Marcus Dahlem
Program Manager Automotive Sensing Technologies
imec
Dr. Marcus Dahlem received his PhD degree in Electrical Engineering from MIT in 2011, working in the Optics and Quantum Electronics group at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He joined imec in 2018 as Principal Member of Technical Staff and is currently the Program Manager for Automotive Sensing Technologies. He has (co-)authored over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference publications. Prior to joining imec, he was an Associate Professor and the Director of the Center of Excellence on Integrated Photonics at the Khalifa University of Science and Technology in Abu Dhabi. He also worked at the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in the Exploratory Photonics group, and at the Institute for Systems and Computer Engineering of Porto (INESC Porto) in the Optoelectronics group. In addition, he served as a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant at MIT, and as a Laboratory Instructor at the University of Porto. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of Optica, and has served as reviewer for several optics and photonics journals.
Presentations
Silicon Photonics for Enabling Chip-based Solid-state Automotive FMCW LiDAR
Interest in LiDAR technology has significantly grown over the last years, with a strong demand from the automotive industry. Emerging LiDAR systems are moving away from mechanical scanning parts by using optical phased arrays (OPAs) and/or focal plane arrays (FPAs) for beamsteering. Furthermore, photonic integrated circuits (PICs) enable dense integration of most of the required photonic building blocks on a single Si/SiN chip using CMOS-compatible foundry processes. In this talk, we summarize our recent work in PIC-based components for solid-state FMCW LiDARs, including full system demonstrators.