Dr. Feruz Ganikhanov
Assistant Professor
Department of Physics
PO BOX 6315 (Hodges Hall, B-20)
West Virginia University
Morgantown, WV 26506
voice: (304) 293-3422 (ext. 1408)
fax: (304) 293-5732
e-mail: Feruz.Ganikhanov@mail.wvu.edu
Professional background
2006- Assistant Professor, Department of Physics, West Virginia University
2004-2006 Research Scientist, Department of Chemistry and Wellman Center for
Photomedicine, Harvard University
2000-2003 Member of Technical Staff, Lucent Technologies/Agere Systems
1999-2000 Senior Laser Physicist, Inrad Inc.
1996-1999 Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Applied Physics and
Department of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University
Research interests
Optical, nonlinear optical and spectroscopic imaging for biomedical and biophysics applications.
Ultrafast spectroscopy and nonlinear optics of soft- and traditional condensed matter
Solid state photonics/tunable lasers
Teaching
Nonlinear Optics, PHYS797 (Spring 2007)
General Physics, PHYS111 (Spring 2008)
Recent publications
Ch. Pfeffer, B. Olsen, F.Ganikhanov, F.Legare. Multimodal nonlinear optical imaging of collagen arrays. J. Struct. Biol. doi:10.1016/j.jsb2008.07.002
Ganikhanov F, Evans CL, Saar BG, et al. High-sensitivity vibrational imaging with frequency modulation coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (FM CARS) microscopy. Opt. Lett. 31, 1872 (2006)
Ganikhanov F, Carrasco S, Xie XS, et al. Broadly tunable dual-wavelength light source for coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy. Opt. Lett. 31, 1292 (2006))