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
Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] , [2] ; Shiri, A (Shiri, Abbas) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Omni-Resonant Imaging Across the Visible" Laser & Photonics Reviews, Year: 2025 (2025)
R. Almeida, D. Ramsey, A. F. Abouraddy, J. P. Palastro, and J. Vieira "Universal structure of propagation-invariant optical pulses" Opt. Lett. 50, 3393-3396 (2025) (2025)
Su, XZ (Su, Xinzhou); Zou, KH (Zou, Kaiheng); Wang, YN (Wang, Yingning); Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat); Zhou, HB (Zhou, Huibin); Song, H (Song, Hao); Ko, W (Ko, Wing); Zeng, RY (Zeng, Ruoyu); Alhaddad, A (Alhaddad, Abdulrahman); Ramakrishnan, M (Ramakrishnan, Murale); Duan, YX (Duan, Yuxiang); Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.); Tur, M (Tur, Moshe); Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.); Willner, AE (Willner, Alan E.) "Space-time wave packets in multimode optical fibers with controlled dynamic motions and tunable group velocities" Nature Communications, Volume: 16 Issue: 1 Article Number 2027 (2025)
Romer, MA (Romer, Miguel A.) [1] ; Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Synthesis and characterization of space-time light sheets: a tutorial" Journal of Optics Volume: 27 Issue:1 Article Number: 013501 (2025)
Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Abrupt X-to-O-wave structural field transition in presence of anomalous dispersion " APL Photonics, Volume: 9, Issue: 12, (2024) (2024)
Harling, M (Harling, Mitchell) [1] ; Kelkar, VA (Kelkar, Varun A.) [2] , [5] ; Toussaint, KC Jr (Toussaint, Kimani C.) [1] , [3] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [4 "Isoentropic partially coherent optical fields that cannot be interconverted unitarily" Physical Review A, Volume: 110, Issue: 1, Year: 2024 (2024)
Ichiji, N (Ichiji, Naoki) [1] , [2] ; Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [3] ; Schepler, KL (Schepler, Kenneth L.) [3] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [3] ; Kubo, A (Kubo, Atsushi) [4] "Exciting space-time surface plasmon polaritons by irradiating a nanoslit structure" Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision 41(3) pp.396-405 (2024)
Harling, M (Harling, Mitchell) [1] ; Kelkar, VA (Kelkar, Varun A.) [2] , [4] ; Toussaint, KC Jr (Toussaint Jr, Kimani C.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [3] "Locked entropy in partially coherent optical fields" Physical Review A 109 (2) (2024)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Romer, M (Romer, Miguel) [1] ; Ichiji, N (Ichiji, Naoki) [2] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) "Experimental realization of Lorentz boosts of space-time wave packets" Physical Review A 109(1) (2024)
Hall, LA (Hall, Layton A.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Universal angular-dispersion synthesizer" Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision 41(1), pp.83-94 (2024)
Shen, YJ; Zhan, QW; Wright, LG; Christodoulides, DN; Wise, Frank W.; Willner, AE; Zou, KH; Zhao, Z; Porras, MA; Chong, Andy; Wan, CH; Bliokh, KY; Liao, CT; Hernandez-Garcia, C; Murnane, M; Yessenov, M; Abouraddy, AF; Wong, LJ; Go, M; Kumar, S; Guo, C; Fan SH; Papasimakis, Nikitas; Zheludev, N; Chen, L; Zhu, WQ; Agrawal, A; Mounaix, M; Fontaine, N; Capasso, F; "Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields" Journal of Optics 25(9) (2023)
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)
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)
Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] "Relativistic transformations of quasi-monochromatic paraxial optical beams " Physical Review A 107(4) (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)
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)
Alumni
PhD
Layton Hall, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2023Abbas Shiri, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Summer 2022
Murat Yessenov, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022
Abbas Shiri, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2021
Felix Tan, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Murat Yessenov, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Ali Kazemi Jahromi, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2018
Massimo (Maximilian) Villinger, Optics M.S., Spring 2015
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
Guang-Ming "Derek" Tao, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2012
Esmaeil "Hooman" Banaei, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2011
Rafael Avila Gil, Mechanical Engineering M.S., Unknown
Taylor Meehan, Mechanical Engineering M.S., Unknown
MS
Rafael Avila Gil, Mechanical Engineering M.S., UnknownTaylor Meehan, Mechanical Engineering M.S., Unknown