| Name: |
Juerg Leuthold |
| Position: |
Professor, Head of the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ) and head of the Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) |
| At the Institute since: |
July 1, 2004 |
| Curriculum Vitae: |
Juerg Leuthold is the head of the Institute of Photonics and Quantum Electronics (IPQ) and the director of the Helmholtz Research Association Institute of Microstructure Technology (IMT) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Juerg Leuthold was born in 1966 in Switzerland. He has a Ph.D. degree in physics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zuerich for work in the field of integrated optics and all-optical communications. From 1999 to 2004 he has been affiliated with Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies in Holmdel, USA, where he has been performing device and system research with III/V semiconductor and silicon optical bench materials for applications in high-speed telecommunications. Since July 2004 he is a full Professor at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Juerg Leuthold is a fellow of the Optical Society of America, a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Science, a member of the Helmholtz Association Think Tank and has been and is serving the community in many technical program committees such as OFC, ECOC, CLEO and many others. Besides these activities in committees he is currently chairing the Photonics Division of the Optical Society of America.
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| Present research interests: |
High-speed optical communications
Integrated optics for communications (Silicon Photonisc, InP Photonics)
Nonlinear optics and all-optical communications
Modeling of optical networks and semiconductor devices
Photonic crystals, Plasmonics |
| Honors and Awards: |
2011 |
Hector Fellow Research Price |
| 2010 |
Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| 2009 |
Award of the „Landesforschungspreis“ of the state of Baden-Württemberg worth 100’000 € for achievements in silicon nanotechnology. This is the highest funded research prize of a German state. |
| 2009 |
Elevation to the rank of “Fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA)” |
| 2007 |
Election to „Top five Innovators in the field of Optics in Germany of the year 2007“ by the German VDI. |
| 2002 |
“Central Bell Labs Teamwork Awards” for the development of the “RZ-DPSK System” |
| 1999 |
Award of the “1999 Lucent President’s Award for Team Excellence” (In recognition of the first fully integrated 100 Gb/s InP optic chip for data encryption) |
| Publications: |
250 Publications in journals and proceedings |
| Committee Work in Professional Organizations: |
| Since 6/2011 |
Member of the Helmholtz Association Think Tank |
Since 6/2010
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Board of Trustees member of the Fraunhofer IAF Institute in Freiburg, Germany |
| 6/2010 |
General chair of the “OSA Optics and Photonics Congress Karlsruhe”. This is tentatively going to be the first large OSA congress in Europe and will encompass 7 topical meetings. |
| 2008 - 2011 |
Photonics and Electrooptics Division Chair of the Optical Society of America (OSA).
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| 7/2008 |
Organizer of the 2008 IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meeting in Acapulco, Mexico) on the topic of “Optical Signal Regeneration”(21 - 23 July) |
| 2009 - today |
Technical Program Committee of the CLEO US |
| 2008 – 2010,2012 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Optical Fiber Communications Conference (OFC)” |
| 2008 - 2009 |
Technical Program Committee of the “International Conference on Photonics in Switching 2008 (PS 2008)” in Sapporo, Japan and of the PS 2009 in Pisa, Italy. |
| 10/2007 - 10/2008 |
Member of the “OSA Executive Committee of the Science and Engineering Council”
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| 2007 - today |
Technical Program Committee of the “European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC)” in the subcommittee “Optical Waveguides and Integrated Optics Components” |
| 2007 |
Subcommittee Chair of the “Nonlinear Photonics (NP’2007)” meeting in Quebec |
| 2006 - 2010 |
Member of the CLEO/Europe Steering Committee |
| 2006 - 2008 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications (COTA)” Conference |
| 2006 - today |
Member of the German ITG 5.3.1 Steering Committee on “Modeling of Photonic Components and Systems” |
| 2005, -06, -08 |
Workshop organizer at the „Optical Fiber Communications Conference” in 2005, 2006 and 2008 |
| 2005 |
Program Chair of the “Optical Amplifiers and Applications Conference” |
| 2002 - 2004 |
“Group Chair” of the “OSA Optical Communications Group” |
| 2001 – 2004 |
Technical Program Committee of the “Optical Amplifiers and Applications (OAA)” Conference |
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