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Rodrigo Amezcua Correa

Rodrigo Amezcua Correa

Associate Professor of Optics & Photonics
CREOL A118
407-823-6853
r.amezcua@creol.ucf.edu
Microstructured Fibers and Devices

Biography

Rodrigo Amezcua joined the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) and the Townes Laser Institute in February 2011 as an Assistant Research Professor. He obtained his PhD degree from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. His Ph.D. was on the development of photonic crystal fibers. After completing his doctoral research, Rodrigo was employed as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Jonathan Knight at the University of Bath, UK. At the University of Bath, he developed novel photonic crystal fiber fabrication methods that lead to fibers with significantly improved optical properties. He has extensive experience in the design and fabrication of photonic crystal fibers for several applications; including fiber lasers, supercontinuum generation, nonlinear microscopy and sensing. Before joining CREOL, he worked at Powerlase Photonics, fabricating high-power diode pumped solid-state lasers.

Awards & Honors

  • 2018 Excellence in Research Award
  • 2018 Reach for the Stars Award
  • 2017 Corning Student 2nd Prize at OFC for PhD Student Zahoora Sanjabi
  • 2016 Corning Student Award at OFC for PhD Student Zahoora Sanjab

Microstructured Fibers and Devices

Advanced optical fiber design and fabrication, photoniccrystal fibers, fiber laser development, optical fiber devices and components, optical fiber sensors, nonlinear propagation in optical fibers, optical fiber for biomedical applications.

Scientists

Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez
Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez
jealopez@creol.ucf.edu
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Daniel Cruz Delgado
Daniel.CruzDelgado@ucf.edu
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Julian Martinez Mercado
julian.mm@creol.ucf.edu

Students

Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias
Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias
Optics Ph.D.
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Caleb Dobias
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Caitlin Henderson
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Hee-Jun Jang
Undergraduate Research Assistant
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Joseph Wahlen
Optics M.S.
Ning Wang
Ning Wang
Optics Ph.D.
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Steffen Wittek
Optics Ph.D.
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Kristin Zehnder
Undergraduate Research Assistant

Publications

J. Amorebieta, A. Ortega-Gomez, G. Durana, R. Fernandez, E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schulzgen, J. Zubia, R. Amezcua-Correa and J. Villatoro "Compact omnidirectional multicore fiber-based vector bending sensor" Scientific Reports, 11(1), A. 5989 (2021)

M. Torres-Torres, G. Salceda-Delgado, V.C. Rodriguez-Carreon, A. Martinez-Rios, J.M. Sierra-Hernandez, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Amezcua-Correa and J. Estudillo-Ayala "Reshaping the output of fiber lasers by using a variable intra-cavity filter based on a reconfigurable Fabry-Perot interferometer" Laser Physics, 31(3), A. 035102 (2021)

M. Gebhardt, T. Heuermann, R. Klas, C. Liu, A. Kirsche, M. Lenski, Z. Wang, C. Gaida, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schulzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa, J. Rothhardt and J. Limpert "Bright, high-repetition-rate water window soft X-ray source enabled by nonlinear pulse self-compression in an antiresonant hollow-core fibre" Light-Science & Applications, 10(1), A. 36 (2021)

M.S. Habib, C. Markos and R. Amezcua-Correa "Impact of cladding elements on the loss performance of hollow-core anti-resonant fibers" Optics Express, 29(3), pp. 3359-3374 (2021)

A.I. Adamu, Y.Z. Wang, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang and C. Markos "Low-loss micro-machining of anti-resonant hollow-core fiber with focused ion beam for optofluidic application" Optical Materials Express, 11(2), pp. 338-344 (2021)

A.I. Adamu, Y.Z. Wang, M.S. Habib, M.K. Dasa, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang and C. Markos "Multi-wavelength high-energy gas-filled fiber Raman laser spanning from 1.53 mu m to 2.4 mu m" Optics Letters, 46(3), pp. 452-455 (2021)

Y.T. Huang, H.S. Chen, N.K. Fontaine, Y.H. Zhang, H.Z. Huang, M. Mazur, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, R. Ryfe, D.T. Neilson, G.F. Li, R. Amezcua-Correa, O.E. Carpenter, Y.X. Song and M. Wang "Optical Broadcasting Employing Incoherent and Low-Coherence Spatial Modes for Bi-Directional Optical Wireless Communications" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(3), pp. 833-838 (2021)

