Group Members

Faculty and Staff Members

S.B. - MIT 1979; S.M. - MIT 1981; Sc.D. - MIT 1984.

Ultrafast optics and high-speed fiber optics research

BS in Physics Ball State University (1987); MS and PhD from Purdue University School of Electrical and Computer Engineering 1996 and 2000 respectively.

Retired and still in touch: Former lab manager.

Graduate Members

Alexandria Moore

BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2017).

Suparna Seshadri

B.Tech in Engineering Physics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2018).

Karthik V Myilswamy

B. Tech and M. Tech in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Madras (2019).

Lucas Cohen

B.S. in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2018).

Saleha Fatema

B.Sc in EEE, Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (2017);
MS in EE, Texas Tech University (2020).

Vivek Vasantrao Wankhade

B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (2022)

Collin Campbell

BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2023)

Chen-You Su

B.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (2018);
M.S. in Physics from National Taiwan University (2020).

Postdoctoral Members

Kaiyi Wu

BS in Optical Information Science and Technology from Sun Yat-Sen University (2015);
PhD in ECE from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (2021).

Alumni

Stephen Chapman

BS in Optics from the University of Rochester (2022);
BA in Physics from the University of Rochester (2022);
MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2024)

Optical Engineer, Penn State Electro-Optics Center

Master's Thesis (2024)
A Radio-Frequency Synchronization System for Fiber-Optic Quantum Networks

Nathan O'Malley

BS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2018). PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2023).

ARL, Washington D.C.

Doctoral Thesis (2023)
Microcombs for timekeeping and RF photonics

Ryan Schneider

B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Air Force Academy (2021). MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2022)

Elmendorf Air Force Base, Space Developmental Engineering Officer

Master's Thesis (2022)
Frequency Comb Experiments and Radio Frequency Instrumentation Analysis for Optical Atomic Clocks

Jie Wang

B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Peking University (2020)

Master's Thesis (2023)
Dynamic Pulsed Beam Steering Using Virtually Imaged Phased Array

Cong Wang

BS in Physics from Shanghai Jiao Tong University (2014). PhD Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2021).

Postdoc, IUPUI

Doctoral Thesis (2021)
Device Design and Characterization for Silicon Nitride On-Chip Optical Frequency Comb Applications

Michael Kickbush

B.S. in Physics from the United States Naval Academy (2015). M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2022).

Master's Thesis (2022)
Laser Stabilization Experiments and Optical Frequency Comb Applications

Scott Kenning

B.S. in Electrical Engineering, Purdue University (2022)

Doctoral student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)

Abdullah Al Noman

BSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)-2011; MSc from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET)-2013. MSc from Purdue University-2016. PhD from Purdue University-2021

Failure Analysis R&D Engineer at Intel Corporation

Master's Thesis (2016)
Optical Characterization of On-Chip Silicon Nitride Microresonators

Navin Lingaraju

B.S. Electrical Engineering - Case Western Reserve University; M.S. Electrical Engineering - University of Maryland at College Park; PhD Electrical Engineering - Purdue University (2021)

Research Scientist/Photonics, SRI International

Doctoral Thesis (2021)
Spectral Multiplexing and Information Processing for Quantum Networks

Keith McKinzie

BS in Electrical Engineering and BS in Physics from University of Maryland-College Park (2015); MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2021)

Laser Engineer, Ball Aerospace

Master's Thesis (2021)
Indium Phosphide Photonic Integrated Circuit Testing

Poolad Imany

PhD 2019; Post-doc

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Doctoral Thesis (2019)
Quantum Frequency Combs and their Applications in Quantum Information Processing

Mohammed Saleh Al alshaykh

BSc in Electrical Engineering from King Saud University Riyadh KSA (2013); MSc in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2016). PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2020)

Assistant Professor, King Saud University

Doctoral Thesis (2020)
Applications of Optical Frequency Combs in Microwave Photonics and Quantum Optics

Hsuan-Hao (Peach) Lu

B.S. in EECS from NTHU Taiwan (2014); M.S. in Photonics from NTHU Taiwan (2016); PhD in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University (2020)

Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oak Ridge National Lab

Doctoral Thesis (2020)
Quantum Information Processing with Frequency-bin Qudits

Bohao Liu

PhD 2019

Cisco.

