Biography
David Hagan received his PhD degree in Physics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland In 1985. He is a Pegasus Professor and Dean of the College of Optics and Photonics. He was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Optical Materials Express, and was the Executive Editor-in-Chief of Chinese Optics Letters. His current research interests include techniques for nonlinear optical materials characterization, optical power limiting and switching, and methods for enhancement of optical nonlinearities.
Dr. Hagan’s Researcher ID is H-2204-2011
Awards & Honors
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- 2017 Pegasus Professor
- 2012 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
- 2010 College of Optics & Photonics Excellence in Research Award
- 2007 Office of Research & Commercialization Millionaire’s Club
- 2004 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
- 2001 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 1995 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
Research Group
Conducting research on a variety of nonlinear optical effects, materials, and devices including nonlinear interactions in waveguides, nonlinear signal processing, optical power limiting, and characterizing materials response at picosecond and nanosecond scales.Research Scientists
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Graduate Students
Debasmita Banerjee
Optics Ph.D.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Publications
Matthew Reichert, Peng Zhao, David J. Hagan, And Eric W. Van Stryland “Nondegenerate three-photon absorption in zinc-blende semiconductors”, Op. Ex. 33, 22104 (2025). "Nondegenerate three-photon absorption in zinc-blende semiconductors" Op. Ex. 33, 22104 (2025). 2025
Ameer B Batarseh, M Javad Zakeri, Andrea Blanco-Redondo, Marek Trippenbach, David Hagan, Wieslaw Krolikowski, Pawel S Jung "Crossover from single to two-peak fundamental solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media" Wave Motion 133, 103445 2025
Chang, HJ (Chang, Hao-Jung) [1] ; Munera, N (Munera, Natalia) [1] ; Lopez-Zelaya, C (Lopez-Zelaya, Cesar) [1] , [2] ; Banerjee, D (Banerjee, Debasmita) [1] ; Beadie, G (Beadie, Guy) [3] ; Van Stryland, EW (Van Stryland, Eric W.) [1] ; Hagan, DJ (Hagan, David J.) [1] "Refractive index measurements of liquids from 0.5 to 2 µm using Rayleigh interferometry
" Optical Materials Express, Volume: 14, Issue: 5, Page: 1253-1267, Year: 2024 2024
HAO-JUNG CHANG, NATALIA MUNERA, CESAR LOPEZ-ZELAYA, DEBASMITA BANERJEE, GUY BEADIE, ERIC W. VAN STRYLAND, AND DAVID J. HAGAN "Refractive index measurements of liquids from 1
0.5 to 2 µm using Rayleigh interferometry" Opt. Mat. Express, 2024 2024
Sepehr Benis, Natalia Munera, Sanaz Faryadras, Eric W. Van Stryland, and David J. Hagan "Extremely large nondegenerate nonlinear index and phase shift in epsilon-near-zero materials" Opt. Mat. Ex. 12, 3856 (2022) 2022
Mykhailo V. Bondar, Sanaz Faryadras, Natalia Munera, Hao-Jung Chang, Mehrun Uddin, Kevin D. Belfield, Olexiy D. Kachkovsky, Eric W. Van Stryland, and David J. Hagan "New Two-Photon Absorbing Squaraine Derivative with Efficient Near-Infrared Fluorescence, Superluminescence, and High Photostability" J. Phys. Chem. B 2022, 126, 21, 3897–3907 2022
M. Yessenov, S. Faryadras, S. Benis, D.J. Hagan, E.W. Van Stryland and A.F. Abouraddy "Refraction of space–time wave packets in a dispersive medium" Optics Letters, 47(7), pp. 1630-1633 2022
H.J. Chang, M.V. Bondar, N. Munera, S. David, O. Maury, G. Berginc, B. Le Guennic, D. Jacquemin, C. Andraud, D.J. Hagan and E.W. Van Stryland "Femtosecond Spectroscopy and Nonlinear Optical Properties of aza-BODIPY Derivatives in Solution" Chemistry-A European Journal, A. e202104072 2022
C. Kriso, T. Bergmeier, N. Giannini, A.R. Albrecht, M. Sheik-Bahae, S. Benis, S. Faryadras, E.W. Van
Stryland, D.J. Hagan, M. Koch, G. Mette, and A. Rahimi-Iman "Probing the ultrafast gain and refractive index dynamics of a VECSEL" Applied Physics Letters, 119(9), A. 191105 2021
Hao-Jung Chang, Natalia Munera, Christian Keyser, Scott Webster, Eric W. Van Stryland, and David H. Hagan "Refractive index measured by common path interferometry for solvents from visible to infrared" In Frontiers in Optics (pp. FM6C-3). Optical Society of America 2021
