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
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
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)
H. Pourbeyram, P. Sidorenko, F.O. Wu, N. Bender, L. Wright, D.N. Christodoulides, and F. Wise "Direct observations of thermalization to a Rayleigh-Jeans distribution in multimode optical fibres" Nature Physics (2022)
H.K. Luo, Y.F. Jia, F.G. Tian, M. Khajavikhan, and D. Christodoulides "Network analysis of Weyl semimetal photogalvanic systems" Optics Letters, 47(10), pp. 2450-2453 (2022)
H. Nasari, G. Lopez-Galmiche, H.E. Lopez-Aviles, A. Schumer, A.U. Hassan, Q. Zhong, S. Rotter, P. LiKamWa, D.N. Christodoulides, and M. Khajavikhan "Observation of chiral state transfer without encircling an exceptional point" Nature, 605(7909), pp. 256-+ (2022)
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)