H.S. Chen, N.K. Fontaine, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, C. Cheng, M. Bigot, P. Sillard, R. Ryf, M. Mazur, D.T. Neilson, R. Amezcua-Correa and M.H. Yang "Multiport swept-wavelength interferometer with laser phase noise mitigation employing a broadband ultra-weak FBG array" Optics Letters, 45(21), pp. 5913-5916 (2020)

Xiaowen Hu, Jian Zhao, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Shengli Fan, Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, Axel Schülzgen "Robust imaging-free object recognition through anderson localizing optical fiber" Journal of Lightwave Technology 39(4) (2020)

J. Amorebieta, A. Ortega-Gomez, G. Durana, R. Fernandez, E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schülzgen, J. Zubia, R. Amezcua-Correa and J. Villatoro "Highly sensitive multicore fiber accelerometer for low frequency vibration sensing" Scientific Reports, 10(1), A. 16180 (2020)

J. Villatoro, J. Amorebieta, A. Ortega-Gomez, E. Antonio-Lopez, J. Zubia, A. Schülzgen and R. Amezcua-Correa "Composed multicore fiber structure for direction-sensitive curvature monitoring" APL Photonics, 5(7), 070801 (2020)

Z. Liu, D. Zheng, J. Madrigal, J. Villatoro, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schülzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa, X. Zou, W. Pei, and S. Sales "Strongly coupled multicore fiber with fbgs for multipoint and multiparameter sensing" Optical Fiber Technology, 58, 102315 (2020)

Y.Z. Wang, M.K. Dasa, A.I. Adamu, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, M.S. Habib, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang, and C. Markos "High pulse energy and quantum efficiency mid-infrared gas Raman fiber laser targeting CO2 absorption at 4.2 mu m" Optics Letters, 45(7), pp. 1938-1941 (2020)

N. Wang, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, M.S. Habib, H. Wen, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, P. Sillard, A. Amezcua-Correa, A. Schülzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa and G.F. Li "Mode-selective few-mode Brillouin fiber lasers based on intramodal and intermodal SBS" Optics Letters, 45(8), pp. 2323-2326 (2020)

Y.P. Liu, G.Y. Yang, N. Wang, L. Ma, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, P. Sillard, A. Amezcua-Correa, R. Amezcua-Correa, X.Y. Fan, Z.Y. He and G.F. Li "Observation on temperature and strain dependency of Brillouin dynamic grating in a few-mode fiber with a ring-cavity configuration" Optics Letters, 45(8), pp. 2152-2155 (2020)

S. Gausmann, J. Enrique Antonio-Lopez, J. Anderson, S. Wittek, Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh, H. J. Jang, J. Cook, Md. S. Habib, M. C. Richardson, R. Amezcua-Correa, and A. Schülzgen "S2 measurements showing suppression of higher order modes in confined rare earth doped large core fibers" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 38(7), pp. 1953-1958 (2020)

G. Salceda-Delgado, A. Van Newkirk, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Martinez-Rios, A. Schülzgen, and R. Amezcua-Correa "Optical capillary fiber mode interferometer for pressure sensing" IEEE Sensors Journal, 20(5), pp. 2253-2260 (2020)

J. Zhao, Y. Sun, H. Zhu, Z. Zhu, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Amezcua-Correa, S. Pang, and A. Schülzgen "Deep-learning cell imaging through Anderson localizing optical fiber" Advanced Photonics, 1(6), 066001 (2019)

N. Wang, I. Kim, O. Vassilieva, T. Ikeuchi, H. Wen, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, H.Y. Liu, S.L. Fan, M.S. Habib, R. Amezcua-Correa, and G.F. Li "Low-crosstalk few-mode EDFAs using retro-reflection for single-mode fiber trunk lines and networks" Optics Express, 27(24), pp. 35962-35970 (2019)

Y.T. Huang, H.S. Chen, H.Z. Huang, Z.X. Li, N.K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, R. Amezcua-Correa, J. Van Weerdenburg, C. Okonkwo, A.M.J. Koonen, Y.X. Song, and M. Wang "Mode- and wavelength-multiplexed transmission with crosstalk mitigation using a single amplified spontaneous emission source" Photonics Research, 7(11), pp. 1363-1369 (2019)

Alumni

PhD
Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020
Steffen Wittek, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020
Zeinab 'Zahoora' Sanjabi Eznaveh, Physics Ph.D., Spring 2017
MS
Fei Jia, Optics M.S., Summer 2018
Yangyang Qin, Optics M.S., Spring 2017
Da Zhang, Optics M.S., Spring 2017
Weibin Zhu, Optics M.S., Spring 2017

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

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