November 02, 2012, Webb 1100

In a sense, modern approaches to the analysis and design of analog electrical circuits can be thought of as a specialization of feedback control theory to the domain of electronic components connected by conducting wires.  Motivated both by the drive towards ultra-low power operation and by new perspectives on the physics of representing and processing signals, advanced information technology increasingly must consider not only electrical but also optical components incorporated within complex recurrent circuits.  In this talk I will present new approaches to the analysis and design of nanophotonic circuits based on emerging methods in coherent-feedback quantum control.

Hideo Mabuchi obtained an A. B. in Physics (1992) from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Physics (1998) from Caltech.  He spent nine years on the Caltech faculty, first as Assistant Professor of Physics and later as Associate Professor of Physics and Control & Dynamical Systems.  In 2007 he moved to Stanford University as Professor of Applied Physics and is currently serving as Chair of his Department.  Selected honors include a Fellowship of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2000-2005) and the inaugural Mohammed Dahleh Distinguished Lectureship awarded by UCSB (2003).