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Personal Statement
I received the PhD degree in Photonic Technology from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), Spain in December 2006. In 2007 I joined the Optoelectronics Research Group of the University of Essex (England, UK) first as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and then as a Marie Curie Fellow (IEF Programme, Project ISLAS, 2009-2011). In 2010 I was awarded by the European Commission with a second Marie Curie Fellowship (IOF Programme, Project NINFA, 2011-2014) to carry out a collaborative project between the Universities of New Mexico (USA) and Essex (UK). Following this award in 2011 I started working in the Optoelectronics Research Group at the Center for High Technology Materials (CHTM-UNM) in Albuquerque (NM, USA). In 2014 I was awarded a Chancellor Fellowship by the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland, UK). As a result of this award I started working from October 2014 as a Lecturer at Strathclyde’s Institute of Photonics.
Research Interests
My research interests lie within Nanophotonics and Neuromorphic Photonics. In Nanophotonics, I work across topics that include nanowire photonics, nanolasers and hybrid nanophotonic fabrication. Within this activity we have recently delivered first reports on the transfer-printing of nanowire lasers for controllable nanophotonic device fabrication and on the integration of ultrasmall nanowire lasers.
Neuromorphic Photonics is an emerging scientific field looking at the emulation of the brain’s powerful computational capabilities with ultrafast photonic technologies for novel paradigms in ultrafast brain-inspired information processing. Within this activity I have delivered first reports on the controllable generation, inhibition and propagation of spiking dynamics in Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers at speeds up to 1 billion times faster than in biological neurons.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Engineering, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Award Date: 18 Dec 2006
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Photonic Spiking Neural Networks for Ultrafast Detection and Tracking
Defence Science and Technology Laboratory DSTL MoD
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Spike propagation in a nanolaser-based optoelectronic neuron
Ortega-Piwonka, I., Hejda, M., Alanis, J., Lourenço, J., Hurtado, A., Figueiredo, J., Romeira, B. & Javaloyes, J., 22 Jun 2022, In: Optical Materials Express. 12, 7, p. 2679-2696 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Photonic spiking neural network with resonant tunnelling diode optoelectronic neurons
Hejda, M., Alanis, J., Ortega-Piwonka, I., Figueiredo, J., Lourenco, J., Javaloyes, J., Romeira, B. & Hurtado, A., 18 May 2022, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics. San José, CA., SW5E.1Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution book
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Data for: "Weight Adjustable Photonic Synapse by Non-Linear Gain in a Vertical Cavity Semiconductor Optical Amplifier"
Alanis, J. (Creator), Robertson, J. (Creator), Hejda, M. (Contributor) & Hurtado, A. (Contributor), University of Strathclyde, 3 Nov 2021
DOI: 10.15129/89eefc99-f1ee-4870-bbda-2d46fb57d723
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Data for: "All-optical binary convolution with a photonic spiking VCSEL neuron for image gradient magnitudes"
Robertson, J. (Creator), Zhang, Y. (Creator) & Hurtado, A. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 22 Feb 2021
DOI: 10.15129/51af27bc-8cc2-46a7-9088-1aad87e4340c
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Transfer printing of semiconductor nanowire lasers for nanophotonic device fabrication
Michael Strain (Contributor), Antonio Hurtado (Invited speaker), Dimitars Jevtics (Contributor), Benoit Jack Eloi Guilhabert (Contributor), Joshua Robertson (Contributor), John Robert McPhillimy (Contributor), Ren F. (Contributor), Hoe Tan (Contributor), Chennupati Jagadish (Contributor) & Martin Dawson (Contributor)
2 Feb 2019Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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Transfer Printing of Semiconductor Nanowire Lasers for Nanophotonic Device Fabrication
Antonio Hurtado (Speaker)
1 Nov 2017Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk