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Electronics and Electrical Engineering

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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Electronics and Electrical Engineering in United States Leader Award
  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2019 - Comstock Prize in Physics, U.S. National Academy of Sciences For her pioneering contributions to silicon photonics based on high confinement optical structures including the demonstration of electro-optic modulation in silicon, parametric oscillation, and extreme confinement of light in waveguides.
  • 2019 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2013 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to design and applications of nanoscale photonic devices
  • 2010 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 2008 - OSA Fellows For outstanding contributions to the field of silicon nanophotonics including the development of high-bandwidth modulators and low-power nonlinear optical devices.

Overview

Michal Lipson is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States and has a research focus primarily in the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy. Their work broadly encompasses Electrical and Electronic Engineering as well as Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, with additional contributions in Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

The research topics covered by Lipson's work include Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Mechanical and Optical Resonators, Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, and Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing.

Selected recent publications illustrate the scope and impact of their research:

  • Widely tunable and narrow-linewidth chip-scale lasers from near-ultraviolet to near-infrared wavelengths, 2022, Nature Photonics
  • Near-Degenerate Quadrature-Squeezed Vacuum Generation on a Silicon-Nitride Chip, 2020, Physical Review Letters
  • Methods to achieve ultra-high quality factor silicon nitride resonators, 2021, APL Photonics
  • Chip-scale blue light phased array, 2020, Optics Letters
  • Massively scalable Kerr comb-driven silicon photonic link, 2023, Nature Photonics

Lipson frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Xingchen Ji, Alexander L. Gaeta, Yoshitomo Okawachi, Bok Young Kim, and Yun Zhao.

The most frequent venues for their publications include the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, arXiv (Cornell University), Optics Letters, Nature Communications, and Optica.

Awards received by Lipson highlight milestones in their career. These include recognition as a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2020 and membership in the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2019. The Comstock Prize in Physics from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences in 2019 cites contributions relating to silicon photonics and high confinement optical structures. Additional honors include IEEE Fellow in 2013 for nanoscale photonic device design and applications, Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation in 2010, and OSA Fellow in 2008 for work in silicon nanophotonics.

Best Publications

  • Micrometre-scale silicon electro-optic modulator

    Qianfan Xu;Bradley Schmidt;Sameer Pradhan;Michal Lipson

  • Guiding and confining light in void nanostructure.

    Vilson R. Almeida;Qianfan Xu;Carlos A. Barrios;Michal Lipson

  • New CMOS-compatible platforms based on silicon nitride and hydex for nonlinear optics

    David J. Moss;Roberto Morandotti;Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson

  • All-optical control of light on a silicon chip

    Vilson R. Almeida;Carlos A. Barrios;Roberto R. Panepucci;Michal Lipson

  • Dissipative Kerr Solitons in Optical Microresonators

    Tobias J. Kippenberg;Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson;Michael L. Gorodetsky

  • CMOS-compatible multiple-wavelength oscillator for on-chip optical interconnects

    Jacob S. Levy;Alexander Gondarenko;Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner-Foster

  • Nanotaper for compact mode conversion.

    Vilson R. Almeida;Roberto R. Panepucci;Michal Lipson

  • Broad-band optical parametric gain on a silicon photonic chip

    Mark A. Foster;Amy C. Turner;Jay E. Sharping;Bradley S. Schmidt

  • 12.5 Gbit/s carrier-injection-based silicon micro-ring silicon modulators

    Qianfan Xu;Sasikanth Manipatruni;Brad Schmidt;Jagat Shakya

  • Photonic-chip-based frequency combs

    Alexander L. Gaeta;Michal Lipson;Tobias J. Kippenberg

  • Optical manipulation of nanoparticles and biomolecules in sub-wavelength slot waveguides.

    Allen H. J. Yang;Sean D. Moore;Bradley S. Schmidt;Matthew Klug

  • Guiding, modulating, and emitting light on Silicon-challenges and opportunities

    M. Lipson

  • Graphene electro-optic modulator with 30 GHz bandwidth

    Christopher T. Phare;Yoon-Ho Daniel Lee;Jaime Cardenas;Michal Lipson

  • WDM-compatible mode-division multiplexing on a silicon chip

    Lian-Wee Luo;Noam Ophir;Christine P. Chen;Lucas H. Gabrielli

  • Experimental demonstration of guiding and confining light in nanometer-size low-refractive-index material.

    Qianfan Xu;Vilson R. Almeida;Roberto R. Panepucci;Michal Lipson

  • Battery-operated integrated frequency comb generator.

    Brian Stern;Xingchen Ji;Xingchen Ji;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Alexander L. Gaeta

  • Experimental realization of an on-chip all-optical analogue to electromagnetically induced transparency

    Qianfan Xu;Sunil Sandhu;Michelle L. Povinelli;Jagat Shakya

  • Electrically driven nonreciprocity induced by interband photonic transition on a silicon chip.

    Hugo Lira;Zongfu Yu;Shanhui Fan;Michal Lipson

  • Silicon nanostructure cloak operating at optical frequencies

    Lucas H. Gabrielli;Jaime Cardenas;Carl B. Poitras;Michal Lipson

  • Nanophotonic lithium niobate electro-optic modulators.

    Cheng Wang;Mian Zhang;Brian Stern;Michal Lipson

  • Broadband mid-infrared frequency comb generation in a Si(3)N(4) microresonator.

    Kevin Luke;Yoshitomo Okawachi;Michael R E Lamont;Alexander L Gaeta

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexander L. Gaeta
Alexander L. Gaeta Columbia University
Yoshitomo Okawachi
Yoshitomo Okawachi Columbia University
Mark A. Foster
Mark A. Foster Johns Hopkins University
Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman Columbia University
Qianfan Xu
Qianfan Xu Rice University
Sasikanth Manipatruni
Sasikanth Manipatruni Intel (United States)
Mian Zhang
Mian Zhang HyperLight
Benjamin G. Lee
Benjamin G. Lee Nvidia (United States)
Shanhui Fan
Shanhui Fan Stanford University

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