Dr. Jonathan Habif

PhD ECE, University of Rochester, 2004

Senior Computer Scientist, Information Sciences Institute

Research Assistant Professor, Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

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Dr. Jonathan L. Habif is an experimental physicist and research lead at the University of Southern California information Sciences Institute (ISI). His research has focused on photon-starved, classical communication and imaging, quantum-secured optical communications in free-space and fiber, and integrated nano-photonic for both classical and non-classical applications. Prior to joining ISI, Dr. Habif was with BBN technologies where he served as principal investigator for a number of DARPA-sponsored research programs, partnering with university collaborators to demonstrate revolutionary optical technologies impacting traditional communications, sensing and computation systems.

Selected Publications

  1. Amir Minoofar, Narek Karapetyan, Ahmed Almaiman, Huibin Zhou, Hao Song, Kaiheng Zou, Wing Ko, Muralekrishnan Ramakrishnan, Murali Annavaram, Jonathan L. Habif, Moshe Tur, and Alan E. Willner, “Demonstration of optically-assisted reconfigurable average of two 20-Gbaud 4-phase-encoded data channels using nonlinear wave mixing,” Opt. Lett. 48, 4617-4620 (2023)
  2. Helena Belzer, Andrew Rittenbach, and Jonathan L. Habif, “Detection of laser light scattered from aerosols in a bright background using a balanced coherent receiver,” Opt. Continuum 2, 751-757 (2023)
  3. Haley A. Weinstein, Zhi Cai, Stephen B. Cronin, and Jonathan L. Habif, “Harvesting Planck radiation for free-space optical communications in the long-wave infrared band,” Opt. Lett. 47, 6225-6228 (2022)
  4. Jagannathan A, Grace M, Brasher O, Shapiro JH, Guha S, Habif JL. Demonstration of quantum-limited discrimination of multicopy pure versus mixed states. Physical Review A. 2022 Mar 25;105(3):032446.
  5. Jonathan L. Habif, Arunkumar Jagannathan, Samuel Gartenstein, Phoebe Amory, and Saikat Guha, “Quantum-limited discrimination of laser light and thermal light,” Opt. Express 29, 7418-7427 (2021)
  6. Bash BA, Gheorghe AH, Patel M, Habif JL, Goeckel D, Towsley D, Guha S. Quantum-secure covert communication on bosonic channels. Nature communications. 2015 Oct 19;6(1):8626.
  7. Jaspan, J. L. Habif, S. Nam, R. Hadfield, “Heralding of Entangled Telecom Photons with a Superconducting Single Photon Detector” Applied Physics Letters, v 89, n 3, 2006.
  8. H. Hadfield, J. L. Habif, J. Schlafer, R. E. Schwall, S. Nam, “Quantum Key Distribution at 1550 nm with Twin Superconducting Single Photon Detectors,” Applied Physics Letters, v 89, n 24, 2006.