Siddharth Ramachandran

Siddharth RamachandranAssociate Professor
PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1998

Electro-Physics
Nanostructured Fibers and Nonlinear Optics


(617) 353-9881
office: PHO 521
office hours: contact for appointment

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

  • Dean’s Catalyst Award, 2012
  • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA)
  • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, OFS Laboratories, 2003
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2011-present
  • Topical Editor, Optics Letters, 2008-2011
  • Book editor, Springer-Verlag, 2007
  • Guest Editor, IEEE-JSTQE issue on High-Power Fiber Lasers, 2009

Classes Taught

  • EC 563 Fiber-Optic Communication Systems
  • EC 568 Optical Fibers and Waveguides
  • EC 577 Electronic Optical and Magnetic Properties of Materials

Research Interests

  • Optical physics of guided waves
  • Micro- and nano-structured optical fibers
  • High-power fiber lasers and fiber sensors
  • Biomedical imaging and microscopy with optical fibers

Selected Publications

  • S. Ramachandran, P. Kristensen and M.F. Yan, “Generation and propagation of radially polarized beams in optical fibers,” Optics Letters, vol. 16, p. 2525, 2009.
  • S. Ramachandran, “Ultra-large effective-area, higher-order mode fibers: a new strategy for high-power lasers,” Laser & Photon. Rev., vol. 2, p. 429, Dec. 2008.
  • Z. Wang, J.R. Heflin, R.H. Stolen and S. Ramachandran, “Highly sensitive optical response of optical fiber long period gratings to nm-thick ionic self-assembled multilayers,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 86, 223104, 2005.
  • S. Ramachandran, “Dispersion-tailored few-mode fibers: a versatile platform for in-fiber photonic devices,” J. Lightwave Tech., vol. 23, p. 3426, 2005.
  • S. Ramachandran and S.G. Bishop, “Photoinduced integrated-optic devices in rapid thermally annealed chalcogenide glasses,” IEEE J. Selected Topics Quant. Electronics, vol. 11, p. 260, 2005.