Dr. Mostafa Khalil
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Assistant Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Software Engineering
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Seeking innovative research partners to collaborate on next-generation photonics and quantum technologies. Let's start something!
Background
Educational Background
Postdoctoral Fellow Quantum and Nanotechnologies Research Centre, National Research Council of Canada, 2025
Postdoctoral Fellow Engineering Physics, McMaster University, 2025
PhD Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 2024
MSc Electrical and Computer Engineering, McGill University, 2020
BSc Electrical Engineering, Alexandria University, 2018
Biography
Mostafa Khalil has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical and Software Engineering at the University of Calgary since September 2025.
After earning his BSc in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University in 2018, Dr. Khalil pursued graduate studies at McGill University, completing his MSc in 2020 on electro-optic frequency comb generation using silicon photonic modulators, followed by a PhD in 2024 on enabling technologies for coherent optical communications.
From April 2024 to April 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the department of Engineering Physics at McMaster University, where he designed thin-film Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3)-based photonic integrated circuits for entangled photon pair generation. He also contributed to a satellite-based free-space optical communication system in collaboration with the NRC.
From May 2025 to August 2025, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the NRC, where he explored quantum optical microcombs for squeezed light generation, and dual-comb spectroscopic systems based on quantum dot mode-locked lasers.
His current research focuses on:
- Investigating quantum optical microcombs to generate squeezed photons.
- Developing squeezed dual-comb spectroscopic systems using quantum optical microcombs and quantum dot lasers (coherent comb sources).
- Integrating ferroelectric materials, including barium titanate (BaTiO₃) and lithium niobate (LiNbO₃), into silicon photonic platforms to demonstrate light squeezing for quantum sensing applications.
Dr. Khalil has authored nearly 40 publications and serves as a reviewer for IEEE Photonics and Optica.
Research
Areas of Research
Participation in university strategic initiatives
Awards
- Best paper and presentation award, Signal Processing in Photonic Communications (SPPCom). 2023
- The Graduate Research Enhancement and Travel Awards (GREAT Awards), McGill University. 2023
Publications
- Performance of quantum-dash mode-locked lasers (QD-MLLDs) for high-capacity coherent optical communications. Mostafa Khalil, Yuxuan Xie, Essam Berikaa, Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, Philip J Poole, Guocheng Liu, John Weber, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen. Optics express. (2023)
- Performance of quantum-dash mode-locked laser diode (QD-MLLD) for data rates beyond Tb/s in WDM coherent transmission over 80 km-SMF. Mostafa Khalil, Essam Berikaa, Md Samiul Alam, Kh Arif Shahriar, Yuxuan Xie, Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, Philip J Poole, John Weber, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen. Signal Processing in Photonic Communications. (2023)
- Experimental demonstration of quantum encryption in phase space with displacement operator in coherent optical communications. Mostafa Khalil, Adrian Chan, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen, Randy Kuang. EPJ Quantum Technology. (2024)
- Encryption in phase space for classical coherent optical communications. Adrian Chan, Mostafa Khalil, Kh Arif Shahriar, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen, Randy Kuang. Scientific Reports. (2023)
- Applications of Quantum Dash Mode-Locked Laser in Microwave Photonics. Yuxuan Xie, Mostafa Khalil, Hao Sun, Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, Philip J Poole, John Weber, Guocheng Liu, Mohamed Rahim, Lawrence R Chen. Electromagnetic Science. (2025)
- Electrically reconfigurable waveguide Bragg grating filters. Mostafa Khalil, Hao Sun, Essam Berikaa, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen. Optics Express. (2022)
- Reconfigurable microwave photonic filter enabled by a quantum dash mode-locked laser. Hao Sun, Mostafa Khalil, David V Plant, Lawrence R Chen, Jiaren Liu, Zhenguo Lu, Philip J Poole, John Weber. 2021 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC). (2021)
- Optical frequency comb generation using CMOS compatible cascaded Mach–Zehnder modulators. Zifei Wang, Ming Ma, Hao Sun, Mostafa Khalil, Rhys Adams, Kathy Yim, Xian Jin, Lawrence R Chen. IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. (2019)
More Information
I am currently recruiting Masters and PhD students to join my group. Please send me your CV and a brief statement of research interests to: mostafa.khalil@ucalgary.ca
I look forward to working with you.
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