Sponsor: San Diego Section Chap,AP03/ED15/MTT17/SSC37/CAS04
Speaker: Dr. Sudip Shekhar

Meeting Date: March 11, 2022
Time: 8AM
Cost:
Reservations: IEEE

Summary:
The devices in the arsenal of a CMOS designer include resistors, capacitors, inductors, and
transistors. What happens when we add light to that? With an ability to move the information
between electrons and photons, many new opportunities and applications will emerge. In the
last five years, silicon photonics – where light is guided in a silicon waveguide on a CMOS SOI
process, has already had a significant impact in the field of high-speed transceivers for data
communications.
Which applications will become mainstream in the next 5-10 years? Sensing? Computing? RF &
Microwave? Quantum? What will be next in communications?
And how can we easily add photonics to the arsenal of the CMOS designer and make its
adoption seamless? I will attempt to answer some of these questions in this talk. I will also
highlight the opportunities that lie ahead for a CMOS designer in adopting this technology – now
ready to be deployed.

Bio: Dr. Sudip Shekhar received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur,
and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Washington, Seattle.
From 2008 to 2013, he was with the Circuits Research Laboratory, Intel Corporation, Hillsboro, OR,
USA, where he worked on high-speed I/O architectures. He is now an Associate Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering with The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. His current
research interests include circuits for electrical and optical interfaces, frequency synthesizers, and
wireless transceivers.