Doctoral Thesis (2019)
Propagation and Control of Broadband Optical and Radio Frequency Signals in Complex Environments

Oscar Sandoval

PhD 2019

Air Force Research Laboratory (Dayton, OH)

Master's Thesis (2015)
Spectral Broadening of Frequency Combs Via Pulse Apodization Prior to Nonlinear Propagation
Doctoral Thesis (2019)
Electro-Optic Phase Modulation, Frequency Comb Generation, Nonlinear Spectral Broadening, and Applications

Nikolai Knight

Working on BS in Physics, Univ. of Arkansas Pine Bluff, SURF Program

Continuing studies.

Hana Azzouz

BSEE Purdue (2019)

Graduate Student, MIT Electrical Engineering

Beichen Wang

Visitor, Fall 2017

Continuing studies.

Sebastian Alarcon Ortega

Visitor

Continuing studies.

Jose Jaramillo-Villegas

PhD 2018

Barrio Alamos Universidad Tecnologica de Ingenieria, Columbia.

Doctoral Thesis (2018)
Silicon Nitride Microring Resonators: Classical and Quantum Applications

Ogaga Odele

PhD 2018

Intel Portland, OR.

Doctoral Thesis (2018)
Optical Signal Processing for Manipulating and Characterizing Time-Frequency Entangled Photons

Eric Topel

M.S. 2017

Honeywell Aerospace.

Master's Thesis (2017)
Silicon Nitride Microresonators at 1.06 Microns

Chengying Bao

Post-doc

Tsinghua, Assistant Professor

Ziyun Kong

MS 2017

Continuing studies.

Master's Thesis (2017)
All-Linear Phase Retrieval of Optical Frequency Combs via Electric Field Cross-Correlation

Hyoung-Jun Kim

Post-doc, Nov 2012 - Jan 2016

Intel.

Xiaoxiao Xue

B.Eng., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2007; Ph.D., Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, 2012; Post-doc 2013 - 2016

Associate Professor, Tsinghua University, China.

Pei-Hsun Wang

Ph.D. 2016

Assistant Professor, National Central University, Taiwan.

Doctoral Thesis (2016)
On-Chip Microresonator Frequency Combs: Generation Dynamics, Power Transfer, and Time-Domain Characterization

Amir Rashidinejad

Ph.D. 2016

Infinera.

Doctoral Thesis (2016)
Ultrabroadband Microwave and Millimeter-Wave Arbitrary Waveforms: Photonics-Assisted Generation and Radio-Frequency Applications

Jian Wang

Ph.D.

Dennis Lee

PhD 2015

Sandia National Labs.

Doctoral Thesis (2015)
Computational Optical Imaging: Applications in Synthetic Aperture Imaging, Phase Retrieval, and Digital Holography

Steven Chen

M.S. 2015

Master's Thesis (2015)
Dispersion Measurement for On-Chip Microresonator

Joseph Lukens

Ph.D. 2015

Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Doctoral Thesis (2015)
Novel Applications of Photonics Signal Processing: Temporal Cloaking and Biphoton Pulse Shaping

Mawufemor Kudadze

Visitor

Yihan Li

Ph.D. 2015

Associate Professor, Beihang University, China.

Doctoral Thesis (2015)
Photonics-Enabled Boradband Radio Frequency Techniques - Arbitrary Waveform Generation, Ranging, and Wireless

Yang Liu

Ph.D. 2015

Meta

Doctoral Thesis (2015)
On-Chip Generation, Characterization and Bandwidth Scaling of Optical Frequency Combs

AJ Metcalf

Ph.D. 2015

AFRL.

Master's Thesis (2012)
Fully Programmable Two-Dimensional Ultra-Complex Broadband Fine-Resolution Pulse Shaping
Doctoral Thesis (2015)
Flexible Radio-Frequency Photonics: Optoelectronic Frequency Combs and Integrated Pulse Shaping

Rui Wu

Ph.D. 2013

Intel.

Doctoral Thesis (2013)
Comb-based Radio Frequency Photonic Filtering: Principals, Applications and Opportunities

Amir Dezfooliyan

Ph.D. 2013

Samsung.

Doctoral Thesis (2013)
Experimental Investigation of Ultrawideband Wireless Systems: Waveform Generation, Propagation Estimation, and Dispersion Compensation

Fahmida Ferdous

Ph.D. 2012

Honeywell Aerospace, Military Avionics

Doctoral Thesis (2012)
On Chip Frequency Comb: Characterization and Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation

Minhyup Song

Ph.D. 2012

Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI).

