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Dennis Davino, Cypress
Richard Weinberg, USC
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Radhika Mysore, UCSD
Tom DeFanti, UCSD/Calit2
Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA
Rich Wolski, UCSB
Steve Vogt, UCSB
Shaya Fainman, UCSB
Tim Calhoon, CCC Tech Ctr.
Brian Shepard, USC
John Orcutt, UCSD/SIO
David Lassner, U Hawaii
Amin Vahdat, UCSD
Blaine Morrow, CCC Confer
Holger Schmidt, UCSC
Paul Wright, CITRIS
Lee Thompson, CSU EB
Ruzena Bajcsy, UCB
Laurin Herr, Pacific Interface
G. P. Li, Calit2@UCI
Lee Belarmino, SJ Delta Coll.
JoAnn Kuchera-Morin, UCSB
Kevin Patrick, UCSD
Roger Bales, UCM
Liang Feng
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Caltech Nanofabrication Group Homepage 		[Liang Feng Picture]
In the June 2 issue of CENIC Today, readers enjoyed a brief catalogue of the photonics research being carried out at various CENIC Associate institutions, research that promises to transform the ways that optically-based networks like CalREN interact with and support data processing. Recently, research being spearheaded by Caltech and UC San Diego has advanced this frontier even further by developing a silicon-based optical waveguide that could prove to be an instrumental component in building low-cost, all-optical networks in the future.

This research was described in a recent paper published in Science, the lead author for which was Caltech researchers Liang Feng, pictured at right, postdoctoral researcher in the Nanofabrication Group led by Prof. Axel Scherer at the Department of Electrical Engineering. His research is focusing on nanophotonics and plasmonics, as well as their bio-applications. Before joining Dr. Scherer's group, Feng obtained his PhD in Electrical Engineering (Photonics) in the Ultrafast Nanoscale Optics group headed by previous CENIC Star Researcher Shaya Fainman at Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC San Diego.