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2026

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Overview

Govind P. Agrawal is affiliated with the University of Rochester in the United States. Their research spans the interdisciplinary areas of engineering and physics, with a focus on electrical and electronic engineering as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics. They have published extensively in topics related to advanced fiber laser technologies, optical network technologies, and photonic and optical devices.

Agrawal's main fields of study include:

  • Engineering
  • Physics and Astronomy

Their subfields of study extend to:

  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Acoustics and Ultrasonics

The primary topics of their research work encompass:

  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Photonic Crystal and Fiber Optics
  • Laser-Matter Interactions and Applications
  • Advanced Photonic Communication Systems
  • Quantum optics and atomic interactions

Recent publications by Agrawal or their close collaborators include:

  • "Semiconductor optical amplifiers: recent advances and applications", 2022, published in Advances in Optics and Photonics
  • "Temporal reflection and refraction of optical pulses inside a dispersive medium: an analytic approach", 2021, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • "Time-domain Fabry-Perot resonators formed inside a dispersive medium", 2021, Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • "Multimode solitons in optical fibers: a review", 2024, Photonics Research
  • "Goos-Hänchen shift at a temporal boundary", 2022, Physical Review A

The frequent co-authors of Agrawal include:

  • Junchi Zhang
  • William R. Donaldson
  • Jaime Cárdenas
  • Xiaotong He
  • Luis Cortes-Herrera

The primary venues where Agrawal's research has been published are:

  • Physical Review A / Physical Review, A
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • Optics Letters
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Optics Express

In addition to journal articles, Agrawal has contributed to several book publications. These include titles published by Cambridge University Press such as "Theoretical Foundations of Nanoscale Quantum Devices" (2020) and "Physics and Engineering of Graded-Index Media" (2023). Another book, "Lightwave Technology: Telecommunication Systems," was published by the European Organization for Nuclear Research in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Fiber Optics

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Fiber-Optic Communication Systems

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Optical solitons : from fibers to photonic crystals

    Yuri S. Kivshar;G. P. Agrawal

  • Semiconductor Lasers

    Govind P. Agrawal;Niloy K. Dutta

  • Self-phase modulation and spectral broadening of optical pulses in semiconductor laser amplifiers

    G.P. Agrawal;N.A. Olsson

  • Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics

    Govind Agrawal

  • Nonlinear optical phenomena in silicon waveguides: Modeling and applications

    Q. Lin;Oskar J. Painter;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Population pulsations and nondegenerate four-wave mixing in semiconductor lasers and amplifiers

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Modulation instability induced by cross-phase modulation.

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Raman amplification in fiber optical communication systems

    Clifford Headley;G. P. Agrawal

  • Fiber-Optic Communication Systems: Agrawal/Fiber-Optic

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  • Lightwave Technology: Telecommunication Systems

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Impact of two-photon absorption on self-phase modulation in silicon waveguides

    Lianghong Yin;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Nonlinear optical properties of one-dimensional semiconductors and conjugated polymers

    G. P. Agrawal;C. Cojan;C. Flytzanis

  • Nonlinear Propagation in Multimode and Multicore Fibers: Generalization of the Manakov Equations

    S. Mumtaz;R-J Essiambre;G. P. Agrawal

  • Phase-shifted fiber Bragg gratings and their application for wavelength demultiplexing

    G.P. Agrawal;S. Radic

  • Soliton fission and supercontinuum generation in silicon waveguides

    Lianghong Yin;Qiang Lin;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Highly Nonlinear Fibers

    Govind P. Agrawal

  • Solitons in photonic crystals

    Yuri S. Kivshar;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Line narrowing in a single-mode injection laser due to external optical feedback

    G. Agrawal

  • Ultrabroadband parametric generation and wavelength conversion in silicon waveguides

    Qiang Lin;Jidong Zhang;Philippe M. Fauchet;Govind P. Agrawal

  • Gaussian beam propagation beyond the paraxial approximation

    G. P. Agrawal;D. N. Pattanayak

Frequent Co-Authors

Qiang Lin
Qiang Lin University of Rochester
Malin Premaratne
Malin Premaratne Monash University
Ivan D. Rukhlenko
Ivan D. Rukhlenko University of Sydney
Niloy K. Dutta
Niloy K. Dutta University of Connecticut
Philippe M. Fauchet
Philippe M. Fauchet Vanderbilt University
Robert W. Boyd
Robert W. Boyd University of Ottawa
Colin J. McKinstrie
Colin J. McKinstrie LGS Innovations
Rene-Jean Essiambre
Rene-Jean Essiambre Nokia (United States)
B. M. A. Rahman
B. M. A. Rahman City, University of London
N.A. Olsson
N.A. Olsson Nokia (United States)

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