David F. Geraghty

Assistant Professor

Contact Information

  • Email:
    geraghty@email.arizona.edu
  • Mailing Address:
    Dr. David Geraghty
    University of Arizona, ECE Dept.
    1230 East Speedway Boulevard
    Tucson, Arizona  85721  USA
Photo:  David Geraghty

Education

  • PhD, California Institute of Technology, 1997
  • MS, California Institute of Technology, 1994
  • BS, California Institute of Technology, 1991

Employment

  • The University of Arizona: Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept., Assistant Professor, 2003-present
  • The University of Arizona: Optical Sciences Center, Assistant Research Professor, 2002
  • NP Photonics, Passive Devices Manager, 1998-2001
  • The University of Arizona: Optical Sciences Center, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 1997-1998
  • California Institute of Technology, Graduate Research Assistant, 1992-1997; Undergraduate Research Fellow, Summer 1989
  • Northrop Corporation, B-2 Division, Engineer II, 1991-1993
  • Bellcore, Technical Summer Intern, Summer 1990
  • University of Iowa, EE Department, Research Assistant, Summer 1998; Laser Facility, Research Assistant, Summer 1987

Awards and Honors

  • National Science Foundation, Graduate Fellowship, 1991-1995
  • Northrop, Graduate Fellowship, 1992-1993
  • Tau Beta Pi, Member, 1990
  • Carnation, Merit Scholarship, 1989-1990
  • Donald S. Clark Memorial Award, 1990

Research

  • Integrated optics, including modeling, design, fabrication, testing and packaging.  Focus is on devices with telecommunications applications.  Some research with sensor applications is also being performed.

  • Current efforts include an add-drop multiplexer, a tunable dispersion compensator, and an all-optical packet header recognition chip. 

  • Other work has included specialty Er-doped fibers and sol-gel integrated optics.