John R. Marciante

Associate Professor of Optics

Office: LLE 283
Phone: (585) 273-4737
Fax: (585) 275-5960
E-mail: johnm@lle.rochester.edu

Short biography
John R. Marciante received the B.S. degree in Engineering Physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1991 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees, both in Optics, from the University of Rochester, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. In 1991, he joined the USAF Phillips Laboratory in New Mexico (later to become the Air Force Research Laboratory) as a Research Physicist. In 2001, he returned to Rochester to join Corning Rochester Photonics Corporation as a Senior Research Scientist and the Institute of Optics as an Adjunct Professor. Since 2003, he has been a Research Scientist at the University of Rochester's Laboratory for Laser Energetics, and he holds a joint appointment as Associate Professor of Optics at the Institute of Optics. He has also held positions as Adjunct Professor at the University of New Mexico and Chairman for the IEEE/LEOS Albuquerque Chapter. He is currently a Topical Editor for the Journal of the Optical Society of America B.

Research
Professor Marciante's general research interests center around optical waveguides, including active, passive, and nonlinear devices. The tight confinement of light allows for increased material interactions, which is beneficial for waveguides with gain or nonlinear properties, and can also lead to designable spatial and dispersive properties. In particular, he is interested in the generation of high power/energy spatially coherent sources and the ability to dynamically manipulate the temporal and spectral aspects of optical pulses. Current research activities include large-mode area fibers, single-frequency fiber lasers, pulse-stacking waveguide circuits, and multi-section DBR lasers.