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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

D-Index
60
Citations
13927
World Ranking
1633
National Ranking
661

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2006 - OSA Fellows For contributions to ultrafast optical wavelength conversion, packet OTDM, signal processing and regeneration.
  • 2003 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to optical packet switching and agile optical networking.

Overview

Daniel J. Blumenthal is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their primary research spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Engineering. A significant portion of their work intersects subfields including Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Oncology, Artificial Intelligence, and Immunology.

The scientist has contributed extensively to topics such as Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Photonic and Optical Devices, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Advanced Frequency and Time Standards, Optical Network Technologies, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, and Advanced Photonic Communication Systems.

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Daniel J. Blumenthal include Kaikai Liu, Nitesh Chauhan, Andrei Isichenko, Mark Harrington, and Jiawei Wang.

Daniel J. Blumenthal has published numerous papers in prominent venues, with a particular focus on institutions and conferences such as arXiv (Cornell University), the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Nature Communications, the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2022, and APL Photonics.

  • 2024: Integrated optical frequency division for microwave and mmWave generation, Nature
  • 2022: 2022 Roadmap on integrated quantum photonics, Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
  • 2021: 422 Million intrinsic quality factor planar integrated all-waveguide resonator with sub-MHz linewidth, Nature Communications
  • 2021: Visible light photonic integrated Brillouin laser, Nature Communications
  • 2020: Photonic integration for UV to IR applications, APL Photonics

Throughout their career, Daniel J. Blumenthal has been recognized with multiple awards including Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors in 2017, OSA Fellow in 2006 for contributions to ultrafast optical wavelength conversion, packet OTDM, signal processing, and regeneration, and IEEE Fellow in 2003 for contributions to optical packet switching and agile optical networking.

Best Publications

  • Optical performance monitoring

    D.C. Kilper;R. Bach;D.J. Blumenthal;D. Einstein

  • All-optical label swapping networks and technologies

    D.J. Blumenthal;B.-E. Olsson;G. Rossi;T.E. Dimmick

  • Silicon Nitride in Silicon Photonics

    Daniel J. Blumenthal;Rene Heideman;Douwe Geuzebroek;Arne Leinse

  • Ultra-low-loss high-aspect-ratio Si3N4 waveguides.

    Jared F. Bauters;Martijn J. R. Heck;Demis John;Daoxin Dai

  • Planar waveguides with less than 0.1 dB/m propagation loss fabricated with wafer bonding.

    Jared F. Bauters;Martijn J. R. Heck;Demis D. John;Jonathon S. Barton

  • Sub-hertz fundamental linewidth photonic integrated Brillouin laser

    Sarat Gundavarapu;Grant M. Brodnik;Matthew Puckett;Taran Huffman

  • Roadmap on Integrated Quantum Photonics

    Galan Moody;Volker J Sorger;Daniel J Blumenthal;Paul W Juodawlkis

  • Photonic packet switches: architectures and experimental implementations

    D.J. Blumenthal;P.R. Prucnal;J.R. Sauer

  • Tunable Laser Diodes and Related Optical Sources

    Jens Buus;Markus-Christian Amann;Daniel J. Blumenthal

  • Sub-Hz Linewidth Photonic-Integrated Brillouin Laser

    Sarat Gundavarapu;Ryan Behunin;Grant M. Brodnik;Debapam Bose

  • 422 Million Q Planar Integrated All-Waveguide Resonator with a 3.4 Billion Absorption Limited Q and Sub-MHz Linewidth

    Matthew W. Puckett;Kaikai Liu;Nitesh Chauhan;Qiancheng Zhao

  • OPERA: an optical packet experimental routing architecture with label swapping capability

    A. Carena;M.D. Vaughn;R. Gaudino;M. Shell

  • A simple and robust 40-Gb/s wavelength converter using fiber cross-phase modulation and optical filtering

    B.-E. Olsson;P. Ohlen;L. Rau;D.J. Blumenthal

  • All-optical label swapping with wavelength conversion for WDM-IP networks with subcarrier multiplexed addressing

    D.J. Blumenthal;A. Carena;L. Rau;V. Curri

  • Ultra-high quality factor planar Si 3 N 4 ring resonators on Si substrates

    Ming-Chun Tien;Jared F. Bauters;Martijn J. R. Heck;Daryl T. Spencer

  • Low-loss Si3N4 arrayed-waveguide grating (de)multiplexer using nano-core optical waveguides.

    Daoxin Dai;Zhi Wang;Jared F. Bauters;M.-C. Tien

  • Optical signal processing for optical packet switching networks

    D.J. Blumenthal;J.E. Bowers;L. Rau;Hsu-Feng Chou

  • An 8 $\, imes\,$ 8 InP Monolithic Tunable Optical Router (MOTOR) Packet Forwarding Chip

    S.C. Nicholes;M.L. Masanovic;B. Jevremovic;E. Lively

  • Picosecond microwave pulse generation

    Gerard Mourou;Charles V. Stancampiano;Daniel Blumenthal

  • A comparison of optical buffering technologies

    E. F. Burmeister;D. J. Blumenthal;J. E. Bowers

  • 422 Million intrinsic quality factor planar integrated all-waveguide resonator with sub-MHz linewidth.

    Matthew W. Puckett;Kaikai Liu;Nitesh Chauhan;Qiancheng Zhao

Frequent Co-Authors

John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Larry A. Coldren
Larry A. Coldren University of California, Santa Barbara
Martijn J. R. Heck
Martijn J. R. Heck Eindhoven University of Technology
James W. Raring
James W. Raring Kyocera (United States)
Markus-Christian Amann
Markus-Christian Amann Technical University of Munich
Roberto Gaudino
Roberto Gaudino Polytechnic University of Turin
Paul R. Prucnal
Paul R. Prucnal Princeton University
J. Laskar
J. Laskar Maja Systems
Scott B. Papp
Scott B. Papp National Institute of Standards and Technology
Evelyn L. Hu
Evelyn L. Hu Harvard University

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