Hussein Eissa Abdel Salam Kotb Profile

Hussein Eissa Abdel Salam Kotb

Associate Professor at Electronics Engineering and Electrical Communications

Career Information

Academic Information

Brief

He was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1980. He received the B.S. and M.S. degrees from Electronics and Communication Department, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University, Cairo, in 2002 and 2006, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada, in 2015.
In September 2002, he was a Teaching Assistant with the Engineering Physics and Mathematics Department, Ain Shams University. In July 2003, he joined the National Telecommunication Institute (NTI), Cairo. From September 2007 to June 2009, he was a Teacher Assistant with French University, Cairo. From February 2008 to August 2010, he was a Research Assistant with the Laboratory for Lasers and Optical Communications, Ain Shams University. His Ph.D. research focused on the implementation of femtosecond fiber lasers for biomedical applications. His current interest is the design and implementation of continuous wave and pulsed-mode fiber lasers for telecommunication and sensing applications.
He is currently an Assistant Professor in the Laboratory for Lasers and Optical Communications, department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University.
His research interests are:
1-Fiber lasers for telecommunications, biomedical, and sensing applications
2-Nonlinear optics: design of mode-locked fiber lasers

Awards

The 1st place in the best paper award to the paper “Tunable Microwave Single-Bandpass Photonic Filter Based on Amplified MEMS-Based Gires–Tournois Interferometer” in National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 37th, 2020.
Best scientific publication from Misr Elkheir Foundation in 2013 for: Hussein E. Kotb, M. Y. Shalaby, and M. H. Ahmed,” Generation of nanosecond optical pulses with controlled repetition rate using in-cavity intensity modulated Brillouin Erbium Fiber Laser”, Progress In Electromagnetics Research (PIER), vol. 113, pp: 313 – 331, 2011.
International society for optics and photonics (SPIE) Scholarship for graduate students in May 2011.

