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Bahram Jalali, Ph.D.

Professor, Electrical Engineering

Member, California NanoSystems Institute

Education:

Degrees:

Ph.D., Columbia University, 1989
M.S., Columbia University, 1986

Fellowships:

IEEE , IEEE
OSA, OSA

Honors and Awards:

Fellow of IEEE and OSA
2007 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America (OSA)
2005 Scientific American Top 50
2001 BridgeGate 20 Award

Certifications:

Professional Societies:

IEEE, OSA, APS , IEEE, OSA, APS

Contact Information:

Email Address:	jalali@ucla.edu
Work Email Address:	jalali@ee.ucla.edu

Work Address:	UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering Box 951594 Los Angeles, CA 90095 UNITED STATES

Home Page:	http://www.ee.ucla.edu/~oecs/
Home Page:	http://www.ee.ucla.edu/faculty/bios/jalali.htm

Work Phone Number:	(310) 825-9655

Research Interests:

Ultrafast measurements, Real-time spectroscopy, Real-time imaging, Image amplifiers, Raman and CARS spectroscopy, flow cytometry, laser microsurgery, Extreme value statistics, Silicon Photonics

Additional Information:

Bahram Jalali is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA, a Fellow of IEEE and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and a Trustee of California Science Center. He was elected into the Scientific American Top 50 in 2005 and won the 2007 R.W. Wood Prize from the Optical Society of America for "Invention and Demonstration of Raman Lasing in Silicon". In 1999 he founded Cognet Microsystems and served as the company's CEO from its inception through acquisition in 2001 by Intel Corporation, where he was a consultant until 2004. He received the BrideGate 20 Award for his contribution to Southern California economy. Dr. Jalali obtained his Ph.D. in Applied Physics from Columbia University in 1989.

Selected Publications:

Solli, D. R. Ropers, C. Jalali, B. , Active control of rogue waves for stimulated supercontinuum generation, Phys Rev Lett, 2008, 101 (23), 233902.

D.R. Solli, J. Chou, and B. Jalali, Amplified wavelength-time transformation for real-time spectroscopy, Nature Photonics, 2008, 2, 48-51.

Tsia, K. K. Fathpour, S. Jalali, B. , Electrical control of parametric processes in silicon waveguides, Opt Express, 2008, 16 (13), 9838-43.

Gupta, S. Jalali, B. , Time-warp correction and calibration in photonic time-stretch analog-to-digital converter, Opt Lett, 2008, 33 (22), 2674-6.

B. Jalali, A cooler Raman laser, Nature Photonics, 2007, 1, 691-92.

J. Chou, O. Boyraz, D. Solli, and B. Jalali, Femtosecond real-time single-shot digitizer, Applied Physics Letters, 2007, 91 (16), 161105-07.

B. Jalali, Making Silicon Lase, Scientific American, 2007, 58-65.

D.R. Solli, C. Ropers, P. Koonath and B. Jalali, Optical Rogue Waves, Nature, 2007.

Solli, D. R. Ropers, C. Koonath, P. Jalali, B. , Optical rogue waves, Nature, 2007, 450 (7172), 1054-7.

B. Jalali, Teaching silicon new tricks, Nature Photonics, 2007, 1 (4), 193-195.

S. Fathpour, K.M. Tsia, and B. Jalali, Energy harvesting in silicon Raman amplifiers, Applied Physics Letters, 2006, 89 (061109), 1-3.

B. Jalali, Silicon Lasers, APS News, 2006, 15 (3), 5.

O. Boyraz and B. Jalali, Demonstration of a silicon Raman laser, Optics Express, 2004, 12 (21), 5269-73.

R. Sadhwani, J. Basak, and B. Jalali., Adaptive electronic linearization of fiber optic links, Proceedings of Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC 2003), 2003, 2, 477-479.

Dimitropoulos, D. Houshmand, B. Claps, R. Jalali, B. , Coupled-mode theory of the Raman effect in silicon-on-insulator waveguides, Opt Lett, 2003, 28 (20), 1954-6.

Y. Han and B. Jalali, Photonic time-stretched analog-to-digital converter: Fundamental concepts and practical considerations, Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2003, 21 (12), 3085-3103.