Ming C. Wu (Advisor)

Research Advised by Professor Ming C. Wu

Sirui Tang

Graduate Student Researcher
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences
Professor Ming C. Wu (Advisor)
Ph.D. 2028 (Anticipated)

High-Performance FMCW LiDAR with MEMS Optical Beam Scanner

Xiaosheng Zhang
Ming C. Wu
2023

BSAC's Best: Spring 2012 Winners Announced

March 9, 2012

BSAC would like to thank the 170 researchers who presented their work in poster or plenary sessions at the Spring 2012 BSAC Research Review on March 7-9.

50 attending industrial members from 32 member organizations voted for the best presentations and posters, resulting in Best Paper and Best Poster awards (certificate and cash).

Ivan Dimov
Best Paper Ivan...

BSAC's Best: Spring 2023 Awards Announced

April 20, 2023

BSAC would like to thank all of the researchers who presented their research during BSAC's Spring 2023 Research Review on April 19th.

BSAC Industrial Members voted for the outstanding paper and presentations and the results are in. Please join BSAC in congratulating the recipients of the Spring 2023 Best of BSAC honors, Peisheng He, Daniel Klawson, and Kevin Zheng!

Peisheng He (Liwei Lin Group), Best of BSAC S2023 ...

Integrated Photonics for Scalable Trapped Ion Quantum Computing

Daniel Klawson
2023
Spring 2023 BSAC Research Review Presentation View Slides View this Presentation at 25:58


 Winner: Best Oral Presentation (Spring 2023) Project: BPN961 - Ming C. Wu Group

BPN974: Lidar-Camera Fusion for Autonomous Driving

Philip L. Jacobson
2022

Within the past few decades, the goal of fully-autonomous vehicles has moved from a thought experiment to a potential reality thanks to advances in machine intelligence. One of the key challenges to still be overcome is the building of robotic perception systems which can achieve performance on-par with or surpassing that of humans. Currently, most autonomous driving researchers rely on several different modalities for collecting visual information, namely lidar, radar, and cameras. Although relying on lidar for perception has the drawback of high cost, maturing lidar technology has opened...

Fabrication Tolerant Inverse Design Grating Couplers for Scalable Trapped Ion Quantum Computing

Daniel Klawson
Mizuki Shirao
Sara Mouradian
Ming C. Wu
2022

A fabrication tolerant Si grating coupler for 1.762 µm operation is optimized with inverse design, allowing for −30 dB crosstalk between a pair of 133Ba+ trapped ion qubits within expected fabrication variation.

Large-scale Silicon Photonics Focal Plane Switch Array for Optical Beam Steering

Xiaosheng Zhang
Kyungmok Kwon
Johannes Henriksson
Jianheng Luo
Ming C. Wu
2021

We report on 128×128-element two-dimensional silicon photonics focal plane switch arrays with microelectromechanical-system optical switches for random-access optical beam steering. A 70°×70° field-of-view and sub-MHz steering speed are experimentally demonstrated.

A Large-Scale Microelectromechanical-Systems-Based Silicon Photonics LiDAR

Xiaosheng Zhang
Kyungmok Kwon
Johannes Henriksson
Jianheng Luo
Ming C. Wu
2022

Three-dimensional (3D) imaging sensors allow machines to perceive, map and interact with the surrounding world1. The size of light detection and ranging (LiDAR) devices is often limited by mechanical scanners. Focal plane array-based 3D sensors are promising candidates for solid-state LiDARs because they allow electronic scanning without mechanical moving parts. However, their resolutions have been limited to 512 pixels or smaller2. In this paper, we report on a 16,384-pixel LiDAR with a wide field of view (FoV, 70° × 70°), a fine addressing resolution (0.6° × 0.6°), a narrow beam...

Low-Loss Wafer-Bonded Silicon Photonic MEMS Switches

Amirmahdi Honardoost
Johannes Henriksson
Kyungmok Kwon
Jianheng Luo
Ming C. Wu
2022

We report on 32×32 silicon photonic switches realized through wafer bonding. Broadband operation is demonstrated over 1260-1320 nm range. The maximum on-chip loss is measured to be 4 dB and the cross-talk is −80 dB.

Keywords: Wafer bonding, Optical losses, Optical switches, Microswitches,Silicon photonics, Loss measurement, Optical fiber communication