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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2004 - IEEE David Sarnoff Award “For his key role in the development of high efficency transparent substrate light emitting diodes and their commercial realization.”

Overview

Fred A. Kish is affiliated with Infinera in the United States. Their research spans several domains within physics, engineering, and materials science, with a primary focus on electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and condensed matter physics. Their work integrates elements of materials chemistry and electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

Their main topics of research include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • GaN-based semiconductor devices and materials
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Ga2O3 and related materials
  • Semiconductor Quantum Structures and Devices

Fred A. Kish has contributed to multiple recent papers published in reputable journals. These include:

  • "A Monolithically Integrated Racetrack Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser With Pulse-Picking Modulator," 2020, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • "InP high power monolithically integrated widely tunable laser and SOA array for hybrid integration," 2021, Optics Express
  • "Direct chip-scale optical frequency divider via regenerative harmonic injection locking," 2021, Optics Letters
  • "Growth and characterization of AlInN/GaN superlattices," 2024, Journal of Crystal Growth
  • "Wafer-bonded In0.53Ga0.47As/GaN p-n diodes with near-unity ideality factor," 2024, Applied Physics Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Journal of Crystal Growth
  • Applied Physics Letters
  • IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics
  • Optics Express
  • Optics Letters

Co-authorship is a notable aspect of Fred A. Kish's research, collaborating frequently with:

  • Gloria E. Hoefler
  • Jonathan J. Wierer
  • Ashish Bhardwaj
  • Ricardo Bustos-Ramirez
  • Peter J. Delfyett

Fred A. Kish was recognized with the IEEE David Sarnoff Award in 2004 for contributions to the development of high-efficiency transparent substrate light-emitting diodes and their commercial realization.

Best Publications

  • High-power truncated-inverted-pyramid (AlxGa1−x)0.5In0.5P/GaP light-emitting diodes exhibiting >50% external quantum efficiency

    M. R. Krames;M. Ochiai-Holcomb;G. E. Höfler;C. Carter-Coman

  • Large-scale photonic integrated circuits

    R. Nagarajan;C.H. Joyner;R.P. Schneider;J.S. Bostak

  • Monolithic photonic integrated circuit (PIC) with forward error correction (FEC)

    David Welch;Radhakrishnan Nagarajan;Fred Kish;Mark Missey

  • III-nitride light emitting devices fabricated by substrate removal

    Carrie Carter Coman;Fred A. Kish;Michael R Krames;Paul S Martin

  • III-Phosphide and III-Arsenide flip chip light-emitting devices

    Michael D. Camras;Daniel A. Steigerwald;Frank M. Steranka;Michael J. Ludowise

  • MONOLITHIC TRANSMITTER PHOTONIC INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (TxPIC) WITH INTEGRATED OPTICAL COMPONENTS IN CIRCUIT SIGNAL CHANNELS

    David F. Welch;Vincent G. Dominic;Fred A. Kish;Mark J. Missey

  • Method of tuning optical components integrated in a monolithic photonic integrated circuit (pic)

    Fred A. Kish;Charles H. Joyner;David F. Welch;Robert B. Taylor

  • Methods for fabricating light emitting devices having aluminum gallium indium nitride structures and mirror stacks

    Carrie Carter Coman;R. Scott Kern;Fred A. Kish;Michael R Krames

  • Transparent substrate light emitting diodes with directed light output

    Fred A. Kish;Stephen A. Stockman

  • Electrode structure for light emitting device

    Robert M Fletcher;William R Imler;Jr Fred A Kish;Steven A Maranowski

  • Forming led having angled sides for increased side light extraction

    Michael R Krames;Fred A Kish;Tun S Tan

  • III-nitride light-emitting device with increased light generating capability

    Michael R Krames;Daniel A. Steigerwald;Fred A. Kish;Pradeep Rajkomar

  • Digital optical network architecture

    Jagdeep Singh;Drew D. Perkins;David F. Welch;Mark Yin

  • InP Photonic Integrated Circuits

    R Nagarajan;M Kato;J Pleumeekers;P Evans

  • Diffusion barrier for increased mirror reflectivity in reflective solderable contacts on high power led chip

    Carrie Carter-Coman;Gloria Hofler;Fred A. Kish

  • Light extraction from a semiconductor light emitting device via chip shaping

    Michael R Krames;Fred A Kish;Tun S Tan

  • System-on-Chip Photonic Integrated Circuits

    Fred Kish;Vikrant Lal;Peter Evans;Scott W. Corzine

  • Integrated line-by-line optical pulse shaper for high-fidelity and rapidly reconfigurable RF-filtering.

    Andrew J. Metcalf;Hyoung-Jun Kim;Daniel E. Leaird;Jose A. Jaramillo-Villegas

  • METHOD OF MANUFACTURING GROUP III-NITRIDE LED WITH INCREASED LIGHT GENERATING CAPABILITY

    Jonathan J Wheeler;Krames Michael R;Daniel S Steigerwald;Kish Fred A

  • Coolerless photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for WDM transmission networks and PICs operable with a floating signal channel grid changing with temperature but with fixed channel spacing in the floating grid

    Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan;Fred A. Kish;David F. Welch;Drew D. Perkins

  • Formation of cleaved grooves in a passivation layer formed over a surface of a wafer prior to wafer singulation

    Charles Joyner;Mark Missey;Radhakrishnan Nagarajan;Frank Peters

  • Large-scale photonic integrated circuits

    J. Pleumeekers;M. Kato;P. Evans;S. Corzine

Frequent Co-Authors

Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan
Radhakrishnan L. Nagarajan Marvell Technology
David F. Welch
David F. Welch Infinera (United States)
Richard P. Schneider
Richard P. Schneider Infinera (United States)
A.G. Dentai
A.G. Dentai Infinera (United States)
Peter J. Delfyett
Peter J. Delfyett University of Central Florida
C. Joyner
C. Joyner Infinera (United States)
Arto V. Nurmikko
Arto V. Nurmikko Brown University
Andrew M. Weiner
Andrew M. Weiner Purdue University West Lafayette
Ming C. Wu
Ming C. Wu University of California, Berkeley
Daniel E. Leaird
Daniel E. Leaird Purdue University West Lafayette

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