Hussein Eissa Abdel Salam Kotb

Assistant 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 laser for biomedical application. 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.

Articles

1. Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser Sabry, M. S. Abdallah and Haitham Omran, “MEMS-SOA Spectrum-Sliced Auto-Equalized Source Enabling Uniformly Tunable Microwave Photonic Filter,” vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 15-18, 1 Jan.1, 2021, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, doi: 10.1109/LPT.2020.3041439.
2. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser Sabry, and Diaa Khalil, “Micro–Electro–Mechanical Fourier Transform Infrared (MEMS FT-IR) Spectrometer under Modulated/Pulsed Light Source Excitation,” Applied Spectroscopy, vol. 74, no. 7, pp: 799-807, 2020.
3. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Modeling and characterization of a dual-wavelength SOA-based single longitudinal mode random fiber laser with tunable separation,” OSA Continuum, vol. 2, no. 2, pp: 358-369, 2019.
4. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser Sabry, Osama Terra, and Diaa Khalil, “Toward On-Chip MEMS-Based Optical Autocorrelator,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 36, no. 20, pp: 5003-5009, 2018.
5. Mohamed A. Abdelalim, Hussein E. Kotb, Ebin Joseph, Ahmed M. Othman, and Hanan Anis, “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, vol. 10, no. 1, pp: 7100212(1-13), 2018.
6. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Single-longitudinal-mode broadband tunable random laser,” Optics Letters, vol. 42, no. 16, pp: 3247 – 3250, 2017.
7. Mohamed A. Abdelalim, Hussein E. Kotb, Hanan Anis, and Serguei Tchouragoulov, “Power-scaled dissipative soliton using double-cladding-pumped Yb-doped all-fiber amplifier,” Photonics Research, vol. 4, no. 6,pp: 277 – 280, 2016.
8. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, and Hanan Anis, “Generalized analytical model for dissipative soliton in all normal dispersion mode locked fiber laser,” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 22, no. 2,pp: 1100209 (1 – 9), 2016.
9. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, and Hanan Anis, “Effect of narrow spectral filter position on the characteristics of active similariton mode-locked femtosecond fiber laser,” Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 23, pp: 29660 – 29674, 2015.
10. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, and Hanan Anis, “An efficient semi-vectorial model for all-Fiber mode-locked femtosecond lasers based on nonlinear polarization rotation” IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 20, no. 5, pp: 1100809 (1 – 9), 2014.
11. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, Katherine J. Bock and Hanan Anis, “Peak power optimization of optical pulses using low-doped gain-medium in femtosecond fiber laser” IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 31, no. 13, pp: 2230 – 2236, 2013.
12. 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.
13. Hussein E. Kotb, A. M. E. Safwat, H. Boghdady, Diaa A. Khalil, “RF optoelectronic oscillator using a directly modulated semiconductor laser and a fiber optical ring filter”, Microwave and Optical Technology Letters, vol. 21, no. 2, pp: 470:475, 2009.

Publications

1. Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser M. Sabry, Mohab S. Abdallah, Marwan O. M. Sayed, and Haitham Omran, “Tunable Microwave Single-Bandpass Photonic Filter Based on Amplified MEMS-Based Gires–Tournois Interferometer,” National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 37th, 2020.
2. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Comprehensive study on the parameters affecting the line-width and stability of SOA-based SLM Random Fiber Laser,” Proc. SPIE 11260, Fiber Lasers XVII: Technology and Systems, 1126028 (21 February 2020).
3. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser M. Sabry, and Diaa Khalil, “Combined MEMS FTIR Spectrometer and Widened-Spectrum Mode-Locked Fiber Laser for Gas-Sensing,” The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2019, ch_p_12.
4. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohab S. Abdallah, Hussein Elhehyawy, Yasser M. Sabry, and Haitham Omran, “MEMS-Based Tunable Single-Passband Microwave Photonic Filter,” The European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference, 2019, ci_p_7.
5. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Narrow line width dual wavelength EDFA based random fiber laser,” National Radio Science Conference (NRSC), 35th, 2018, P: 433-438.
6. Ahmed M. Othman, Hussein E. Kotb, Yasser Sabry, and Diaa Khalil, “MEMS-based Fourier transform spectrometer using pulsed infrared light source,” SPIE Proceedings Volume 10545, MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems XVII 2018, p: 105450Y (1 – 8).
7. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Narrow line width dual wavelength random laser,” SPIE Proceedings Volume 10512, Fiber Lasers XV: Technology and Systems 2018, p: 105122D (1 – 7).
8. Heba Shawki, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Narrow line width semiconductor optical amplifier based random laser,” SPIE Proceedings Volume 10083, Fiber Lasers XIV: Technology and Systems 2017, p: 100832C (1 – 5).
9. Haitham Omran, Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Dual wavelength SOA based fiber ring laser,” SPIE Proceedings Volume 10083, Fiber Lasers XIV: Technology and Systems 2017, p: 1008322 (1 – 11).
10. Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim, and Hanan Anis, “Effect of mode locking technique on the filtering bandwidth limitation in all normal dispersion femtosecond fiber laser,” SPIE Proceedings Volume 8961, Fiber Lasers XI: Technology, Systems, and Applications, 2014, p: 89613A (1 – 11).
11. Katherine J. Bock, Hussein E. Kotb, Mohamed A. Abdelalim and Hanan Anis,” Increasing energy in an ytterbium femtosecond fiber laser with a longer gain medium and lower doping”, SPIE photonic west conference 2012, p: 823731 (1 – 7).
12. Hussein E. Kotb, and Diaa Khalil, “Multiple quantum well laser diode parameter extraction using the IM response”, EUROCON, The International Conference on "Computer as a Tool", p: 1256 – 1262.

Research Projects

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.