{"id":176,"date":"2019-05-21T16:03:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T16:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labsites.wdev.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:54:14","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Agrawal Research Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-left\">We study nonlinear phenomena in&nbsp;optical fibers and waveguides for a variety of&nbsp;applications including optical communications.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"alignnormal\"><div id=\"metaslider-id-13512\" style=\"width: 100%; margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"ml-slider-3-107-0 metaslider metaslider-flex metaslider-13512 ml-slider has-dots-nav ms-theme-default\" role=\"region\" aria-label=\"Home Page\" data-height=\"585\" data-width=\"1920\">\n    <div id=\"metaslider_container_13512\">\n        <div id=\"metaslider_13512\" class=\"flexslider\">\n            <ul class='slides'>\n                <li style=\"display: block; 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width: 100%;\" class=\"slide-13652 ms-image \" aria-roledescription=\"slide\" data-date=\"2019-11-11 15:57:20\" data-filename=\"buch2-slider.jpg\" data-slide-type=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/buch2-slider.jpg\" height=\"585\" width=\"1920\" alt=\"\" class=\"slider-13512 slide-13652 msDefaultImage\" title=\"buch2-slider\" \/><\/li>\n            <\/ul>\n        <\/div>\n        \n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Recent News<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gpa-video.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"527\" height=\"567\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gpa-video.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19652 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gpa-video.jpg 527w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/gpa-video-279x300.jpg 279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 527px) 100vw, 527px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>June 2025:<\/strong><\/strong> University of Rochester released a video clip of Prof. Agrawal explaining how optical fibers interconnect us. Follow this link to see the video and read the article related to it: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/what-is-fiber-optics-how-fiber-optics-works-658492\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/what-is-fiber-optics-how-fiber-optics-works-658492\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19452 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/UNT-yuzhe01.jpg 1388w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>April 2025:<\/strong><\/strong> Agrawal visited Prof. Yuzhe Xiao on April 22, 2025, at the University of North Texas. He gave a colloquium and met with several faculty members and students. The photo shows Agrawal with Yuzhe (right), and Luis (left). Both graduated from his research group in 2015 and 2024, respectively.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19142 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_7074-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>November 2024:<\/strong><\/strong> Agrawal visited Prof. John Dudley from November 18-20, 2024, at the University of Franche-Comt\u00e9 in Besan\u00e7on, France . He gave a seminar and toured the historical museum of optics instruments . The photo shows Agrawal during his seminar at the femto-st Institute.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18912 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG-20241029-WA0001.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>November 2024:<\/strong><\/strong> Agrawal visited Prof. Stefan Wabnitz at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, from October 28-30, 2024. He gave a seminar on the first day and had interesting discussions with the members of his research group. This photo was taken in Prof. Wabnitz&#8217;s laboratory, standing next to Agrawal in the front row.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dijon1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"244\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/dijon1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18822 size-full\"\/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>October 2024:<\/strong><\/strong> Agrawal is spending the Fall semester at the University of Bourgogne in Dijon, France, working with Prof. Guy Millot and others. This photo was taken during the workshop on Nonlinear Fiber Optics, held on October 8 . Prof. Millot is sitting next to Agrawal and Prof. Finot is in front of him.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18742 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Lille2024b.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>September 2024:<\/strong><\/strong>  Agrawal visited University of Lille on Sept. 20 at the invitation of the Optica Student Chapter and gave a seminar attended by many students and the faculty members. He also toured several Labs. This photo was taken in the Laboratory of Prof. Siddharth Sivankutty (in the middle).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18452 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/IMG_20240709_135247124_HDR-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>July 2024:<\/strong><\/strong> Two PhD students of Prof. Agrawal graduated recently from his group. Luis Cortes Herrera (on the right) did so on June 27 and Junchi Zhang (on the left) on July 9. Luis has a postdoc position at University of North Texas in the group of Prof. Yuzhe Xiao. Junchi joined the company Lumentum in September 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-18272 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/CLEO_2024.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>May 2024:<\/strong><\/strong>  Prof. Agrawal participated in the CLEO meeting held in Charlotte, NC, from May 6-10. This photo was taken by him during the CLEO reception at the NASCAR Hall of Fame.  Alexis Sparapani of Argentina, who visited Agrawal&#8217;s group in Fall 2023, had a poster presentation.  Agrawal&#8217;s senior Ph.D. student, Junchi Zhang, also gave a talk on his recent work on temporal reflection.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"941\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-941x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17922 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-941x1024.jpg 941w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-276x300.jpg 276w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-768x836.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-1411x1536.jpg 1411w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/IMG_3038-1-1882x2048.jpg 1882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>January 2024:<\/strong><\/strong>  Prof. Agrawal visited the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India from Dec. 27 to Dec. 31. He was invited to participate and deliver a plenary talk in the workshop on Quantum and Nonlinear optics, held on December 29 and organized by the IIT&#8217;s Optics and Photonics Center. Agrawal is thankful to Prof. Anurag Sharma and Prof. Ravi Varshney for the hospitality extended to him during his stay at IIT Delhi.