Prof. Dr. Curtis R. Menyuk

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsOptics, Quantum Optics and Physics of Atoms, Molecules and Plasmas,Theoretical Physics
Keywordsoptical fibres and devices, nonlinear optics, optival communications, solitons and nonlinear waves, mathematical and computational modeling

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityBaltimore
InstitutionUniversity of Maryland Baltimore County
InstituteDepartment of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Philip St. John RussellMax-Planck-Institut für die Physik des Lichts, Erlangen
Start of initial sponsorship01/08/2015

Programme(s)

2015Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Professor Menyuk is well known internationally for his work on nonlinear optics and its applications. He has made outstanding contributions to theoretical and computational modelling. Professor Menyuk developed the equations that govern the propagation of light in optical fibre communications, studying the stability and noise response of mode-locked lasers and carrying out fundamental theoretical studies of nonlinear processes. During his stay in Germany he plans to work on nonlinear effects in gas and glass-cored photonic crystal fibres.

Publications (partial selection)

2016Jonas Hammer, P. Hosseini, Curtis R. Menyuk, Phillip St.J. Russell, and Nicolas Y. Joly: Single-shot reconstruction of spectral amplitude and phase in a fiber ring cavity at a 80 MHz repetition rate. In: Optics Letters, 2016, 4641-4644
2016Curtis R. Menyuk, Shaokang Wang: Spectral Methods for Determining the Stability and Noise Performance of Passively Modelocked Lasers. In: Nanophotonics, 2016,
2016Wenbin He, Meng Pang, Curtis R. Menyuk, Philip St. J. Russell: Sub-100-fs 1.87 GHz Mode-Locked Fiber Laser Using Stretched-Soliton Effect. In: Optica, 2016, 1366-1372
1916Chengli Wei, Jonathan Hu, and Curtis R. Menyuk: Comparison of Loss in Silica and Chalcogenide Negative Curvature Fibers as the Wavelength Varies. In: Frontiers in Physics, 1916, 30-1-30-10