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Demetrios Christodoulides

Demetrios Christodoulides

Demetrios Christodoulides

Steve and Kathryn Sample Endowed Chair Professor, University of Southern California
Demetri@usc.edu

Nonlinear Waves

Biography

Demetri Christodoulides is the Steven and Kathryn Sample Chair in Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC in 2022, Dr. Christodoulides was the Cobb Family Endowed Chair and Pegasus Professor of Optics at CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida for 20 years. 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

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Pawel Jung
Pawel Jung
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Hadiseh Nasari
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Armando Perez Leija
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Georgios Pyrialakos
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Fan Wu
Fan Wu
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Qi Zhong
Qi Zhong
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Students

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Publications

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

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)

Ramos, AY (Ramos, Alba Y.) [1] , [2] , [3] ; Shi, C (Shi, Cheng) [1] ; Fernandez-Alcazar, LJ (Fernandez-Alcazar, Lucas J.) [2] , [3] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [4] ; Kottos, T "Theory of localization-hindered thermalization in nonlinear multimode photonics" Communications Physics (2023)

Liu, MQ (Liu, Mengqi) [1] , [2] ; Chen, WJ (Chen, Weijin) [2] ; Hu, GW (Hu, Guangwei) [3] ; Fan, SH (Fan, Shanhui) [3] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [4] ; Zhao, CY (Zhao, Changying) [1] ; Qiu, CW (Qiu, Cheng-Wei) [2] "Spectral phase singularity and topological behavior in perfect absorption" Physical Review B 107(24) (2023)

Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [1] ; Apostolidis, A (Apostolidis, Anestis) [2] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [3] ; Kantartzis, NV (Kantartzis, Nikolaos, V) [2] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [3] "Antichiral topological phases and protected bulk transport in dual-helix Floquet lattices" Physical Review B 107(17) (2023)

Nasari, H (Nasari, Hadiseh) [1] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [2] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [1] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [1] , [3] "Non-Hermitian topological photonics" Optical Materials Express 13(4)pp.870-885 (2023)

Jung, PS (Jung, Pawel S.) [1] , [2] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [1] ; Pilka, J (Pilka, Jacek) [2] ; Kwasny, M (Kwasny, Michal) [2] ; Laudyn, U (Laudyn, Ula) [2] ; Trippenbach, M (Trippenbach, Marek) [3] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [1] ; Krolikowski, W (Krolikowski, Wieslaw) [4] , [5] "Stable fundamental two-dimensional solitons in media with competing nonlocal interactions" Chaos Solitons & Fractals 171 (2023)

Selim, MA (Selim, Mahmoud A.) [1] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [2] ; Wu, FO (Wu, Fan O.) [2] ; Musslimani, Z (Musslimani, Ziad) [3] ; Makris, KG (Makris, Konstantinos G.) [4] , [5] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [1] ; Chiristdoulides, D (Chiristdoulides, Demetrios) [1] "Thermalization of the Ablowitz-Ladik lattice in the presence of non-integrable perturbations" Optics Letter 48(8) pp.2206-2209 (2023)

Selim, MA (Selim, Mahmoud A.) [1] ; Wu, FO (Wu, Fan O.) [2] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [2] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [1] ; Christodoulides, D (Christodoulides, Demetrios) [1] "Coherence properties of light in highly multimoded nonlinear parabolic fibers under optical equilibrium conditions" Optics Letters, 48(5) 1208-1211 (2023)

Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [1] ; Apostolidis, A (Apostolidis, Anestis) [2] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [3] ; Kantartzis, NV (Kantartzis, Nikolaos, V) [2] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [3] "Antichiral topological phases and protected bulk transport in dual-helix Floquet lattices" Physical Review 107(17) (2023)

Liu, YGN (Liu, Yuzhou G. N.) [1] ; Wei, YX (Wei, Yunxuan) [1] ; Hemmatyar, O (Hemmatyar, Omid) [1] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [2] ; Jung, PS (Jung, Pawel S.) [2] , [3] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [1] , [2] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [1] , [4] "Complex skin modes in non-Hermitian coupled laser arrays" Light-Science Applications, 11(1) (2022)

Efremidis, NK (Efremidis, Nikolaos K.) [1] , [2] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [3 "Thermodynamic optical pressures in tight-binding nonlinear multimode photonic systems" Communications Physics, 5(1) (2022)

Tian, FG (Tian, Fugu) [1] ; Jia, YF (Jia, Yufei) [1] ; Luo, HK (Luo, Haokun) [2] ; Arachchige, HS (Arachchige, Hasitha Suriya) [3] ; Mandrus, D (Mandrus, David) [3] , [4] , [5] ; Lu, JG (Lu, Jia Grace) [1] , [6] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [2] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [1] , [6] "Weyl semimetal integrated three-unit polarimeters" Optica, 9(10) pp.1115-1120 (2022)

Wright, LG (Wright, Logan G.) [1] , [2] ; Wu, FO (Wu, Fan O.) [3] ; Christodoulides, DN (Christodoulides, Demetrios N.) [3] ; Wise, FW (Wise, Frank W.) [1] "Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems" Nature Physics, 18(9) pp. 1018-1030 (2022)

Ren, HZ (Ren, Huizhong) [1] ; Luo, HK (Luo, Haokun) [1] ; Selim, MA (Selim, Mahmoud A.) [1] ; Pyrialakos, GG (Pyrialakos, Georgios G.) [1] ; Wu, FO (Wu, Fan O.) [1] ; Khajavikhan, M (Khajavikhan, Mercedeh) [2] ; Christodoulides, D (Christodoulides, Demetrios) [1] "Rigorous analysis of optical forces in dielectric structures based on the Minkowski-Helmholtz formula" Physical Review A 106(3) (2022)

D. Cruz-Delgado, S. Yerolatsitis, N.K. Fontaine, D.N. Christodoulides, R. Amezcua-Correa and M.A. Bandres "Synthesis of ultrafast wavepackets with tailored spatiotemporal properties" Nature Photonics (2022)

P.S. Jung, G.G. Pyrialakos, F.O. Wu, M. Parto, M. Khajavikhan, W. Krolikowski and D.N. Christodoulides "Thermal control of the topological edge flow in nonlinear photonic lattices" Nature Communications, 13(1), A. 4393 (2022)

L.G. Wright, W.H. Renninger, D.N. Christodoulides and F.W. Wise "Nonlinear multimode photonics: nonlinear optics with many degrees of freedom" Optica, 9(7), pp. 824-841 (2022)

G.G. Pyrialakos, J. Beck, M. Heinrich, L.J. Maczewsky, N.V. Kantartzis, M. Khajavikhan, A. Szameit, and D.N. Christodoulides "Bimorphic Floquet topological insulators" Nature Materials, 21(6), pp. 634-+ (2022)

K. Tschernig, K. Busch, D.N. Christodoulides, and A. Perez-Leija "Branching High-Order Exceptional Points in Non-Hermitian Optical Systems" Laser & Photonics Reviews, A. 2100707 (2022)

A. Hashemi, K. Busch, D.N. Christodoulides, S.K. Ozdemir, and R. El-Ganainy "Linear response theory of open systems with exceptional points" Nature Communications, 13(1), A. 3281 (2022)