Joanna Slawinska has a comprehensive multidisciplinary background, including a Masters degree in Physics with a focus on theoretical astrophysics and stellar pulsations, a PhD in Computational Fluid Dynamics for geophysical flows, and postdoctoral research training in Applied Mathematics. Joanna is a postdoctoral associate working on a range of topics, from theoretical development of data-driven methods for dynamical systems, to their subsequent application to various fields of physics. In particular, the current focus of her work is on machine learning techniques for analysis of spatiotemporal patterns of ultrafast spectroscopical data, complex turbulent flows, and more to come.

The realization of nanoscale wireless links requires miniaturized transmitter and receivers. A wireless link operating at single band has limited applications in future due the increased demand of multiple functions using the same system. Thus, we require multiband wireless links to accommodate more than one standards and functions. When multiple functions have to be performed; the single band system will become very complex and power hungry. Multi-band systems can be implemented by parallel, switchable or concurrent configurations. The parallel or switchable configuration suffers from the drawback of bulky circuitry and switching delay in the operation. The concurrent multiband front end provides different standard compatibility with a single circuitry only; hence reduces the circuit size and the power consumption. So far there is no attempt by researchers across the globe to implement this concept in photonic integrated circuits. Probably due to the fact that most of the photonic integrated circuits are developed by using optical waveguides.

 

Although, nanoscale wireless link concept was proposed in 2010; realization of this concept requires individual building blocks and their systematic design methodology. This portion is still not available in the literature. Therefore, there is a strong need to address this issue i.e. design of building blocks for nanoscale wireless links so that in future this concept can be realized. Keeping this research gap in mind, the research reported in this work has been devoted to design and analysis of MIM plasmonic waveguide based integrated circuits for future multifunctional photonic systems.