Kevin Lear, PhD
Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Areas of Collaborative Interest
My lab focuses on photonic biosensors as well as components and systems for high speed optical communication. Broadly known as the CSU Optoelectronics Group, we study both vertical cavity and planar waveguide based optoelectronic devices. Within those subgroups, studies are focused on local evanescent array coupled (LEAC) waveguide biosensors, on-chip optical interconnects, optofluidic intracavity spectroscopy (OFIS), fluidic intracavity laser diode (FILD) sensors, high speed VCSELs for chip-to-chip optical interconnects, non-linear effects in VCSEL based multimode fiber links, and fluorescence based fiber optic sensors.
I am interested in collaborating in the following areas:
- Photonic Biosensors
- Microsystems Integration Including Microfluids
- Bioinstrumentation
- Optoelectronic Devices Including Laser Diodes
- Waveguides and Photodetectors
- Optical Interconnects and Communications Systems
- Semiconductor Devices and Fabrication
- licensing our technologies
Selected Issued Patents
- US8830068B2: Multi-sensor environmental and physiological monitor system and methods of use
- US10938476B2: System for optical free-space transmission of a string of binary data
- US8995493B2: Microlenses for multibeam arrays of optoelectronic devices for high frequency operation*
- US9065239B2: Multibeam array of top emitting VCSEL elements*
- US8995485B2, WO2014189518A1: High brightness pulsed VCSEL sources*
- US9232592B2: Addressable illuminator with eye-safety circuitry
- US9891167B2: Optical analyte sensor
- US10175168B2, WO2014182893A1: Hydrocarbon sensing methods and apparatus
- US8455844B2: System and method for time-division multiplexed optical sensing of biosensors
- EP3000157B1, WO2014175901A1, CA2910202C, JP6759274B2: Microlenses for multibeam arrays of optoelectronic devices for high frequency operation*
- US9671334B2,WO2014066826A1: Multi-analyte optical sensor
*Assignee other than Colorado State Research Foundation
Patent list generated using Google Patents; Last updated on August 31, 2021.
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