Vladimir S. Grigoryan

Research Associate Professor
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department of Computer Science
and Electrical Engineering
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tel: (410) 455-6503, Fax: (410) 455-6500
Email: grigorya@umbc.edu




RESUME



EDUCATION
1970-1975
Yerevan State University, Physics department, Quantum Electronics Research Laboratory. Yerevan (Armenia, USSR). Master degree (1975).

1978-1981 Institute of Radio Engineering and Electronics, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Ph.D. (1981). Dissertation entitled "Transformation of ultra-short light pulses under resonant multi-photon interactions".



ACADEMIC HONORS
1987 Academic status of senior research scientist. Conferred by All-Union Attestation Commission of Council of Ministers of the USSR.



RESEARCH GRANTS
1993
Short-term research grant of International Science Foundation: "Autosolitons in two-level inverted medium".

1994 Research Grant-in-Aid of Japan Society of Promotion of Science (JSPS), JSPS Fellowship at Osaka University: "Parametric cooling
1994-1995
Long-term research grant of International Science Foundation (ISF), RL-4000: "Autosolitons of light in amplifying media". Principal Investigator.

1995-1996
Research grant of International Science Foundation (ISF), RL-4300: "Optical autosolitons in amplifying nonlinear media". Principal Investigator.




RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1996-present
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Research Associate Professor. Fiber optics communications.

1974-1975
Yerevan State University, Physics department, Quantum Electronics Research Laboratory, graduate. Experimental investigation of broadband parametric generation of picosecond pulses in the lithium niobate, lithium iodate, and KDP nonlinear crystals.

1975-1976
Byuracan Astrophysical Observatory, Academy of Sciences of Armenia (USSR), junior researcher. Development of frequency up-conversion device for transformation of infrared radiation of cosmic objects into visible region (experiment and theory).

1976-1978
Physics and Technology Institute, Academy of Sciences of Ukrainian SSR (USSR), junior research scientist. Raman spectroscopy of crystals under high pressure (experiment).

1978-1981
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, USSR Academy of Sciences (Moscow), postgraduate researcher. Multi-photon resonant interactions of light with gases (theory and experiment).

1981-1984
Yerevan Physics Institute (Yerevan, Armenia, USSR), junior research scientist. Neutral atoms acceleration by means of laser radiation (theory).

1984-1992
Research Institute of Condensed Matter Physics (afterward renamed as NPO "Lasernaya Tekhnica"), Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia, USSR), senior research scientist. Coherent multi photon resonant interactions of light with gases and development of a novel theory of light autosolitons in nonlinear amplifying media (theory). Computer modeling of pulse propagation in nonlinear dispersive and dissipative media.

1992-1996
IRE-POLUS Co., Russian Academy of Sciences (Fryazino, Moscow region), leading research scientist. Autosolitons in single mode doped fiber systems (theory). Computer modeling of pulse propagation in single mode erbium-doped fiber laser.

1994
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan, fellowship of Japan Society of Promotion of Science. Control of solitons by light wave in optical fiber.

1996-1997
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Visiting Research Associate. Fiber optics communications.

1997-1999
University of Maryland Baltimore County, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. Research Associate. Fiber optics communications.




CONSULTING EXPERIENCE
1998-present
Virtual Photonics Inc. (former BNeD Inc.), consulting position. Creation of time efficient algorithms for modeling WDM systems with RZ modulation format and TDM systems with RZ and NRZ modulation formats.




TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1985-1989
Yerevan State University (Yerevan, Armenia, USSR), Quantum Electronics branch. Lecturer. Course of lectures on "Resonant interactions of light with matter" for graduate students.

1994-1996
Institute of Radioengineering and Electronics, Russian Academy of Sciences. Lectures on "Short pulse propagation in resonant nonlinear media" for graduate students of Moscow Physics and Technology Institute (MPTI).




MEMBERSHIPS
1995
Optical Society of America.

1995
American Institute of Physics.




PERSONAL DATA

Married, two children: sun, age 19, and daughter, age 14.




REFERENCES

Dr. Curtis R. Menyuk, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, TRC 201A, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21228-5398; 410-455-3501 (phone), 410-455-6500 (fax); menyuk@umbc.edu (e-mail).


Professor Gary M. Carter, The Laboratory for Physical Sciences, 8650 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740. Phone: 301-935-6455, 410-455-3509; Fax: 410-455-6500; Email address:carter@umbc.edu.


