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Demetrios N. Christodoulides

Demetrios N. Christodoulides

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Physics

D-Index
131
Citations
87365
World Ranking
539
National Ranking
300

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2018 - Max Born Award, Optical Society
  • 2003 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the theoretical discoveries of discrete solitons and of Bragg gap solitons, and for important contributions on vector, composite and incoherent solitons

Overview

Demetrios N. Christodoulides is affiliated with the University of Southern California in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within physics and engineering, with a focus on optics and photonics.

Their primary fields of study include Physics and Astronomy, with 316 publications, and Engineering, with 82 publications. Within these fields, their work covers several subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (237 publications), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (68 publications), Electrical and Electronic Engineering (68 publications), Artificial Intelligence (13 publications), and Biomedical Engineering (10 publications).

Key research topics addressed in their work include Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Nonlinear Photonic Systems, Photonic and Optical Devices, Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics, Topological Materials and Phenomena, Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications, and Mechanical and Optical Resonators.

Their most recent publications include:

  • Observation of chiral state transfer without encircling an exceptional point, 2022, Nature
  • Physics of highly multimode nonlinear optical systems, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Direct observations of thermalization to a Rayleigh-Jeans distribution in multimode optical fibres, 2022, Nature Physics
  • Roadmap on spatiotemporal light fields, 2023, Journal of Optics
  • Non-Hermitian and topological photonics: optics at an exceptional point, 2020, Nanophotonics

Demetrios N. Christodoulides has collaborated frequently with several scientists, including:

  • Mercedeh Khajavikhan
  • Fan O. Wu
  • Paweł S. Jung
  • Georgios G. Pyrialakos
  • Frank W. Wise

Their work has been published extensively in venues such as:

  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (35 publications)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (19 publications)
  • Optics Letters (11 publications)
  • Nature Communications (10 publications)
  • Communications Physics (7 publications)

Among the awards received by Demetrios N. Christodoulides are the Max Born Award from the Optical Society in 2018 and the Fellowship of the American Physical Society awarded in 2003, recognizing theoretical discoveries in discrete solitons and Bragg gap solitons, as well as contributions on vector, composite, and incoherent solitons.

Best Publications

  • Observation of parity–time symmetry in optics

    Christian E. Rüter;Konstantinos G. Makris;Ramy El-Ganainy;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Observation of PT-Symmetry Breaking in Complex Optical Potentials

    A. Guo;G. J. Salamo;D. Duchesne;R. Morandotti

  • Beam dynamics in PT symmetric optical lattices.

    Konstantinos G. Makris;Ramy El-Ganainy;Demetrios N. Christodoulides;Z. H. Musslimani

  • Observation of accelerating Airy beams.

    G. A. Siviloglou;J. Broky;A. Dogariu;D. N. Christodoulides

  • Non-Hermitian physics and PT symmetry

    Ramy El-Ganainy;Konstantinos G. Makris;Mercedeh Khajavikhan;Ziad H. Musslimani

  • Parity–time synthetic photonic lattices

    Alois Regensburger;Christoph Bersch;Mohammad-Ali Miri;Georgy Onishchukov

  • Unidirectional invisibility induced by PT-symmetric periodic structures.

    Zin Lin;Hamidreza Ramezani;Toni Eichelkraut;Tsampikos Kottos

  • Accelerating finite energy Airy beams

    Georgios A Siviloglou;Demetrios N Christodoulides

  • Discretizing light behaviour in linear and nonlinear waveguide lattices.

    Demetrios N. Christodoulides;Falk Lederer;Yaron Silberberg

  • Optical solitons in PT periodic potentials

    Z. H. Musslimani;Konstantinos G. Makris;Ramy El-Ganainy;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Observation of two-dimensional discrete solitons in optically induced nonlinear photonic lattices

    Jason W. Fleischer;Mordechai Segev;Mordechai Segev;Nikolaos K. Efremidis;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Parity-time–symmetric microring lasers

    Hossein Hodaei;Mohammad-Ali Miri;Matthias Heinrich;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Enhanced sensitivity at higher-order exceptional points

    Hossein Hodaei;Absar U. Hassan;Steffen Wittek;Hipolito Garcia-Gracia

  • Theory of coupled optical PT-symmetric structures

    R. El-Ganainy;K. G. Makris;D. N. Christodoulides;Ziad H. Musslimani

  • Discrete self-focusing in nonlinear arrays of coupled waveguides.

    D. N. Christodoulides;R. I. Joseph

  • Discrete Solitons in Optics

    Falk Lederer;George I. Stegeman;Demetri N. Christodoulides;Gaetano Assanto

  • Topological insulator laser: Experiments

    Miguel A. Bandres;Steffen Wittek;Gal Harari;Midya Parto

  • Anderson localization and nonlinearity in one-dimensional disordered photonic lattices.

    Yoav Lahini;Assaf Avidan;Francesca Pozzi;Marc Sorel

  • Self-healing properties of optical Airy beams

    John Broky;Georgios A. Siviloglou;Aristide Dogariu;Demetrios N. Christodoulides

  • Optical solitons in PT periodic potentials

    K.G. Makris;R. El-Ganainy;D.N. Christodoulides;Z.H. Musslimani

Frequent Co-Authors

Mordechai Segev
Mordechai Segev Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Zhigang Chen
Zhigang Chen Nankai University
Alexander Szameit
Alexander Szameit University of Rostock
Roberto Morandotti
Roberto Morandotti Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique
Frank W. Wise
Frank W. Wise Cornell University
Jason W. Fleischer
Jason W. Fleischer Princeton University
Stefan Nolte
Stefan Nolte Friedrich Schiller University Jena
George I. Stegeman
George I. Stegeman University of Central Florida
Ayman F. Abouraddy
Ayman F. Abouraddy University of Central Florida

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