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Demetrios Christodoulides

Demetrios Christodoulides

Pegasus Professor of Optics & Photonics/Cobb Family Endowed Chair
CREOL 210
407-882-0074
demetri@creol.ucf.edu
Nonlinear Waves

Biography

Demetri Christodoulides is the Cobb Family Endowed Chair and Pegasus Professor of Optics at CREOL-the College of Optics and Photonics of the University of Central Florida. He received his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and he subsequently joined Bellcore as a post-doctoral fellow at Murray Hill. Between 1988 and 2002 he was with the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University. His research interests include linear and nonlinear optical beam interactions, synthetic optical materials, optical solitons, and quantum electronics. He has authored and co-authored more than 450 papers. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. In 2011 he received the R.W. Wood Prize of OSA and in 2018 the OSA Max Born Award.

Awards & Honors

  • OSA Max Born Award 2018
  • OSA R.W. Wood Prize, 2011
  • Fellow, OSA, APS
  • Cobb Family Endowed Chair Professor
  • UCF Pegasus Professor
  • ISI Highly Cited Researcher

Professional Activities

  • QELS General Chair, Program Chair
  • OSA NLO Program Chair
  • OSA Ives & Wood Prize Committee

Research Group

Nonlinear wave propagation, beam synthesis and dynamics, optical thermodynamics, optical solitons, periodic and random optical structures, nonlinear optics in soft matter, quantum transport in arrays and photonic lattices.

Scientists

Pawel Jung
Pawel Jung
Pawel.Jung@ucf.edu
Gisela Lopez Galmiche
Gisela Lopez Galmiche
gisela.lopezgalmiche@ucf.edu
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Hadiseh Nasari
hadisehnasari@berkeley.edu
Midya Parto
Midya Parto
Qi Zhong
Qi Zhong
qizhong@creol.ucf.edu

Students

Mahmoud Abdel Rahman
Mahmoud Abdel Rahman
Optics Ph.D.
Helena Lopez
Helena Lopez
Optics Ph.D.
Haokun Luo
Optics Ph.D.
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Mehran Rasheed
Graduate Research Assistant
Huizhong Ren
Huizhong Ren
Optics Ph.D.
Fan Wu
Fan Wu
Optics Ph.D.
Shaghayegh Yaraghi
Shaghayegh Yaraghi
Optics Ph.D.

Publications

M. Parto, W.E. Hayenga, A. Marandi, D.N. Christodoulides and M. Khajavikhan "Nanolaser-based emulators of spin Hamiltonians" Nanophotonics, 9(13), pp. 4193-4198 (2020)

G.Y. Yang, F.O. Wu, H.E.L. Aviles and D.N. Christodoulides "Optical amplification and transmission of attenuated multi-soliton based on spectral characteristics of Akhmediev breather" Optics Communications, 473, A. 125899 (2020)

L.J. Wong, D.N. Christodoulides and I. Kaminer "The Complex Charge Paradigm: A New Approach for Designing Electromagnetic Wavepackets" Advanced Science, A. 1903377 (2020)

C. Xu, W.E. Hayenga, H. Hodaei, D.N. Christodoulides, M. Khajavikhan and P. LiKamWa "Enhanced modulation characteristics in broken symmetric coupled microring lasers" Optics Express, 28(13), pp. 19608-19616 (2020)

N.S. Nye, A.E. Halawany, C. Markos, M. Khajavikhan and D.N. Christodoulides "Flexible PT-Symmetric Optical Metasurfaces" Physical Review Applied, 13(6), A. 064005 (2020)

C.K. Keyser, R.K. Martin, H. Lopez-Aviles, K. Nguyen, A.M. Adams and D.M. Christodoulides "Single-pulse, Kerr-effect Mueller matrix LiDAR polarimeter" Optics Express, 28(9), pp. 13694-13713 (2020)

K.G. Makris, F.O. Wu, P.S. Jung, and D.N. Christodoulides "Statistical mechanics of weakly nonlinear optical multimode gases" Optics Letters, 45(7), pp. 1651-1654 (2020)

G.G. Pyrialakos, N. Schmitt, N.S. Nye, M. Heinrich, N.V. Kantartzis, A. Szameit and D.N. Christodoulides "Symmetry-controlled edge states in the type-II phase of Dirac photonic lattices" Nature Communications, 11(1) (2020)

