Siegfried Janz
PhD
National Research Council of Canada
Siegfried Janz is the Program Leader for the Advanced Photonic Components Program at the National Research Council (NRC) in Ottawa. Dr. Janz completed his Ph.D. in physics in 1991 at the University of Toronto, working on nonlinear optics at metal surfaces. He then joined the NRC where he has worked on a wide range of active and passive integrated photonic components for applications in telecommunications, data interconnects, and biological sensing. He is coauthor of 24 patent applications, over 250 scientific papers, and eight book chapters in photonics and biosensing.
Dr. Janz has taken several leadership roles in the research community including Conference Chair for the 2006 IEEE/ LEOS Group IV Photonics conference, the Canadian Semiconductor Technology Conference in 2001 and 2003, and Program Chair for the 2002 OSA Integrated Photonics Research Conference. He is currently an Associate Editor for OSA Optics Express, one of the highest ranked international photonics journals. Within NRC he has been project coordinator for the Silicon Photonics project from 1995 to 2001, which involved active partnerships with McMaster University, Nortel, and Intel. From 1999-2001 he also coordinated a collaborative project on glass waveguide development with Mitel Semiconductor. In 2001-2002 he joined Optenia Inc. (now Enablence) as Manager of Materials and Device Development, coordinating development work that led to the first successful demonstration of a commercial glass echelle grating demultiplexer chip. In this role he introduced several key technology innovations that were crucial steps in achieving the company’s product development goals. Subsequently, from 2001 to 2007 he was leader of the Digital Optical Switching (DOS) project at NRC, a partnership between Carleton University, Nortel and IMS. This work led to the successful demonstration of a low power digital optical switch on InGaAsP/InP, and the first definitive study of carrier injection switch actuation. For the last seven years he has coordinated multi-institute project to develop silicon chip microarrays for molecular sensing and pathogen detection. This work is currently a key part of a collaborative effort with Health Canada and CFIA to improve Canadian Food and Water Safety infrastructure. Apart from the hiatus with Optenia, he has been Group leader of the NRC Optoelectronic Devices Group from 1999-2011, and the served as Acting Director for Component Technologies at IMS-NRC from 2011-2012.
Email: Siegfried.Janz@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca