Biography
Sasan Fathpour received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2005. He then joined the Electrical Engineering Department of UCLA as a Postdoctoral Fellow and became a Visiting Assistant Professor in 2007. He joined the faculty of the College of Optics and Photonics in 2008 and was promoted to Associate and Full Professor in 2014 and 2018, respectively.
His current research interests include heterogeneous integrated photonics, nonlinear integrated optics, silicon photonics, and unconventional optical waveguide platforms operating in the mid-wave- and near-infrared and visible wavelength ranges.
Prof. Fathpour is a recipient of the ONR Young Investigator Award (2013), and the NSF CAREER Award (2012). He has also received several research and teaching incentive awards at UCF, including the Reach for the Stars Award (2015). He is the cofounder of Partow Technologies, LLC, a spinoff company from his CREOL team’s research. He is a Fellow of OSA, and a Senior Member of IEEE and SPIE. He is the co-editor of a book on silicon photonics, and an author or coauthor of over 160 journal and conference papers, book chapters and patents, including 11 invited journal and 21 invited conference papers.
Awards & Honors
- The Optical Society (OSA) Fellow
- 2017 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
- 2017 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2015 UCF Reach for the Stars Award
- 2015 Reach for the Stars
- 2014 Student of the Year Award
- 2013 Office of Naval Research (ONR) Young Investigator Award
- 2013 UCF’s Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award
- 2013 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award
- 2012 Teaching Incentive Program (TIP) Award – College of Optics and Photonics, UCF
- 2012 Designated as Senior Member of OSA
- 2012 NSF CAREER Award
- 2011 Designated as Senior Member of SPIE
- 2007 Featured in the 62nd Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America
- 2007 Recipient of the 2007 UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research
- 2000 International Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Michigan
Research Group
Developing emerging integrated photonic devices and circuits and novel heterogeneous platforms for various linear- and nonlinear-optic applications, and operating at wavelengths ranging from the visible to the mid-infrared.Research Scientists
Farzaneh Arab Juneghani
Postdoctoral Scholar
Graduate Students
Debasmita Banerjee
Optics Ph.D.
Shiva Behzadfar
Optics Ph.D.
Joseph Haefner
Optics Ph.D.
Pooja Kulkarni
Optics Ph.D.
Parash Thapalia
Optics Ph.D.
Publications
F. A. Juneghani, K. F. Lee, P. M. Moraw, S. Fathpour, and G. S. Kanter "Photonic W-band E-Field Sensor and Down-Conversion System" IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 42, pp. 3192-3199, May 2024. (2024)
E. Ordouie, T Jiang, T Zhou, F. A. Juneghani, M. Eshaghi, M. G. Vazimali, S. Fathpour, and B. Jalali "Differential Phase-Diversity Electrooptic Modulator for Cancellation of Fiber Dispersion and Laser Noise" Nature Communications, vol. 14, p. 6065, September 2023. (2023)
G. S. Kanter, P. M. Moraw, K. F. Lee, F. A. Juneghani, M. G. Vazimali, K. Kim, N. K. Fontaine, and S. Fathpour "Microwave Electromagnetic Field Sensor on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Using Photonic Down-Conversion Detection" IEEE Photonics Journal, vol. 15, pp. 1-6 (2023)
F. A. Juneghani, M. G. Vazimali, J. Zhao, X. Chen, S. T. Le, H. Chen, E. Ordouie, N. K. Fontaine, and S. Fathpour "Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Optical Modulators with an Extrapolated Bandwidth of 170 GHz" Advanced Photonics Research, vol. 4, p. 2200216, October 2022. (2022)
M. G. Vazimil and S. Fathpour "Applications of Thin-Film Lithium Niobate in Nonlinear Integrated Photonics" Advanced Photonics, Vol. 4, p. 034001, May 2022 (INVITED). (2022)
T. Sjaardema, M. Malinowski, A. Rao, and S. Fathpour "Low-Harmonic Generation in Cascaded Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Waveguides" Advanced Photonics Research, 2100262, March 2022. (2022)
