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• Books and book chapters

• Journal publications

• Conference presentations and proceedings

 

 

 

Books and book chapters

 


M. P. Nezhad, A. Simic, A. Mizrahi, J.-H. Lee, M. Kats, O. Bondarenko, Q. Gu, V. Lomakin, B. Slutsky, and Y. Fainman, “Nanoscale Metallo-Dielectric Coherent Light Sources,” in Compact Semiconductor Lasers, R. M. D. L. Rue, Y. Siyuan, and J.-M. Lourtioz, Eds., Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, pp. 1–32, 2014.

 


Journal publications

  1. J. Richter, A. Abdou, O. A. Williams, J. Witzens, M. P. Nezhad, "CO2 laser micromachining of nanocrystalline diamond films grown on doped silicon substrates," Opt. Mater. Express 6, 3916-3926 (2016).
  2. S. S. Azadeh, F. Merget, M. P. Nezhad, and J. Witzens, “On the measurement of the Pockels effect in strained silicon,” Opt. Lett., vol. 40, no. 8, pp. 1877–1880, Apr. 2015.
  3. Q. Gu, J. S. T. Smalley, M. P. Nezhad, A. Simic, J. H. Lee, M. Katz, O. Bondarenko, B. Slutsky, A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, “Subwavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration,” Adv. Opt. Photonics, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 1–56, Mar. 2014.
  4. F. Merget, S. S. Azadeh, J. Mueller, B. Shen, M. P. Nezhad, J. Hauck, and J. Witzens, “Silicon photonics plasma-modulators with advanced transmission line design,” Opt. Express, vol. 21, no. 17, pp. 19593–19607, Aug. 2013.
  5. Q. Gu, B. Slutsky, F. Vallini, J. S. T. Smalley, M. P. Nezhad, N. C. Frateschi, and Y. Fainman, “Purcell effect in sub-wavelength semiconductor lasers,” Opt. Express, vol. 21, no. 13, pp. 15603–15617, Jul. 2013.
  6. Y. Fainman, M. P. Nezhad, D. T. H. Tan, K. Ikeda, O. Bondarenko, and A. Grieco, “Silicon nanophotonic devices for chip-scale optical communication applications [Invited],” Appl. Opt., vol. 52, no. 4, pp. 613–624, Feb. 2013.
  7. A. Grieco, B. Slutsky, D. T. H. Tan, S. Zamek, M. P. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, “Optical Bistability in a Silicon Waveguide Distributed Bragg Reflector   Fabry-Perot Resonator,” J. Lightwave Technol., vol. 30, no. 14, pp. 2352–2355, Jul. 2012.
  8. J. H. Lee, M. Khajavikhan, A. Simic, Q. Gu, O. Bondarenko, B. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad and Y. Fainman, “Electrically pumped sub-wavelength metallodielectric pedestal pillar lasers," Optics Express, vol. 19, Issue 22, pp. 21524-21531, Oct. 2011.
  9. M. P. Nezhad, O. Bondarenko, M. Khajavikhan, A. Simic and Y. Fainman, “Etch-free low loss silicon waveguides using hydrogen silsesquioxane oxidation masks,” Optics Express, vol. 19, iss. 20, pp. 18827-18832, Sept. 2011.
  10. F. Gholami, S. Zlatanovic, A. Simic, L. Liu, D. Borlaug, N. Alic, M. P. Nezhad, Y. Fainman, and S. Radic, "Third-order nonlinearity in silicon beyond 2350 nm," Applied Physics Letters 99, 081102, Aug. 2011.
  11. O. Bondarenko, A. Simic, Q. Gu, J. H. Lee, B. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad and Y. Fainman, “Wafer bonded Sub-Wavelength Metallo-Dielectric Laser”(Invited, Focus issue), IEEE Photonics Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3, pp 608-616, Jun. 2011.
