Advances in High–Speed, High–Power Photodiodes: From Fundamentals to Applications

Prof. Dr. Xiupu Zhang received a B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Harbin Institute of Electrical Technology (now the Harbin University of Science and Technology), Harbin, China, in 1983, a M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China, in 1988, and a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark, in 1996. From 1983 to 1985, he worked in manufacturing fibers and fiber cables in China. From 1988 to 1992, he was engaged in the construction of telecommunication networks in Beijing. From 1998 to 2002, he worked as a senior engineer in the fiber-optics industry, involved in the design of repeaterless fiber-optic transmission systems, design of erbium-doped fiber amplifiers and fiber Raman amplifiers, design of optical transmitters and receivers, and the design of metropolitan optical networks, in North America, including Montreal and Ottawa, Canada, and Piscataway, NJ, USA. In June 2002, he joined Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, where he was an Associate Professor. Currently, he is a full-time Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Concordia University. His current research interests include broadband and high linearity fronthaul transmission systems based on radio over fiber, quantum-dot semiconductor lasers, and broadband photodiodes with microwave packaging and antennas.

Prof. Dr. Mohammad S. Sharawi received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Oakland University, Michigan, USA, in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Lead Engineer with Blue Origin LLC working on research and development projects for space communication systems. He was a Full Tenured Professor of Electrical Engineering with Polytechnique Montréal, Montreal, QC, Canada from 2019 to 2023. He was with KFUPM Saudi Arabia from 2009-2018. Dr. Sharawi has more than 400 papers, 11 book chapters and 3 books. He has 28 granted patents with USPO. His areas of research include Multiband Printed MIMO Antenna systems, Reconfigurable and Active integrated Antennas, Millimeter-wave antennas, Phased Arrays and Integrated RF-front end solutions. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow IET.

Prof. Dr. Raman Kashyap (Senior Member, IEEE) received a B.Sc. degree from King's College London, London, UK, and a Ph.D. degree in physics from the University of Essex, Colchester, UK. He has been active in the field of photonics research for more than 30 years, many of which were spent with the British Telecom Research Laboratories, Martlesham Heath, Ipswich, UK. He was previously the Head of Corvis Canada Inc., a mid-size company with more than 100 employees. He is currently a Professor jointly appointed with the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Engineering Physics, Polytechnique Montréal, University of Montreal, Montreal, QC, Canada, where he already held the position of Canada Research Chair on Future Photonic Systems from 2003 to 2017. His expertise encompasses a wide range of subjects including, principally, optoelectronics and photonics. His research interests include optical sensors, optical fibers, lasers (specifically Raman and Brillouin lasers), ablation and modification of materials by FS laser, ultra-long fiber Bragg gratings, and plasmonic and laser cooling. Prof. Dr. Raman Kashyap is a Chartered Physicist and Fellow of the Optical Society of America, SPIE, Institute of Physics, Engineering Institute of Canada, Canadian Academy of Engineering, and Academy of Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.