” |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Technical Program Committee of the “International Conference on Photonics in Switching 2008 (PS 2008)” in Sapporo, Japan and of the PS 2009 in Pisa, Italy. |
| 10/2007 - 10/2008 |
Member of the “OSA Executive Committee of the Science and Engineering Council”
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| 2007 - today |
Technical Program Committee of the “European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC)” in the subcommittee “Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optics Components” |
| 2007 |
Subcommittee Chair of the “Nonlinear Photonics (NP’2007)” meeting in Quebec |
| 2006 - today |
Member of the CLEO/Europe Steering Committee |
| 2006 - 2008 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications (COTA)” Conference |
| 2006 - today |
Member of the German ITG 5.3.1 Steering Committee on “Modeling of Photonic Components and Systems” |
| 2005, -06, -08 |
Workshop organizer at the „Optical Fiber Communications Conference” in 2005, 2006 and 2008 |
| 2005 |
Program Chair of the “Optical Amplifiers and Applications Conference” |
| 2002 - 2004 |
“Group Chair” of the “OSA Optical Communications Group” |
| 2001 – 2004 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Optical Amplifiers and Applications (OAA)” Conference |
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