Volker J. Sorger
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| Known for | 10GHz TMD-slot detector on chip
Programmable nonvolatile photonic memory Sub-wavelength plasmon nanolaser |
| 🏅 Awards | The Optical Society Fellow (2021)
DURIP Award (AFOSR) (2021) Highly Cited Researcher Recognition (2021) Presidential Early Career Award (2019) |
| 🌐 Website | https://sorger.seas.gwu.edu/group.html |
Volker J. Sorger is a professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University, Washington, DC. He is the Director of the Institute on AI & Photonics, the Head of the Devices & Intelligent Systems Laboratory at the George Washington University, and the president and co-founder of Optelligence LLC.
Early Life and Education
Volker J. Sorger received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Würzburg, Germany, in 2003. Already at this early stage he was distinguished by The German National Academic Foundation and received a competitive fellowship. After successful graduation, Sorger made a life changing decision to continue his education in one of the top schools in the US, the University of Texas, Austin. In 2005, he received his master's degree in physics from UT Austin[1] and was accepted to the graduate program in Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. Under the supervision of professor Xiang Zhang, Sorger made a distinguished contribution into the fields of opto-electronics and meta-optics[2], and successfully demonstrated the first sub-wavelength plasmon nanolaser[3][4]. He graduated from UC Berkeley in 2011 with the Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering[5], a minor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, and a certificate in Management and Technology from the Haas School of Business.
Career and Research
In 2012, Sorger joined the faculty at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the George Washington University, where he currently serves as a professor and the director of OPEN Lab founded by him. This cutting-edge laboratory facility specializes in prototyping and testing of optical and photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits and components. Some of his recent achievements include a 10GHz TMD-slot detector on chip (2021)[6], multi-level programmable nonvolatile photonic memory[7] (2021), and GHz-fast broadband and micrometer-compact ITO MZI Modulator on a Silicon PIC (2020)[8]. Most of these advancements resulted in patents and licensed technologies.
Sorger contributes to the community by being actively engaged in the INCLUDE Network, AEOP 2020, as well as serving as an editor and an Associate editor for OPTICA, a committee member in SPIE and IEEE, and serves on the board of Chip. In 2015 he took over the Editor-in-chief position for Nanophotonics (2015-2021) from Prof. Federico Capasso as the founding EIC. In 2021 Sorger became a fellow of the Optical Society of America (OSA, Optica), and received a prestigious Highly Cited Researcher Recognition (0.6% of most cited scientists in the World). The team led by Sorger won a $3.1 million ONR grant to support the development of an AI network edge processor.
Over the past two years, Sorger expanded his interests from academia to the private sector and industry. In 2020 he became a board member of 3E8 Inc., and launched a high-tech startup Optelligence LLC, which currently has a valuation of $140 million (2021).
Awards and Honors
2022 OSA (Optica) Fellow SPIE & IEEE
2021 Highly Cited Researcher recognition (Elsevier, top 0.6%)
2021 DURIP Award (AFOSR)
2020 SPIE Community Champion
2019 PECASE - Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists & Engineers 2019 2x DURIP Awards from ARO and AFOSR
2019 SPIE Community Champion
2018 BEST Paper Award 'Highest expected future impact' at the 2018 Cognitive Computing Conference 2017 Early Career Award, Vice President for Research GWU
2017 Gold Medal, 14th US-Korea Forum on Nanotechnology
2017 Senior Member, SPIE & IEEE & OSA
2016 Early Tenure Promotion
2016 Hegarty Innovations Prize
2016 Dean's Outstanding Research Award GWU
2015 Faculty Recognition Award GWU
2014 AFOSR Young Investigator Program (YIP) Award
2014 Venture Competition Winner (2x): Clean-Tech Open South-East, and GWU Business Competition 2014 Annual ECE Faculty Award GWU
2011 Gold Award - Material Research Society
2011 National Academy of Sciences award of the year
2010 Emil Wolf Prize from the Optical Society of America
Patents
- (#US 8.509.276, 2009, L): Plasmon Lasers at Deep Sub-Wavelength Scale Application (approved) Licensed for $2,000,000 to a South Korean major electronics manufacturer
- (#INTL PTC/US20/28516, 2020, L) Photonic Tensor Core Processor
- (#US 63/026.451, 2020, L) Low loss multistate Photonic Nonvolatile Memories
References
- ↑ Sorger, Volker Jendrik (December 2005). Carbon nanotube devices : quantum dots, field effect transistors and memory devices (Thesis thesis).
- ↑ "A hybrid plasmonic waveguide for subwavelength confinement and long-range propagation". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2021-11-11.
- ↑ Sorger, Volker J.; Oulton, Rupert F.; Zentgraf, Thomas; Ma, Renmin; Gladden, Christopher; Dai, Lun; Bartal, Guy; Zhang, Xiang (2010-09-10). "Semiconductor plasmon laser". Plasmonics: Metallic Nanostructures and Their Optical Properties VIII. SPIE. 7757: 63–69. doi:10.1117/12.859136.
- ↑ Oulton, Rupert F.; Sorger, Volker J.; Zentgraf, Thomas; Ma, Ren-Min; Gladden, Christopher; Dai, Lun; Bartal, Guy; Zhang, Xiang (October 2009). "Plasmon lasers at deep subwavelength scale". Nature. 461 (7264): 629–632. doi:10.1038/nature08364. ISSN 1476-4687.
- ↑ Sorger, Volker J. (2011). Physics of Optoelectronic and Plasmonic Devices: Cavities, Waveguides, Modulators and Lasers (Thesis). UC Berkeley.
- ↑ Wang, Hao; Patil, Chandraman; Dalir, Hamed; Sorger, Volker J. (2022-03-05). "20Gbps high-gain BW-product TMD slot-detector on PIC". 2D Photonic Materials and Devices V. SPIE. PC12003: PC120030A. doi:10.1117/12.2613812.
- ↑ Meng, Jiawei; Miscuglio, Mario; Sorger, Volker J. (2020-09-14). "Multi-level Nonvolatile Photonic Memories Using Broadband Transparent Phase change materials". Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science (2020), paper FW7D.6. Optica Publishing Group: FW7D.6. doi:10.1364/FIO.2020.FW7D.6.
- ↑ Amin, Rubab; Maiti, Rishi; Gui, Yaliang; Suer, Can; Miscuglio, Mario; Heidari, Elham; Chen, Ray T.; Dalir, Hamed; Sorger, Volker J. (2020-07-13). "Broadband Sub-λ GHz ITO Plasmonic Mach-Zehnder Modulator in Silicon Photonics". OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2020 (IPR, NP, NOMA, Networks, PVLED, PSC, SPPCom, SOF) (2020), paper ITu1A.5. Optical Society of America: ITu1A.5. doi:10.1364/IPRSN.2020.ITu1A.5.
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