Dr. Richard DeSalvo – is a Senior Scientist in Harris Corporation’s Photonics Core Technology Center. Richard’s technical areas include coherent analog fiber optic system development, RF photonic sub-system insertion, optical arbitrary waveform generation, optics and photonics for high-speed lightwave communication systems, next generation wireless networks for future military systems, Dynamic Spectrum Access in Tactical Radio Networks, and development of soft x-ray sources for decontamination against biological pathogens.  Prior to rejoining Harris in 2004, Richard was the Senior Scientist for JDSU’s Transmission System Group where he worked in developing 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s transponder technologies.  Richard graduated with a B.S. degree in Physics in 1988 from Jacksonville University and a Ph.D. degree in Physics in 1993 from the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers (CREOL). His seminal paper on second-order cascading nonlinearities, “Self-Focusing and Self-defocusing by Cascaded Second-Order Effects in KTP”, R. DeSalvo, D.J. Hagan, M. Sheik-Bahae, G. Stegeman, E.W. Van Stryland, and H. Vanherzeele, Opt. Lett. Vol. 17, 28-30, (1992), was one of the top 25 cited papers in the Optical Society of America’s Optics Letters and has redefined the field of cascaded second–order nonlinear optics as described in the following article, “The Impact of Optics Letters on Science and Technology”, Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 7, 34-42, (2002).   Richard’s paper led to the theory and development of spatial optical solutions and many other new phenomena.  Dr. DeSalvo holds 11 US patents and is a Senior Member of the IEEE.