  12. M. Ayache, M. P. Nezhad, S. Zamek, M. Abashin, and Y. Fainman, “Near-field measurement of amplitude and phase in silicon waveguides with liquid cladding,” Optics Letters, vol. 36, iss. 10, pp. 1869-1871, May 2011.
  13. D.T.H. Tan, K. Ikeda, S. Zamek, A. Mizrahi, M.P. Nezhad, A.V. Krishnamoorthy, K. Raj, J.E. Cunningham, X. Zheng, I. Shubin, Y. Luo and Y. Fainman, “Wide bandwidth, low loss 1 by 4 wavelength division multiplexer on silicon for optical interconnects,” Optics Express, vol. 19,   iss. 3   pp. 2401-2409, Jan. 2011.
  14. S. Zamek, D. T. H. Tan, M. Khajavikhan, M. Ayache, M. P. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, “Compact chip-scale filter based on curved waveguide Bragg gratings,” Optics Letters, vol. 35, no. 20, pp. 3477-3479, Oct. 2010. 
  15. K. Tetz, V. Lomakin, M. P. Nezhad, L. Pang, and Y. Fainman, “Polarization weighting of Fano-type transmission through bi-dimensional metallic gratings,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 911-917, Apr. 2010.
  16. M. P. Nezhad, A. Simic, O. Bondarenko, B. Slutsky, A. Mizrahi, L. Feng, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman “Room-temperature subwavelength metallo-dielectric lasers,” Nature Photonics, vol. 4, no. 6, pp. 395-399, 2010. 
  17. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, B. A. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad, L. Feng, and Y. Fainman, “Low threshold gain metal coated laser nanoresonators,” Optics Letters, vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1261-1263, Jun. 2008. 
  18. K. Ikeda, M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, “Wavelength selective coupler with vertical gratings on silicon chip,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 92, no. 20, p. 201111, 2008. 
  19. R. Jiang, R. Saperstein, N. Alic, M. Nezhad, C. McKinstrie, J. Ford, Y. Fainman, and S. Radic, “Continuous-Wave Band Translation Between the Near-Infrared and Visible Spectral Ranges,” Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 58-66, 2007.
  20. R. Jiang, R. Saperstein, N. Alic, M. Nezhad, C. McKinstrie, J. Ford, Y. Fainman, and S. Radic, “Parametric Wavelength Conversion From Conventional Near-Infrared to Visible Band,” Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE, vol. 18, no. 23, pp. 2445-2447, 2006. 
  21. L. Pang, M. Nezhad, U. Levy, C. Tsai, and Y. Fainman, “Form-birefringence structure fabrication in GaAs by use of SU-8 as a dry-etching mask,” Applied Optics, vol. 44, no. 12, pp. 2377-2381, Apr. 2005. 
  22. U. Levy, M. Nezhad, H. Kim, C. Tsai, L. Pang, and Y. Fainman, “Implementation of a graded-index medium by use of subwavelength structures with graded fill factor,” Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 724-733, Apr. 2005. 
  23. K. A. Tetz, R. Rokitski, M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman, “Excitation and direct imaging of surface plasmon polariton modes in a two-dimensional grating,” Applied Physics Letters, vol. 86, no. 11, p. 111110, 2005.
  24. M. P. Nezhad, K. Tetz, and Y. Fainman, “Gain assisted propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on planar metallic waveguides,” Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 17, pp. 4072-4079, 2004.

