Member of the Research Team at University
Thomas F. Krauss has been involved in integrated optics research since 1987 when he spent a year at IBM Yorktown Heights, NY to study LiNbO3 waveguides. In 1989, he obtained a Dipl.-Ing. in Photographic Engineering (FH Koeln, Germany) with a diploma thesis entitled "Excimer laser etching of polyimide". His Ph.D work at the University of Glasgow was on semiconductor ring lasers, where he demonstrated low threshold current levels and greatly improved external device efficiency.
In 1993, Thomas started work on photonic crystals when he won an EPSRC Research Fellowship in the area of photonic bandgaps, thereby initiating a new field at Glasgow University, followed by a Royal Society Research Fellowship in 1995. He is one of the pioneers of semiconductor-based photonic crystals and made the first demonstration of 2-D photonic bandgap effects at optical wavelengths (1996).
In 1997, he spent a year at Caltech, Pasadena, USA, working on photonic crystal based lasers and light emitters, then moved to a personal chair in Optoelectronics at the School of Physics and Astronomy at the in 2000, where he set up the Photonic Crystal Research Group (now called the Microphotonic Group) and a semiconductor microfabrication facility. He is grant holder of several national and industrially-sponsored research projects and was coordinator of the European research project "PICCO" during 2000-2003. He was organiser and chairman of the trend-setting Workshop "PECS3" in in June 2001 and is on the committee of several other workshops and summer schools, including PECS and ECOC. In 2002, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and Fellow of the Institute of Physics.