SudarshanSivaramakrishnan received the B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering and the B.S. degree in mathematics in 2010, and the M.S.E. degree in electrical engineering in 2012, from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering within the concentration of optics/photonics. His research work includes fiber lasers and nonlinear optics. electrical engineering with a minor in optics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 2012, with the study of passive and active fiber laser array coherent beam combining. He is currently a Researcher with IMRA America, Inc., working on rare-earthdoped ultrafast fiber oscillators and amplifiers, and frequency comb systems.Almantas Galvanauskas is currently a Professor with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department, University of Michigan. He has been involved in fiber lasers for over 20 years, and has over 200 publications, including approximately 30 patents and patent applications. He had pioneered ultrashort-pulse fiber CPA, and his work had resulted in demonstrating several record-breaking achievements in performance of fiber lasers. Prior to joining the University of Michigan, he spent eight years in industrial R&D. His current work spans areas from novel fiber designs to advanced fiber laser systems, including spatially, temporally, and time multiplexing of ultrashort pulse signals, and new fiber laser applications, such as high-intensity laser plasma produced EUV and X-ray generation, and particle generation and laser plasma acceleration.