Biography
Rodrigo Amezcua joined the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) and the Townes Laser Institute in February 2011 as an Assistant Research Professor. He obtained his PhD degree from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton. His Ph.D. was on the development of photonic crystal fibers. After completing his doctoral research, Rodrigo was employed as a post-doctoral researcher with Prof. Jonathan Knight at the University of Bath, UK. At the University of Bath, he developed novel photonic crystal fiber fabrication methods that lead to fibers with significantly improved optical properties. He has extensive experience in the design and fabrication of photonic crystal fibers for several applications; including fiber lasers, supercontinuum generation, nonlinear microscopy and sensing. Before joining CREOL, he worked at Powerlase Photonics, fabricating high-power diode pumped solid-state lasers.
Awards & Honors
- 2023 UCF Research Incentive Award
- 2023 CREOL Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award
- 2018 CREOL Excellence in Research Award
- 2018 UCF Reach for the Stars Award
- 2017 Corning Student 2nd Prize at OFC for PhD Student Zahoora Sanjabi
- 2016 Corning Student Award at OFC for PhD Student Zahoora Sanjab
Research Group
Advanced optical fiber design and fabrication, photoniccrystal fibers, fiber laser development, optical fiber devices and components, optical fiber sensors, nonlinear propagation in optical fibers, optical fiber for biomedical applications.
Research Scientists
Graduate Students
Undergraduate Research Assistants
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Publications
Sengupta, Aditya R.; Diaz, Jordan; DeMartino, Matthew; Jensen-Clem, Rebecca; Cetre, Sylvain; Gates, Elinor; Bundy, Kevin; Dillon, Daren; Hinz, Philip; Salama, Maissa; Skaf, N; Guyon, Olivier; Crowe, Tara; Dobias, Caleb; Eikenberry, Stephen S.); Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo; Yerolatsitis, Stephanos "On-sky Demonstration of Second-stage Wave-front Control with a Photonic Lantern" Astronomical Journal, Volume: 171, Issue: 2 2026
Salceda-Delgado, G (Salceda-Delgado, G.) [1] ; Rodriguez-Nieto, M (Rodriguez-Nieto, M.) [1] , [2] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, J. E.) [3] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, R.) "All-fiber tunable laser based on thermal control of supermode interference in a seven-core fiber" Laser Physics, Volume: 35, Issue: 11 2025
Habib, MS (Habib, Md Selim) [1] , [2] ; Correa, RA (Correa, Rodrigo Amezcua) [2] , [3] "Hollow-core breakthrough" Nature Photonics, Volume: 19, Issue: 11, Page: 1160-1161 2025
Kim, Yoo Jung;Fitzgerald, Michael P.; Vievard, Sebastien;Lin, Jonathan; Xin, Yinzi; Lucas, Miles; Guyon, Olivier; Lozi, Julien; Deo, Vincent; Huby, Elsa;Lacour, Sylvestre; Lallement, Manon; Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo; Leon-Saval, Sergio; Norris, Barnaby; Nowak, Mathias; Sallum, Steph; Sarrazin, Jehanne; Taras, Adam; Yerolatsitis, Stephanos; Jovanovic, Nemanja "On-sky Demonstration of Subdiffraction-limited Astronomical Measurement Using a Photonic Lantern" Astrophyiscal Journal Letters, Volume: 993, Issue: 1 2025
Drake, J (Drake, James) [1] ; Bate, T (Bate, Timothy) [1] ; Wahlen, J (Wahlen, Joseph) [1] ; Thapa, SR (Thapa, Shree r.) [1] ; Turner, E (Turner, Eric) [2] ; Van Rynbach, A (Van Rynbach, Andre) [2] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, Jose enrique) [1] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [1] ; Hudson, DD (Hudson, Darren d.) "Dynamic wavelength selection of 1, 1.5, and 1.9 µm via gas switching in hollow-core fiber" Optics Continuum,Volume: 4, Issue: 8, Page: 1710-1718 2025
