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CURRICULUM VITAE

NAME and TITLE

Govind P. Agrawal, Professor of Optics
Professor of Physics (Joint Appointment at Dept. of Physics & Astronomy)
Senior Scientist (Joint Appointment at Laboratory for Laser Energetics)

ADDRESS

The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester	230 Edgemoor Road (Home)
PO Box 270186, Rochester, NY 14627	Rochester, NY 14618
(716) 275-4846; Fax (716) 244-4936
E-mail: gpa@optics.rochester.edu

HIGHER EDUCATION

Ph. D.	1974	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	Physics
M. S.	1971	Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi	Physics
B. S.	1969	University of Lucknow, Lucknow, India	Physics & Statistics

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

University of Rochester, Rochester	1989-present	Professor of Optics
AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill	1982-1988	Member of Technical Staff
Quantel S. A., Orsay, France	1980-1981	Staff Scientist
City University of New York, New York	1977-1979	Research Associate
Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France	1974-1976	Attaché de Recherche

HONORS and AWARDS

Gold Medal, University of Lucknow, India (1970).
Fellow, Optical Society of America (1986).
Exceptional Contribution Award, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1987).
Fellow, Institution of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (1996).
Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi (2000).
Honorary Professor, Shanghai Institute of Optics & Mechanics, China (2005).
Life Fellow, Optical Society of India (2006).
Carl-Zeiss Visiting Professor, Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena, Germany (2006).

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Member, Townes Award Committee, Optical Society of America (1991-1993).
Topical Editor, Journal of Optical Society of America, Part B (1993-1998).
Editorial Board Member, Journal of European Optical Society, Part B (1994-1997).
Member, Educational Committee, Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (1996-1998).
Member, Holonyak Award Committee, Optical Society of America (1997-2000).
Editor, Academic Press Book Series on Optics and Photonics (1998-2002).
Associate Editor, Optics Express, Optical Society of America (2001-2004).
Editorial Board Member, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters (1998-present).
Editorial Board Member, Book series, Progress in Optics (2001-present).
Member-at-large, OSA Publication Council, Optical Society of America (2006-present).

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Author of seven books, three edited books, several book chapters and review articles, and more than 300 research papers.
Vigorous research program in the fields of semiconductor lasers, nonlinear optics, and optical communications.
Research funding from sources such as the National Science Foundation, Army Research Office, New York State, NASA, and private industry.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

Teaching regularly graduate and undergraduate courses on topics related to Optical Communications, Lasers, Quantum Mechanics, Lightwave Technology, and Waveguide Optoelectronic Devices.
Supervising multiple Ph.D. students and research projects for B.S. and M.S. students.
Teaching occasionally short courses during summer and winter schools held in the U.S. and other countries.

CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

Member, Program Committee. Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications , Dana Point, California, Feb. 23-25, 1995.
Conference Organizer, Nonlinear Dynamics in Optical Systems, Rochester, N.Y., June 5-7, 1995.
Member, Program Committee, Nonlinear Guided-Wave Phenomena, Cambridge, UK, Aug. 29-Sept. 1, 1996.
Conference Organizer, Advanced Concepts in High-Speed Optical Communications, Rochester, N.Y., May 25-27, 1997.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, New Delhi, India, Dec. 14-18, 1998.
Cochair, Program Committee, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 23-28, 1999.
Member, Program Committee, Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Applications,, Santa Barbara, CA, July. 21-23, 1999.
Member, Program Committee, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, Dijon, France, Sept. 1-3, 1999.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, Calcutta, India, Dec. 18-20, 2000.
Chair, Program Committee on Temporal Solitons, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, Clearwater, FL, March 25-28, 2001.
General Cochair, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, Baltimore, MD, May 23-28, 2001.
Member, Program Committee on Temporal Solitons, Nonlinear Guided Waves and Their Applications, Stresa, Itly, Sept. 1-4, 2002.
Member, Advisory Committee, Sixth International Conference on Photonics, Mumbai, India, Dec. 16-18, 2002.
Member, Program Committee on Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2003), Baltimore, MD, June 2-6, 2003.
Member, Program Committee on Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2004), San Francisco, May 16-21, 2004.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Banff, Canada, July 8-10, 2004.
Member, Program Committee on Ultrafast Optics, Optoelectronics and Applications, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO'2005), Baltimore, MD, May 22-27, 2005.
Member, Program Committee, International Conference on Optical Communication Systems and Networks, Banff, Canada, July 19-21, 2005.
Member, Program Committee, LEOS Topical Meeting on Fibers for Lasers, Amplifiers and Nonlinear Devices, Quebec City, Canada, July 17-19, 2006.
Member, International Advisory Committee, International School on Quantum Electronics, Sunny Beach, Bulgaria, Sep. 18-22, 2006.
Vice Chair, International Advisory Committee, International Conference on Fiber Optics and Photonics, New Delhi, India, Dec. 14-17, 2008.

