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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow, National Academy of Inventors
  • 2001 - OSA Fellows For pioneering investigations of Group IV semiconductors in optoelectronics and guided-wave optics.

Overview

Richard A. Soref is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Boston in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their work covers a variety of main topics including Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, Optical Network Technologies, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, and Photonic Crystals and Applications.

Richard A. Soref has published extensively in several venues, with numerous contributions to arXiv (Cornell University), Sensors, Optics Express, Journal of Lightwave Technology, and the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics.

Frequent collaborators in their research activities include Francesco De Leonardis, Greg Sun, Vittorio M. N. Passaro, Shui-Qing Yu, and Wei Du.

Notable recent publications include:

  • Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics, 2024, Nature Communications
  • Electrically injected GeSn lasers on Si operating up to 100 K, 2020, Optica
  • Electronic-photonic arithmetic logic unit for high-speed computing, 2020, Nature Communications
  • Electrically injected GeSn lasers with peak wavelength up to 2.7 μm, 2021, Photonics Research
  • Non-Hermitian Sensing in Photonics and Electronics: A Review, 2022, Sensors

Richard A. Soref has received recognition including the status of Fellow from the National Academy of Inventors in 2015.

Additionally, they were named an OSA Fellow in 2001, cited for pioneering investigations of Group IV semiconductors in optoelectronics and guided-wave optics.

Best Publications

  • Electrooptical effects in silicon

    R. Soref;B. Bennett

  • The Past, Present, and Future of Silicon Photonics

    R. Soref

  • Mid-infrared photonics in silicon and germanium

    Richard Soref

  • Carrier-induced change in refractive index of InP, GaAs and InGaAsP

    B.R. Bennett;R.A. Soref;J.A. Del Alamo

  • Silicon-based optoelectronics

    R.A. Soref

  • Large single-mode rib waveguides in GeSi-Si and Si-on-SiO/sub 2/

    R.A. Soref;J. Schmidtchen;K. Petermann

  • All-silicon active and passive guided-wave components for λ = 1.3 and 1.6 µm

    R. Soref;J. Larenzo

  • Optical add-drop filters based on photonic crystal ring resonators

    Zexuan Qiang;Weidong Zhou;Richard A. Soref

  • Silicon waveguided components for the long-wave infrared region*

    Richard A Soref;Stephen J Emelett;Walter R Buchwald

  • Free-Carrier Electrorefraction and Electroabsorption Modulation Predictions for Silicon Over the 1–14- $\mu\hbox{m}$ Infrared Wavelength Range

    M. Nedeljkovic;R. Soref;G. Z. Mashanovich

  • Broadband nonvolatile photonic switching based on optical phase change materials: beyond the classical figure-of-merit

    Qihang Zhang;Yifei Zhang;Junying Li;Richard Soref

  • Kramers-Kronig analysis of electro-optical switching in silicon

    R. A. Soref;B. R. Bennett

  • The third-order nonlinear optical coefficients of Si, Ge, and Si1−xGex in the midwave and longwave infrared

    Nick K. Hon;Richard Soref;Bahram Jalali

  • Wideband perfect light absorber at midwave infrared using multiplexed metal structures

    Joshua Hendrickson;Junpeng Guo;Boyang Zhang;Walter Buchwald

  • Photonic beamformer for phased array antennas using a fiber grating prism

    H. Zmuda;R.A. Soref;P. Payson;S. Johns

  • The direct and indirect bandgaps of unstrained SixGe1−x−ySny and their photonic device applications

    P. Moontragoon;R. A. Soref;Z. Ikonic

  • An optically pumped 2.5 μm GeSn laser on Si operating at 110 K

    Sattar Al-Kabi;Seyed Amir Ghetmiri;Joe Margetis;Thach Pham

  • Reconfigurable optical directed-logic circuits using microresonator-based optical switches

    Qianfan Xu;Richard Soref

  • Group IV photonics: Enabling 2 [mu]m communications

    Richard Soref

  • Electro-optical switching using coupled photonic crystal waveguides

    Dennis W. Prather;Ahmed Sharkawy;Shouyun Shi;Richard A. Soref

  • Optical band gap of the ternary semiconductor Si1−x−yGexCy

    Richard A. Soref

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg Sun
Greg Sun University of Massachusetts Boston
Wei Du
Wei Du University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
Shui-Qing Yu
Shui-Qing Yu University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
John Tolle
John Tolle Arizona State University
Jacob B. Khurgin
Jacob B. Khurgin Johns Hopkins University
Vittorio M. N. Passaro
Vittorio M. N. Passaro Polytechnic University of Bari
Jifeng Liu
Jifeng Liu Dartmouth College
Weidong Zhou
Weidong Zhou The University of Texas at Arlington
Yikai Su
Yikai Su Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ray T. Chen
Ray T. Chen The University of Texas at Austin

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