Professional Experience

Dr. Jason Chou has had a remarkable career as a subject matter expert and pioneer in radio frequency photonics. This is a novel field that combines high-speed electronics and ultra-fast optics to target high-performance applications that cannot be met by either discipline alone. He has been directly responsible for growing and developing this new field within the NIF&PS Department of Defense Technologies (DODT) program, targeting high-speed, high-dynamic range applications including diagnostic instrumentation, radar, and secure communications.

Dr. Jason Chou has developed high-performance temporal diagnostics for the National Ignition Facility (NIF), including Laser SHIELD (Screening at High-throughput to Identify Energetic Laser Distortion), a 48-channel, 34-GHz single-shot temporal diagnostic, which won an R&D 100 Award from R&D Magazine in 2013. In his doctoral work, Dr. Chou built the world’s fastest photonic analog-to-digital converter (ADC) at 10 Tera-Samples/s using the photonic time-stretch approach. The work eventually led to a multiyear DARPA program aimed at building a continuous time high-resolution photonic time-stretch system. Upon graduation, he was a member of the technical staff at The Aerospace Corporation, where he spent time leading the experimental efforts for DARPA.

Research Interests

Ultrafast optics, optoelectronics, RF-photonics, signal processing

M.B.A., Kellogg School of Business, Northwestern University, 2012

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2006

M.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2002

B.S., Electrical Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, 2000