M. Parto, W. Hayenga, A. Marandi, D.N. Christodoulides, and M. Khajavikhan "Realizing spin Hamiltonians in nanoscale active photonic lattices" Nature Materials (2020)

L.G. Wright, P. Sidorenko, H. Pourbeyram, Z.M. Ziegler, A. Isichenko, B.A. Malomed, C.R. Menyuk, D.N. Christodoulides, and F.W. Wise "Mechanisms of spatiotemporal mode-locking" Nature Physics (2020)

L.J. Maczewsky, K. Wang, A.A.Dovgiy, A.E. Miroshnichenko, A. Moroz, M. Ehrhardt, M. Heinrich, D.N. Christodoulides, A. Szam eit, and A.A. Sukhorukov "Synthesizing multi-dimensional excitation dynamics and localization transition in one-dimensional lattices" Nature Photonics, 14(2), pp. 76-+ (2020)

A.L.M. Muniz, M. Wimmer, A. Bisianov, U. Peschel, R. Morandotti, P.S. Jung, and D.N. Christodoulides "2d solitons in PT-symmetric photonic lattices" Physical Review Letters, 123(25), A. 253903 (2019)

M.P. Hokmabadi, A. Schumer, D.N. Christodoulides, and M. Khajavikhan "Non-Hermitian ring laser gyroscopes with enhanced Sagnac sensitivity" Nature, 576(7785), pp. 70+ (2019)

A. Ramaniuk, P.S. Jung, D.N. Christodoulides, W. Krolikowskid, and M. Trippenbach "Absorption-mediated stabilization of nonlinear propagation of vortex beams in nematic liquid crystals" Optics Communications, 451, pp. 338–344 (2019)

Q. Zhong, S. Nelson, M. Khajavikhan, D.N. Christodoulides, and R. El-Ganainy "Bosonic discrete supersymmetry for quasi-two-dimensional optical arrays" Photonics Research, 7(11), pp. 1240-1243 (2019)

M. Sakhdari, M. Hajizadegan, Q. Zhong, D.N. Christodoulides, R. El-Ganainy, and P.Y. Chen "Experimental observation of PT symmetry breaking near divergent exceptional points" Physical Review Letters, 123(19) (2019)

F.O. Wu, A.U. Hassan, and D.N. Christodoulides "Thermodynamic theory of highly multimoded nonlinear optical systems" Nature Photonics, 13(11), pp. 776–782 (2019)

W.E. Hayenga, J. Ren, M. Parto, F. Wu, M.P. Hokmabadi, C. Wolff, R. El-Ganainy, N.A. Mortensen, D.N. Christodoulides, and M. Khajavikhan "Direct generation of tunable orbital angular momentum beams in microring lasers with broadband exceptional points" ACS Photonics, 6(8), pp. 1895-1901 (2019)

M. Parto, F.O. Wu, P.S. Jung, K. Makris, and D.N. Christodoulides "Thermodynamic conditions governing the optical temperature and chemical potential in nonlinear highly multimoded photonic systems" Optics Letters, 44(16), pp. 3936-3939 (2019)

R. Thevamaran, R.M. Branscomb, E. Makri, P. Anzel, D.N. Christodoulides, T. Kottos, and E.L. Thomas "Asymmetric acoustic energy transport in non-Hermitian metamaterials" The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 146(1), pp. 863-872 (2019)

Alumni

PhD
Helena Lopez, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2020
Fan Wu, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2020
Midya Parto, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Nicholas Nye, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2019
Absar Ulhassan, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2018
Mohammad Amin Eftekhar, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2018
Ahmed El Halawany, Physics Ph.D., Fall 2016
Parinaz Aleahmad, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2016
Matthew Mills, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2015
Mohammad-Ali Miri, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2014
Shima Fardad, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2014
Alessandro Salandrino, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2011
Georgios Siviloglou, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2010
Ramy El-Ganainy, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2009
Konstantinos Makris, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2008
Jared Hudock, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
MS
Arielle Adams, Optics M.S., Summer 2020
Toni Eichelkraut, Optics M.S., Fall 2011

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