Sadik C. Esener


Office: 3408 Engineering Building Unit 1

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: sesener@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2732
Fax:     (858) 534-1225

Ph.D. University of California, San Diego, 1987

Photonics/Optoelectronics

Dr. Esener received the Ph.D. degree in Applied Physics and Electrical Engineering from the UC San Diego in 1987. He joined the ECE faculty in 87, became an associate professor in 91, and full professor in 96. He is currently leading the Optoelectronic Computing Group, and is the Director of the Center for Heterogeneously Integrated Photonics (CHIPS http://www.darpa.mil/mto/optocenters/presentations/esener.pdf ) a DARPA funded University Opto-Center. Previously he directed the Opto-Electronic Stacked Processors industry/university consortium as well as the Fast Read-out Optical Storage consortium funded by DARPA. He received a certificate of recognition from NASA in March 1987 for his work on optically addressed RAM. Professor Esener has written four book chapters, published about 100 research articles in refereed journals, presented more than 250 papers in scientific meetings, and he holds 14 patents. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and is a member of IEEE, and SPIE. Dr. Esener is also a co-founder of four local companies.

Research Interests

Light modulation and detection, optical interconnects and related computing architectures, optical data storage, and biophotonics as applied to cell and gene chips.


Honors and Distinctions

·       Certificate of Recognition NASA, March 1987

·       Fellow of OSA

·       Best ECE Graduate Teacher Award 2002

 

Links to Recent Esener Publications

 

Recent Journal Publications

·       Flynn, R. A., Birkbeck, A. L., Gross, M., Ozkan, M., Bing, S., Wang, M. M., and Esener, S.C., "Parallel transport of biological cells using individually addressable VCSEL arrays as optical tweezers." Sensors & Actuators B-Chemical B87(2): pp. 239-243,  Dec. 2002. 

·       Guoqiang, L., Yuceturk, E., Dawei, H., and Esener, S.C., "Analysis of free-space optical interconnects for the three-dimensional optoelectronic stacked processor." Optics Communications 202(4-6) pp. 319-29, Feb. 2002.

·       Guoqiang, L., Dawei, H., Yuceturk, E., Mar.and, P. J., Ozguz, V. H., Yue, L., Esener, S.C., "Three-dimensional optoelectronic stacked processor by use of free-space optical interconnection and three-dimensional VLSI chip stacks." Applied Optics 41(2) pp. 348-360, Jan. 2002.

·       Hartmann, D. M., Heller, M.J., Esener, S. C., Schwartz, D., and Tu,E. "Selective DNA attachment of micro- and nanoscale particles to substrates." Journal of Materials Research 17(2): pp. 473-478, Feb., 2002.

·       Ozkan, M.,  Bhatia, S., and Esener, S.C., "Optical addressing of polymer beads in microdevices." Sensors & Materials 14(4): pp. 189-197, 2002. (Invited Paper)

·       Ozkan, N. S. F., Hendrick, W. L., Mar.and, P. J. and  Esener, S. C. "Misalignment tolerance analysis of free-space optical interconnects via statistical methods." Applied Optics 41(14): 2686-94, May 2002.

·       Wen, P., Sanchez, M., Gross, M., and Esener, S.C. "Observation of bistability in a vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifier (VCSOA)." Optics Express, Vol.10, no.22, p. 4, Nov., 2002.

·       Birkbeck, A. L., Flynn, R. A., Ozkan, M., Song, D., Gross, M., and Esener, S.C., "VCSEL arrays as micromanipulators in chip-based biosystems." Biomedical Microdevices 5(1): pp. 47-54, 2003.

·       Ozkan, M., Wang, M., Ozkan, C., Flynn, R., Birkbeck, A., and Esener, S.C., "Optical manipulation of objects and biological cells in microfluidic devices." Biomedical Microdevices 5(1) pp. 61-67, Mar. 2003.

·       Sanchez, M., Wen, P., Gross, M., and Esener, S.C. "Rate equations for modeling dispersive nonlinearity in Fabry-Perot semiconductor optical amplifiers." Optics Express, Vol.11, no.21, p. 2689, Oct. 2003.

·       N. Ozkan, M. Pisanic, T. Scheel, J. Barlow, C. Esener, S., and Bhatia, S. “Electro-optical platform for the manipulation of live cells” Langmuir. v 19 n 5 Mar 4 2003. p 1532-1538

·       Sanchez, M., Wen, P., Gross, M., and Esener, S.C. "Nonlinear gain in vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers." IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 15(4): pp. 507-509, Apr. 2003.

·       Wen, P., Sanchez, M., Gross M., and Esener, S.C., "Vertical-cavity optical AND gate." Optics Communications 219(1-6) pp. 383-387, Apr. 2003.

·       Forster, A. H.,  Wang, M. M., Butler, W., Chachisvilis, M., Chung, T. D. Y. , Esener, S.C., Hall, J. M., Kibar, Lykstad, O., K.,  Mar.and, P. J.,  Mercer, E. M.,  Pestana, L.,  Sur, S.,  Tu, E.,  Yang, R., . Zhang, H., and Kariv. I. "Use of moving optical gradient fields for analysis of apoptotic cellular responses in a chronic myeloid leukemia cell model." Elsevier Analytical Biochemistry ACCEPTED for publication (2004).

·       Wen, P., Sanchez, M., Gross M., and Esener, S.C., “Polarization anisotropy in vertical-cavity semiconductor optical amplifiers” Optics Letters, Vol. 29 Issue 16 , pp.1888-1890  (August 2004)

 

Last Updated: 10/10/2004