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prof.dr. S.M. García Blanco (Sonia)

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About Me

I started my career by studying Ingeniería Superior de Telecomunicación at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1999). I carried out my MSc thesis work at the Ion Lab at the IBM Almaden research center, in Almaden, California, and, after completing my PhD at the University of Glasgow (2003) and my post-doc at the University of Toronto (2003-2005), I worked for five years at the Institute National d'Optique (INO) in Québec City, Canada on wafer-level hermetic vacuum packaging of microbolometer detectors, advanced packaging and silicon micro-bench technology. I joined the University of Twente in 2010 and I am currently leading the Integrated Optical Systems (IOS) group, where we develop novel materials and integration technologies for Integrated Photonics. 

I am also the co-founder and CEO of Aluvia Photonics B.V., a start-up company spun-off from the IOS group to offer foundry services of photonics integrated circuits (PICs) operating down to ultraviolet wavelengths in our proprietary aluminum oxide (Al2O3) technology.

I am the mother of two amazing kids, Marco (9) and Elena (7), who give relevance to all that I do, and married to a very supportive husband. I love long-distance running and I am giving my first steps in the world of triathlon.

Expertise

Engineering & Materials Science
# Aluminum Oxide
# Potassium
# Rare Earths
# Waveguides
Physics & Astronomy
# Amplifiers
# Chips
# Potassium
# Waveguides

Organisations

Ancillary Activities

  • Aluvia Photonics B.V.
    Spin-off Aluvia Photonics

Publications

Recent
Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Sinobad, M. , Wang, K., Liapis, A. C., Frankis, H., Gaafar, M. A., Haugg, S., Francis, H., Carreira, J., Geiselmann, M., Herr, T., Bradley, J., Sun, Z. , Garcia-Blanco, S. M., & Kärtner, F. X. (2023). High energy passively Q-switched laser on a CMOS platform. In 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231957
Singh, N., Lorenzen, J., Sinobad, M. , Wang, K., Gaafar, M. A., Francis, H., Geiselmann, M., Herr, T. , Garcia-Blanco, S. M., & Kärtner, F. X. (2023). Watt-class CMOS-compatible power amplifier. In 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10231735
Mardani, S. , Hendriks, W. A. P. M. , Dijkstra, M. , & García Blanco, S. M. (2023). Low loss sputter coated aluminum nitride waveguides. In S. M. Garcia-Blanco, & P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII Article 1242403 SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2656323
Hendriks, W. A. P. M. , Dijkstra, M. , Mardani, S. , Hegeman, I. , & García Blanco, S. (2023). Low-loss photonic integrated circuits for UV applications. In S. M. Garcia-Blanco, & P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII (Vol. 12424). Article 1242402 SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2657143
Franken, C. , Hendriks, W. , Dijkstra, M., do Nascimento Jr., A. , Winkler, L. , van Rees, A. , Mardani, S. , Dekker, R., van Kerkhof, J. , van der Slot, P. , García Blanco, S. , & Boller, K. (2023). First near-UV hybrid integrated laser in the Al2O3 platform. In S. M. García-Blanco, & P. Cheben (Eds.), Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XXVII Article PC124240A (Proceedings of SPIE; Vol. 12424). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2657253
Aguirre-Fontenla, A. , Hendriks, W. A. P. M. , Dijkstra, M. , & García Blanco, S. M. (2022). TiO2 channel waveguides with 0.5 dB/cm propagation losses: (Student paper). In ECIO 2022: 23rd European Conference on Integrated Optics: 4th May - 6th May, Milan, Italy (pp. 375-377). Politecnico di Milano. https://www.ecio-conference.org/2022-proceedings/

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Affiliated Study Programmes

Master

Courses Academic Year  2023/2024

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Courses Academic Year  2022/2023

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Carré (building no. 15), room C4617
Hallenweg 21
7522NH  Enschede
The Netherlands

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