Aaron Danner’s research group is working on chip-based integrated optics with lithium niobate and barium titanate. These materials are useful for long distance optical fiber communications, on-chip quantum optics, and photonic computing applications such as optical neural networks and Ising computers. Device miniaturization and integration in these materials will be necessary not only for future optical datacom applications, but also for quantum optics applications where programmatic control of single photons will ultimately be required. The research group also hosts the undergraduate student NUS Solar Powered Helicopter Team. Along with his appointment at NUS, he was previously with Agilent (then Avago Technologies, now Broadcom), where his projects included efficient LED structures and development in vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs). Prior to joining Avago, he was a visiting member of the Microsystem Research Center at Tokyo Institute of Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
