Biography
Ayman F. Abouraddy received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt, in 1994 and 1997, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Boston University, Boston, MA, in 2003, all in electrical engineering. In 2003 he joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, as a postdoctoral fellow working with Prof. Yoel Fink (Materials Science & Engineering) and Prof. John D. Joannopoulos (Physics), and then became a Research Scientist at the Research Laboratory of Electronics in 2005. At MIT he pursued research on novel multi-material optical fiber structures, photonic bandgap fibers, nanophotonics, fiber-based optoelectronic devices, and mid-infrared nonlinear fiber optics. He has also been engaged in investigating techniques that lead to sub-diffraction-limited resolution in optical microscopy and lithography. He is the coauthor of more than 65 journal publications, 130 conference presentations, and 55 invited talks; he holds seven patents, and has three patents pending. His research also encompasses quantum optics and quantum information processing. He joined CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics, at the University of Central Florida as an assistant professor in September 2008 where he has since established facilities for fabricating new classes of polymer and soft-glass fibers for applications ranging from mid-infrared optics to solar energy concentration. He also continues to pursue his research testing the foundations of quantum mechanics and implementing optical realizations of quantum computation. He was awarded tenure and promoted to associate professor in August 2014.
Awards & Honors
- The Optical Society (OSA) Fellow
- 2017 Promoted to the rank of Professor
- 2015 Research Incentive Award (University)
- 2014 College of Optics and Photonics Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 2014 Reach for the Stars Award
- 2013 College Excellence in Research Award
- 2010 Optimax Research Grant
- 2009 Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Award
Research Group
Space time wavepackets, structured light, omni-resonance, quantum optics and quantum information processing, optical generation of entangled states for sensing and imaging.
Publications
Shiri, A., Schepler, KL., Abouraddy, AF. "Theory of space-time supermodes in planar multimode waveguides" JOURNAL OF THE OPTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA A-OPTICS IMAGE SCIENCE AND VISION (2023)
Harling, M (Harling, Mitchell) [1] ; Kelkar, V (Kelkar, Varun) [2] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [3] ; Toussaint, KC (Toussaint Jr, Kimani C.) [1] "Reversible coherence conversion across optical degrees-of-freedom: a tutorial" Journal of Optics, 25(5) (2023)
Mhibik, O (Mhibik, Oussama) [1] ; Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Mach, L (Mach, Lam) [1] ; Glebov, L (Glebov, Leonid) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] ; Divliansky, I (Divliansky, Ivan) [1] "Rotated chirped volume Bragg gratings for compact spectral analysis" Optics Letters, 48(5) pp.1180-1183 (2023)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Mhibik, O (Mhibik, Oussama) [1] ; Mach, L (Mach, Lam) [1] ; Hayward, TM (Hayward, Tina M.) [2] ; Menon, R (Menon, Rajesh) [2] ; Glebov, L (Glebov, Leonid) [1] ; Divliansky, I (Divliansky, Ivan) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Ultra-compact synthesis of space-time wave packets" Optics Letter 48(10) (2023)
Minoofar, A (Minoofar, Amir) [1] ; Zou, KH (Zou, Kaiheng) [1] ; Pang, K (Pang, Kai) [1] ; Song, H (Song, Hao) [1] ; Karpov, M (Karpov, Maxim) [2] ; Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [3] ; Zhao, Z (Zhao, Zhe) [1] ; Song, HQ (Song, Haoqian) [1] ; Zhou, HB (Zhou, Huibin) [1] ; Su, XZ (Su, Xinzhou) [1] ; Kippenberg, TJ (Kippenberg, Tobias J.) [2] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) ; Tur, M (Tur, Moshe) [4] ; Willner, AE (Willner, Alan E.) [1] , [5] "Generation of OAM-carrying space-time wave packets with time-dependent beam radii using a coherent combination of multiple LG modes on multiple frequencies" Optics Express, 30(25) pp. 45267-45278 (2022)
Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Non-differentiable angular dispersion as an optical resource" Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision, 39(11) pp.2016-2025 (2022)
