Tom Baehr-Jones (born January 15, 1980 in

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) is an American physicist who has made contributions in the field of

Nanophotonics Nanophotonics or nano-optics is the study of the behavior of light on the nanometer scale, and of the interaction of nanometer-scale objects with light. It is a branch of optics, optical engineering, electrical engineering, and nanotechnology. It ...

. His findings have been published in ''

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, ''

Nature Photonics ''Nature Photonics'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group. The editor-in-chief is Oliver Graydon. The journal covers research related to optoelectronics, laser science, imaging, communications, and other as ...

'', ''

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'', the '' IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology'', and ''

Optics Express ''Optics Express'' is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Optica. It was established in 1997. The journal reports on scientific and technology innovations in all aspects of optics and photonics. The Energy Express supplement ...

'',Optics Express Online
/ref> among many others. Baehr-Jones is a co-founder of

Luxtera Luxtera Inc., a subsidiary of Cisco Systems, is a semiconductor company that uses silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process. The company uses fabless manufacturing; it uses semicond ...

, Inc. He later joined Prof.

Michael Hochberg Michael Hochberg (born 1980) is an American physicist. He’s authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles, has founded several companies, and has been an inventor on over 60 patents. Hochberg's research interests include silicon photonics a ...

's group at the

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, and was also a co-founder of Elenion. He later joined Luminous Computing as a Senior Fellow, and is presently VP of Photonics at Luminous Computing.

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