Mian Zhang leads Harvard spin-out Hyperlight, which took an established material in lithium niobate and developed new fabrication technologies to create waveguides that look like silicon, but provide more efficient electrooptic modulation and a very low optical loss.
HyperLight and its collaborators from Harvard University and Freedom Photonics used DFB lasers for integration with thin-film lithium niobate because of their low cost, small footprint, and large output powers exceeding 100 mW. “We are very excited to be a part of this remarkable demonstration of the hybrid integration capability of the thin-film lithium niobate platform with other critical optical components,” said CEO Zhang.
The dynamic Zhang has been in post since 2018 and is a Postdoctoral Fellow of Applied Physics at Harvard. 2022 has seen a flurry of credits on articles on topics such as spectral control of nonclassical light pulses and efficiency and broadband on-chip electro-optic frequency comb generators. He’s fast becoming one of the discipline’s most prolific authors.
Organisation: Hyperlight
Role: CEO
Based in: Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Education: PhD Engineering Physics/Applied Physics, Cornell University