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GRC-1995.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"916\" height=\"950\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GRC-1995.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17792 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GRC-1995.jpg 916w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GRC-1995-289x300.jpg 289w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/GRC-1995-768x797.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong>D<strong>ecember 2023:<\/strong><\/strong> Photo on the left shows the names of people in the photo I posted in July 2020 (see below). This image was sent to me recently by Prof. Harald Giessen, who was present at the 1995 Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Optics. Ferenc Krausz, who received the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics, also attended this conference.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17632 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Alexis2.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>Fall 2023: <\/strong><\/strong>My research group hosted two visitors in the Fall 2023.. Christos Flytzanis (2nd from left) came for two weeks  and Alexis Sparapani (on right) spent three months. Luis Cortes (on left) is a senior graduate student  in my group.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GRIN_cover.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"511\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GRIN_cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17172 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GRIN_cover.jpg 511w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/GRIN_cover-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><strong><strong>June 2023: <\/strong><\/strong>This is the cover of Agrawal&#8217;s new book on <em><strong>Physics and Engineering of Graded-Index Media<\/strong><\/em> . The book was published by Cambridge University Press in August 2023. It can be bought on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Physics-Engineering-Graded-Index-Govind-Agrawal\/dp\/1009282077\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1NQRFW0B37V5A&amp;keywords=graded-index+media&amp;qid=1684851844&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=graded-index+media%2Cstripbooks%2C77&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Amazon using this link<\/a>. You can also find it at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/us\/academic\/subjects\/physics\/optics-optoelectronics-and-photonics\/physics-and-engineering-graded-index-media?format=HB\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-Amira2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"632\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-Amira2-632x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17152 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-Amira2-632x1024.jpg 632w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-Amira2-185x300.jpg 185w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/2023-Amira2.jpg 669w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 632px) 100vw, 632px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>May 2023: <\/strong><\/strong>Dr. Amira Ahsan received her PhD degree in Optics during the commencement ceremony held on May 12, 2023 at the Eastman Theatre, Rochester, NY. Prof. Agrawal hooded her at the stage during the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Amira-PhD-defense.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"578\" height=\"808\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Amira-PhD-defense.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16922 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Amira-PhD-defense.jpg 578w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/Amira-PhD-defense-215x300.jpg 215w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 578px) 100vw, 578px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>Sept. 2022: <\/strong><\/strong> Amira Ahsan defended successfully her Ph.D.&nbsp; work in August 2022. She has now joined the well-known company ASML, Inc. in Wilton, CT. We all wish her success in her scientific and industrial adventures.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16012 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/IMG_20220627_150514091-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>July 2022: <\/strong><\/strong>Agrawal spent the month of June as an Invited Professor in the Physics Dept. of the <em>Ecole Normale Superieure<\/em> (ENS) at Paris, France. While visiting there, Agrawal worked on the topic of chiral nonlinear materials and gave a seminar entitled &#8220;Space-time Duality in Optics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/focs5ed.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"332\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/focs5ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-15412 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/focs5ed.jpg 332w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/focs5ed-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 332px) 100vw, 332px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>June 2021: <\/strong><\/strong>This is the cover of the 5th edition of Agrawal&#8217;s well-known book on <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Fiber-Optic ommunication Systems<\/span><\/em> (its 4th ed. appeared in 2010). The book was published by Wiley in June 2021. It can be bought on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fiber-Optic-Communication-Systems-Microwave-Engineering\/dp\/1119737362\/?_encoding=UTF8&amp;pd_rd_w=G5ExB&amp;pf_rd_p=49ff6d7e-521c-4ccb-9f0a-35346bfc72eb&amp;pf_rd_r=7ZBZEF72TRZT2C363WVM&amp;pd_rd_r=f521095b-0984-489b-83be-6d70a521545e&amp;pd_rd_wg=nADuD&amp;ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_d\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon using this link<\/a>. You can also find it at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wiley.com\/en-us\/Fiber+Optic+Communication+Systems%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781119737360\" target=\"_blank\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NSQD.