Conference presentations and proceedings

 

  1. Nakagawa, W., Klemens, G., Tsai, C. H., Nezhad, M., and Fainman, Y. "Eigenmode analysis of optical propagation in large-scale subwavelength periodic nanostructures," Opt. Soc. America, CLEO (IEEE Cat. No.02CH37337), vol. 1, Washington, DC, 2002, pp. 302-303.
  2. Nezhad, M., Tsai, C. H., Pang, L., Nakagawa, W., Klemens, G., and Fainman, Y. "Form birefringent retardation plates in GaAs substrates: design, fabrication, and characterization," SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.5225, no.1, San Diego, CA, 2003, pp. 69-77.
  3. Pang, L., Nezhad, M., Levy, U., Tsai, C., and Fainman, Y. "Characterization of chemically assisted ion beam etching and form birefringence structure fabrication in GaAs using SU-8," SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol.5720, no.1, San Jose, CA, 2004, pp. 252-260.
  4. Tetz, K. A., Rokitski, R., Nezhad, M., and Fainman, Y. "Excitation and direct imaging of surface plasmon polariton modes in the near-infrared," 2004 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37581). IEEE. Part Vol. 2, Piscataway, NJ, 2004, pp. 947-948.
  5. Fainman, Y., Tetz, K., Levy, U., Nakagawa, W., Tsai, C. H., Chen, C. H., Pang, L., Nezhad, M., Nesci, A., and Sun, P. C. "Nanophotonics for optoelectronic system integration," 2004 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings (IEEE Cat. No.04CH37581). IEEE. Part Vol.1, Piscataway, NJ, 2004, pp. 45-46.     
  6. Levy, U., Tsai, C. H., Nezhad, M., Nakagawa, W., Chen, C. H., Tetz, K. A., Pang, L., and Fainman, Y. "Nanophotonics: materials and devices," SPIE-Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. Proceedings of the SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 5359, no.1, San Jose, CA, 2004, pp. 126-144.
  7. Nezhad, M., Tetz, K., Levy, U., and Fainman, Y. "Propagation of surface plasmon polaritons on the boundary ofa metal and a gain medium," 2004 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference, Vol.2. Piscataway, NJ, 2004, pp. 945-946.
  8. Levy, U., Tsai, C. H., Nezhad, M., Pang, L., and Fainman, Y. "Subwavelength based components for beam shaping applications," Frontiers in Optics, Rochester, NY, 2004.
  9. Fainman, Y., Tetz, K., Rokitski, R., Levy, U., Tsai, C. H., Chen, C. H., Pang, L., Nezhad, M., Kim, H., and Abashin, M. "Nanophotonics for information systems integration," 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting. IEEE. Piscataway, NJ, 2005, pp. 816-17.
  10. Tetz, K. A., Rokitski, R., Nezhad, M., and Fainman, Y. "Characterization of surface plasmon polariton pulse propagation on thin metallic films and two dimensional nanohole arrays," 2005 IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting. IEEE. Piscataway, NJ, 2005, pp. 158-9.
  11. Fainman, Y., Tetz, K. A., Rokitski, R., and Nezhad, M. "Ultra short surface plasmon polaritons in photonic crystal structures," 2005 European Quantum Electronics Conference, EQEC '05. Munich, Germany: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society, vol. 2005, Piscataway, NJ 2005, pp. 475.
  12. Fainman, Y., Tetz, K., Rokitski, R., Levy, U., Tsai, C. H., Chen, C. H., Pang, L., Nezhad, M., Kim, H. C., and Abashin, M. "Nanophotonic Materials and Devices for Information Systems Integration," Frontiers in Optics, Tucson, AZ, 2005, p. FTuJ1.
  13. Tetz, K. A., Pang, L., Nezhad, M., and Fainman, Y. "Optofluidic plasmonics," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Diego, CA. International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6329, Bellingham WA, 2006, pp. 63290.
  14. Fainman, Y., Tetz, K., Rokitski, R., Levy, U., Tsai, C. H., Chen, C. H., Pang, L., Nezhad, M., Kim, H. C., and Abashin, M. "Nanophotonics for Information Systems Integration," Integrated Photonics Research and Applications/Nanophotonics, Uncasville, CT, 2006, p. NThB
