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Integrated Photonics Lab Measurement Our Integrated Photonics Lab is equipped with state-of-the-art photonics equipment and characterization instruments. Integrated Photonics Lab Nanofabrication KAUST offers access to cutting-edge technology for material characterization and comprehensive facilities for micro and nanofabrication. Those facilities are supported and maintained by excellent and experienced scientists, engineers, and technicians. Integrated Photonics Lab Group Photos We are growing as a team:) Integrated Photonics Lab Group Gathering Hey, there is work life balance:) Prof. John

Opportunities

Opportunities to Join us

JOIN US Welcome to the integrated photonics lab! We are looking for highly motivated Ph.D. students and Postdocs with an academic background in optoelectronics, physics, material science, or other related areas. If you are interested in joining our lab, please send your CV, TOEFL score (if applicable), research or work experiences, and transcripts (with GPA and/or GPA ranking) to Dr. Yating Wan at yating.wan@kaust.edu.sa . The professor would be happy to chat ahead of your applications. Kindly check the below video to learn more about our lab :) KAUST & IPL Introduction: YouTube BiliBili

Research

Integrated Photonics Lab Research Areas

Our lab works on Silicon Photonics with special emphasis on the integration of on-chip light sources. Leveraging state-of-the-art nanofabrication technology and interdisciplinary cooperation, we develop photonic integrated circuits that can be applied for data communications, biosensors/bioimaging, energy harvesting, machine vision, and quantum information processing. Please check our recent review paper discussing the prospects of QD Lasers and Integration with Si PIC. Our invited talk at PIERS 2022 and CLEO 2022 reviewed recent stride that has been made in individual QD devices grown on Si

Research Related Resources

Useful Cleanroom Links UCSB cleanroom: https://wiki.nanotech.ucsb.edu/wiki/Main_Page KAUST cleanroom: https://corelabs.kaust.edu.sa/labs/detail/nanofabrication-core-lab HKUST cleanroom: http://www.nff.ust.hk/en/equipment-and-process/process/process.html Electrical books Laser bible: The Book | Larry Coldren Group (ucsb.edu) Springer Graduate Text: https://www.springer.com/series/8431/books?page=2 Replace the DOI of any book or paper in the URL pattern and it will start downloading: https://sci-hub.ren/10.47366/sabia.v5n1a3. KAUST library: https://library.kaust.edu.sa Software Ansys / Lumerical

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Research Related Resources

Useful Cleanroom Links UCSB cleanroom: https://wiki.nanotech.ucsb.edu/wiki/Main_Page KAUST cleanroom: https://corelabs.kaust.edu.sa/labs/detail/nanofabrication-core-lab HKUST cleanroom: http://www.nff.ust.hk/en/equipment-and-process/process/process.html Electrical books Laser bible: The Book | Larry Coldren Group (ucsb.edu) Springer Graduate Text: https://www.springer.com/series/8431/books?page=2 Replace the DOI of any book or paper in the URL pattern and it will start downloading: https://sci-hub.ren/10.47366/sabia.v5n1a3. KAUST library: https://library.kaust.edu.sa Software Ansys / Lumerical

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Integrated Photonics Lab Research Group

Integrated Photonics Lab Welcome to Professor Yating Wan's research group Integrated Photonics Lab (IPL) Professor Yating Wan‘s research interests are in Silicon Photonics with special emphasis on the integration of on-chip light sources for short-reach communication links. She is also interested in other related applications including biosensors & bioimaging, energy harvesting, machine vision, optical computing and quantum information processing. Please follow the links below to learn more about the currently ongoing projects and the opportunities within the team. Research Resources

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Publications

2026 Time-and frequency-domain approaches to modeling complex semiconductor laser systems A. Prokoshin, W. W. Chow, B. Dong, Y. Wan* Applied Physics Reviews 13.2, 2026 Light people: Radha Nagarajan, Marvell CTO and NAE member Y. Wan, and C. Guo Light: Science & Applications 15.1, 2026 Integrated van der Waals waveguides for all-optical nonlinear photonic circuits X. Zhang, X. Ou, Z. Zhou, H. Xiao, Y. Huang, C. Liu, Y. Zhai, X. Liu, X. Zhang*, Y. Wan* Nature Communications, 2026 Physical unclonable functions based on chaotic vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers for dynamic authentication Z