K. Abdelsalam, E. Ordouie, M.G. Vazimali, F.A. Juneghani, P. Kumar, G.S. Kanter and S. Fathpour "Tunable Dual-Channel Ultra-Narrowband Bragg Grating Filter on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate" Optics Letters, vol. 46, pp. 2730-2733 (2021)
X.Y. Wang, X.M. Yu, M.J. Berg, P.P. Chen, B. Lacroix, S. Fathpour, and S. T. Lei "Curved waveguides in silicon written by a shaped laser beam" Optics Express, vol. 29, pp. 14201-14207, April 2021. (2021)
B. S. Elkus, K. Abdelsalam, S. Fathpour, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter "Quantum-Correlated Photon-Pair Generation via Cascaded Nonlinearity in an Ultra-Compact Lithium-Niobate Nano-Waveguide" Optics Express, vol. 28, A. 411575, pp. 39963-39975, December 2020. (2020) PDF
A. Honardoost, K. Abdelsalam, and S. Fathpour "Rejuvenating a Versatile Photonic Material: Thin-Film Lithium Niobate" Laser & Photonics Reviews, vol. 14, p. 202000088, July 2020 (INVITED). (2020) PDF
K. Abdelsalam, T. F. Li, J. B. Khurgin and S. Fathpour "Linear Isolators Using Wavelength Conversion" Optica, vol. 7, pp. 209-213 (2020) PDF
M. Teng, A. Honardoost, Y. Alahmadi, S. S. Polkoo, K. Kojima, H. Wen, C.K. Renshaw , P. LiKamWa, G. F. Li, S. Fathpour, R. Safian, and L. M. Zhuang "Miniaturized Silicon Photonics Devices for Integrated Optical Signal Processors" IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 38, pp. 6-17, January 2020 (INVITED). (2020) PDF
B. S. Elkus, K. Abdelsalam, A. Rao, V. Velev, S. Fathpour, P. Kumar, and G. S. Kanter "Generation of Broadband Correlated Photon-Pairs in Short Thin-Film Lithium-Niobate Waveguides" Optics Express, vol. 27, pp. 38521-38531, December 2019. (2019) PDF
A. Rao, K. Abdelsalam, T. Sjaardema, A. Honardoost, G. F. Camacho-Gonzalez, and S. Fathpour "Actively-Monitored Periodic-Poling in Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Photonic Waveguides with Ultrahigh Nonlinear Conversion Efficiency of 4600 %/W.cm2" Optics Express, vol. 27, pp. 25920–25930, September 2019. (2019) PDF
M. Malinowski and S. Fathpour "Fully-Tensorial Modeling of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Photonic Waveguides" IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 55, pp. 1-7, June 2019. (2019) PDF
M. Malinowski, R. Bustos-Ramirez, J. E. Tremblay, G. F. Camacho-Gonzalez, M. C. Wu, P. J. Delfyett, and S. Fathpour "Towards On-Chip Self-Referenced Frequency-Comb Sources Based on Semiconductor Mode-Locked Lasers" MDPI Micromachines, vol. 10, p. 391, June 2019 (INVITED). (2019) PDF
G. F. Camacho-Gonzalez, M. Malinowski, A. Honardoost, and S. Fathpour "Design of a Hybrid Chalcogenide-Gglass on Lithium-Niobate Waveguide Structure for High-Performance Cascaded Third- and Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities" Applied Optics, vol. 58, pp. D1-D6, May 2019. (2019) PDF
A. Honardoost, F. A. Juneghani, R. Safian, and S. Fathpour "Towards Subterahertz Bandwidth Ultracompact Lithium Niobate Electrooptic Modulators" Optics Express, vol. 27, pp. 6495-6501, March 2019. (2019) PDF
S. Fathpour "Heterogeneous Nonlinear Integrated Photonics" IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 54, p. 6300716, Dec. 2018 (INVITED). (2018) PDF
A. Honardoost, R. Safian, A. Rao, and S. Fathpour "High-Speed Modeling of Ultracompact Electrooptic Modulators" IEEE/OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 36, pp. 5893–5902, December 2018. (2018) PDF
Alumni
PhD
Ehsan Ordouie, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2023Milad Gholipour Vazimali, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2022
Chun Xia, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2022
Kamal Abdelsalam, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2021
Tracy Sjaardema, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2020
Amirmahdi Honardoost, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2020
Guillermo Fernando Camacho Gonzalez, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Marcin Malinowski, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2019
Ashutosh Rao, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2018
Jeffrey Chiles, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2016
Jichi Ma, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2014
Saeed Khan, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Fall 2013