Biography
Bahaa E. A. Saleh has been distinguished professor of optics and photonics at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics, University of Central Florida, since January 2009. He served as dean of CREOL from January 2009 to December 2019. He was a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at Boston University in 1994-2008, and he served as Chair of that Department in 1994-2007. He also served as Deputy Director of the Gordon Center for Subsurface Sensing and Imaging Systems, an NSF Engineering Research Center in 2000-2008.
He received the B.S. degree from Cairo University in 1966 and the Ph.D. degree from the Johns Hopkins University in 1971, both in electrical engineering. He held faculty and research positions at the University of Santa Catarina in Brazil, Kuwait University, Max Planck Institute in Germany, the University of California-Berkeley, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Columbia University, University of Vienna, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he was a faculty member from 1977 to 1994 and served as Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 1990 to 1994.
His research contributions cover a broad spectrum of topics in optics and photonics including statistical and quantum optics, optical communication and signal processing, nonlinear optics, photodetectors, image processing, and vision. He is the author of three books, Photoelectron Statistics (Springer-Verlag, 1978), Fundamentals of Photonics (Wiley-InterScience, 1991, 2nd edition, 2007, with M. C. Teich), and Introduction to Subsurface Imaging (Cambridge, 2011), as well as more than 600 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings. He is the founding editor of the Optical Society (OSA) Advances in Optics and Photonics. He served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Optical Society of America A from 1991 to 1997, and Chairman of the Board of Editors of the Optical Society of America from 1997 to 2001. He also served as Vice President of the International Commission of Optics (ICO) from 2000 to 2002. Saleh is Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Optical Society of America, and the Guggenheim Foundation. He is the recipient of the 1999 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award for outstanding contributions to optical science and engineering education, the 2004 SPIE BACUS award for his contribution to photomask technology, the 2006 Kuwait Prize for his contributions to optical science, the 2008 OSA Distinguished Service Award, and the 2013 C. E. K. Mees Medal for lifelong multidisciplinary contributions to statistical optics, quantum optics and image science. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi, and Tau Beta Pi.
Awards & Honors
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- IEEE Photonics Society Life Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- Guggenheim Foundation Fellow
- 2013 C.E.K. Mees Medal
- 2010 Laser Institute of America (LIA) Board of Directors
Research Group
Conducting research on the generation and detection of nonclassical light, such as entangled photons, and its quantum information applications, including quantum imaging and quantum communication.Publications
Hegazy, SF (Hegazy, Salem F.) [1] ; Obayya, SSA (Obayya, Salah S. A.) [2] , [3] ; Saleh, BEA (Saleh, Bahaa E. A.) [4] "Programmable Broadband Polarization-Preserving Optical Delay Line with Faraday Mirrors" Journal of Lightwave Technology 42(9) pp.3346-3353 (2024)
Aziz, JAB (Aziz, John A. B.) [1] ; -dryden, SS (Smith -Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Saleh, BEA (Saleh, Bahaa E. A.) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting" Optics Express 32(11) pp.20256-20267 (2024)
N. Wang, H. Wen, J. C. A. Zacarias, J. E. Antonio-Lopez,Y. Z., D. C. Delgado, P. Sillard, A. Schülzgen, B. E. A. Saleh, R. Amezcua-Correa, G. Li "Laser2: A two-domain photon-phonon laser" Sci. Adv., vol. 9, issue 26, June 2023 (2024)
S. F. Hegazy, S. S. A. Obayya, and B. E. A. Saleh, "Programmable Broadband Polarization-Preserving Optical Delay Line with Faraday Mirrors" J. of Lightwave Tech.,Vol. 42, Issue 9, pp. 3346-3353 January 2024. (2024)
John A. B. Aziz, Seth Smith-Dryden, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Guifang Li "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting" Opt. Express 32, 20256-20267 (May 2024) (2024)
N. Wang, H. Wen, J. C. Alvarado Zacarias, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, Y. Zhang, D. Cruz Delgado, P. Sillard, A. Schülzgen, B. EA Saleh, R. Amezcua-Correa, G. Li "Laser2: A two-domain photon-phonon laser" SCIENCE ADVANCES 9, eadg7841 (2023)
Smith-Dryden, S (Smith-Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Fan, SL (Fan, Shengli) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Saleh, B (Saleh, Bahaa) [1] "Iterative optical diffraction tomography with embedded regularization" Optics Express, 31(1) pp.116-124 (2023)
Hegazy, SF (Hegazy, Salem F.) [1] ; Obayya, SSA (Obayya, Salah S. A.) [2] ; Saleh, BEA (Saleh, Bahaa E. A.) [3] "Randomized Ancillary Qubit Overcomes Detector-Control and Intercept-Resend Hacking of Quantum Key Distribution" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(21) pp.6995-7005 (2022)
S. Smith-Dryden, S.L. Fan, B.E.A. Saleh and G.F. Li "Optical Diffraction Tomography by Use of Optimization and Phase-Based Fidelity Criterion" IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 27(4), A. 6800709 (2021)
S.L. Fan, S. Smith-Dryden, G.F. Li and B.E.A. Saleh "Optimization-based optical diffraction tomography using iODT initialization" Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 38(7), pp. 947-953 (2021)
W. Larson and B.E.A. Saleh "Two-lens anisotropic image-inversion system for interferometric information processing" Optics Express, 29(10), pp. 15403-15412 (2021)
S.L. Fan, S. Smith-Dryden, G.F. Li and B.E.A. Saleh "Iterative optical diffraction tomography for illumination scanning configuration" Optics Express, 28(26), A. 413230 (2020)
W. Larson and B.E.A. Saleh "Quantum-enhanced estimation of the optical phase gradient by use of image-inversion interferometry" Physical Review A, 102(1), A. 013712 (2020)
S.L. Fan, S. Smith-Dryden, G.F. Li, and B.E.A. Saleh "Reconstructing complex refractive-index of multiply-scattering media by use of iterative optical diffraction tomography" Optics Express, 28(5), pp. 6846-6858 (2020)
B.E.A. Saleh "Delivering and nurturing a young journal: editorial" Advances in Optics and Photonics, 11(2), pp. ED4-ED6 (2019)
A.F. Abouraddy, A. Dogariu, and B.E.A. Saleh "Polarization coherence theorem: comment" Optica, 6(6), pp. 829-830 (2019)
W. Larson, N.V. Tabiryan, and B.E.A. Saleh "A common-path polarization-based image-inversion interferometer" Optics Express, 27(4), pp. 5685-5695 (2019)
S. Fan, S. Smith-Dryden, J. Zhao, S. Gausmann, A. Schülzgen,G.F. Li, and B.E.A. Saleh "Optical fiber refractive index profiling by iterative optical diffraction tomography" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 36(24), pp. 5754-5763 (2018) PDF
W. Larson and B.E.A. Saleh "Resurgence of Rayleigh’s curse in the presence of partial coherence" Optica 5(11), pp. 1382-1389 (2018)
W. Larson, B.E.A. Saleh "Supersensitive ancilla-based adaptive quantum phase estimation" Physical Review A, 96(4), 042110 (2017)
Alumni
PhD
Seth Smith-Dryden, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2022Walker Larson, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2020
Kumel Kagalwala, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2015
H. Esat Kondakci, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2015
Lane Martin, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2014