Professor Akira Hasegawa, Kochi University of Technology, NTT Science & Core Technology Lab Group, ATR Bldg., 2-2- Hikaridai Seikacho Sorakugun Kyoto-fu 619-0288, Japan. Phone: +81-(0)774-98-3500; Fax: +81-(0)774-98-35-1; E-mail address: haselab@mbox.kyoto-inet.or.jp.


Professor Hermann A. Haus, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. Phone: 617 253 2585; Fax: 617 253 9611; E-mail address: haus@mit.edu


Professor Govind P. Agrawal, The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York 14627, USA. Phone: 716 275 4846; Fax: 716 244 4936; E-mail address: gpa@optics.rochester.edu




INVITED TALKS

1. V. S. Grigoryan, "Autosolitons in Amplifying Media," International Symposium on Application of Optical Solitons for Advanced Communication Technologies, November 9-12, 1992, Kyoto, Japan.

2. V. S. Grigoryan, A. Hasegawa, and A. Maruta, "Parametric Cooling of Solitons," Symposium on Physics and Applications of Optical Solitons in Fibers ’95, November 14-17, 1995.

3. V. S. Grigoryan, C. R. Menyuk, and R.-M. Mu, "Pulse Jitter in Fiber Communications," 1997 AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, Tucson, AZ (September 24-26, 1997).

4. V. S. Grigoryan and C. R. Menyuk, "Timing and Amplitude Jitter in Dispersion-Managed Soliton Communications," 1998 AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, Tucson, AZ (September 24-26, 1998).

5. V. S. Grigoryan and C. R. Menyuk, "Advances in Modeling Optical Fiber Transmission Systems," The 1999 IMACS International Conference on Nonlinear Evolution Equations and Wave Phenomena Computation and Theory, Athens, GA, April 12-19, 1999.

6. V. S. Grigoryan, P. Sinha, C. R. Menyuk, and G. M. Carter, "Long Distance Transmission of Filtered Dispersion-Managed Solitons at 40 Gb/s Bit Rate over 6400 km", 1999 ROSC Simposium on Massive WDM and TDM Soliton Transmission Systems, November 9-12, 1999, Kyoto, Japan.



MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

1. V. G. Atanesyan, V. S. Grigoryan, and K. V. Karmenian. "Frequency tuning under second harmonic generation of picosecond light pulses," Kvantovaya Electron. (Sov. J. Quantum Electron.) v. 3, No. 10, pp. 2135-2138 (1976).

2. V. S. Butylkin, V. S. Grigoryan, and M. E. Zhabotinsky, "Four-wave interaction of ultra short light pulses propagating successively in a medium," Sov. Phys. JETP, v. 51, No. 5, pp. 832-838.

3. V. S. Butylkin, V. S. Grigoryan, and M. E. Zhabotinsky, "Self-induced transparency and parametric bleaching under resonant multi photon interactions," - Moscow, 1980. - 34 pages. Reprint, USSR Academy of Sciences, No. 14 (297).

4. V. S. Butylkin, V. S. Grigoryan, and M. E. Zhabotinsky, "Asymptotic behavior of ultra short light pulses under their resonant interactions with medium," Sov. Phys. JETP, v. 53, No. 3, pp. 475-486 (1981).

5. V. S. Grigoryan, "Interaction of ultra short light pulses with an excited two photon resonant medium," Sov. Phys. JETP, v. 59, No. 6 pp. 1166-1173 (1984).

6. V. S. Grigoryan, "Interaction of ultra short light pulses in a medium with two-photon transitions in the presence of resonant field," - Yerevan, 1984. - 44 pages. Reprint, Yerevan Physics Institute, TAB - 686(1)-84.

7. V. S. Grigoryan, "An effect of the phase memory of medium under resonant interactions of modulated waves," Resonant interaction of electromagnetic radiation with matter. Proceedings of Yerevan State University; USSR, Yerevan -1985, pp. 171-181.

8. V. S. Grigoryan, "Formation of solitary pulses in an amplifying nonlinear medium with dispersion," JETP Lett., v. 44, No. 10, pp. 575-579 (1986).

9. V. S. Grigoryan, "Stabilization of intensity of laser radiation," Patent of the USSR, 1987.

10. V. S. Grigoryan, A. I. Maimistov, and Yu. M. Sklyarov, "Evolution of light pulses in a nonlinear amplifying medium," Sov. Phys. JETP, v. 67, No. 3, pp. 530-534 (1988).

