Brian Koch

Email:

brikoch [at] gmail[dot] com

Brian Koch graduated from the College of William and Mary in 2003 with a B.S. in Physics with Honors. He received his M.S. in 2005 and is currently pursuing his Ph. D in Electrical and Computer Engineering at UCSB. His research interests include the design, fabrication, and testing of high speed optoelectronic devices and highly integrated photonic circuits, and the applications of these components in optical networks. His Ph. D. research is concentrated on monolithic mode locked lasers and photonic integrated circuits that perform optical clock recovery, 3R regeneration, and optical signal processing. He is currently an intern at Intel, where he is researching hybrid silicon lasers.

Publications

Journal

"Device and Integration Technology for Silicon Photonic Transmitters ," Hyundai Park ; Sysak, M.N. ; Hui-Wen Chen ; Fang, A.W. ; Di Liang ; Ling Liao ; Koch, B.R. ; Bovington, J. ; Yongbo Tang ; Wong, K. ; Jacob-Mitos, M. ; Jones, R. ; Bowers, J.E., IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volme 17, Index 3, (invited), March 3, (2011)
"Hybrid Silicon Photonics for Optical Interconnects," M. J. R. Heck, H.-W. Chen, A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, D. Liang, H. Park, M. N. Sysak, J. E. Bowers, Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, DOI 10.1109/JSTQE.2010.2051798 (forthcoming), April 29, (2010)
"III-V/Silicon Photonics for On-chip and Intra-chip Optical Interconnects," G. Roelkens, L. Liu, D. Liang, R. Jones, A. W. Fang, B. Koch, and J. E. Bowers, Laser and Photonics Reviews, 1-29, January 14, (2010)
"Hybrid silicon evanescent approach to optical interconnects," D. Liang, A. W. Fang, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, O. Raday, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, J. E. Bowers, Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, invited, February 19, (2009)
"Mode locked and distributed feedback silicon evanescent lasers," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, E. Lively, R. Jones, O. Cohen, D. J. Blumenthal, and J. E. Bowers, Laser and Photonics Reviews, Rev. 3, No. 4, 355-369, November 24, (2008)
"A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, R. Jones, E. Lively, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, J.E. Bowers, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol 20 - 20, p1667-1669, October 15, (2008)
"Photonic Integration on the Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform," H. Park, A. Fang, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-H. Chang, B. R. Koch, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, R. Jones, J. E. Bowers1, Advances in Optical Technologies, Volume 2008 (2008), Article ID 682978, 17 pages, March 12, (2008)
"Photonic Integration on Hybrid Silicon Evanescent Device Platform," H. Park, A. W. Fang, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, H.-H. Chang, B. R. Koch, H.-W. Chen, M. N. Sysak, R. Jones, and J. E. Bowers, Advances in Optical Technologies, Article ID 682978,, March 1, (2008)
"A racetrack mode-locked silicon evanescent laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, K. Gan, H. Park, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, D. Blumenthal, J. E. Bowers, OPTICS EXPRESS, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 1393-1398, January 17, (2008)
"Mode-locked silicon evanescent lasers," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, O. Cohen, and J. E. Bowers, Optics Express, Vol. 15, No. 18, pp. 11225-11233, September 3, (2007)
"Monolithic Mode-Locked Laser and Optical Amplifier for Regenerative Pulsed Optical Clock Recovery," B. R. Koch, J. S. Barton, M. Masanovic, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, and D. J. Blumenthal, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 19, no. 9, May 1, (2007)
"All-Optical Payload Envelope Detection for Variable Length 40-Gb/s Optically Labeled Packets," B. R. Koch, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, D. J. Blumenthal, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 18, No. 17, pp. 1846-1848, September 1, (2006)
"Integrated optical payload envelope detection and label recovery device for optical packet switching networks," B. R. Koch, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, and D. J. Blumenthal, Optics Express, Vol. 14, Iss. 12, pp. 5073-5078, June 12, (2006)