Authored Books

G. P. Agrawal and N. K. Dutta, Semiconductor Lasers (Kluwer Academic, Boston, 1993); reprinted in 2002.
G. P. Agrawal, Nonlinear Fiber Optics (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1989); Chinese Translation, 1992; Russian translation, 1996; Japanese Translation, 1997; 2nd ed. 1995; 3rd ed. 2001; 4th ed. 2007.
G. P. Agrawal, Fiber-Optic Communication Systems (Wiley, New York, 1992); 2nd ed. 1997; Greek Translation, 2000; 3rd ed. 2002.
G. P. Agrawal, Applications of Nonlinear Fiber Optics, (Academic Press, Elsevier, 2001), 2nd expanded ed. 2008.
Yu. S. Kivshar and G. P. Agrawal, Optical Solitons: From Fibers to Photonic Crystals (Academic Press, Elsevier, 2003); Russian Translation, 2005.
G. P. Agrawal, Lightwave Technology: Components and Devices (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2004).
G. P. Agrawal, Lightwave Technology: Telecommunication Systems (Wiley, Hoboken, NJ 2005).

Edited Works

G. P. Agrawal and R. W. Boyd, Eds., Contemporary Nonlinear Optics (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1992).
G. P. Agrawal, Ed., Semiconductor Lasers: Past, Present and Future (American Institute of Physics, New York, 1995).
G. P. Agrawal, C.-Z. Ning, and M. San Miguel, Eds., Special issues on "Spatial and Polarization Dynamics of Semiconductor Lasers," Optics Express, July 1999; J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Oct. 1999.
J. Capmany, P. A. Krug, G. P. Agrawal, and M. N. Zervas, Eds., Special issue on "Fiber and integrated gratings: fundamentals, devices and applications," Fiber and Integrated Optics, June 2000.
G. P. Agrawal, A. Hasegawa, Y. Kivshar, and S. Wabnitz, Eds., Special issue on "Nonlinear Optics," IEEE J. Sel. Topics in Quantum Electron., June 2002.
C. Headley and G. P. Agrawal, Eds., Raman Amplification in Fiber Optical Communication Systems (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2005).

