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Lars Thylén

Lars Thylén obtained M. Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering and the Ph. D. degree in Applied Physics in 1972 and 1982, respectively, both from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. Since 2003 he is director of the Strategic Research Center in Photonics at KTH, funded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research. Professor Thylén has authored or co-authored more than 100 journal papers and conference contributions as well as several book chapters and has been granted approximately 20 patents. He was a co-founder of Optillion AB, a startup in the area of 10 Gb/s+ Ethernet transceivers, and a co-founder and board member of PhoXtal Communications AB, a transceiver company. He is a board member of Svedice AB, a III V semiconductor device foundry. Since 2005, he is a board member of Photonics21, a pan EU technology platform (ETP) in photonics. Professor Thylén is a member of the Optical Society of America and of the IEEE as well as a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He is also one of two Chief Scientists of the Joint Research Center of Photonics of the Royal Institute of Technology and Zhejiang University (PR China), formed in 2003. Current research interests include nanophotonics, high density integrated photonics, devices for photonic switching and high speed modulation, quantum optics as well as the physics involved in electronic and photonic switching operations.