Doctoral Thesis (2012)
Microwave Photonics Filter Design Via Optical Frequency Comb Shaping

Ehsan Hamidi

PhD 2011.

Lumentum.

Doctoral Thesis (2010)
Photonic Processing of Ultra-broadband Radio Frequency Waveforms

Supradeepa Venkata

PhD 2011.

Assistant Professor of Photonics at the Indian Institute of Science.

Doctoral Thesis (2011)
Methods for Generation, Manipulation and Characterization of High Repetition Rate Optical Frequency Combs

Justin Wirth

Ph.D.

Research Engineer, Birck Nanotechnology Center.

Master's Thesis (2011)
Silicon Grating Couplers for Low Loss Coupling Between Optical Fiber and Silicon Nanowires

Karlene Karrfalt

BS Physics 2007, MS 2010.

Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center.

Master's Thesis (2010)
Planar lightwave circuit based arrayed waveguide grating for radio frequency arbitrary waveform generation

Albert Vega

MSECE, 2002. PhD 2010.

President, Building Momentum.

Master's Thesis (2002)
Dispersion Law for Virtually Imaged Phased Array (VIPA) Spectral Dispersers
Doctoral Thesis (2010)
Rapid Reconfiguration Direct Space-to-Time Pulse Shaping Using a High Speed Asymmetric fabry-Perot Quantum Well Modulator Array

Li Xu

MS 2006, PhD 2010.

Master's Thesis (2006)
Polarization Mode Dispersion Analysis Via Spectral Polarimetry and High-Order Correlations
Doctoral Thesis (2010)
All-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Sensing and Compensation in Optical Fiber Communication Systems

Hao Shen

PhD 2010.

GigOptix.

Dr. Chris Long

Postdoc 2008-2010

Sandia National Labs.

Dr. Victor Torres-Company

BSc in Physics '04, MSc '06, PhD '08, University of Valencia, Spain Marie Curie IOF postdoctoral fellow

Associate Professor, Chalmers University of Technolgy, Goteborg, Sweden.

Robin (Chen-Bin) Huang

PhD 2008.

Professor, Institute of Photonics Technologoes, National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.

Doctoral Thesis (2008)
Control and Characterization of Phase-Modulated Continious-Wave Laser Frequency Combs

Ingrid Shihting Lin

PhD. 2008.

ASML, Connecticut.

Doctoral Thesis (2008)
Photonic Synthesis and Hardware Correlations of Ultrabroadband Radio-Frequency Waveforms and Power Spectra via Optical Pulse Shaping

Houxun Miao

PhD. 2008.

Doctoral Thesis (2008)
All-Order Polarization Mode Dispersion Compensation

Jason McKinney

BSEE 1997, MSEE 1999. PhD 2003, Visiting Faculty 2003-2006.

Purdue University, Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Master's Thesis (1999)
Characterization of Thick, Optically Scattering Media with Laser Speckle and a Tunable Coherence Source
Doctoral Thesis (2003)
Direct Space-to-Time Pulse Shaping and Applications in Arbitrary Electromagnetic Waveform Generation

Ghang-Ho Lee

PhD 2006.

Finisar Corporation.

Doctoral Thesis (2006)
Demonstration of Optical Tunable Dispersion Compensation With a Virtually-Imaged Phased-Array Based Pulse Shaper

Chenfeng Zhang

PhD (Physics) 2006.

Sandisk.

Doctoral Thesis (2006)
Myoglobin Far-Infared Absorption and Protein Hydration Effects Studied by Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy

Shawn X. Wang

BSEE, 2001; PhD 2006.

Cisco.

Doctoral Thesis (2006)
WavelengthParallel Techniques for Efficient Spectral Polarimetry, Polarization Mode Dispersion Penalty Monitoring, and Differential Group Delay Emulation

Brad Granger

BSEE 2006

Zhi Jiang

PhD 2006.

Doctoral Thesis (2006)
Spectrally Phase Coded Optical Code Division Multiple Access (O-CDMA) System and Spectral Line-By-Line Pulse Shaping

Dr. Dong-Sun Seo

BS: Electronics, Yonsei University, Korea, 1980. MS: Electronics, Yonsei University, Korea, 1985. PhD in Electrical Engineering (Optoelectronics), University of New Mexico, 1989.

Visiting Professor, Dept of Electronics, Myongji University, Korea.

Mehmetcan Akbulut

MS 2001, PhD 2005.

NP Photonics.