Tunable Transceiver Technologies for Avionics Applications

Bio

Dr. Barton leads the photonic integrated circuit research and development efforts at Freedom Photonics in Santa Barbara California. He is actively involved in the photonic chip design, pilot production and prototype development for advanced PICs such as coherent receivers, advanced modulation format transmitters, as well as transmitter arrays and ultralow drive voltage modulators. Prior to co-founding Freedom Photonics LLC in January 2005, Dr. Barton worked for Agility Communications Inc., a start-up company recently acquired by JDSU Inc., which pioneered monolithically integrated widely-tunable SGDBR based lasers and transmitters. He also worked at Sandia National Laboratories on VCSEL development and reliability testing. While gaining his PhD in Electronic Materials at UC Santa Barbara in 2004, he was awarded the Intel fellowship. Dr. Barton has designed and developed the world’s first C-band tunable monolithically integrated Mach-Zehnder transmitter in Indium Phosphide and photocurrent driven wavelength converters, operating at 40 Gbps. More recently he has worked on ultra low loss waveguide technology (<0.4dB/m) in Silicon nitride/Silica waveguides as part of the IPhod DARPA program. Dr. Barton has coauthored over eighty papers on tunable lasers and photonic integrated circuits, and has given numerous invited and contributed talks at various international conferences. Jon Barton a member of IEEE Photonics Society.