Microwave Photonics

Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez

Optics, Microwaves and Acoustics

Academic Groups

Dr. Amado M. Velázquez Benítez
Member of the academic staff
Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez obtained his bachelor degree from the Engineering School in the National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM, in 2010. Later on, he continued pursuing his Masters and PhD degrees at the Electrical Engineering Graduate program also in UNAM, obtaining his degrees in 2012 and 2017, respectively. The subjects of research during his studies covered electronics, photonics and optical waveguide devices. He specialized in the area of optical fiber and photonic devices fabrication. After completing his graduate studies, he incorporated in the Institute for Applied Sciences and Technology (ICAT) as an Associate Researcher starting in August 2017. Along his career he has performed different research internships:
  • (2012) Photonics Systems Group at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.
  • (2014-2015) Microstructured Optical Fibers Group in CREOL, The School of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF), USA.
  • (2015) Optical Components Group at Bell Labs in New Jersey, USA.
  • (2018-2019) Electro-Optics Communications Group (ECO) at the University of Technology in Eindhoven (TU/e), The Netherlands.
  • Microfabrication by direct laser writing lithography.
  • Development of 2D and 3D passive integrated photonic systems in glass and polymer materials.
  • Optical fiber and waveguide devices for sensors and telecommunications.
  • Responsible (PAPIIT-UNAM): Optical interconnection of integrated photonics devices.
  • Participant (PAPIIT-UNAM): Study of thermo-electrokinetic interactions in electrostatic atomization processes.
  • Participant (SECTEI-CDMX): Oximeters for the COVID 19 people disease monitoring.

Courses:

  • Photonics; Electrical Engineering graduate program, UNAM.

  • Optical waveguides and photonic devices; Electrical Engineering graduate program, UNAM.

  • Thesis supervised: 3 undergrad y 2 Master’s students.
  • Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez and Juan Hernández-Cordero, Tunable microring resonators using light-activated functional polymer coatings, Opt. Lett. 45, 6030-6033 (2020); https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.399411
  • Velázquez-Benítez, A.M., Antonio-López, J.E., Alvarado-Zacarías, J.C., Fontaine, N.K., Ryf, R., Chen, H., Hernández-Cordero, J., Sillard, P., Okonkwo, C., Leon-Saval, S.G. and Amezcua-Correa, R., Scaling photonic lanterns for space-division multiplexing, Scientific reports, 8(1), p.8897 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-27072-2
  • Amado Velazquez-Benitez, K. Yanín Guerra-Santillán, Raúl Caudillo-Viurquez, Jose Antonio-Lopez, Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, and Juan Hernandez-Cordero, Optical trapping and micromanipulation with a photonic lantern mode multiplexer, Opt. Lett. 43, 1303-1306 (2018); https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.001303
  • Pierre Sillard, Denis Molin, Marianne Bigot-Astruc, Koen De Jongh, Frank Achten, Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, and Chigo M. Okonkwo, Low-Differential-Mode-Group-Delay 9-LP-Mode Fiber, J. Lightwave Technol. 34, 425-430 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2015.2463715
  • Reinher Pimentel-Domínguez, Amado M. Velázquez-Benítez, J. Rodrigo Vélez-Cordero, Mathieu Hautefeuille, Francisco Sánchez-Arévalo, and Juan Hernández-Cordero, Photothermal Effects and Applications of Polydimethylsiloxane Membranes with Carbon Nanoparticles, Polymers, 8(4), 84, 2016; https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym8040084
  • Juan Montoya, Chris Aleshire, Christopher Hwang, Nicolas K. Fontaine, Amado Velázquez-Benítez, Dale H. Martz, T.Y. Fan, and Dan Ripin, Photonic lantern adaptive spatial mode control in LMA fiber amplifiers, Opt. Express 24, 3405-3413 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.24.003405
  • Nicolas K. Fontaine, Roland Ryf; Haoshuo Chen, Amado Velazquez Benitez, J. E. Antonio Lopez, R. Amezcua Correa, Binbin Guan, Burcu Ercan, Ryan P. Scott, S. J. Ben Yoo, Lars Grüner-Nielsen, Yi Sun, Robert J. Lingle, 30×30 MIMO transmission over 15 spatial modes, in Optical Fiber Communication Conference Postdeadline Papers, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper Th5C.1; https://doi.org/10.1364/OFC.2015.Th5C.1
  • A. M. Velazquez-Benitez, J. C. Alvarado, G. Lopez-Galmiche, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, J. Hernández-Cordero, J. Sanchez-Mondragon, P. Sillard, C. M. Okonkwo, and R. Amezcua-Correa, Six mode selective fiber optic spatial multiplexer, Opt. Lett. 40, 1663-1666 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.40.001663
  • John van Weerdenburg, Amado Velázquez-Benitez, Roy van Uden, Pierre Sillard, Denis Molin, Adrian Amezcua-Correa, Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Maxim Kuschnerov, Frans Huijskens, Hugo de Waardt, Ton Koonen, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, and Chigo Okonkwo, 10 Spatial mode transmission using low differential mode delay 6-LP fiber using all-fiber photonic lanterns, Opt. Express 23, 24759-24769 (2015); https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.23.024759
  • Amado M. Velázquez Benítez, Moisés Reyes-Medrano, J. Rodrigo Velez-Cordero, Juan Hernandez-Cordero, Controlled Deposition of Polymer Coatings on Cylindrical Photonic Devices, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 33, 176-182, (2015); https://doi.org/10.1109/JLT.2014.2377173

Graduate

  • Master’s: Oscar González Cortez

Undegraduate

  • Daniel Michell Pérez Ruíz