Dr. Trevor J. HALL

Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Faculty of Engineering and cross-appointed in the Department of Physics, Faculty of Engineering.
University Research Chair.
Emeritus Professor of Optelectronics, University of London, UK.
University of Ottawa School of Information Eechnology and Engineering

Research Interests

  • Green ICT and Sustainable ICT
  • Photovoltaics
  • Photonic Networks and Switches
  • Material, Device and Component Technologies
  • Dynamics & Control of Complex Systems

My research program keeps evolving with emerging needs, both societal and technological. Its over-arching societal goals are:
  • to promote equality of opportunity for ICT through lower-cost broadband network access;
  • to contribute to reduced overall green house gas emissions through network, system and device solutions that reduce reliance on fossil fuels.

These goals translate into the following specific technical objectives:
  • to develop/prototype new energy-efficient switching approaches applicable at all scales;
  • to reduce energy consumption within networks by retaining data in the optical domain;
  • to develop novel wired and wireless digital signal processing (DSP)-empowered coherent optical transmission architectures specifically tailored to meet the challenging networking and power consumption requirements of access and sensor networks; and,
  • to develop enabling green photonic device technologies applying recent developments in nanotechnology and integration technology towards reducing cost and energy consumption.

My research agenda innovates by introducing energy consumption reduction as a design objective, combining architecture and systems concepts with device integration platforms for volume manufacture at low-cost. This is critical for widespread adoption of ubiquitous and embedded networks, and by offering sustainable solutions to providing widespread broadband access, will contribute to the economic and social well-being of developed and developing societies. Embedded optical wireless-networked microsensors also offer capability for remote monitoring and optimisation of many parameters (environment, temperature, security, domestic equipment, biomedical etc) related to our quality of life.
 
Personal Profile

Professor Trevor Hall is a world-class researcher and professor whose work continues to have a major impact in the field of photonics. As the founding director of the Centre for Research for Photonics at the University of Ottawa (https://photonics.uottawa.ca/), his leadership produced one of the top photonics research and training centres in Canada and internationally, as well as laid the groundwork for the Advanced Research Complex. Hall's research has long been dedicated to finding innovative solutions to the provision of sustainable broadband access to all, consistent with his over-arching of goal of promoting equality of opportunity while safeguarding the environment. "In collaboration with my research team of highly qualified personnel, and Industry, our research programme will strive to generate new knowledge, while strengthening an innovative platform for teaching and learning, and realizing our vision of sustainable broadband access to all," said Dr. Hall on the occasion of the award of the University Research Chair (1st July 2017)."In collaboration with my research team of highly qualified personnel, and Industry, our research programme will strive to generate new knowledge, while strengthening an innovative platform for teaching and learning, and realizing our vision of sustainable broadband access to all," said Dr. Hall on the occasion of the award of the University Research Chair (1st July 2017).

Research Laboratory: http://ptlab.site.uottawa.ca/

Advanced Research Centre, Room ARC 347

University of Ottawa

25 Templeton Street,

Ottawa,

Ontario, K1N 6N5

Tel: 613 562 5800 x 2121 Email: trevor.hall@uottawa.ca

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Tel: 613 562 5800 x 2124

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