- Associate Professor
- Phone: 401.874.2104
- Fax: 401.874.2380
- Email: fganikhanov@uri.edu
- Office Location: Morrill Hall, Rm 113
Biography
2013-current: Department of Physics, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2006-2013: Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV
2004-2006: Research Scientist, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2000-2003: Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies, Inc.
1999-2000: Senior Laser Physicist, INRAD, Inc.
Research
- Ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics of two-dimensional structures
- Nonlinear optical and spectroscopic imaging for bio-medical and biophysics applications
- Tunable laser sources
Education
- Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1996-1999
- Charge de Recherche, Laboratoire de Optique Quantique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 1994-1996
- Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1988-1992
- Ph.D. in Physics of Quantum Electronics, Department of Physics, R.V. Khokhlov Nonlinear Optics Institute, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1991
- M.S. (physics) Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia, 1987
Selected Publications
C.P. Neupane, J. Sylvester, H.A.S. Singhapurage, D. Senarathna, F. Ganikhanov, Time-Resolved Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy of Perovskites, Opt. Express 32, 5621-5631 (2024)
J. Sylvester, R. Choudhari, B. Jalan, F. Ganikhanov, Coherent phonon relaxation in strontium titanate, Appl. Phys. Lett. 123, 022201 (2023);
D. Senarathna, J. Sylvester, C.P. Neupane, H.A.S. Singhapurage, F. Ganikhanov, Coherent Raman spectroscopy of equilibrium phonons with sub-wavenumber resolution, J. Phys. Chem. C 127, 8720-8727 (2023);
H. Singhapurage, D. Senarathna, F. Ganikhanov, Decay of Raman active vibrations within oxide groups of potassium titanyl phosphate, Opt. Mater. 137, 113526 (2023)
C. P. Neupane, J. Sylvester, X. Xu, S-W. Cheong, and F. Ganikhanov, Phonon decay in BaSnO3 perovskite, Appl. Phys. Lett. 120, 232104 (2022);
Mokim, A.Card, F.Ganikhanov, Nonlinear optical susceptibility of atomically thin WX2crystals. Optical Materials 88, 30-38 (2019)
Mokim, Ch.Carruba, F.Ganikhanov, Tracing molecular dephasing in biological tissue. Applied Physics Letters 111, 183701 (2017)
Card, M.Mokim and F.Ganikhanov, Resolving fine spectral features in lattice vibrational modes using femtosecond coherent spectroscopy. AIP Advances 6, 025115 (2016)
Vogel, A. Wingert, R. Fink, C. Hagl, Ganikhanov, C. Pfeffer,(2015) Enabling the detection of UV signal in multimodal nonlinear microscopy with catalogue lens components. Journal of Microscopy 260, 62-72 (2015)
Yang and F.Ganikhanov, Dispersion of the resonant nonlinear optical susceptibility obtained with femtosecond time-domain Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Scattering. Opt. Lett. 38, 4754-4757 (2013)
Awards and Honors:
2009-2021: NSF, NIH, DOD research grant awards
2010: NSF CAREER award