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65
Citations
17532
World Ranking
1205
National Ranking
495

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the theory of optical pulse propagation, particularly in birefringent optical fiber
  • 1998 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to mathematics and computation of light propagation in nonlinear and disperse optical fibers.

Overview

Curtis R. Menyuk is affiliated with the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in the United States. Their research spans multiple domains within engineering and physics, with a significant focus on optics and photonics.

The primary fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

Within these fields, specific subfields of expertise are:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Oncology
  • Surfaces, Coatings and Films

The scientist's work heavily involves topics related to photonics and laser technologies. Main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Advanced Fiber Optic Sensors
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems

Recent papers by Curtis R. Menyuk include:

  • Kerr-induced synchronization of a cavity soliton to an optical reference, 2023, published in Nature
  • Existence conditions for phononic frequency combs, 2020, published in Applied Physics Letters
  • Fast Evaluation of RF Power Spectrum of Photodetectors With Windowing Functions, 2023, published in IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices
  • Thermal instabilities, frequency-comb formation, and temporal oscillations in Kerr microresonators, 2021, published in Physical Review A
  • Deterministic access of broadband frequency combs in microresonators using cnoidal waves in the soliton crystal limit, 2020, published in Optics Express

Frequent co-authors collaborating with this researcher include:

  • Thomas F. Carruthers
  • Jonathan Hu
  • Grégory Moille
  • Kartik Srinivasan
  • Ergün Şimşek

Publication venues with a notable number of contributions are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Optics Express
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • 2022 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Curtis R. Menyuk's professional recognition includes:

  • Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), awarded in 2008, with a citation for contributions to the theory of optical pulse propagation, particularly in birefringent optical fiber
  • IEEE Fellow, awarded in 1998, for contributions to mathematics and computation of light propagation in nonlinear and disperse optical fibers

Best Publications

  • Optimization of the split-step Fourier method in modeling optical-fiber communications systems

    O.V. Sinkin;R. Holzlohner;J. Zweck;C.R. Menyuk

  • Nonlinear pulse propagation in birefringent optical fibers

    C. Menyuk

  • Observation of two-dimensional spatial solitary waves in a quadratic medium.

    William E. Torruellas;Zuo Wang;David J. Hagan;Eric W. VanStryland

  • Nonlinear pulse propagation in the neighborhood of the zero-dispersion wavelength of monomode optical fibers

    Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk;Y. C. Lee;H. H. Chen

  • Spatiotemporal Lugiato-Lefever formalism for Kerr-comb generation in whispering-gallery-mode resonators

    Yanne Kouomou Chembo;Curtis R. Menyuk

  • Stability of solitons in birefringent optical fibers. II. Arbitrary amplitudes

    Curtis R. Menyuk

  • Stability of solitons in birefringent optical fibers. I: Equal propagation amplitudes

    Curtis R. Menyuk

  • Pulse propagation in an elliptically birefringent Kerr medium

    C.R. Menyuk

  • Negative curvature fibers

    Chengli Wei;R. Joseph Weiblen;Curtis R. Menyuk;Jonathan Hu

  • Solitary waves due to χ (2) :χ (2) cascading

    C. R. Menyuk;R. Schiek;L. Torner

  • Understanding leaky modes: slab waveguide revisited

    Jonathan Hu;Curtis R. Menyuk

  • Stability of solitons in randomly varying birefringent fibers

    P. K. A. Wai;Curtis R. Menyuk;H. H. Chen

  • Formation of optical supramolecular structures in a fibre laser by tailoring long-range soliton interactions

    W. He;M. Pang;M. Pang;D. H. Yeh;J. Huang

  • Dispersion-managed soliton interactions in optical fibers.

    T. Yu;E. A. Golovchenko;A. N. Pilipetskii;C. R. Menyuk

  • Soliton fiber ring laser

    C. J. Chen;Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk

  • Soliton at the zero-group-dispersion wavelength of a single-model fiber

    Ping Kong Alexander Wai;C. R. Menyuk;H. H. Chen;Y. C. Lee

  • Maximizing the bandwidth of supercontinuum generation in As_2Se_3 chalcogenide fibers

    Jonathan Hu;Curtis R. Menyuk;L. Brandon Shaw;Jasbinder S. Sanghera

  • Effect of first-order PMD compensation on the statistics of pulse broadening in a fiber with randomly varying birefringence

    D. Mahgerefteh;C.R. Menyuk

  • Interaction of polarization mode dispersion and nonlinearity in optical fiber transmission systems

    C.R. Menyuk;B.S. Marks

  • Small-Scale Magnetic Fluctuations Inside the Macrotor Tokamak.

    S. J. Zweben;C. R. Menyuk;R. J. Taylor

  • Polarization Mode Dispersion

    Andrea Galtarossa;Curtis R. Menyuk

Frequent Co-Authors

Ping-kong Alexander Wai
Ping-kong Alexander Wai Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Ishwar D. Aggarwal
Ishwar D. Aggarwal University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Keith J. Williams
Keith J. Williams United States Naval Research Laboratory
Tulay Adali
Tulay Adali University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Alan E. Willner
Alan E. Willner University of Southern California
Luca Palmieri
Luca Palmieri University of Padua
Joe C. Campbell
Joe C. Campbell University of Virginia
Minghao Qi
Minghao Qi Purdue University West Lafayette
Lianshan Yan
Lianshan Yan Southwest Jiaotong University
Andrew M. Weiner
Andrew M. Weiner Purdue University West Lafayette

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