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Dr. Feruz Ganikhanov

Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
Hodges Hall, B-20
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
voice: (304) 293-3422 (ext. 1408)
fax: (304) 293-5732
e-mail: Feruz.Ganikhanov@mail.wvu.edu

Professional background

• 2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, West Virginia University
• 2004-2006 Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Wellman Center for
  Photomedicine, Harvard University

• 2000-2003 Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems
• 1999-2000 Senior Laser Physicist, Inrad Inc.
• 1996-1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Applied Physics and
  Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University

Research interests

• Optical, nonlinear optical and spectroscopic imaging for biomedical and biophysics applications.
• Ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics of soft- and traditional condensed matter
• Solid state photonics/tunable lasers

Representative publications

• Ganikhanov F, Evans CL, Saar BG, et al. High-sensitivity vibrational imaging with frequency modulation coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FM CARS) microscopy. Opt. Lett. 31, 1872 (2006)
• Ganikhanov F, Carrasco S, Xie XS, et al. Broadly tunable dual-wavelength light source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. Opt. Lett. 31, 1292 (2006)
• Ganikhanov F, Caughey T, Vodopyanov KL. Narrow-linewidth middle-infrared ZnGeP2 optical parametric oscillator. JOSA B 18, 818 (2001)
• Ganikhanov F, Burr KC, Hilton DJ, et al. Femtosecond optical-pulse-induced absorption and refractive-index changes in GaAs in the midinfrared. Phys. Rev. B 60, 8890 (1999)
• Ganikhanov F, Burr KC, Tang CL. Ultrafast dynamics of holes in GaAs probed by two-color femtosecond spectroscopy. Appl.Phys.Lett. 73, 64 (1998)
• Ganikhanov F, Vallee F. Coherent TO phonon relaxation in GaAs and InP.
  Phys. Rev. B 55, 15614 (1997)