Conference

"A 4x12.5 Gbps CWDM Si Photonics Link using Integrated Hybrid Silicon Lasers," Brian R. Koch, Andrew Alduino, Ling Liao, Richard Jones, Michael Morse, Brian Kim, Wei-Zen Lo, Juthika Basak, Hai-Feng Liu, Haisheng Rong, Matthew Sysak, Christine Krause, Rushdy Saba, Dror Lazar, Lior Horwitz, Roi Bar, Stas Litski, Ansheng Liu, Kevin Sullivan, Olufemi Dosunmu, Neil Na, Tao Yin, Frederick Haubensack, I-wei Hsieh, John Heck, Robert Beatty, Jock Bovington, and Mario J. Paniccia, CLEO: Science and Innovations (CLEO: S and I), Silicon Optical Links (CThP), May 1, (2011)
"Demonstration of a High Speed 4-Channel Integrated Silicon Photonics WDM Link with Hybrid Silicon Lasers," Andrew Alduino, Ling Liao, Richard Jones, Michael Morse, Brian Kim, Wei-Zen Lo, Juthika Basak, Brian Koch, Hai-Feng Liu, Haisheng Rong, Matthew Sysak, Christine Krause, Rushdy Saba, Dror Lazar, Lior Horwitz, Roi Bar, Stas Litski, Ansheng Liu, Kevin Sullivan, Olufemi Dosunmu, Neil Na, Tao Yin, Frederick Haubensack, I-wei Hsieh, John Heck, Robert Beatty, Hyundai Park, Jock Bovington, Simon Lee, Hat Nguyen, Hinmeng Au, Katie Nguyen, Priya Merani, Mahtab Hakami, and Mario Paniccia , Integrated Photonics Research, Silicon and Nanophotonics (IPRSN), Postdeadline Session, July 25, (2010)
"Single-Wavelength Silicon Evanescent Lasers," A. W. Fang, M. N. Sysak, B. R. Koch, R. Jones, E. Lively, Y. -H. Kuo, D. Liang, O. Raday, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 15, No. 3, 535-544, May/June 2009, May 31, (2009)
"Distributed Feedback and Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Lasers," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, E. Lively, D. J. Blumenthal and J. E. Bowers, SSDM 2008, E-9-1 (invited), Tsukuba, Japan, September 21, (2008)
"A Distributed Bragg Reflector Silicon Evanescent Laser," A. W. Fang, B. R. Koch, R. Jones, E. Lively, D. Liang, Y.-H. Kuo, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE GFP 2008, WD2, Sorrento Italy, September 20, (2008)
"Silicon Evanescent Optical Frequency Comb Generator," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, R. Jones, O. Cohen, M. J. Paniccia, D. J. Blumenthal, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE GFP 2008, WD4, Sorrento Italy, September 20, (2008)
"All-Optical Clock Recovery with Retiming and Reshaping Using a Silicon Evanescent Mode-Locked Ring Laser," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, H. N. Poulsen, H. Park, D. J. Blumenthal, and J. E. Bowers, R. Jones and M. J. Paniccia, and O. Cohen, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2008, Paper OMN1 (Invited), February 25, (2008)
"A 40 GHz Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser," B. R. Koch, A. W. Fang, H.-H. Chang, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, J. E. Bowers, 4th International Conference on Group IV Photonics, Tokyo Japan, wb1 (invited), September 19, (2007)
"Fast optical clock recovery and signal regeneration applications of a monolithic mode locked laser with DBR mirrors and an optical amplifier," B. R. Koch, J. S. Barton, M. Masanovic, Z. Hu, H. N. Poulsen, J. E. Bowers, and D. J. Blumenthal, European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) 2007, paper 7.3.2, September 19, (2007)
"A 40 GHz Mode Locked Silicon Evanescent Laser," B. R. Kocha, A. W. Fang, H.-H. Chang, H. Park, Y.-H. Kuo, R. Jones, O. Cohen, O. Raday, M. J. Paniccia, and J. E. Bowers, IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics, WB1, September 19, (2007)
"35 Gb/s Monolithic All-Optical Clock Recovery Pulse Source," B. R. Koch, J. S. Barton, M. Masanovic, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, and D. J. Blumenthal, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC) 2007, Anaheim, California, paper OWP2, March 28, (2007)
"All-Optical Payload Envelope Detection for Packets with 40 Gbps Payloads and 10 Gbps Labels," B. R. Koch, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, D. J. Blumenthal, European Conference on Optical Communications, Cannes, France, September 26, (2006)
"Integrated Photonic/RF 40-Gb/s Burst-mode Optical Clock Recovery for Asynchronous Optical Packet Switching," Z. Hu, B. R. Koch, J. E. Bowers, D. J. Blumenthal, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC '06), paper OThS7, March 9, (2006)
"Integrated Optical Label Read and Payload Envelope Detection Circuit for Optical Label Swapping," B. R. Koch, Z. Hu, J. E. Bowers, D. J. Blumenthal, Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC '06), paper OWL7, March 8, (2006)

Dissertation

"Optical Signal Processing in Photonic Integrated Circuits with Mode Locked Lasers and Optoelectronic Cavities," Brian Robert Koch, September 1, (2008)