  15. Jiang, R., Saperstein, R., Alic, N., Nezhad, M., McKinstrie, C. J., Ford, J., Fainman, Y., and Radic, S. "375 THz Parametric Translation of Modulated Signal from 1550nm to Visible Band," Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exposition and The National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference, Anaheim, CA, 2006, p. PDP16.
  16. Nezhad, M., Zamek, S., Pang, L., and Fainman, Y. "Fabrication techniques for long range surface plasmon waveguides," IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings. IEEE, Piscataway, NJ, 2007, pp. 604-605.
  17. Nezhad, M., Abashin, M., Ikeda, K., Pang, L., Kim, H. C., Levy, U., Tetz, K., Rokitski, R., and Fainman, Y. "Nanophotonics for Information Systems," Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, San Jose, CA, SPIE -International Society for Optical Engineering, vol. 6476, Bellingham WA, 2007, pp. 64760.
  18. Ikeda, K., Kim, H. C., Nezhad, M., Krishnamoorthy, A., Cunningham, J., and Fainman, Y. "Wavelength Selective Coupler with Vertical Gratings on Silicon Chip," Frontiers in Optics, San Jose, CA 2007, p. FTuB2.
  19. Slutsky, B. A., Feng, L., Pang, L., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M., Fainman, Y. “Field localization using resonant plasmonic structures,” SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, 2008, JTuA1. (Invited Paper).
  20. Nezhad, M. and Fainman, Y. “Nanophotonics and plasmonics for integrated optical systems,” SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, 2008 p. 6897-06 (Invited Paper).
  21. Nezhad, M., Zamek, S., Pang, L., Fainman, Y. “Fabrication approaches for metallo-dielectric plasmonic waveguides,” SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, 2008, pp. 68830S-1-68830S-9.
  22. Mizrahi, A., Lomakin, V., Slutsky, B., Nezhad, M., Feng, L., and Fainman, Y. "Metal Coated Subwavelength Laser Resonators with Low Threshold Gain," FIO, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America), Rochester, NY, 2008, paper FTuAA4.
  23. Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B., Mizrahi, A., Feng, L., Lomakin, V., and Fainman, Y. "Room Temperature Lasing from Subwavelength Metal-Insulator-Semiconductor Structures," CLEO/IQEC, OSA Technical Digest (Optical Society of America), Baltimore, MD, 2009, paper CMD2.
  24. Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B., Mizrahi, A., Feng, L., Lomakin, V., and Fainman, Y. "Room Temperature Operation of Subwavelength Metallo-Dielectric Lasers," IPNRA, Optical Society of America, 2009, Honolulu, HI, paper JTuA1.
  25. Tan, D. T. H., Ikeda, K., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M., and Fainman, Y. "Coupled Vertical Gratings on Silicon for Applications in Wavelength Division Multiplexing," SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, CA, January 2010. Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 7607, pp. 760705 1-7, February 2010.
  26. Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Fainman, Y. “Measurement of the Optical Properties of Gold at Cryogenic Temperatures,” presented at OSA Frontiers in Optics (2010).
  27. Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Gu, Q., Lee, J., Khajavikhan, M., Slutsky, B., and Fainman, Y. “Fabrication Approaches for Metallo-Dielectric Nanolasers”, presented at IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO, January 2011.
  28. Nezhad, M., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B.A, Mizrahi, A., and Fainman, Y. “Nanophotonic devices and circuits,” presented at SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco, January 2011. (Invited paper).
  29. Zamek S., Tan D.T.H., Khajavikhan M., Nezhad M.P., and Fainman Y., "Curved Waveguide Bragg Gratings on a Chip presented at OSA Frontiers in Optics (2010)..
