Freedom Photonics offers design, micro and nano fabrication and testing in support of your research and development needs. We have extensive prototyping capabilities, enabled by our vast experience and access to the state-of-the-art National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN) facilities.

Dr. Milan L. Mashanovitch

Dr. Mashanovitch is actively involved with the photonic integrated circuit technology and product development at Freedom Photonics. He is the principal investigator on numerous projects. Dr. Mashanovitch is actively involved in seeking new business opportunities in diverse markets within Freedom’s scope of competence. He currently teaches a semiconductor laser design graduate level class at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Dr. Mashanovitch brings to the team a diverse engineering background, including more than 12 years of experience in working with integrated photonics, spanning over modeling, design, fabrication, testing and packaging of photonic integrated circuits.

Prior to co-founding Freedom Photonics LLC, Dr. Mashanovitch designed the world’s first C-band tunable wavelength converter operating at 10 Gbps, and more recently at 40 Gbps. Upon obtaining his Ph.D., he served as an assistant Project Scientist at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was responsible for a $1.8 million research program on monolithically integrated InP chips for optical routing and switching, one of the major components DARPA’s Data-in-Optical Domain program.

While working on these functionally complex photonic integrated circuits, Dr. Mashanovitch acquired direct experience in planning, budgeting, and oversight of execution of new and ongoing research projects, as well as management and planning of the research projects’ resources for timely execution of research tasks and goals. In addition, Dr. Mashanovitch was in charge of photonic device outsourced manufacturing and coordination of related efforts with other industrial and government research team members and partners.

Dr. Mashanovitch also worked as an engineer at the Lucent Technologies Netherlands in the wireless IP hardware networking group, as well as the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, in the Planetary Science Division. Dr. Mashanovitch has coauthored over seventy papers on photonic integrated circuit technologies and packet switching, and has given numerous invited and contributed talks at peer-reviewed international conferences. He has taught semiconductor laser graduate level courses at UCSB as an adjunct professor, and is one of the authors of the “Diode Lasers and Photonic Integrated Circuits” textbook, to be published by John Wiley and Sons in 2011.