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"499\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NSQD.jpg\" alt=\"Book Cover\" class=\"wp-image-14862 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NSQD.jpg 348w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/NSQD-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>January 2021: <\/strong><\/strong>This is the cover of the new book <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Theoretical Foundations of Nanoscale Quantum Devices<\/span><\/em> (by M. Premaratne and G. P. Agrawal) published by Cambridge University Press in January 2021. It and can be bought on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Theoretical-Foundations-Nanoscale-Quantum-Devices-dp-1108475663\/dp\/1108475663\/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&amp;me=&amp;qid=1607971936\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon using this link<\/a>. You can also find it at the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cambridge.org\/core\/books\/theoretical-foundations-of-nanoscale-quantum-devices\/C3371F647D4A78089D11DFEDE0A21910\" target=\"_blank\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/govind-agrawal-lifetime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"860\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/govind-agrawal-lifetime.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14542 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/govind-agrawal-lifetime.jpg 860w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/govind-agrawal-lifetime-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/govind-agrawal-lifetime-768x520.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong><strong>October 2020: <\/strong><\/strong>Agrawal received the<em> <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Lifetime Achievement Award<\/span><\/em> of the Hajim School of Engineering at University of Rochester. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\" style=\"grid-template-columns:40% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover_ANLFO.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"407\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover_ANLFO.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14422 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover_ANLFO.jpg 407w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/Cover_ANLFO-244x300.jpg 244w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 407px) 100vw, 407px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>August 2020:<\/strong> This is the cover of the third edition of Prof. Agrawal&#8217;s book <em><span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Applications of Nonlinear Fiber optics<\/span><\/em>. The book has been available since September 2020 and can be found at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elsevier.com\/books\/applications-of-nonlinear-fiber-optics\/agrawal\/978-0-12-817040-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">publisher&#8217;s website<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"717\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf-1024x717.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10696 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf-768x537.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/1995GordonConf.jpg 1239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>July 2020:<\/strong> This photograph was taken 25 years ago during a <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Gordon Conference on nonlinear optics<\/span> (July 1995). Here is a little test for you. Check how many people you can identify. If you can identify more than 20, you are allowed to call yourself  an expert in the field of  nonlinear optics.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13762 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/IMG_20191227_150502220-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>Jan. 2020:<\/strong> Prof. Agrawal Visited  Prof. <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Deepa Ventikesh at IIT Madras<\/span> in Chennai, India for two weeks in December 2019. This group photo was taken in her laboratory.  My PhD student, Amira Ahsan, spent three months in her group on a SPARC funded project. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Born-Award-GAgrawal.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"738\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Born-Award-GAgrawal-1024x738.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12876 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Born-Award-GAgrawal-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Born-Award-GAgrawal-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Born-Award-GAgrawal-768x553.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>October 2019: <\/strong>Agrawal received the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">OSA&#8217;s Max Born Award<\/span> during the award ceremony held on September 16, 2019 at Frontiers in Optics Conference in Washington, DC.<br>More information is available at the Optical Society (OSA) website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Nonlinear-Fiber-Optics-Govind-Agrawal\/dp\/0128170425\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"596\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NLFO6ed-1024x596.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2166 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NLFO6ed-1024x596.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NLFO6ed-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/NLFO6ed-768x447.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>September 2019:<\/strong>The sixth edition of the <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Nonlinear Fiber Optics book<\/span> (see the cover) was published in September 2019. <br>More information is available at the publisher&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019gpa1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019gpa1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12886 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019gpa1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019gpa1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/2019gpa1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p><strong>July 2019: <\/strong>Agrawal received EPS&#8217;s <span class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-purple-color\">Quantum Electronics Medal<\/span> during the award ceremony held on June 25, 2019 at CLEO Europe Conference in Munich, Germany. More information is available at the European Physical Society website.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We study nonlinear phenomena in&nbsp;optical fibers and waveguides for a variety of&nbsp;applications including optical communications. Recent News June 2025: University of Rochester released a video clip of Prof. Agrawal explaining how optical fibers interconnect us. Follow this link to see the video and read the article related to it: https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/newscenter\/what-is-fiber-optics-how-fiber-optics-works-658492\/ April 2025: Agrawal visited Prof. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Agrawal Research Group&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":82,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19972,"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/19972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/labsites.rochester.edu\/agrawal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}