Long Wavelength Photonic Integrated Circuits

Organization

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

0220-NPP-NOV
26-JPL-Tech Dev

The NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) offers unique research opportunities to highly-talented scientists to engage in ongoing NASA research projects at a NASA Center, NASA Headquarters, or at a NASA-affiliated research institute. These one- to three-year fellowships are competitive and are designed to advance NASA’s missions in space science, Earth science, aeronautics, space operations, exploration systems, and astrobiology.

Photonics has become an enabling technology for a host of industrial and scientific applications that combine many optical components and functionalities into a miniaturized chip format. While the PICs developed in the last decade have enabled applications in the visible and near‑IR wavelength range, a range of scientific applications that benefit from availability of such chips at longer wavelengths has emerged.

This effort will target development of state‑of‑the‑art PICs and spectrometers on chip at long wavelength. The postdoctoral researcher will work on various aspects of this new development including design, device microfabrication, test and characterization, and integration into a spectrometer instrument.

• Design of photonic integrated circuits.
• Device microfabrication.
• Test and characterization.
• Integration into a spectrometer instrument.

• Recent Ph.D. in electrical engineering or a closely related field.
• Experience with photonic modeling, fabrication, and characterization of photonic components.

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California

Technology Development

Mahmood Bagheri
mahmood.bagheria.gov
818‑354‑0413

• U.S. Citizens.
• U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (LPR).
• Foreign Nationals eligible for an Exchange Visitor J‑1 visa status.
• Applicants who are LPR, asylees, or refugees in the U.S. at the time of application with a valid EAD card and I‑485 or I‑589 forms in pending status.

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Doctoral Degree

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