Graham Trevor Reed
Visiting Professor
School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Technological University
Singapore
Biography
Reed is a pioneer of Silicon Photonics, and acknowledged as the individual who initiated the field in the UK, where he established his Silicon Photonics Research Group in 1989. The Group moved to Southampton University in 2012, and have provided a series of world leading results, including the first published design of a GHz modulator, the first design of a depletion mode optical modulator, and the first 50Gb/s modulator. Reed is a Board member of the MIT Micropotonics Center, and the European Optical Society. In 2013 he was awarded the IET Crompton Medal, and in 2014 he was awarded a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award.
Research Interest
Design, modelling, fabrication and demonstration of novel Silicon Photonics devices and circuits both for tradition Silicon Photonics applications