11. V. S. Grigoryan, "Source of optical solitons," Patent of the USSR, 1989.

12. V. S. Grigoryan, "Autosolitons in inverted media," Phys. Lett. A., v. 149, No. 7-8, pp. 371-380 (1990).

13. N. P. Garayants, V. S. Grigoryan, S. A. Mikaelyan, K. B. Petrosyan, and K. P. Pokhsraryan, "Light-pulse propagation through atomic cesium vapors in conditions of coherent interaction with two-photon absorbing medium," J. Modern Optics, v. 38, No. 3, pp. 591-585 (1990).

14. V. S. Grigoryan and T. S. Muradyan, "Evolution of light pulses to autosoliton in the nonlinear amplifying medium," J. Opt Soc. Am. B, v. 8, No. 8, pp. 1757-1765 (1991).

15. V. S. Grigoryan, A. Hasegawa, and A. Maruta, "Control of solitons by light waves," Opt. Lett., v. 20, No. 8, pp. 857-859 (1995).

16. V. S. Grigoryan, "Asymptotically stable solitary waves in Kerr dispersive medium in the presence of linear amplification and nonlinear losses," Phys. Rev. A, v. 52, No. 1, pp. 694-684 (1995).

17. V. S. Grigoryan, A. Hasegawa, and A. Maruta, "Parametric cooling of solitons," Physics and Applications of Optical Solitons in Fibres’95, Edited by A. Hasegawa, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht / Boston / London 1996, pp. 59-74.

18. V. S. Grigoryan, A. Hasegawa, and A. Maruta, "Parametric trapping and self-ordering of solitons," Springer Series in Chemical Physics, No. 62, p. 1183 (1996).

19. V. S. Grigoryan, "Autosoliton in a fiber with distributed saturable amplifiers," Opt. Lett., v. 21, No. 23, pp. 1882-1884 (1996).

20. V. S. Grigoryan, T. Yu, E. A. Golovchenko, C. R. Menyuk, and A. N. Pilipetskii, "Dispersion-managed soliton dynamics," Opt. Lett., v. 22, No. 21, pp. 1609-1611 (1997).

21. V. S. Grigoryan and C. R. Menyuk, "Dispersion-managed solitons at normal average dispersion," Opt. Lett., v. 23, No. 8, pp. 609-611 (1998).

22. R.-M. Mu, V. S. Grigoryan, C. R. Menyuk, E. A. Golovchenko, and A. N. Pilipetskii, "Timing jitter reduction in a dispersion-managed soliton system," Opt. Lett., v. 23, No. 12, pp. 930-932 (1998).

23. T. Yu, R.-M. Mu, V. S. Grigoryan, and C. R. Menyuk, "Energy enhancement of dispersion-managed solitons in optical fiber transmission systems with lumped amplifiers," IEEE Photon. Techn. Lett., v. 11, No. 1, pp. 75-77 (1999).

24. G. M. Carter, R.-M. Mu, V. S. Grigoryan , C. R. Menyuk, P. Sinha, T. F. Carruthers, M. L. Dennis, and I. N. Duling III, "Transmission of dispersion-managed solitons at 20 Gbit/s over 20,000 km," Electron. Lett., v. 35, No. 11, pp. 233-234 (1999).

25. V. S. Grigoryan, C. R. Menyuk, and R.-M. Mu, "Calculation of timing and amplitude jitter in dispersion-managed optical fiber communications using linearization," J. Lightwave Technol., v. 17, No. 8, 1347-1356 (1999).

26. V. S. Grigoryan, R.-M. Mu, G. M. Carter, and C. R. Menyuk, "Experimental demonstration of long-distance dispersion-managed soliton propagation at zero average dispersion," To be published in IEEE Photon. Techn. Lett.,v. 12, No. 1 (2000).

27. R.-M. Mu, V. S. Grigoryan, G. M. Carter, and C. R. Menyuk, "Comparison of theory and experiment for dispersion-managed solitons in a recirculating fiber loop," To be published in IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics., v. 5, No. 6 (1999).

28. A. Richter and V. S. Grigoryan, "Efficient approach to estimate collision-induced timing jitter in dispersion-managed WDM RZ systems", OFC'99, Technical Digest, Wednesday, paper WM33, pp. 292-294;
V. S. Grigoryan and A. Richter, "Efficient approach for modeling collision-induced timing jitter in WDM return-to-zero dispersion-managed systems", submitted to J. Lightwave Technol., 1999.