Maithem Salih received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in laser and optoelectronics engineering from Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005 and 2009, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in optoelectronics engineering from the University of Baghdad in 2015. He is a Faculty with Electronics and Communication Engineering, University of Kufa, Iraq, and a Visiting Scholar with Guided Wave Optics Lab, University of Colorado Boulder. His research interests include silicon photonics material and devices, SOH waveguides, nonlinear optical devices.