Amr Helmy

Amr Helmy

"Quantum Photonics In Monolithic Compound Semiconductors"

Amr S. Helmy joined the department of Electrical and Computer engineering of the University of Toronto with a mixed experience in academic as well as industrial environments. He received both his M.Sc. (9/1995) and Ph.D. (11/1998) degrees from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in the field of photonics. He was a European Union-sponsored research fellow on a project to study difference frequency generation in III-V heterostructures using Quantum well intermixing in 1999.  Between 2000 and 2004 he joined Agilent Technologies, where he was involved in developing different photonic devices ranging from high reliability high power submarine-class 980 nm lasers, to DFBs for un-cooled high temperature operation, to integrated laser/modulator/amplifier devices.  Dr. Helmy’s Research Interests include photonic device physics and characterization techniques, non-linear optics in III-V semiconductors, applied optical spectroscopy for III-V optoelectronic devices and materials, III-V fabrication and monolithic integration techniques.