Book Chapters

G. P. Agrawal, "Single-longitudinal-mode semiconductor lasers," Progress in Optics, Vol. 26, E. Wolf, Ed. (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1988), Chap. 3, pp. 165-225.
G. P. Agrawal, "Pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive fibers," The Supercontinuum Laser Source, R. R. Alfano, Ed. (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1989), Chap. 3, pp. 91-116.
G. P. Agrawal, "Optical solitons," Contemporary Nonlinear Optics, G. P. Agrawal and R. W. Boyd, Eds. (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 1992), Chap. 2, pp. 41-83.
G. P. Agrawal, "Semiconductor lasers for optical fiber communications," Fundamentals of Fiber Optics in Telecommunication and Sensor Systems, B. P. Pal, Ed. (Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, 1992), Chap. 14, pp. 333-350.
G. P. Agrawal and N. K. Dutta, "Distributed feedback InGaAsP lasers," Fundamentals of Fiber Optics in Telecommunication and Sensor Systems, B. P. Pal, Ed. (Wiley Eastern, New Delhi, 1992), Chap. 15, pp. 351-371.
G. P. Agrawal "Erbium-doped fiber amplifiers," Optoelectronics: Technologies and Applications, A. Selvarajan, K. Senai, and V. K. Tripathi, Eds. (SPIE Press, Bellinghanm, WA, 1993), Chap. 5, 91-112.
G. P. Agrawal, "Modern optical communication systems," in Trends in Optical Fiber Metrology and Standards, O. D. D. Soares, Ed. (Kluwer Academic, Dordrecht, Germany, 1995), pp. 593-616.
R.-J. Essiambre and G. P. Agrawal, "Soliton communication systems," in Progress in Optics, Vol. 38, E. Wolf, Ed. (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1997), Chap. 4, pp. 185-256.
G. P. Agrawal, "Non-linear refractive index of silica fibers," in Properties of Glass and Rare-Earth Doped Glasses for Optical Fibers, D. Hewak, Ed. (INSPEC, IEE, London, UK, 1998), pp. 17-21.
G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear Fiber Optics," in Nonlinear Science at the Dawn of the 21th Century, P. L. Christiansen, M. P. Sørensen, and A. C. Scott, Eds. (Springer, New York, 2000), Chap. 9, pp. 195-212.
G. P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers," in Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology, K. H. J. Buschow et al., Eds. (Elsevier, Oxford, UK, 2001).
G. P. Agrawal and D. N. Maywar, "Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers with Bragg Gratings," in Nonlinear Photonic Crystals, Springer Series in Photonics, Vol. 10, Eds. R. E. Slusher and B. H. Eggleton, (Springer, New York, 2003), Chap. 13.
G. P. Agrawal, "Theory of Raman amplifiers," Raman Amplification in Fiber Optical Communication Systems, C. Headley and G. P. Agrawal, Eds. (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2005), Chap. 2.
F. Yaman, Q. Lin, and G. P. Agrawal, "Fiber-optic parametric amplifiers for lightwave systems," Guided Wave Optical Components and Devices, B. P. Pal, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2005), Chap. 7.
G. P. Agrawal, "Fiber-Optic Raman Amplifiers," Guided Wave Optical Components and Devices, B. P. Pal, Ed. (Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2005), Chap. 9.

Research Output

More than 300 published research papers.
More than 300 conference presentations.

