Thomas R. Clark

Thomas Clark received the Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1998. He is a Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, USA. He was previously a member of the Principal Professional Staff at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory from 2003 to 2024. He has also worked in government, at the Naval Research Laboratory, and in the telecommunications industry at a start-up company prior to joining the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in 2003. Dr. Clark is a member of Optica and a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers where he has been an active volunteer in the Photonics Society and the Microwave Theory and Technologies Society in many capacities. Dr. Clark’s research interests include the development and characterization of low-noise and ultrafast lasers, photonic systems and devices, and the application of photonics to problems in optical and wireless communications, sensing and signal processing. He has more than one hundred archival publications and has been awarded eleven patents to date in these and related technical areas.

For JLT, he is handling submissions on the following topics:

• Microwave Photonics Systems and Technologies
• Integrated Microwave Photonic Circuits
• Radio-over-Fiber Systems and Technologies
• Optical Wireless Systems
• Analog Optical Processing