• Associate Professor
• Morrill Hall, Room 113
• Phone: 401.874.2104
• Fax: 401.874.2380
• Email: fganikhanov@uri.edu
• Office Location: 2 Lippitt Rd., East Hall, Room 314
  Department of Physics, URI
  Kingston, RI 02881
  

Biography

 

2013-current: Associate Professor, 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 high-bandgap semiconductors and 2D materials.
•  Nonlinear optical and spectroscopic imaging for bio-medical and biophysics applications.
•  Tunable laser sources.

Education

• 1996-1999:     Postdoctoral Research Associate,  Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
• 1994-1996:  Charge de Recherche, Laboratoire de Optique Quantique, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France
• 1988-1992:  Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia.
• 1991:  Ph.D. in Physics of Quantum Electronics, Department of Physics, R.V. Khokhlov Nonlinear Optics Institute, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
• 1987:  BS (Physics) and MS (physics) Department of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

Publications

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:

2009-2024: NSF, NIH, DOD, RI Commerce research grant awards
2010: NSF CAREER award