Zhang, CL (Zhang, Cuiling) [1] ; Meneghetti, M (Meneghetti, Marcello) [1] , [2] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, J. E.) [3] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [3] ; Wang, YZ (Wang, Yazhou) [1] ; Markos, C (Markos, Christos) [1] , [4] "Multi-spectral optoacoustic microscopy driven by gas-filled hollow-core fiber laser pulses" Biomedical Optics Express, Volume: 16, Issue: 8, Page: 3337-3348, Year 2025 2025
Eisenberg, Y; Wang, WC; Zhao, ST; Herbert, ES; Chen, YH; Ouzounov, DG ; Takahashi, H; Gruzdeva, A; Laviolette, AK; Labaz, M; Sidorenko, P; Antonio-Lopez, E ; Amezcua-Correa, R ; Yapici, N; Xu, CS; Wise, F "Efficient, broadly-tunable, hollow-fiber source of megawatt pulses for multiphoton microscopy (vol 16, 415, 2025)" Biomedical Optics Express, Volume: 16, Issue: 5, Page: 2111-2111, Year 2025 2025
Xin, YZ; Echeverri, D; Jovanovic, N; Lin, JAT; Kim, YJ ; Mawet, D; Leon-Saval, S ; Amezcua-Correa, R ; Yerolatsitis, S; Fitzgerald, MP; Gatkine, P; Goyal, S; Norris, B; Ruane, G; Sallum, S "Implicit electric field conjugation with a photonic lantern nuller" Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems, Volume: 11, Issue: 2, Year 2025 2025
Eisenberg, Y (Eisenberg, Yishai) [1] ; Wang, WC (Wang, Wenchao) [1] ; Chen, YH (Chen, Yi-Hao) [1] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, Jose Enrique) [2] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [2] ; Xu, C (Xu, Chris) [1] ; Wise, FW (Wise, Frank W.) [1] "Multi-megawatt pulses from 1030 to 1300 nm based on soliton self-frequency shifting in a nitrogen-filled fiber (vol 50, 1593, 2025)" Optics Letters, Volume: 50, Issue: 8, Page: 2779-2779, Year 2025 2025
Eisenberg, Y (Eisenberg, Yishai) [1] ; Wang, WC (Wang, Wenchao) [1] ; Chen, YH (Chen, Yi-hao) [1] ; Antonio-lopez, JE (Antonio-lopez, Jose enrique) [2] ; Amezcua-correa, R (Amezcua-correa, Rodrigo) [2] ; Xu, C (Xu, Chris) [1] ; Wise, FW (Wise, Frank w.) [1] "Multi-megawatt pulses from 1030 to 1300 nm based on soliton self-frequency shifting in a nitrogen-filled fiber"
Optics Letters, Volume: 50 Issue: 5 Page: 1593-1596 2025
Zhang, CL (Zhang, Cuiling) [1] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, Jose Enrique) [2] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [2] ; Wang, YZ (Wang, Yazhou) [1] ; Markos, C (Markos, Christos) [1] , [3] "Photoacoustic methane detection assisted by a H2-filled anti-resonant hollow-core fiber laser"
Optical Fiber Technology, Volume: 90
Article Number 104126 2025
Rodriguez-Orduna, E (Rodriguez-Orduna, E.) [1] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, J. E.) [2] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, R.) [2] ; Rodriguez-Asomoza, J (Rodriguez-Asomoza, J.) [1] "RF signal transmission using coherence modulation and space division multiplexing
" Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Volume: 186, (2025) 2025
Eisenberg, Y (Eisenberg, Yishai); Wang, WC (Wang, Wenchao) ; Zhao, ST (Zhao, Shitong); Hebert, ES (Hebert, Eric s.) ; Chen, YH (Chen, Yi-hao) ; Ouzounov, DG (Ouzounov, Dimitre g.) ; Takahashi, H (Takahashi, Hazuki); Gruzdeva, A (Gruzdeva, Anna); LaViolette, AK (LaViolette, Aaron k.); Labaz, M (Labaz, Moshe) ; Sidorenko, P (Sidorenko, Pavel); Antonio-lopez, E (Antonio-lopez, Enrique); Amezcua-correa, R (Amezcua-correa, Rodrigo); Yapici, N (Yapici, Nilay); Xu, C (Xu, Chris); Wise, F (Wise, Frank) "Efficient, broadly tunable, hollow-fiber source of megawatt pulses for multiphoton microscopy" Biomedical Optics Express, Volume: 16 Issue: 2 Page :415-425 2025