  30. Fainman, Y., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M., "Nanophotonics for information systems applications" 2010 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2010, pp. 107-8
  31. Fainman, Y., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M., "Nanophotonics For Information Systems" 2010 9th Euro-American Workshop on Information Optics (WIO 2010), 2010, pp. 2 pp.
  32. Tan, D.T.H., Ikeda, K., Zamek, S., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M., Fainman, Y. "Wavelength selective coupler on silicon for applications in wavelength division multiplexing" 2010 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series, 2010, pp. 203-4
  33. Fainman, Y., Simic, A., Bondarenko, O., Slutsky, B., Mizrahi, A., Nezhad, M.P., "Nanophotonics for integrated information systems" 2010 23rd Annual Meeting of the IEEE Photonics Society, 2010, pp. 283-4
  34. Fainman, Y., Tan, D., Zamek, S., Bondarenko, O., Simic, A., Mizrahi, A., Feng, L., Nezhad, M., Slutsky, B, “Active and passive nanophotonics for information systems applications,” presented at IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO, January 2011.
  35. Ayache M., Nezhad M.P., Zamek S., Abashin M., Fainman Y. "Near-Field Measurement of Amplitude and Phase in Silicon Waveguides with Liquid Cladding" presented at IEEE Photonics Society Winter Topicals, Keystone, CO, January 2011. p.95-96.
  36. Tan D. T. H., Ikeda K., Zamek S., Mizrahi A., Nezhad M.P., Krishnamoorthy A.V., Raj K., Cunningham J.E., Zheng X., Shubin I., Luo Y. and Fainman Y., "Wide Bandwidth, Low Loss 1 by 4 Wavelength Division Multiplexer on Silicon,” 2011 Optical Fiber Communication Conference, March 2011
  37. Fainman Y., Bondarenko O., Simic A., Mizrahi A., Lomakin V., Gu Q., Lee J., Khajavikhan M., Slutsky B., Nezhad  M. P., "Active and passive composite metal-dielectric nanophotonic devices", CLEO 2011.
  38. Lee J. H., Simic A., Khajavikhan M., Bondarenko O., Gu Q., Slutsky B., Nezhad M. P., and Fainman Y., "Electrically Pumped Subwavelength Metallo-dielectric Laser with Low Threshold Gain," CLEO 2011, Baltimore, MD, May, (2011).
  39. Fainman, Y, Tan, D, Grieco, A, Zamek, S, Ikeda, K, Fang, L, Nezhad M., Slutsky, B, “Analog Signal Processing/Filtering,” IEEE Photonics Conference, Arlington ,  pp. 141-142, 2011.
  40. Zlatanovic, S., Gholami, F., Simic, A., Liu, L., Alic, N., Nezhad, M. P., Fainman, Y., Radic, S., “Kerr nonlinearity in silicon beyond 2.35mm,” 2011 IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting, Montreal, QC, Canada, 18-20 July 2011.
  41. Gu, Q.,  Wingad, B., Vallini, F., Slutsky, B., Katz, M., Nezhad, M.P., Frateschi, N. C., and Fainman, Y., "Electrically Pumped Metallo-Dielectric Pedestal Nanolasers", 2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), paper WI4-2.
  42. Fainman Y., Tan D., Zamek S., Bondarenko O., Simic A., Mizrahi A., Nezhad, M. P., Lomakin, V., Gu, Q., Lee, J., Khajavikhan,M., and Slutsky, B., “Passive and Active Nanophotonics”, in Smart & Adaptive Optics, vol. 82, P. Vincenzini, M. Ferrari, and G. Righini, Eds. Stafa-Zurich: Trans Tech Publications Ltd, 2013, pp. 9–18.
  43. Merget, F., Sharif Azadeh, M. S., Shen, B., Nezhad, M.P., Hauck, J. and Witzens, J., “Novel transmission lines for Si MZI modulators”, in 2013 IEEE 10th International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2013, pp. 61–62.
  44. Grieco A., Tan D. T. H. , Ikeda K., Nezhad M. P. , Puckett M., and Fainman Y., “Silicon nanophotonics integration for chip-scale optical communication,” in Smart Photonic and Optoelectronic Integrated Circuits XVI, vol. 8989, L. A. Eldada, E. H. Lee, and S. He, Eds. Bellingham: SPIE-Int Soc Optical Engineering, 2014, p. UNSP 898908.
  45. Richter J., Nezhad M. P., and Witzens J., “Monolithically integrated waveguide-coupled silica microtoroids,” 2015 Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference (OECC), 2015.

 

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