Nanostructured Fibers and Nonlinear Optics
Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Boston University
Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Boston University
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Nanostructured Fibers and Nonlinear Optics Prof. Siddharth Ramachandran, Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Boston University |
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| April 2013 | First authors of 2 papers from the Ramachandran group (Patrick Gregg and Jeff Demas) selected for the CLEO Maiman Award Semifinal list (for best student paper) representing approx. the top 2-3 % of CLEO-2013 submissions with student first authors. In addition, the first student author from a third paper, in collaboration with Prof., Alan Willner's group (Univ. Southern California), also makes the same semifinalist list. |
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| April 2013 | Patrick Gregg wins prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. See BU news item here. |
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| Mar. 2013 | DOD awards Prof. Ramachandran a DURIP award associated with his DARPA InPho program on vortex fibers. |
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| Oct. 2012 | Yuhao's article on Bottle Beams selected by the Virtual Journal of Biomedical Optics (VJBO) for a list of articles of interest to the biomedical community. |
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| Sept. 2012 | First demonstration of a mode-division multiplexed (MDM) transmission link using OAM in (long ~ 1km-length) fibers (in collaboration with the Willner group - USC - and OFS), presented in the post-deadline session of the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) - 2012. |
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| Aug. 2012 | Yuhao's article on Bottle Beams ranked amongst the top 10 downloads from Optics Letters for the month of August. |
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| Aug. 2012 | Nenad's article on OAM in fibers ranked amongst the top 10 downloads from Optics Letters for two months in a row (July & August). |
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| July 2012 | DARPA awards phase II funding for studying fiber transport of orbital angular momentum encoded signals. |
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| May 2012 | Profs. Ramachandran and Basu win the Dean's Catalyst Award for investigating Silicon-Germanium Optical Fibers |
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| Nov 2011 | Prof. Ramachandran appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics |
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| October 2011 | First demonstration of long range (km) entanglement of photons with Oribtal Angular Momentum (OAM), presented in the post-deadline session of FIO-2011 (OSA Annual Meeting). |
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| August 2011 | DoD awards DURIP for equipment purchase for fiber laser projects. (PI: S. Ramachandran) |
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| April 2011 | DARPA awards seedling grant for investigating the use of light's orbital angular momentum as a new degree of freedom in quantum encryption links.
(PI: S. Ramachandran/BU; co-PIs: S. Golowich/MIT-Lincoln Labs; P. Kristensen/OFS) |
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| March 2011 | Nenad Bozinovic wins the President's Award for his presentation on optical vortices at the BU Science and Engineering Day. http://www.bu.edu/ece/2011/04/06/ece-students-win-at-science-day/ |
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| March 2011 | ONR grant award for the development of high-power blue-green lasers for undersea communications. (PI: S. Ramachandran/BU) http://www.bu.edu/ece/2011/03/30/high-power-fiber-laser-research/ |
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| February 2011 | Prof. Ramachandran appointed Chair of the 2012 OSA Nick Holonyak award committee. | |
| February 2011 | ONR grant award for exploring Bessel beams in Maritime Sensing applications. (PI: S. Ramachandran/BU) http://www.bu.edu/ece/2011/02/09/professor-ramachandran-receives-765k/ |
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| January 2011 | A novel mode characterisation technique is selected for presentation at the post-deadline session of Photonics West 2011. | |
| Nov 2010 | ExxonMobile provides a "Knowledge Build Grant" for the sudy of novel sensing technologies of potential use in oil & gas production. http://www.bu.edu/ece/2010/11/08/ramachandran-teams-up-with-exxonmobil/ |
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| May 2010 | First demonstration of high-energy amplification of higher-order modes, presented in the Post-Deadline Session of CLEO 2010. | |
| March 2010 | Army Research Lab (ARL) Grant award for "A Flexible, Lightweight, Remotely-Accessible THz Source and Detector," (PI: S. Ramachandran/BU; co-PI: R. Averitt/BU) |
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| January 2010 | First demonstration of nonlinear-optical manipulation of optical vortices in fibers, presented in the Late Breaking Session of Photonics West 2010. |
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| January 2010 | Prof. Ramachandran named OSA Fellow. |
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| June 2009 | Cover art article on large mode area higher order modes, IEEE Photonics Society Newsletter. | |
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| April 2009 | “Fibre lasers look to large mode areas,” Optics.org (http://optics.org/cws/article/research/38646) | |
| January 2009 | Prof. Ramachandran appointed Guest Editor for the IEEE JSTQE issue on high-power fiber lasers. | |
| May 2008 | “Fibre delivers self-healing Bessel beam,” Optics.org (http://optics.org/cws/article/research/34282) | |
| May 2008 | “A New Kind of PM Fiber, Using Cylindrical Vector Beams,” CLEO-2008 list of newsworthy papers. | |
| March 2008 | Prof. Ramachandran appointed Topical Editor of Optics Letters | |
| October 2007 | “High power fibers,” in Photonik International, vol. 4 | |
| May 2007 | “Higher-order mode propagation may enable power scaling” in Laser Focus World | |
| Spring 2007 | “Novel Fibers for Dispersive Control of Ultra-Short Pulses,” in SPIE NewsRoom. | |
| October 2006 | “Silica fiber achieves anomalous dispersion below 1300 nm,” in Laser Focus World. | |
| September 2006 | “HOM fibers provide robust propagation,” in FiberSystems International | |
| September 2006 | “Robust light propagation in ultra-large mode-area fibers,” in Photonics Spectra, p. 68, September 2006. | |