dr. J.A. Alvarez Chavez (Jose)

My name is Jose Alfredo Alvarez-Chavez, from Mexico city. I am an assistant professor at the Optical Sciences group in the TNW faculty.

I have work experience in Industry as a Photonics design engineer in the USA at Xtera Communications developing Raman fiber amplifiers for ultra-long haul telecommunication systems; in the UK at Southampton Photonics developing pulsed fiber lasers for material processing. In Mexico, as an outside plant engineer, for the two largest telecom companies in the country designing the country’s main optical fiber infrastructure.

My education consists of a BEng in electro-mechanics, a MSc in telecommunications in non-linear fiber optics and a PhD in the field of Ytterbium-doped high-power fiber lasers, with several world records at the time.

Engineering & Materials Science

# Fiber Amplifiers
# Fiber Lasers
# Fibers
# Optical Fibers
# Polarization
# Single Mode Fibers

Physics & Astronomy

# Fiber Lasers
# Fibers

Faculty of Science and Technology (TNW), Optical Sciences (OS)

Schoppink, J. J. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , & Fernandez Rivas, D. (2024). Laser beam properties and microfluidic confinement control thermocavitation. Applied physics letters, 124(1), Article 014102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0186998

Sánchez-Lara, R., López-Martínez, J. L., Trejo-Sánchez, J. A. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Álvarez-Chávez, J. A. (2023). Implementation and evaluation of two parallel computational models for the simulation of a long-haul DWDM system limited by FWM. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1002/cpe.7964

Jauregui-Vazquez, D., Baron-Casique, J., Guevara-Hernandez, S. D. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A., Fuentes-Ocampo, L., Mejia-Vega, O. A., & Hernandez-Garcia, J. C. (2023). Multimode optical fiber interrogator-based LiDAR for intravenous drip monitoring. Optical Fiber Technology, 81, Article 103516. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yofte.2023.103516

Schoppink, J. J. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , & Rivas, D. F. (2023). Laser beam properties and microfluidic confinement control thermocavitation. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.09046

Cancino-Moreno, A. D., López-Marure, A., Luna-Domínguez, J. H., Morales-Ramírez, Á. D. J., Ortega-Avilés, M. , Álvarez-Chávez, J. A., & García-Hernández, M. (2023). Effect of Glymo on the Morphological and Optical Properties of Eu3+-Doped Lu2SiO5 Films. Coatings, 13(5), Article 915. https://doi.org/10.3390/coatings13050915

Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A., Lozano-Hernandez, T., Estudillo-Ayala, J. M., Sierra-Hernandez, J. M. , & Offerhaus, H. L. (2023). Fiber Laser Sensor Configurations for Refractive Index, Temperature and Strain: A Review. Photonics, 10(5), Article 495. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10050495

May, L. D. L. C., Beltran, E. M., Benavides, O., Gil, A. F., Pacheco, A. Y. P. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2023). Maximum Pump Power Coupled in Raman Resonator for Maximum Power Delivered at 1115 and 1175 nm. Photonics, 10(5), Article 531. https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics10050531

Sanchez-Lara, R., Ceballos-Herrera, D., Vazquez-Avila, J. L., de la Cruz-May, L. , Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2023). Effect of temperature profiles on Yb³⁺-doped fiber amplifiers. Optical Fiber Technology, 78, Article 103317. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yofte.2023.103317

Ghobadi, H. (2023). Effects of material parameters on the nonlinear refraction of Transparent Conducting Oxides in the Epsilon-Near-Zero spectral region. [PhD Thesis - Research UT, graduation UT, University of Twente]. University of Twente. https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036556057

Ghobadi, H. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , Morales-Masis, M., & De leon, I. (2023). Understanding the conditions for the optimum nonlinear refraction of epsilon-near-zero films based on transparent conducting oxides. Optics express, 31(5), 8775-8784. https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.482144

Castillo-Perez, R. , Ek-Ek, J. R., Jacome-Peñaherrera, C. E. , Jauregui-Vazquez, D., Sanchez-Lara, R. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2023). Comparative modal analysis in micro–nano-optical fiber tapers using spectral parameter power series method and exact modes method. Journal of Computational Electronics, 22(2), 690-697. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10825-023-02006-y

Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Korterik, J. P. , Offerhaus, H. L., Rojas-Laguna, R. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2023). Strain optical fiber sensor with modified sensitivity based on the vernier effect. Instrumentation Science and Technology, 51(4), 421-434. https://doi.org/10.1080/10739149.2022.2150005

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Korterik, J. P. , Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Morales-Masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Optical Properties and Nonlinear Optical Response of Zirconium-doped Indium Oxide in the Epsilon-Near-Zero Region. In Nonlinear Photonics, NP 2022 Article NpTu4F.6 (Optics InfoBase Conference Papers). Optica Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1364/NP.2022.NpTu4F.6

Castillo-Pérez, R. , Ek-Ek, J. R., Jácome-Peñaherrera, C. E., Pérez-Sanchez, G. G. , Jáuregui-Vazquez, D. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Álvarez-Chávez, J. A. (2022). Spectral Parameter Power Series and Exact Modes: Analysis for Micro- and -Nano Optical Fiber Tapers. In Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides and Materials, BGPP 2022 Article JTu2A.27 (Optics InfoBase Conference Papers). Optica Publishing Group.

Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Korterik, J. P., Estudillo-Ayal, J. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2022). A Thin Core Optical Fiber Strain Sensing Setup. In Bragg Gratings, Photosensitivity and Poling in Glass Waveguides and Materials, BGPP 2022 Article JTu2A.6 Optica Publishing Group. https://doi.org/10.1364/BGPPM.2022.JTu2A.6

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Korterik, J. P. , Alvarez‐Chavez, J. A. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Morales‐Masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Broadband Nonlinear Optical Response of Indium–Zirconium Oxide in the Epsilon‐Near‐Zero Region. Advanced Optical Materials, 10(24), Article 2201748. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201748, https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202201748

Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Korterik, J. P. , Offerhaus, H. L., Sierra-Hernandez, J. M. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2022). Reflection-based Optical Fiber Strain Sensor Using Polarization Maintaining and Thin Core Fibers. IEEE photonics technology letters, 34(21), 1199-1202. https://doi.org/10.1109/LPT.2022.3206011

Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Korterik, J. P. , Osornio-Martinez, C. E., Estudillo-Ayala, J. M. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2022). A strain reflection-based fiber optic sensor using thin core and standard single-mode fibers. Optics communications, 522, Article 128659. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2022.128659

Ek-Ek, J. R. , Jauregui-Vazquez, D. , Korterik, J. P. , Benedictus, M., Martinez-Pinon, F. , Offerhaus, H. L. , & Alvarez-Chavez, J. A. (2022). Dual tapered optical fiber for simultaneous detection of curvature and strain. Optical Fiber Technology, 69, Article 102843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yofte.2022.102843

Ghobadi, H. , Smirnov, Y. , Offerhaus, H. L. , Alvarez-chavez, J. A. , Morales-Masis, M., & De Leon, I. (2022). Optical properties of highly-crystalline tin-doped indium oxide films in their near-zero permittivity spectral region. Optical materials express, 12(1), 96-108. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.445652

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