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Demetrios Christodoulides

Demetrios Christodoulides

· Steven and Kathryn Sample Chair in Engineering, and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics and Astronomy

University of Southern California · Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Active 1984–2026

h-index113
Citations64.7k
Papers940182 last 5y
Funding$180k

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About

Demetrios Christodoulides received his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and subsequently joined Bellcore as a post-doctoral fellow at Murray Hill. Between 1988 and 2002, he was with the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lehigh University. In 2002, he joined the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF), where he held the Cobb Family Endowed Chair and served as a Pegasus Professor of Optics. Since 2022, he has been a faculty member in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California (USC). Dr. Christodoulides’ research interests include linear and nonlinear optical beam interactions, synthetic optical materials, optical solitons, and quantum electronics. He has authored and co-authored more than 450 papers. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the American Physical Society. In 2011, he received the R.W. Wood Prize of OSA, and in 2018, the OSA Max Born Award. In 2023, he received the Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science.

Research topics

  • Physics
  • Mathematics
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Optics
  • Computer Science
  • Theoretical physics
  • Classical mechanics
  • Computer Security
  • Telecommunications
  • Statistical physics

Selected publications

  • Selective filtering of photonic quantum entanglement via anti–parity-time symmetry

    Science · 2025-03-27 · 18 citations

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    Entanglement is a key resource for quantum computing, sensing, and communication, but it is susceptible to decoherence. To address this, research in quantum optics has explored filtering techniques such as photon ancillas and Rydberg atom blockade to restore entangled states. We introduce an approach to entanglement retrieval that exploits the features of non-Hermitian systems. By designing an anti-parity-time two-state guiding configuration, we demonstrate efficient extraction of entanglement f…

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  • Space-time wave packets in multimode optical fibers with controlled dynamic motions and tunable group velocities

    Nature Communications · 2025-02-27 · 10 citations

    articleOpen access

    Space-time wave packets (STWPs) with correlated spatial and frequency degrees of freedom exhibit time-dependent spatial interference, thereby giving rise to interesting dynamic evolution behaviors. While versatile spatiotemporal phenomena have been demonstrated in freely propagating fields, coupling spatiotemporal light into multimode fibers remains a fundamental experimental challenge. Whereas synthesizing freely propagating STWPs typically relies on a continuum of plane-wave modes, their multi…

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  • Temporally and longitudinally tailored dynamic space-time wave packets

    Optics Express · 2024-06-27 · 10 citations

    articleOpen access

    In general, space-time wave packets with correlations between transverse spatial fields and temporal frequency spectra can lead to unique spatiotemporal dynamics, thus enabling control of the instantaneous light properties. However, spatiotemporal dynamics generated in previous approaches manifest themselves at a given propagation distance yet are not arbitrarily tailored longitudinally. Here, we propose and demonstrate a new versatile class of judiciously synthesized wave packets whose spatiote…

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  • Observation of Joule–Thomson photon-gas expansion

    Nature Physics · 2025-01-14 · 8 citations

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  • Spatiotemporal control of ultrafast pulses in multimode optical fibers

    Nature Communications · 2025-07-02 · 6 citations

    articleOpen access

    Multimode optical fibers represent the ideal platform for transferring multidimensional light states. However, dispersion degrades the correlations between the light’s degrees of freedom, thus limiting the effective transport of ultrashort pulses between distant nodes of optical networks. Here, we demonstrate that tailoring the spatiotemporal structure of ultrashort light pulses can overcome the physical limitations imposed by both chromatic and modal dispersion in multimode optical fibers. We s…

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Education

  • Ph.D., Electrical Engineering

    University of Southern California

    1991

  • M.S., Electrical Engineering

    University of Southern California

    1987

  • B.S., Electrical Engineering

    University of Cyprus

    1985

Awards & honors

  • R.W. Wood Prize of OSA (2011)
  • OSA Max Born Award (2018)
  • Arthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science (2023)

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