Publications

1. Abdelalim, M.A., Kotb, H.E., Joseph, E., Othman, A.M., Anis, H., " Erratum: Experimental and Numerical Demonstration on the Gain and Power Saturation of Yb-Doped Double-Clad Fiber Amplifiers in Multiwavelength CW and Ultrafast Pulsed Operation (IEEE Phot. J. (2018) 10: 1 (100212) DOI: 10.1109/JPHOT.2017.2780242) ", IEEE Photonics Journal, 2021
2. Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Abdallah, M.S., Omran, H., " MEMS-SOA Spectrum-Sliced Auto-Equalized Source Enabling Uniformly Tunable Microwave Photonic Filter ", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 2021
3. Terra, O., Hussein, H.M., Kotb, H., " Soliton mode-locked fiber laser for distance measurements ", Applied Optics, 2021
4. Shawki, H.A., Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Comprehensive study on the parameters affecting the line-width and stability of SOA-based SLM random fiber laser ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2020
5. Othman, A.M., Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Khalil, D., " Micro-Electro-Mechanical System Fourier Transform Infrared (MEMS FT-IR) Spectrometer Under Modulated–Pulsed Light Source Excitation ", Applied Spectroscopy, 2020
6. Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Abdallah, M.S., Sayed, M.O.M., Omran, H., " Tunable Microwave Single-Bandpass Photonic Filter Based on Amplified Mems-Based Gires-Tournois Interferometer ", National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Proceedings, 2020
7. Othman, A.M., Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Khalil, D., " Combining MEMS FTIR spectrometer and widened-spectrum mode-locked fiber laser for gas-sensing ", Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2019
8. Othman, A.M., Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Khalil, D., " Combining MEMS FTIR spectrometer and widened-spectrum mode-locked fiber laser for gas-sensing ", 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019, 2019
9. Kotb, H.E., Abdallah, M.S., Elhehyawy, H., Sabry, Y.M., Omran, H., " MEMS-based tunable single-passband microwave photonic filter ", Optics InfoBase Conference Papers, 2019
10. Kotb, H.E., Abdallah, M.S., Elhehyawy, H., Sabry, Y.M., Omran, H., " MEMS-based tunable single-passband microwave photonic filter ", 2019 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2019, 2019
11. Shawki, H., Kotb, H., Khalil, D., " Modeling and characterization of a dual-wavelength SOA-based single longitudinal mode random fiber laser with tunable separation ", OSA Continuum, 2019
12. Abdelalim, M.A., Kotb, H.E., Joseph, E., Othman, A.M., Anis, H., " Experimental and numerical demonstration on the gain and power saturation of Yb-doped double-clad fiber amplifiers in multiwavelength CW and ultrafast pulsed operation ", IEEE Photonics Journal, 2018
13. Othman, A.M., Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y., Khalil, D., " MEMS-based Fourier transform spectrometer using pulsed infrared light source ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018
14. Shawki, H.A., Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Narrow line width dual wavelength EDFA based random fiber laser ", National Radio Science Conference, NRSC, Proceedings, 2018
15. Shawki, H.A., Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Narrow line width dual wavelength semiconductor optical amplifier based random fiber laser ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2018
16. Othman, A.M., Kotb, H.E., Sabry, Y.M., Terra, O., Khalil, D.A., " Toward On-Chip MEMS-Based Optical Autocorrelator ", Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2018
17. Omran, H., Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Dual wavelength SOA based fiber ring laser ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017
18. Shawki, H.A., Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Narrow line width semiconductor optical amplifier based random laser ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2017
19. Shawki, H., Kotb, H., Khalil, D., " Single-longitudinal-mode broadband tunable random laser ", Optics Letters, 2017
20. Kotb, H., Abdelalim, M., Anis, H., " Generalized Analytical Model for Dissipative Soliton in All-Normal-Dispersion Mode-Locked Fiber Laser ", IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2016
21. Abdelalim, M.A., Kotb, H.E., Anis, H., Tchouragoulov, S., " Power-scaled dissipative soliton using double-cladding-pumped Yb-doped all-fiber amplifier ", Photonics Research, 2016
22. Kotb, H., Abdelalim, M.A., Anis, H., " Effect of narrow spectral filter position on the characteristics of active similariton mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser ", Optics Express, 2015
23. Kotb, H.E., Abdelalim, M.A., Anis, H., " An Efficient Semi-Vectorial Model for All-Fiber Mode-Locked Femtosecond Lasers Based on Nonlinear Polarization Rotation ", IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 2014
24. Kotb, H.E., Abdelalim, M.A., Anis, H., " Effect of mode locking technique on the filtering bandwidth limitation in all normal dispersion femtosecond fiber laser ", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 2014
25. Kotb, H.E., Abdelalim, M.A., Bock, K.J., Anis, H., " Peak power optimization of optical pulses using low-doped gain-medium in femtosecond fiber laser ", Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2013
26. Bock, K.J., Kotb, H.E., Abdelalim, M.A., Anis, H., " Increasing energy in an ytterbium femtosecond fiber laser with a longer gain medium and lower doping ", Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE, 2012
27. Kotb, H.E., Shalaby, M.Y., Ahmed, M.H., " Generation of nanosecond optical pulses with controlled repetition rate using incavity intensity modulated brillouin erbium fiber laser ", Progress in Electromagnetics Research, 2011
28. Kotb, H.E., Safwat, A.M.E., Boghdady, H., Khalil, D.A.M., " RF optoelectronic oscillator using a directly modulated semiconductor laser and a fiber optical ring filter ", Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, 2009
29. Kotb, H.E., Khalil, D., " Multiple quantum well laser diode parameter extraction using the im response ", EUROCON 2007 - The International Conference on Computer as a Tool, 2007
30. Kotb, H.E., Safwat, A.E., Boghdady, H., Khalil, D., " Tuning of an RF optoelectronic oscillator ", 2006 International Topical Meeting on Microwave Photonics, MWP, 2006
31. Osama Terra, Haitham M. Hussein, Hussein Kotb, " Distance Measurement System Based on Mode-Locked Laser ", 2023 International Microwave and Antenna Symposium (IMAS), 2023
32. Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser M. Sabry, Mohab S. Abdallah, Haitham Omran, " MEMS-SOA Tunable Optoelectronic Oscillator ", 2022 39th National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 2022
33. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, Yasser M. Sabry, Hanan Anis, Diaa Khalil, " Numerical Study of Parabolic Pulse Generation in Backward-Pumped Erbium-Doped Fiber Amplifiers ", IEEE Photonics Journal, 2022
34. Yasmine I. Abdelhak, Fady Kamel, Moustafa Hafez, Hussein E. Kotb, Haitham A. Omran, Tawfik Ismail, Hassan Mostafa, " Radio Optical Network Simulation Tool (RONST) ", Computers, Materials & Continua, 2022
35. Mohamed A. Abdelalim, Hussein E. Kotb, Ebin Joseph, Ahmed M. Othman, Hanan Anis, " Corrections to: Experimental and Numerical Demonstration on the Gain and Power Saturation of Yb-Doped Double-Clad Fiber Amplifiers in Multiwavelength CW and Ultrafast Pulsed Operation ", IEEE Photonics Journal, 2021
36. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser M. Sabry, Osama Terra, Diaa A. Khalil, " Corrections to “Toward On-Chip MEMS-Based Optical Autocorrelator” [Oct 18 5003-5009] ", Journal of Lightwave Technology, 2019

Research Projects

Multi-wavelength laser source based on silicon micro-resonator and dense wavelength division de-multiplexer funded by ITIDA –ITAC PRP Program Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Egypt Feb. 2022 to Jan. 2023.
Ring Laser Cavities for Distance Measurement from 2019 to 2020.
Ultra-Wide Band over Fiber (UWBoF) System Optimization using Radio-Optical Network Simulation Tool (RONST) funded by NTRA 2017 to 2019.
Tunable Ultra-Low Phase Noise MEMS-Based Optoelectronic Oscillator at LTE Frequency Bands funded by ITIDA –ITAC PRP Program Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, Egypt 2018 to 2019.
Terahertz Spectrometer for Detection of Chemicals and Exclusives funded by STDF 2015 to 2016.