Review Papers

J. J. Roland and G. P. Agrawal, "Optical gyroscopes," Optics and Laser Technology 13, 239-244 (1981).
C. Flytzanis, G. P. Agrawal, and C. L. Tang, "Critical behavior in optical phase conjugation," Lasers and Applications, ed. by W. O. N. Guimares, C. T. Lin, and A. Mooradian, vol. 26 (springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1981) pp. 317-326.
G. P. Agrawal and C. Flytzanis, "Active two-beam optical bistability," Optical Bistability, ed. by C. M. Bowden, M. Ciftan, and H. R. Robl (Plenum, New York, 1981) pp. 221-236.
H. J. Carmichael and G. P. Agrawal, "Absorptive and dispersive bistability for a Doppler-broadened medium in a Fabry Perot: Steady-state description," Optical Bistability, ed. by C. M. Bowden, M. Ciftan, and H. R. Robl (Plenum, New York, 1981) pp. 237-264.
G. P. Agrawal, "Zeeman-coherence effects in absorptive polarization bistability," Optical Bistability II, ed. by C. M. Bowden, H. M. Gibbs, and S. L. McCall (Plenum, New York, 1984) pp. 25-30.
G. P. Agrawal, "Nonperturbative analysis of optical double resonance with application to phase conjugation," in Coherence and Quantum Optics V, ed. by L. Mandel and E. Wolf (Plenum, New York, 1984) pp. 31-36.
G. P. Agrawal, "Semiconductor lasers and their applications in optical fiber communications," The Physics Teacher 23, 478-484 (1985).
G. P. Agrawal and N. K. Dutta, "Distributed feedback InGaAsP lasers," J. Inst. Electron. Telecommun. Eng. 32, 187-195 (1986).
G. P. Agrawal, "Semiconductor lasers for optical fiber communications," J. Inst. Electron. Telecommun. Eng. 32, 178-186 (1986).
P. L. Baldeck, R. R. Alfano, and G. P. Agrawal. "Generation of sub-100-fs pulses at 532 nm from modulation instability induced by cross-phase modulation in optical fibers," in Ultrafast Phenomena V, ed. by T. Yajima et al. (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1988) pp. 53-55.
G. P. Agrawal, "Cooperative modulation instability in dispersive nonlinear media," Coherence and Quantum Optics VI, ed. by J. H. Eberly, L. Mandel, and E. Wolf (Plenum, New York, 1990), pp. 17-21.
G. P. Agrawal, "Noise in Semiconductor lasers and its impact on optical communication systems," SPIE Proc. 1376, 224-235 (1991).
G. R. Gray, A. T. Ryan, G. P. Agrawal, and E. C. Gage, "Optical-feedback-induced chaos and its control in semiconductor lasers," Proc. SPIE 2019, 45-57 (1993).
C. M. Bowden and G. P. Agrawal, "Maxwell-Bloch formulation for semiconductors," in Condensed Matter Theories, Vol. 10, ed. by M. Casa, M. Llano, J. Navarro, and A. Polls (Nova Science Publishers, New York, 1995).
G. P. Agrawal and A. T. Ryan, "Ultrashort pulse propagation in nonlinear planar optical waveguides," in Guided-Wave Optoelectronics: Device characterization, Analysis, and Design, ed. by T. Tamir, G. Griffel, and H. Bertoni (Plenum, New York, 1995), pp. 391-398.
S. Radic, N. George, and G. P. Agrawal, "Phase-shifted nonlinear periodic structures," in Guided-Wave Optoelectronics: Device characterization, Analysis, and Design, ed. by T. Tamir, G. Griffel, and H. Bertoni (Plenum, New York, 1995), pp. 399-406.
G. H. M. van Tartwijk and G. P. Agrawal, "Laser instabilities: A modern perspective," Prog. Quantum Electron. 22, 43-122 (1998).
J. R. Marciante and G. P. Agrawal, "Beam filamentation and its control in high-power semiconductor lasers," Proc. SPIE 3283, 302-313 (1998).
J. Law and G. P. Agrawal, "Noise Properties of index-guided vertical-cavity surface-emitting semiconductor lasers," Proc. SPIE 3625, 404-413 (1999).
P. M. Goorjian, C. Z. Ning, and G. P. Agrawal, "Transverse mode dynamics of VCSELs undergoing current modulation," Proc. SPIE 3944, 284-291 (2000).
P. M. Goorjian, C. Z. Ning, and G. P. Agrawal, "Spatial dynamics of VCSEL arrays," Proc. SPIE 4283, 287-292 (2001).
G. P. Agrawal, "A software package for scientific presentations using LaTeX," Opt. Photon. News 14, No. 3, 16-17 (2003).

Patents Pending and Granted

G. P. Agrawal and N. A. Olsson, "Saturated semiconductor laser amplifier for compensation of optical fiber dispersion," U. S. Patent 4,979,234, filed Dec. 20, 1998, issued Dec. 18, 1990.
G. P. Agrawal and J. R. Marciante, "Design of filamentation-free, broad-area semiconductor laser," Option by Research Corporation Technologies, RCT Disclosure No. 060-B007-97, Jan. 17, 1997.
G. P. Agrawal, D. N. Maywar, and Y. Nakano, "Robust All-optical flip-flop device," U.S. Patent No. 6,456,417, filed June 9, 2000, granted September 24, 2002.
H. Lee and G. P. Agrawal, "Wavelength-division multiplexing device capable of compensating for dispersion and dispersion slope using purely phase-sampled fiber Bragg grating," U.S. Patent No. 7,082,234, filed Aug. 30, 2004; granted July 25, 2006.
G. P. Agrawal and H. Lee, "Mitigation of stimulated Brillouin scattering in electromagnetic waveguides using wavelength selective mirrors," U.S. Patent Application 2005-0129362 filed June 16, 2005.

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