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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

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Pawel Jung
Pawel Jung
Pawel.Jung@ucf.edu
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Hadiseh Nasari
hadisehnasari@berkeley.edu
Armando Perez Leija
aleija@creol.ucf.edu
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Georgios Pyrialakos
pyrialak@knights.ucf.edu
Fan Wu
Fan Wu
Qi Zhong
Qi Zhong
qizhong@creol.ucf.edu

Students

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Mahmoud Abdel Rahman
Mahmoud Abdel Rahman
Optics Ph.D.
Yuqiang Ding
Optics Ph.D.
Haokun Luo
Optics Ph.D.
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Mehran Rasheed
Graduate Research Assistant
Huizhong Ren
Huizhong Ren
Optics Ph.D.
Zhongfei Xiong
Visiting Student

Publications

Z.F. Xiong, F.O. Wu, J.T. Lu, Z.C. Ruan, D.N. Christodoulides and Y.T. Chen "K-space thermodynamic funneling of light via heat exchange" Physical Review A, 105(3), A. 033529 (2022)

A. Schumer, Y.G.N. Liu, J. Leshin, L. Ding, Y. Alahmadi, A.U. Hassan, H. Nasari, S. Rotter, D.N. Christodoulides, P. LiKamWa and M. Khajavikhan "Topological modes in a laser cavity through exceptional state transfer " Science, 375(6583), pp. 884-+ (2022)

C. Xu, W.E. Hayenga, D.N. Christodoulides, M. Khajavikhan and P. LiKamWa "Direct modulation of electrically pumped coupled microring lasers" Optics Express, 30(2), pp. 1143-1151 (2022)

H. Haig, P. Sidorenko, A. Dhar, N. Choudhury, R. Sen, D. Christodoulides and F. Wise "Multimode Mamyshev oscillator" Optics Letters, 47(1), pp. 46-49 (2022)

P.S. Jung, M. Parto, G.G. Pyrialakos, H. Nasari, K. Rutkowska, M. Trippenbach, M. Khajavikhan, W. Krolikowski and D.N. Christodoulides "Optical Thouless pumping transport and nonlinear switching in a topological low-dimensional discrete nematic liquid crystal array" Physical Review A, 105(1), A. 013513 (2022)

M.A. Selim, F.O. Wu, H.Z. Ren, M. Khajavikhan and D. Christodoulides "Thermodynamic description of the near- and far-field intensity patterns emerging from multimode nonlinear waveguide arrays" Physical Review A, 105(1), A. 013514 (2022)

N.R. Subedi, S. Yaraghi, P.S. Jung, G. Kukal, A.G. McDonald, D.N. Christodoulides and A.E. Vasdekis "Airy light-sheet Raman imaging" Optics Express, 29(20), pp. 31941-31951 (2021)

Y.H. Wu, H. Pourbeyram, D.N. Christodoulides and F.W. Wise "Weak beam self-cleaning of femtosecond pulses in the anomalous dispersion regime" Optics Letters, 46(13), pp. 3312-3315 (2021)

Y.Z.G.N. Liu, P.S. Jung, M. Parto, D.N. Christodoulides and M. Khajavikhan "Gain-induced topological response via tailored long-range interactions" Nature Physics, 17(6), pp. 704-+ (2021)

M.A. Eftekhar, H. Lopez-Aviles, F.W. Wise, R. Amezcua-Correa and D.N. Christodoulides "General theory and observation of Cherenkov radiation induced by multimode solitons" Communications Physics, 4(1), A. 137 (2021)

J.H. Choi, W.E. Hayenga, Y.Z.G.N. Liu, M. Parto, B. Bahari, D.N. Christodoulides and M. Khajavikhan "Room temperature electrically pumped topological insulator lasers" Nature Communications, 12(1), A. 3434 (2021)

Y.Z.G.N. Liu, O. Hemmatyar, A.U. Hassan, P.S. Jung, J.H. Choi, D.N. Christodoulides and M. Khajavikhan "Engineering interaction dynamics in active resonant photonic structures" APL Photonics, 6(5), A. 050804 (2021)

O.V. Shramkova, K.G. Makris, D.N. Christodoulides and G.P. Tsironis "Nonlinear scattering by non-Hermitian multilayers with saturation effects" Physical Review E, 103(5), A. 052205 (2021)

N.K. Efremidis and D.N. Christodoulides "Fundamental entropic processes in the theory of optical thermodynamics" Physical Review A, 103(4), A. 043517 (2021)

A. Ramaniuk, M. Trippenbach, P.S. Jung, D.N. Christodoulides, W. Krolikowski and G. Assanto "Scalar and vector supermode solitons owing to competing nonlocal nonlinearities" Optics Express, 29(6), pp. 8015-8023 (2021)

K. Tschernig, A. Jimenez-Galan, D.N. Christodoulides, M. Ivanov, K. Busch, M.A. Bandres and A. Perez-Leija "Topological protection versus degree of entanglement of two-photon light in photonic topological insulators" Nature Communications, 12(1), A. 1974 (2021)

P.S. Jung, Y.V. Izdebskaya, V.G. Shvedov, D.N. Christodoulides and W. Krolikowski "Formation and stability of vortex solitons in nematic liquid crystals" Optics Letters, 46(1), pp. 62-65 (2021)

M. Parto, Y.Z.G.N. Liu, B. Bahari, M. Khajavikhan and D.N. Christodoulides "Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point" Nanophotonics, 10(1), pp. 403-423 (2021)

N.R. Subedi, P.S. Jung, E.L. Bredeweg, S. Nemati, S.E. Baker, D.N. Christodoulides and A.E. Vasdekis "Integrative quantitative-phase and airy light-sheet imaging" Scientific Reports, 10(1), A. 20150 (2020)

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)

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

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

University of Central Florida
4304 Scorpius St.
P.O. Box 162700
Orlando, FL 32816-2700
(407)823-6800
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