Recent Accomplishments
Leading scientists (Prof. Prem Kumar, front) work with bright new students (Eric Corndorf, back) to shape the future of technology.
  • Congratulations to Prof. Prem Kumar. He will receive a Distinguished Lecturer Award from the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) of the IEEE for 2008-09.

  • Congratulations to Prof. Matthew Grayson. He received a Faculty Early Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation for his proposal entitled "Bose-Einstein Condensation Using Different Flavors of Electrons."

  • Congratulations to Prof. Horace Yuen. He and Jeffrey Shapiro of the EECS Department at MIT, and Director of the Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT, will jointly receive the 2008 Quantum Electronics Award from the Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS) of the IEEE. Their citation for the Award will read: "For pioneering and seminal contributions to the theory of the generation, detection, and applications of novel states of light."

  • Congratulations to Prof. Bill Kath. He has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society of America. His citation reads: "For contributions to the statistical analysis of optical communication systems, and to the theory of linear and nonlinear fiber propagation."

  • A joint collaboration between Northwestern University (Prof. Kumar's research group) and BBN Technologies of Cambridge, Mass., has led to the first demonstration of a truly quantum cryptographic data network.
  • Congratulations to Prof. Prem Kumar. Professor Prem Kumar has been named the fifth recipient of the Martin E. and Gertrude G. Walder Award for Research Excellence.  The Walder Award was established by Dr. Joseph A. Walder, who earned a master's degree in chemistry from Northwestern in 1972 and an MD degree in 1975.
  • Prof. Hui Cao has received the 2006 Maria Goeppert-Mayer Award from the American Physical Society. Further details are available at the APS webpage: http://www.aps.org/praw/mgm/06-winner.cfm
  • Selim Shahriar is a winner in the FY2005 Competition Under the Defense University Research Instrumentation Program. The title of the research project: "Instrumentation for Ultrafast Target Recognition."
  • Prem Kumar is elected as a Program Chair for the 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science (QELS'06) conference sponsored by the Optical Society of America, the Laser Science Division of the American Physical Society, and the Lasers and Electro-optics Society of IEEE. He will also serve as General Chair for the meeting in 2008.
  • Prof. Horace Yuen was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for seminal contributions to the theory of quantum communications and quantum measurements.
  • Prof. Kumar has been awarded the 2004 5th International Quantum Communication Award by Tamagawa University, Tokyo. Kumar was selected for the contribution of challenging work on experimental quantum communication and quantum cryptography for the real world.
  • Mauro D'Ariano has been elected a Fellow of the Optical Society of America
  • CPCC research featured in the Spring 2003 McCormick By Design (pdf) magazine.
  • Prem Kumar was appointed the SBC Professor of Information Technology in the McCormick School.
  • Prem Kumar was recognized as the 2003 Fellow Award Recipient for the Chicago Section of the IEEE.
The Northwestern University Center for Photonic Communication and Computing (CPCC) conducts leading edge fundamental science and engineering research that leads to the development of advanced photonic communication and computing systems. Specifically, the focus of research is on optical and optoelectronic systems that push the technological limits to ever increasing speeds or levels of integration or exploit the fundamental laws of nature to accomplish communication, signal processing, and computing in radically new ways. The Center provides a venue for collaboration, coordination, dissemination, and promotion of research and teaching activities in the above areas. We are located at the McCormick School of Engineering on the Evanston Campus of Northwestern University.

CPCC Seminar:
When:Monday, August 25, 2008, 11am,
Where: TECH L324
Title: Silica-based highly nonlinear fibers and their applications
Speaker: Masaaki Hirano (Optical Communications R&D Laboratories )

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