Featured Talks & Class Lectures

IEEE Photonics Society 2017 Keynote

Title: "Ultrafast Photonics Time Frequency Signal Processing Using Integrated Photonics"

Topics include: broadband photonic time-frequency signal processing using bulk or discrete components, integrated pulse shaping, frequency combs from microresonators, and quantum frequency combs from microresonators.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign International Year of Light Symposium (2015)

Title: "Signal Processing at Light Speed Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms"

Topics include: femtosecond pulse shaping, pulse shaping in radio-frequency photonics, pulse shaping in quantum optics and pulse shaping in nonlinear optics.

Purdue Celebration of Faculty Careers Colloquium (2015)

Title: "Ultrafast Photonic Signal Processing: A Quarter Century Perspective"

Topics include: an introduciton in ultrafast optics, Fourier synthesis, brief tour of early career. Followed by femtosecond pulse shaping, ultrabroadband radio-frequency photonics, optical frequency-combs from microresonators, and quantum optics.

Herbert Newby McCoy Distinguished Lecture (2013)

Title: "Signal Processing at Light Speed: Ultrashort Optical Pulse Generation with Arbitrary Waveforms"

Topics include: an introduction in ultrafast optics, light waves, and waves in general. Followed by femtosecond pulse shaping, applications, and recent work in research laboratory.

Purdue ECE 616 Ultrafast Optics (2011)

Course taught at Purdue University providing thorough and detailed account of ultrafast optics.

Topics include: ultrashort pulse generation techniques, measurement techniques, dispersion and its compensation, ultrafast nonlinear optics, further topics in mode-locked lasers, ultrashort pulse manipulation, and ultrafast spectrocopy.