ECE FACULTY

Mario Dagenais

Title: Professor
Areas/Affiliations: ECE
E-mail: dage@umd.edu
Phone: (301)405-3684
Office: Kim Building 2128

Website: http://www.enee.umd.edu/photonics/

Biography:

Professor Dagenais' research interests are in the area of photonic switching, photonic integrated circuits, III-V integrated opto-electronics, bio-sensing and microwave opto-electronics. In particular, he is interested in high power semiconductor laser sources, semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOAs), superluminescent LEDs, quantum and interband cascade lasers, detectors, modulators, optical switches, wavelength-division multiplexed (WDM) optoelectronics components, and in the integration of these components. He is also interested in photonic bandgap materials and plasma enhanced sub-wavelength lithography. He is also conducting research in the areas of optical packet switching and Ethernet based switching technologies for metro and access. His group has patented a unique technique for the deposition of  broad band antireflection coatings of semiconductor lasers using real-time in-situ ellipsometry. He also patented a new integration technology for III-V optoelectronics based on an active-passive resonant coupler  (PARC). 

Professor Dagenais received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester in 1978 working in Quantum Optics and photon correlations. He was a Research Fellow at Harvard University  from 1978 to 1980, where he worked in nonlinear optics. From 1980 to 1987, he worked at GTE Laboratories on photonic switching and semiconductor lasers. He joined the University of Maryland in 1987 where he has been Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering since 1991. Dr Dagenais is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America.

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