General Manager
Dr. Johansson is a co-founder of Freedom Photonics, where he is responsible for various aspect of product and technology development, spanning device and system design, validation and test methodologies. In particular, he is involved with the efforts and product development in RF photonics.
Dr. Johansson has 18 year expertise related for radio-frequency photonics, analog optical communications, radio-over-fiber systems and coherent optical communications. This work has resulted in a number of novel concepts and record results in the area of RF and coherent photonic ICs. Before Freedom Photonics, Dr. Johansson has been involved in the development of RF photonic devices and subsystems at University of California, Santa Barbara and at Agility Communications (now JDSU).
Dr. Johansson obtained his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University College London, UK. He has authored or co-authored over 170 publications in the areas of RF photonics and integrated photonic circuits, and has given numerous invited and contributed talks at various international conferences.