Vahala, Kerry J.

Advisor — 38 thesises

• Camata, Renato Penha — Aerosol synthesis and characterization of silicon nanocrystals (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Bhardwaj, Ashish Ishwar Singh — All-Optical Logic Circuits Based on the Polarization Properties of Non-Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lee, Robert Bumju — All-Optical Wavelength Conversion by Four-Wave Mixing in a Semiconductor Optical Amplifier (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Park, Namkyoo — Application of fiber amplifiers to fiber lasers and terahertz spectroscopy (1994, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Shen, Boqiang — Applications and Integration of Optical Frequency Combs (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Lan — Fabrication and Characterization of Microlasers by the Sol-Gel Method (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Spillane, Sean Michael — Fiber-Coupled Ultra-High-Q Microresonators for Nonlinear and Quantum Optics (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zhou, Jianhui — Four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers for terahertz spectroscopy and wavelength conversion (1995, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Bohan — Frequency Stabilization and Frequency Conversion in High-Q Silicon Nitride Microresonators (2026, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wu, Lue Leo — Greater Than One Billion Optical Q Factor for On-Chip Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paslaski, Joel Stephen — High Speed Optoelectronics: Photodiodes, Q-Switched Laser Diode and Photoconductive Sampling (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Rokhsari Azar, Hossein — High-Q Microcavities: Optomechanical Nonlinearities, Measurement Techniques and Applications (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Oh, Dong Yoon — Integrated Nonlinear Photonic Devices (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Kiyoul — Integrated Ultra-High-Q Nonlinear Photonic Platform for On-Chip Optoelectronic Systems (2018, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Geraghty, David Francis — Investigation of wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers (1997, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Zarem, Hal — Investigations of quantum wires, carrier diffusion lengths, and carrier lifetimes in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Newkirk, Michael Avery — Investigations of semiconductor laser modulation dynamics and field fluctuations (1991, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Wang, Heming — Kerr Solitons and Brillouin Lasers in Optical Microresonators (2021, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Lai, Yu-Hung — Microresonator Brillouin Laser Gyroscope (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Suh, Myoung-Gyun — Nonlinear Optics in Chip-based Microresonators and their Applications (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Li, Jiang — Nonlinear Optics in Planar Silica-on-Silicon Disk Resonators (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Kippenberg, Tobias Jan August — Nonlinear Optics in Ultra-High-Q Whispering-Gallery Optical Microcavities (2004, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yang, Qifan — Nonlinear Physics in Soliton Microcombs (2019, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Cai, Ming — Optical Fiber Taper Coupled Glass Microsphere Resonators (2001, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ji, Qingxin — Optical Frequency Division Using High-Q Integrated Photonics (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Tsai, Charles Su-Chang — Optoelectronic structure fabrication by organometallic vapor-phase epitaxy and selective epitaxy (1996, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hoenk, Michael Eugene — Orientation selective effects in III-V heterostructure systems with application to nanostructure fabrication (1990, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Ostby, Eric Paul — Photonic Whispering-Gallery Resonators in New Environments (2009, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Paiella, Roberto — Physics and application of four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifiers (1999, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Gao, Maodong — Physics and Applications of Compact Optical Frequency Comb (2025, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yi, Xu — Physics and Applications of Microresonator Solitons and Electro-optic Frequency Combs (2017, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Yuan, Zhiquan — Physics and Applications of Optical Nonlinearity in High-Q Microresonators (2024, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Sercel, Peter C. — Semiconductor structures in the quantum size regime (1992, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Dawson, Jay W. — Single and multiple frequency fiber lasers (1993, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Hunziker, Guido H. — Spectroscopy and wavelength conversion by four-wave mixing in semiconductor optical amplifers (1998, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Armani, Deniz Karapetian — Ultra-High-Q Planar Microcavities and Applications (2005, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Min, Bumki — Ultrahigh–Q Microtoroid On-Chip Resonators for Low Threshold Microlasers (2006, Dissertation (Ph.D.))
• Chen, Tong — Ultralow-Loss Silica Resonators and Waveguides on a Silicon Chip (2013, Dissertation (Ph.D.))