Master alumni under the advisory of Franz X. Kärtner
1. Koustuban Ravi,
“Theory of THz Generation by Optical Rectification”,
November 2014 (MIT EECS);
2. Goran Živanović
“Design Considerations for Ge-on-Si Waveguide Photodetector”,
May 2014 (MIT EECS)
3. Wenqian Ronny Huang,
”High Field, High Efficiency Terahertz Pulse Generation by Optical Rectification“,
February 2014 (MIT EECS);
4. Stefano Valente,
“Timing Distribution with Femtosecond Modelocked Lasers,“
August 2013 (University of L’Aquila, Italy, during stay as visiting student at DESY);
5. Liang Wong,
“Direct Electric Field Laser Acceleration,”
February 2012 (MIT EECS);
6. Michael Peng,
“System Demonstration of an Optically-Sampled, Wavelength-Demultiplexed Photonic Analog-toDigital Converter”,
February 2011 (MIT EECS);
7. Sasha Soane,
“An Apparatus for Frequency Resolved Optical Gating of Attoseconds Pulses”,
February 2011 (MIT EECS);
8. Cheryl M. Sorace,
“Advanced Silicon Photonic Modulators”,
September 2010 (MIT EECS) ;
9. Siddharth Bhardwaj,
“Limits of Long Wavelength High Harmonic Generation”,
January 2010 (MIT EECS);
10. Gilberto Abram,
“High Intensity Femtosecond Enhancement Cavities”,
June 2009 (MIT EECS);
11. Mohammad Araghchini,
“Design and Fabrication of Efficient Fiber to Chip Couplers”,
February 2008 (MIT EECS);
12. Anatol Khilo,
“Integrated Optical Analog-to-Digital Converter”,
February 2008 (MIT EECS);
13. Mingyan Fan,
“Efficient Out-of-Plane Microphotonic Fiber-to-Chip Coupler Designs”,
June 2006 (MIT EECS);
14. Hyunil Byun,
“Silicon-Germanium Saturable Absorbers and Erbium-doped Waveguides for Integrated Mode-locked
Lasers”,
May 2006 (MIT EECS);
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Master alumni under the advisory of Franz X. Kärtner
15. Jungwon Kim,
“Single-Cycle Lasers,”
(Morris Joseph Levin Award for the best MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation),
January 2004 (MIT EECS);
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Master alumni under the advisory of Franz X. Kärtner
16. Karen Robinson,
“Active Feedback Stabilization of Picosecond Lasers,”
(Morris Joseph Levin Award for the best MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation),
May 2003 (MIT EECS);
17. Onur Kuzuku,
“High Repetition Rate Ti:sapphire Modelocked Laser”,
(Morris Joseph Levin Award for the best MasterWorks Oral Thesis Presentation),
May 2003 (MIT EECS);
18. Alexander Killi,
“Coherent Superposition of Mode-locked Lasers”,
(Graduate Award 2002 Electrical Engineering for exceptional Diploma Thesis)
Sept. 2002 (University of Karlsruhe, during stay as visiting scientist at MIT);
19. Jan-Malte Fischer,
“Optical Switching in High-Index Silicon Waveguides”,
Sept. 2002 (University of Karlsruhe, during stay as visiting student at MIT);
20. Christian Koos,
“Pulse Characterization using Microwave Techniques”,
June 2002 (University of Karlsruhe, during stay as visiting student at MIT with Fulbright Fellowship);
21. Karl Schneider,
“Mode-locked Cr:Forsterite Laser”,
July 2001 (University of Karlsruhe);
22. Felix Grawert,
“Design of Dispersion Compensating Laser Mirrors”,
June 2001 (University of Karlsruhe);
23. Christian Jirauscheck,
“Spatio-Temporal Gaussian Pulse Dynamics of sub-10 fs Laser”,
Sept. 2000 (University of Karlsruhe);
24. Martin Schnarrenberger,
“Continuum Generation with Holey-Fibers”,
August 2000 (University of Karlsruhe);
25. Philip Wagenblast,
“Diode-pumped Mode-locked Cr:LiCAF Laser”,
August 2000 (University of Karlsruhe);
26. Thomas Schibli,
“Stabilization of Mode-locked Lasers by Two-photon Absorption”,
March 1999 (ETH-Zurich);
27. Dominik Zumbühl,
“Turbulence in Mode-locked Lasers“,
October 1997 (ETH-Zurich);
28. Ryan Held,
“A New Method for High Precision Measurement of the Group Velocity Dispersion from the Visible to
the Near Infrared”,
October 1996 (ETH-Zurich);
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Master alumni under the advisory of Franz X. Kärtner
29. Bruno Cappelli,
“Dynamics of Solitons in almost Integrable Systems: The Effects of Third Order Dispersion on
Modelocked Lasers”,
October 1995 (ETH-Zurich);
30. Irio Calasso,
“Q - Switch - Instabilities in Solid-state Lasers”,
October 1994 (ETH-Zurich);
31. Thomas Langer,
“Squeezed State Generation by DC-pumped, Degenerate Josephson Junction Oscillators”,
July 1991 (TU Munich);
32. Alois Kaufmann,
“Combined State-space and Noise Analysis of Oscillators”,
March 1991 (TU Munich);
33. Clemens Guido,
“Modelling and Simulation of GaAs-MESFET – Oscillators”,
October 1990 (TU Munich);
34. Alexander Wuthenow,
“Computerized State-Space Description and Snalysis of Electronic Circuits”,
July 1990 (TU Munich);
35. Michael Pöbl,
“Numerical Methods for Steady State Analysis of Oscillators”,
September 1989 (TU Munich);
36. Franz Schwarzbauer,
“Program for Noise Analysis of Oscillators”,
September 1988 (TU Munich);
37. Olaf Schäfer,
“Global Numerical Stability of Transistor Models”,
June 1988 (TU Munich);
38. Anton Göller,
“Simulation and Modelling of IMPATT-Oscillators in the Time Domain”,
September 1987 (TU Munich).
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