Roel Baets

Biography

Roel Baets has made profound contributions to the field of silicon photonics. He identified the significance of silicon photonics as an emerging technology early on, then made the critical connection to industry and large-scale manufacturing through his association with IMEC, demonstrating the first silicon photonic circuits on the basis of CMOS technology in 2005. This was a major leap in the commercial viability and industrial relevance of silicon photonics. Silicon photonics is now experiencing great com-mercial success. A growing number of semiconductor foundries today offer silicon photonics as a standard process and many established and new companies are developing and selling com-mercial products based on the technologies and device concepts advanced by Baets.

Baets is an IEEE Fellow and a senior full professor at Ghent University-IMEC, Ghent, Belgium.