Peng Deng

Peng Deng has a long history of work experience in the optical design field. Peng started their career in 2009 at the Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics as a Research Assistance, where they initiated a project on novel partially coherent laser beams through atmospheric turbulence for MIMO Free Space Optical Communications. Peng then moved to the Center for Information and Communications Technology Research in 2011 as a Research Assistance, where they conceived wide-field lens-less endoscopy using multimode fibers, Spatial Light Modulator and MEMS scanning and designed and prototyped off-axis catadioptric optical antenna consisting of fisheye lenses and aspheric mirrors. In 2013, they joined Penn State University as a Postdoc Researcher, where they led a project on All-Wireless Inter-Rack Fabric for Datacenter Using Free-Space Optics. Peng built a bidirectional 10 Gbps FSOC system with CATV error-free transmission using SFP+ optical transceiver and WDM module and demonstrated reconfigurable FSOC terminals with gimbal-less 2D MEMS beam steering, improved acquisition angular range by 10X, reduced pointing error and latency delay by using adaptive tracking alignment (C++). In 2018, they joined CALIENT Technologies Inc. as an Optical Design Engineer.

Peng Deng attended Penn State University from 2011 to 2013, where they obtained a Joint PhD in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. Peng also attended Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 2009 to 2013, where they obtained a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Optics/Optical Sciences.