Dr. Simarjeet Saini

Biography

Professor Simarjeet Saini is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He completed his doctorate at the University of Maryland, College Park in 2001 under the guidance of Professor Mario Dagenais. His Ph.D. thesis focused on the design and development of a new platform technology for monolithically integrating photonic devices, known as the Passive Active Resonant Coupler (PARC). This resulting technology facilitated the foundation of a start-up company called Covega Corporation located in Jessup, Maryland. In his career, Professor Saini has held positions including Lead Optoelectronics Device Engineer and Lead Applications Engineer at Covega, where he spearheaded the design and development of single angled facet chips, semiconductor optical amplifiers, and high power lasers. In August 2004, he co-founded Altanet Communications, a start-up concentrating on Ethernet-based metro area networks with rapid restoration capabilities. His research interests encompass a range of topics including optoelectronic components for datacom and telecom, high-speed optical networks, tunable mid-infrared lasers, nanophotonics for chem-bio sensors, and microwave photonics. He holds five patents with five additional stages in application, three of which have been commercialized.

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