Primary Job Title Co-Founder Primary Organization 
TeraDiode
Gender Male
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Dr. Chann is a co-founder of TeraDiode and joined the team in November 2009.
He was previously a Technical Staff Member at MIT Lincoln Laboratory where his research interests covered wavelength beam combining (WBC), coherent beam combining, high power laser systems, ultra fast lasers and laser cooling.
The TeraDrive™ technology is based on
his work. He has published extensively in the fields of atomic physics and high power lasers, including 16 papers in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Chann also holds six patents issued or pending in the areas of stabilized diode arrays and stacks, single frequency diode arrays, WBC of diode stacks, WBC of diode stacks independent of imperfections, 2-D WBC laser system for scaling to MW-power level and multi-kW beam combinable fiber amplifiers.
Dr. Chann holds a Ph.D. in Atomic Physics from the University of Wisconsin and a B.S. in Physics and Mathematics from Stony Brook University.
Dr. Chann was a 2012 R&D 100 award winner for his work on the Wavelength beam-combined diode laser. He won first prize in the The Leibinger Innovationspreis for his work with “Dense Wavelength Multiplexing of High Power Diode Lasers”, and was honored with the Museum of Science “Invented Here” award for his work with Wavelength Beam Combining.
