Areas of Research
Interest
Nonlinear and quantum optics,
optical communication systems and devices,
nanophotonics.
Background
Michael Vasilyev
received the M.S. degree (diploma) summa cum laude
in Applied Mathematics and Physics from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia, in 1993, and the Ph.D.
degree in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, in 1999.
His research at Lebedev Physics Institute (Moscow, Russia) in 1993-1994 and subsequent doctoral work at Northwestern
University were on quantum properties of novel optical amplifiers and solitons in optical fibers, including development of
homodyne tomography of multimode quantum states and first experimental
demonstrations of noiseless fiber amplifier and noiseless amplification of
images.
After joining Corning Inc.'s Photonic Research and Test Center
(Somerset, NJ) as a Senior Research Scientist in 1999, he performed experimental
and theoretical studies of fiber transmission issues, noise and
nonlinearities in Raman and erbium-doped fiber
amplifiers (EDFAs), and architectures for
ultra-long-haul dense wavelength-division-multiplexing
(DWDM) networks.
Since September 2003, he has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington, TX.
Dr. Vasilyev has authored and co-authored over 100 technical papers in journals and conference proceedings.
He holds 6 U.S. patents and has 2 pending patent
applications. He is a recipient of 2008 DARPA
Young Faculty Award.
Dr.
Vasilyev is currently serving as a Chair of
Quantum Optics Technical Group of Quantum Electronics
Division of the Optical Society of America (OSA). He
is a co-founder and President of the
Fort Worth Chapter of the IEEE Lasers and
Electro-Optics Society (LEOS). He was the Primary Guest Editor of "Nonlinear-Optical
Signal Processing" special issue of the IEEE
Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. He was a member of the technical program committees
for the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (2005,
2006 and 2007) and the Optical Amplifiers and their Applications (OAA)
conference of the OSA (2002, 2003 and 2004). He
served as a president of the OSA Student Chapter at
Northwestern University in 1998-1999 and as a
principal organizer of the 2nd Midwest Regional
Meeting of the OSA Student Chapters in 1998. Dr.
Vasilyev is a faculty co-advisor of the OSA Student
Chapter at the UTA. He is a member of the
OSA, the IEEE LEOS, and the IEEE Communication Society.
