Rate My Professor Shahraam Afshar

Shahraam Afshar Vahid is an Associate Professor in the College of Science at Adelaide University, within the School of Physics, Chemistry and Earth Sciences. He is also affiliated with the Laser Physics and Photonic Devices Laboratories at the School of Engineering of the University of South Australia. He received his PhD in physics, with a focus on laser and nonlinear optics, from the University of Adelaide in 2001. Following his doctorate, he joined the fibre optics group at the University of Ottawa as a postdoctoral fellow, working on fibre-optic distributed strain and temperature sensors based on Brillouin scattering. He later received an NCIT fellowship from the National Capital Institute of Telecommunication in Canada to continue research on Brillouin scattering in photonic crystal fibres.

In 2005, Afshar Vahid joined the Centre of Expertise in Photonics at the University of Adelaide, which later became part of the Institute for Photonics and Advanced Sensing. In 2015, he contributed to the formation of the Laser Physics and Photonic Devices Laboratories at the University of South Australia. His research focuses on optical processes in high-index waveguides with complex structures and their applications in linear and nonlinear processes, including nonlinear processes in subwavelength waveguides, radiation of dipoles near optical fibres, and the nonlinear Fourier transform for high-capacity fibre optic communication. Key research interests include photonics, optical waveguides, subwavelength optical waveguides, nonlinear optics and nonlinear guided optics, whispering gallery mode resonators, THz waveguides, bandgap optical fibres, and optical sensors.