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
Students
Publications
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)
Z. Zhang, X. Liang, M. Goutsoulas, D. Li, X. Yang, S. Yin, J. Xu, D.N. Christodoulides, N.K. Efremidis, and Z. Chen "Robust propagation of pin-like optical beam through atmospheric turbulence" APL Photonics, 4(7), 076103 (2019)
Alumni
PhD
Helena Lopez, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2020Fan 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 2020Toni Eichelkraut, Optics M.S., Fall 2011