Hossein Taheri received a B.Sc. degree in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Tehran, Iran, in 2009 and an M.Sc. in electrical engineering with minor in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2011. He is currently a PhD student in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
His PhD work is on microresonator-based optical frequency comb generation. In particular, he studies techniques for the generation and manipulation of ultrashort optical pulses in microresonators with Kerr nonlinearity. His research also aims at providing a better understanding of the dynamics of frequency comb generation and phase locking in nonlinear microresonators.
During his master’s, he worked on the design, fabrication, and characterization of fast and power-efficient optoelectronic modulators in the silicon-on-insulator platform. His undergraduate research focused on the analysis of tapered dielectric waveguides for the excitation of plasmonic waveguides.
Besides research, he has served as vice-president and president of the OSA Student Chapter at GA Tech. He ranked first among junior undergraduate participants in the 13th nation-wide Undergraduate Electrical Engineering Olympiad (2008, Tehran, Iran). As a high school student, Hossein was a medalist in the 17th National Physics Olympiad (2004, Tehran, Iran). He joined the Photonics Research Group at the Georgia Institute of Technology in August 2009.
Research Interests:
- Optical frequency comb generation in Kerr-nonlinear media
- Generation and manipulation of optical pulses in nonlinear microresonator
- Nonlinear quantum optics in optical microresonators
- Fast reconfigurable integrated silicon photonic devices
Phone: (404) 385-3017
E-Mail: h.taheri@gatech.edu
Thesis: Ultrashort pulses in optical microresonators with Kerr nonlinearity