S. Tofighi, N. Munera, M. Reichert, D.J. Hagan and E.W. Van Stryland "Transient mid-IR nonlinear refraction in air" Optics Express, 29(7), pp. 10863-10878 2021
S. David, H.J. Chang, C. Lopes, C. Brannlund, B. Le Guennic, G. Berginc, E. Van Stryland, M.V. Bondar, D. Hagan, D. Jacquemin, C. Andraud and O. Maury "Benzothiadiazole-Substituted Aza-BODIPY Dyes: Two-Photon Absorption Enhancement for Improved Optical Limiting Performances in the Short-Wave IR Range" Chemistry-A European Journal, 27(10), pp. 3517-3525 2021
T.G. Allen, S. Benis, N. Munera, J.X. Zhang, S.X. Dai, T.F. Li, J. Boyu, W. Wang, S. Barlow, D.J. Hagan, E.W. Van Stryland, X.W. Zhan, J.W. Perry and S. Marder "Highly conjugated, fused-ring, quadrupolar organic chromophores with large two-photon absorption cross-sections in the near-infrared" The Journal of Physical Chemistry A, 124(22), pp. 4367-4378 2020
S. Benis, C.M. Cirloganu, N. Cox, T. Ensley, H.H. Hu, G. Nootz, P.D. Olszak, L.A. Padilha, D. Peceli, M. Reichert, S. Webster, M. Woodal, D.J. Hagan and E.W. Van Stryland "Three-photon absorption spectra and bandgap scaling in direct-gap semiconductors" Optica 7(8), pp. 888-899 2020
N. Cox, J.X. Wei, H. Pattanaik, T. Tabbakh, S.P. Gorza, D.J. Hagan, and E.W. Van Stryland "Nondegenerate two-photon absorption in GaAs/AlGaAs multiple quantum well waveguides" Physical Review RES. 2, 013376 2020
C. Denz, D.J. Hagan, R. Boyd, C. Conti, A. Mecozzi, and A. Salandrino "Nonlinear Optics: feature issue introduction" Optics Express, 28(4), pp. 5883-5885 2020
A.J.-T. Lou, S. Benis, M. Gao, A. Baev, D. Kim, E.W. Van Stryland, D.J. Hagan, and T.J. Marks "Third- and fifth-order nonlinear optical response of a tict/stilbene hybrid chromophore" Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2020, 124, 9, 5363–5370 2020
C.M. Cirloganu, P.D. Olszak, L.A. Padilha, S. Webster, D.J. Hagan, and E.W. Van Stryland "Three-photon absorption spectra of zinc blende semiconductors: theory and experiment, errata (vol 33, pg 2626, 2008)" Optics Letters, 45(4), pp. 1025-1026 2020
Z. Li, A.A. Syed, P. Zhao, J.C. Yang, R. Sharma, T.R. Ensley, J.D. Matichak, I. Davydenko, S.H. Jang, D.J. Hagan, S.R. Marder, E.W. Van Stryland, and A.K.Y. Jen "Cationic polyelectrolyte for anionic cyanines: an efficient way to translate molecular properties into material properties" Journal of the American Chemical Society, 141(43), pp. 17331-17336 2019
Alumni
PhD
Sanaz Faryadras, PhD, Spring 2024
Hao-Jung Chang, PhD, Summer 2022
Sepehr Benis, PhD, Summer 2020
Salimeh Tofighi, PhD, Spring 2020
Peng Zhao, PhD, Fall 2016
Matthew Reichert, PhD, Summer 2015
Trenton Ensley, PhD, Spring 2015
Himansu Pattanaik, PhD, Spring 2015
Manuel Ferdinandus, PhD, Spring 2014
Davorin Peceli, PhD, Spring 2013
Honghua Hu, PhD, Summer 2012
Claudiu Cirloganu, PhD, Fall 2010
Gero Nootz, PhD, Fall 2010
Peter Olszak, PhD, Fall 2010
Jie "Jeff" Fu, PhD, Fall 2006
Mihaela Balu, PhD, Spring 2006
Joel Hales, PhD, Spring 2004
Richard Lepkowicz, PhD, Spring 2004
Vladislav Dubikovskiy, PhD, Spring 2003
Raluca Negres, PhD, Spring 2001
Dmitriy Kovsh, PhD, Spring 1999
Jin Hong Lim, PhD, Spring 1998
Arthur Dogariu, PhD, Spring 1997
Paul Buck, PhD, Spring 1996
Zuo Wang, PhD, Spring 1996
Tiejun "TJ" Xia, PhD, Spring 1994
Nicholas Cox, PhD, Unknown
MS
Cesar Lopez-Zelaya, MS, Fall 2023
Nicholas Cox, MS, Spring 2021
Salimeh Tofighi, MS, Summer 2018
Munan Gao, MS, Spring 2018
Sepehr Benis, MS, Spring 2016
Evelyn Strunk, MS, Fall 2015
Matthias Muennich, MS, Summer 2013
Brendan Turnbull, MS, Spring 2013
Matthew Reichert, MS, Summer 2012
Marcus Seidel, MS, Summer 2011
Sihui He, MS, Spring 2011
Morgan Monroe, MS, Fall 2010
Trenton Ensley, MS, Spring 2009
Jonathan Rosch, MS, Spring 2009
Tarik McMillian, MS, Spring 2006
Vinay Jonnalagadda, MS, Spring 2004
Claudiu Cirloganu, MS, Spring 2003
Peter Olszak, MS, Spring 2003
Ion Cohanoschi, MS, Summer 2002
Jie "Jeff" Fu, MS, Summer 2002
Simona Codreanu, MS, Spring 2000
Vladislav Dubikovskiy, MS, Spring 2000
Joel Hales, MS, Spring 2000
Richard Lepkowicz, MS, Spring 2000
William Shensky III, MS, Spring 2000
Evgueni Novikov, MS, Spring 1999
Raluca Negres, MS, Spring 1998
Dmitriy Kovsh, MS, Spring 1996
Jayant Malhotra, MS, Spring 1989