Andrew Wing On POON

Research interest

Prof. Andrew Wing On Poon’s current research foci are on silicon photonics and on heterogeneously integrated III-V-on-silicon photonics. The Poon’s group focuses on using optical whispering-gallery modes and other optical resonance phenomena in micro-sized cavities in the visible to near-infrared light. They fabricate optical microcavities and photonic integrated circuits by nanofabrication on silicon. They leverage optical cavity resonances for diverse passive and active applications including datacenter/on-chip optical interconnections, on-chip optical manipulation of microparticles, (bio)-sensing, and integrated quantum light sources and entanglement-based technologies.

Biography

Prof. Poon received his BA (Hons) from The University of Chicago, Illinois, USA in 1995, and his MPhil and PhD from Yale University, Connecticut, USA, in 1998 and 2001 respectively, all in Physics.  In 2001, he joined the Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, as an Assistant Professor.  Since then, he has risen through the ranks and is now a Professor.  Since 2002, Prof. Poon and his students at HKUST have been spearheading diverse research directions in optical microcavities leveraging wafer-level silicon nanofabrication processes. The Poon’s group is among the early players of the now global silicon photonics community in academia and industry. He is a Senior Editor of the IEEE Photonics Technology Letters. He served as a Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (JSTQE) on Silicon Photonics 2016.  He is the General Chair of the 6th International Workshop on Microcavities and Their Applications (WOMA) 2022, Hong Kong. He has published one co-edited book (World Scientific 2011).