BIOGRAPHY
Dr. Thomas Wunderer is a Senior Scientist and Principal Investigator at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in Palo Alto, CA. He received his Ph.D. (Dr.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from Ulm University, Germany. He is an expert in the field of wide/ultra-wide bandgap optical emitters and laser technology. He is credited with numerous innovations in the development of optical emitter concepts and device demonstrators, with breakthrough laser prototypes in both vertical and edge-type emitter configurations. For example, he demonstrated the brightest semipolar InGaN LED in 2006, he developed the shortest wavelength (λ = 236.5nm) UV AlGaN-based optically pumped laser and the first in-well pumped InGaN VECSEL.
More recently, Dr. Wunderer was PARC's PI under DARPA's LUSTER program that demonstrated high-power electron-beam pumped UV light sources and lasers, and he is the technical lead for the development of Watt-level III-N laser diodes at PARC. Most recently, Dr. Wunderer has been leading the PARC team to develop III-N Integrated Photonics with the successful demonstration of single-frequency laser emission at record short wavelength.