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Dr. Leif A. Johansson Dr. Johansson is actively involved with the research and development efforts geared towards novel integrated Indium Phosphide coherent optical transmitters and receivers at Freedom Photonics. Dr. Johansson is in charge of the coherent receiver product line and overall subsystem design. Additionally, he is actively involved with seeking new business opportunities in diverse markets within Freedom’s scope of competence. Dr. Leif Johansson brings to our team a world-class, 15 year expertise related for radio-frequency photonics, analog optical communications, radio over fiber systems and advanced modulation format optical communications. Prior to his work at Freedom Photonics, Dr. Johansson was responsible for several DARPA funded programs in the arena of RF photonics at the University of California ,Santa Barbara. Dr. Johansson joined UCSB in 2002 as a project scientist, and has since been actively involved in defining new areas of research in this area, while gaining firsthand experience in planning, budgeting, and oversight of execution of new and ongoing research projects. As part of the $6.2M RFLICs program, Dr. Johansson was in charge of managing the development of novel optical transmitters with very high linearity and to develop RF optical links with gain. As part of the DARPA funded PHORFRONT program, he was in charge of defining the technical goals of the program, and then of the full program execution and leadership of the diverse team of university and industrial partners in both photonics and electronics. At the same time, he has was working with Agility Communications as a consultant, evaluating Agility’s new device concepts, in particular relating to the analog communications. Dr. Johansson has authored or co-authored over 100 publications in the areas of RF photonics and integrated photonic circuits. |