UBC Optoelectronics Research Group

Dr. Lukas Chrostowski
Assistant Professor

Fred Kaiser Building, Room 4039    (Campus Map)
2332 Main Mall, V6T 1Z4

Office: 604-822-8507
Cell: (604) 761-4798
email: lukasc at ece.ubc.ca 

Previously with the UC Berkeley Chang-Hasnain Research Group
University of California, Berkeley.

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Behnam Faraji

from Sharif University, Iran

email: behnamf at ece.ubc.ca 

Started Summer 2005

• Optical Injection Locking of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
• Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations of sub-wavelength grating devices

Eric (Jae-Hwan) Kim

BS in ECE at Kyungpook National University in Korea
Engineer in the field of semiconductors at Samsung Electronics

email: erick at ece.ubc.ca  

Started Summer 2005

• Design of Photonic-Crystals Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers

Yiyi Zeng

from Tsinghua, P.R. China

email: yiyiz at ece.ubc.ca

Started Summer 2005

• Design of high-speed Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers
• Micro-Optical Mechanical Systems

Sahba Talebi Fard

from Carleton University

• Governor General's Medal for academic achievement
• NSERC CGS M Scholarship

email: sahbat at ece.ubc.ca

Started Fall 2006

• Glucose bio-photonics

Brendan Francis

from Dalhousie University

email: brendanf at ece.ubc.ca

Started Fall 2006

• High-Speed VCSELs

Sunny Yuen (Fall 2005, Engineering Physics project, and Summer 2006, NSERC USRA)

from UBC

email: sunnykhy at interchange.ubc.ca

Started Fall 2006

• Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations of plasmon nano-photonic devices
• Bio-photonics

Tania Tasmin (Fall 2006) -- co-supervised with Dr. Nicolas Jaeger

from UBC

email: taniat at ece.ubc.ca

Started Fall 2006

• Ultrahigh-speed Coupled-Quantum-Well Electrorefraction Modulators

Qing Gu (Summer 2006 and 2007, NSERC USRA)

• Coherent Optical Communications using Injection-Locked VCSELs

Tarik Haroon (Winter 2007, ECE 496 Project)

• Glucose bio-photonics

Dawn Tan

B. Eng. from University of British Columbia

email: dawnth.tan at gmail.com

05/2005-06/2006

• Nanofabrication of sub-wavelength grating devices

Ada Au (Undergraduate Electrical Engineering 496 project, Winter 2006)

• Coherent Optical Communications using Injection-Locked VCSELs

Frank Pai (Undergraduate Electrical Engineering 496 project Fall 2005)

• Characterization of optical thin-films

Stuart Hadfield (Undergraduate, Fall 2005, Engineering Physics project)

• Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulations of plasmon nano-photonic devices

Dr. Xianong (Shannon) Shen

email: xiaonons at ece.ubc.ca

Started Fall 2005

• Design of near-UV sub-wavelength grating devices

Chris Ostafew (Summer 2006, NSERC USRA)

• Measurements of sub-wavelength grating devices

Rahul Krishna Prasad (Summer 2006, NSERC USRA)

• Measurements of sub-wavelength grating devices

Orion Chan (Winter 2006, Electrical Engineering 496 project)

• Coherent Optical Communications using Injection-Locked VCSELs