Dr. Amy Foster is the recipient of the 2012 DARPA Young Faculty Award.  She was awarded for her tremendous effort and work in the field of Photonics and Lasers.  Her most recent article titled “Three-dimensional Integraion of CMOS-compatible Nonlinear Photonic Circuits aided in her receiving the distiguished award from DARPA.

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