Zou, KH (Zou, Kaiheng) [1] ; Su, XZ (Su, Xinzhou) [1] ; Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [2] ; Pang, K (Pang, Kai) [1] ; Karapetyan, N (Karapetyan, Narek) [1] ; Karpov, M (Karpov, Maxim) [3] ; Song, H (Song, Hao) [1] ; Zhang, RZ (Zhang, Runzhou) [1] ; Zhou, HB (Zhou, Huibin) [1] ; Kippenberg, TJ (Kippenberg, Tobias J.) [3] ; Tur, M (Tur, Moshe) [4] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [2] ; Willner, AE (Willner, Alan E.) [1] , [5] "Tunability of space-time wave packet carrying tunable and dynamically changing OAM value" Optics Letters, 47(21) pp.5751-5754 (2022)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] ; Schepler, KL (Schepler, Kenneth L.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Space-time wave packets" Advances in Optics and Photonics, 14(3) pp.455-570 (2022)
K. Pang, K.H. Zou, Z. Zhao, H. Song, Y.Y. Zhou, M. Karpov, M. Yessenov, A. Shiri, H.Q. Song, R.Z. Zhang, H.B. Zhou, X.Z. Su, N.Z. Hu, A. Minoofar, T.J. Kippenberg, R.W. Boyd, A.F. Abouraddy, M. Tur and A.E. Willner "Experimental demonstration of dynamic spatiotemporal structured beams that simultaneously exhibit two orbital angular momenta by combining multiple frequency lines, each carrying multiple Laguerre-Gaussian modes" Optics Letters, 47(16), pp. 4044-4047 (2022)
A. Shiri, S. Webster, K.L. Schepler and A.F. Abouraddy "Propagation-invariant space-time supermodes in a multimode waveguide" Optica, 9(8), pp. 913-923 (2022)
M. Harling, V. Kelkar, C. Okoro, M. Diouf, A.F. Abouraddy and K.C. Toussaint "Reversible inter-degree-of-freedom optical-coherence conversion via entropy swapping" Optics Express, 30(16), pp. 29584-29597 (2022)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Free, J (Free, Justin) [2] ; Chen, ZZ (Chen, Zhaozhong) [3] ; Johnson, EG (Johnson, Eric G.) [2] ; Lavery, MPJ (Lavery, Martin P. J.) [3] ; Alonso, MA (Alonso, Miguel A.) [4] , [5] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions" Nature Communications, 13(1) (2022)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Free, J (Free, Justin) [2] ; Chen, ZZ (Chen, Zhaozhong) [3] ; Johnson, EG (Johnson, Eric G.) [2] ; Lavery, MPJ (Lavery, Martin P. J.) [3] ; Alonso, MA (Alonso, Miguel A.) [4] , [5] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Space-time wave packets localized in all dimensions" Nature Communications, 13(1) (2022)
A. Shiri and A.F. Abouraddy "Spatial resolution of omni-resonant imaging" Optics Letters, 47(15), pp. 3804-3807 (2022)
M. Yessenov, Z.Z. Chen, M.P.J. Lavery and A.F. Abouraddy "Vector space-time wave packets" Optics Letters, 47(16), pp. 4131-4134 (2022)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Chen, ZZ (Chen, Zhaozhong) [2] ; Lavery, MPJ (Lavery, Martin P. J.) [2] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Vector space-time wave packets" Optics Letters, 47(16) pp. 4131-4134 (2022)
A. Shiri and A.F. Abouraddy "Severing the Link between Modal Order and Group Index Using Hybrid Guided Space-Time Modes" ACS Photonics (2022)
K. Pang, K.H. Zou, H. Song, M. Karpov, M. Yessenov, Z. Zhao, A. Minoofar, R.Z. Zhang, H.Q. Song, H.B. Zhou, X.Z. Su, N.Z. Hu, T.J. Kippenberg, A.F. Abouraddy, M. Tur, and A.E. Willner "Synthesis of near-diffraction-free orbital-angular-momentum space-time wave packets having a controllable group velocity using a frequency comb" Optics Express, 30(10), pp. 16712-16724 (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) PDF
L.A. Hall, M. Yessenov and A.F. Abouraddy "Arbitrarily accelerating space-time wave packets" Optics Letters, 47(3), pp. 694-697 (2022)
Alumni
PhD
Murat Yessenov, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022Felix Tan, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Ali Kazemi Jahromi, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2018
Joshua Kaufman, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2014
Soroush Shabahang, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2014
Guang-Ming "Derek" Tao, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2014
Esmaeil "Hooman" Banaei, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2013
MS
Massimo (Maximilian) Villinger, Optics M.S., Spring 2015Rafael Avila Gil, Mechanical Engineering M.S., Unknown
Taylor Meehan, Mechanical Engineering M.S., Unknown