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
C.D. Moraitis, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, R. Amezcua-Correa, S. Jeram and S.S. Eikenberry "Demonstration of high-efficiency photonic lantern couplers for PolyOculus" Applied Optics, 60(19), pp. D93-D99 (2021)
D. Cruz-Delgado, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, M.A. Cooper, S. Wittek, C. Dobias, J. Martinez-Mercado, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, N.K. Fontaine and R. Amezcua-Correa "Photonic lantern tip/tilt detector for adaptive optics systems" Optics Letters, 46(13), pp. 3292-3295 (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)
Y.Z. Wang, A.I. Adamu, M.K. Dasa, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, M.S. Habib, R. Amezcua-Correa, O. Bang and C. Markos "Noise Performance and Long-Term Stability of Near- and Mid-IR Gas-Filled Fiber Raman Lasers" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(11), pp. 3560-3567 (2021)
M.C. Alonso-Murias, D. Monzon-Hernandez, O. Rodriguez-Quiroz, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schülzgen, R. Amezcua-Correa and J. Villatoro "Long-range multicore optical fiber displacement sensor" Optics Letters, 46(9), pp. 2224-2227 (2021)
M.S. Habib, A.I. Adamu, C. Markos and R. Amezcua-Correa "Enhanced birefringence in conventional and hybrid anti-resonant hollow-core fibers" Optics Express, 29(8), pp. 12516-12530 (2021)
R.S.B. Ospina, M. van den Hout, J.C. Alvarado-Zacarias, J.E. Antonio-Lopez, M. Bigot-Astruc, A.A. Correa, P. Sillard, R. Amezcua-Correa, C. Okonkwo and D.A.A. Mello "Mode-Dependent Loss and Gain Estimation in SDM Transmission Based on MMSE Equalizers" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 39(7), pp. 1968-1975 (2021)
T.L. Courtney, C. Lopez-Zelaya, R. Amezcua-Correa and C.K. Keyser "Modeling quasi-phase-matched electric-field-induced optical parametric amplification in hollow-core photonic crystal fibers" Optics Express, 29(8), pp. 11962-11975 (2021)
J. Amorebieta, A. Ortega-Gomez, G. Durana, R. Fernandez, E. Antonio-Lopez, A. Schülzgen, J. Zubia, R. Amezcua-Correa and J. Villatoro "Compact omnidirectional multicore fiber-based vector bending sensor" Scientific Reports, 11, 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. Schülzgen, 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, 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)
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), pp. 920-926 (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)
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, 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)
Alumni
PhD
Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020Steffen Wittek, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020
Zeinab 'Zahoora' Sanjabi Eznaveh, Physics Ph.D., Spring 2017
MS
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