May-Arrioja, DA (May-Arrioja, Daniel A.); Camarillo-Avilés, A (Camarillo-Aviles, Andres); Cuando-Espitia, N (Cuando-Espitia, Natanael); Velázquez-Benítez, AM (Velazquez-Benitez, Amado M.); Antonio-López, JE (Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Jose); Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo); Hernández-Cordero, J (Hernandez-Cordero, Juan) "Vernier Multicore Optical Fiber Sensors Optimized for Curvature Sensing"
IEEE Sensors Journal, Volume: 25 Issue: 2 Page: 2667-2674 2025
Yishai Eisenberg, Wenchao Wang, Shitong Zhao, Eric S. Hebert, Yi-Hao Chen, Dimitre G. Ouzounov, Hazuki Takahashi, Anna Gruzdeva, Aaron K. LaViolette, Moshe Labaz, Pavel Sidorenko, Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Nilay Yapici, Chris Xu, and Frank Wise "Efficient, broadly tunable, hollow-fiber source of megawatt pulses for multiphoton microscopy" Biomed. Opt. Express 16, 415-425 (2024). 2024
Md. A. Sufian, E. Baleine, J. Geldmeier, A. Alhalemi, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, R. Amezcua Correa, and A. Schülzgen "Light Transmission Through a Hollow Core Fiber Bundle" IEEE J. Sel. Topics Quantum Electron. 30, 4301308 2024
Vievard, S; Lallement, M; Leon-Saval, S; Guyon, O; Jovanovic, N; Huby, E; Lacour, S; Lozi, J; Deo, V ; Ahn, K; Lucas, M; Sallum, S; Norris, B; Betters, C; Amezcua-Correa, R; Yerolatsitis, S; Fitzgerald, MP; Lin, J ; Kim, YJ; Gatkine, P; Kotani, T; Tamura, M; Currie, T; Kenchington, HD; Martin, G; Perrin, G
"Spectroscopy using a visible photonic lantern at the Subaru Telescope: Laboratory characterization and the first on-sky demonstration on Ikiiki (a Leo) and 'Aua (a Ori)
" Astronomy & Astrophysics, Volume: 691, Year: 2024 2024
Wang, YZ (Wang, Yazhou) [1] ; Hong, LJ (Hong, Lujun) [1] , [6] ; Zhang, CL (Zhang, Cuiling) [1] ; Wahlen, J (Wahlen, Joseph) [2] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, J. E.) [2] ; Dasa, MK (Dasa, Manoj K.) [3] ; Adamu, AI (Adamu, Abubakar I.) [4] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [2] ; Markos, C (Markos, Christos) [1] , [5] "Synthesizing gas-filled anti-resonant hollow-core fiber Raman lines enables access to the molecular fingerprint region
" Nature Communications, Volume: 15, Issue: 1, Year: 2024 2024
Zhang, CL (Zhang, Cuiling) [1] ; Sui, KY (Sui, Kunyang) [1] , [2] ; Meneghetti, M (Meneghetti, Marcello) [1] , [2] ; Antonio-Lopez, JE (Antonio-Lopez, Jose Enrique) [3] ; Dasa, MK (Dasa, Manoj K.) [4] ; Berg, RW (Berg, Rune W.) [2] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [3] ; Wang, YZ (Wang, Yazhou) [1] ; Markos, C (Markos, Christos) [1] , [5] "Mid-infrared photoacoustic brain imaging enabled by cascaded gas-filled hollow-core fiber lasers
" Neurophotonics, Volume: 11, Issue: 4, Year: 2024 2024
Alumni
PhD
Matthew Cooper, PhD, Fall 2023
Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, PhD, Fall 2020
Steffen Wittek, PhD, Fall 2020
Zeinab 'Zahoora' Sanjabi Eznaveh, PhD, Spring 2017
MS
Daniel Parra, MS, Fall 2023
Joseph Wahlen, MS, Fall 2023
Fei Jia, MS, Summer 2018
Steffen Wittek, MS, Summer 2018
Yangyang Qin, MS, Spring 2017
Da Zhang, MS, Spring 2017
Weibin Zhu, MS, Spring 2017