Axel Scherer
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Axel Scherer is the Bernard Neches Professor of Electrical Engineering, Physics, and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology
. Dr. Scherer's office is located in the Sloan Annex, and his lab manager is Kate Finigan. He is known for fabricating the world's first semiconducting vertical cavity laser at Bell Laboratories. In 2006, Dr. Scherer was named the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute. He graduated from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
in 1985.
Axel Scherer is a co-inventor of the semiconductor Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL
) along with Jack Jewell.
He is also co-founder and an advisor to Luxtera
, a California manufacturer of photonics
devices.
He is also co-founder and an advisor to Helixis, a California manufacturer of molecular diagnostic devices.
California Institute of Technology
The California Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Pasadena, California, United States. Caltech has six academic divisions with strong emphases on science and engineering...
. Dr. Scherer's office is located in the Sloan Annex, and his lab manager is Kate Finigan. He is known for fabricating the world's first semiconducting vertical cavity laser at Bell Laboratories. In 2006, Dr. Scherer was named the director of the Kavli Nanoscience Institute. He graduated from New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology is a university located in Socorro, New Mexico....
in 1985.
Axel Scherer is a co-inventor of the semiconductor Vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL
VCSEL
The vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser, or VCSEL , is a type of semiconductor laser diode with laser beam emission perpendicular from the top surface, contrary to conventional edge-emitting semiconductor lasers which emit from surfaces formed by cleaving the individual chip out of a...
) along with Jack Jewell.
He is also co-founder and an advisor to Luxtera
Luxtera
Luxtera Inc., founded in 2001, is based in Carlsbad, California. Luxtera is a fabless semiconductor company that is using silicon photonics technology to build complex electro-optical systems in a production silicon CMOS process...
, a California manufacturer of photonics
Photonics
The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, detection and sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they are different in that they have both particle...
devices.
He is also co-founder and an advisor to Helixis, a California manufacturer of molecular diagnostic devices.
External links
- Dr. Scherer's profiles: from Applied Physics, from Electrical Engineering
- Dr. Scherer's Research Group