Joseph Kahn
Professor
Electrical Engineering
Stanford University
United States of America
Biography
Joseph M. Kahn is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. His research addresses communication and imaging through optical fibers, including modulation, detection, signal processing and spatial multiplexing. He received A.B. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981 and 1986. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel, NJ. He was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at U.C. Berkeley from 1990-2003. In 2000, he co-founded StrataLight Communications, which was acquired by Opnext, Inc. in 2009. He received the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991 and is a Fellow of the IEEE.
Research Interest
His research addresses communication and imaging through optical fibers, including modulation, detection, signal processing and spatial multiplexing.
Publications
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Berceau P, Taylor M, Kahn J, Hollberg L (2016) Space-time reference with an optical link. Classical and Quantum Gravity 33: 135007.
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Arik SÖ, Kahn JM (2016) Direct-detection mode-division multiplexing in modal basis using phase retrieval. Optics letters 41: 4265-4268.
