Research Group: Optical Communications Group
Education- Ph.D., Physics, UC Berkeley
- M.A., Physics, UC Berkeley
- A.B., Physics, UC Berkeley
- Single-Mode Optical Fiber Communication
- Multi-Mode Optical Fiber Communication
- Atmospheric Turbulence in Free-Space Optical Communication
- Free-Space Optical Communication using Microelectromechanical Systems
- Indoor Free-Space Optical Communication
- Multi-Antenna Wireless Communication
- Stanford
Space, Telecommunications, and Radioscience Laboratory
Solid State and Photonics Laboratory
Ginzton Laboratory
Stanford Photonics Research Center - Other
StrataLight Communications (Chief Scientist)
UC Berkeley EECS Department (Adjunct Professor)
Biographical Sketch
Joseph M. Kahn received the A.B., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics from U.C. Berkeley in 1981, 1983 and
1986, respectively. From 1987-1990, he was at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill Laboratory, in Holmdel,
NJ. He demonstrated multi-Gb/s coherent optical fiber transmission systems, setting world records for receiver
sensitivity. From 1990-2003, he was on the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer
Sciences at U.C. Berkeley, performing research on optical and wireless communications. Currently, he is an Adjunct
Professor in that Department. Since 2003, he has been a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.
His current research interests include single- and multi-mode optical fiber communications, free-space optical
communications, and MEMS for optical communications. Professor Kahn received the National Science Foundation
Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1991. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. From 1993-2000, he served as a Technical
Editor of IEEE Personal Communications Magazine. In 2000, he helped found StrataLight Communications, where he is
currently Chief Scientist. StrataLight is developing transceiver technology for robust, spectrally efficient optical
fiber transmission at 40 Gb/s.
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