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
Students
Publications
J. Villatoro, J. Amorebieta, A. Ortega-Gomez, E. Antonio-Lopez, J. Zubia, A. Schulzgen and R. Amezcua-Correa "Composed multicore fiber structure for direction-sensitive curvature monitoring" APL Photonics, 5(7) (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. Schulzgen, 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)
H.Y. Liu, B. Huang, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, H. Wen, H.S. Chen, N.K. Fontaine, R. Ryf, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Amezcua-Correa, and G.F. Li "Turbulence-resistant FSO communication using a few-mode pre-amplified receiver" Scientific Reports, 9, 16247 (2019)
D. Cruz-Delgado, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, H. Cruz-Ramirez, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, S.G. Leon-Saval, R. Amezcua-Correa, and A.B. U’Ren "Control over the transverse structure and long-distance fiber propagation of light at the single-photon level" Scientific Reports, 9, 9015 (2019)
J. Zhao, M. Peysokhan, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, Y. Sun, B. Abaie, A. Mafi, R. Amezcua-Correa, S. Pang, and A. Schülzgen "A path to high-quality imaging through disordered optical fibers: a review" Applied Optics, 58(13), pp. D50-D60 (2019)
M.S. Habib, C. Markos, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, and R. Amezcua-Correa "Multioctave supercontinuum from visible to mid-infrared and bend effects on ultrafast nonlinear dynamics in gas-filled hollow-core fiber" Applied Optics, 8(13), pp. D7-D11 (2019)
J. Amorebieta, G. Durana, A. Ortega-Gomez, R. Fernández, J. Velasco, I. Sáez de Ocáriz, J. Zubia, J.E. Antonio-López, A. Schülzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa, and J. Villatoro "Packaged multi-core fiber interferometer for high-temperature sensing" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 37(10), pp. 2328-2334 (2019)
M.A. Eftekhar, Z. Sanjabi-Eznaveh, H.E. Lopez-Aviles, S. Benis, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, M. Kolesik, F. Wise, R. Amezcua-Correa, and D.N. Christodoulides "Accelerated nonlinear interactions in graded-index multimode fibers" Nature Communications, 10, 1638 (2019)
M.S. Habib, C. Markos, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, and R. Amezcua-Correa "Extreme UV light generation through dispersive wave trapping in a tapered gas-filled hollow fiber" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 31(10), pp. 795-798 (2019)
A.I. Adamu, M.S. Habib, C.R. Petersen, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, B. Zhou, A. Schülzgen, M. Bache, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang, and C. Markos "Deep-UV to mid-IR supercontinuum generation driven by mid-IR ultrashort pulses in a gas-filled hollow-core fiber" Scientific Reports, 9, 4446 (2019)
X. Ding, M.S. Habib, R. Amezcua-Correa, and J. Moses "Near-octave intense mid-infrared by adiabatic down-conversion in hollow anti-resonant fiber" Optics Letters, 44(5), pp. 1084-1087 (2019)
H.E. Lopez-Aviles, F.O. Wu, Z. Sanjabi Eznaveh, M.A. Eftekhar, F. Wise, R. Amezcua-Correa, and D.N. Christodoulides "A systematic analysis of parametric instabilities in nonlinear parabolic multimode fibers" APL Photonics, 4(2), 022803 (2019)
M.S. Habib, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, C. Markos, A. Schülzgen, and R. Amezcua-Correa "Single-mode, low loss hollow-core anti-resonant fiber designs" Optics Express, 27(4), pp. 3824-3836 (2019)
Alumni
PhD
Zeinab 'Zahoora' Sanjabi Eznaveh, Physics Ph.D., Spring 2017MS
Fei Jia, Optics M.S., Summer 2018Yangyang Qin, Optics M.S., Spring 2017
Da Zhang, Optics M.S., Spring 2017
Weibin Zhu, Optics M.S., Spring 2017