Yeshaiyahu (Shaya) Fainman

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2015

• Integrated space-division multiplexer for application to data center networks,"IEEE J. Special Topics in Quantum Electronics- A. Grieco, G. Porter, and Y. Fainman, accepted Oct 2015
• High-quality, ultraconformal aluminum-doped zinc oxide nanoplasmonic and hyperbolic metamaterials- C. T. Riley, J. S. T. Smalley, K. W. Post, D. N. Basov, Y. Fainman, D. Wang, Z. Liu, D. J. Sirbuly, Small (2015)
• Gain-enhanced high-k transmission through metal-semiconductor hyperbolic metamaterials- J. S. T. Smalley, F. Vallini, S. Shahin, B. Kante, and Y. Fainman, Optical Materials Express 5(10), 2300-2312 (2015)
• Characterizing the effects of free carriers in fully etched, dielectric-clad silicon waveguides- Rajat Sharma, Matthew W. Puckett, Hung-Hsi Lin, Felipe Vallini and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Applied Physics Letters, (106) 241104 (2015).
• Composite dielectric metasurfaces for phase control of vector field- Sung W. Kim, Ki Ju Yee, Maxim Abashin, Lin Pang, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Optics Letters, 40, 2453-2456 (2015).
• Temperature effects in metal-clad semiconductor nanolasers- Qing Gu, Joseph ST Smalley, Janelle Shane, Olesya Bondarenko and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Nanophotonics Journal, (4) 1 (2015).
• Extremely compact hyrbid III-V/SOI lasers: design and fabrication approaches- Olesya Bondarenko, Cheng-Yi Fang, Felipe Vallini, Joseph S. T. Smalley, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Optics Express (23) 3, pp. 2696-2712 (2015).
• Multichannel Bragg gratings in silicon waveguides with asymmetric sidewall modulation- Matthew W. Puckett, Felipe Vallini, Andrew Grieco, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Optics Letters, (40) 3, 379-382 (2015).
• Effect of Undercut Etch on Performance and Fabrication Robustness of Metal-Clad Semiconductor Nanolasers- J. Shane, Q. Gu, A. Potterton, Y. Fainman, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics Jan. 2015

2014

• Plasmonic tuning of aluminum doped zinc oxide nanostructures by atomic layer deposition- C. T. Riley, T. A. Kieu, J. S. T. Smalley, S. H. A. Pan, S. J. Kim, K. W. Post, A. Kargar, D. N. Basov, X. Pan, Y. Fainman, D. Wang, D. J. Sirbuly, Physica Status Solidi (RRL) Sept. 2014
• Broadband metacoaxial nanoantenna for metasurface and sensing applications- A. Smolyaninov, L. Pang, L. Freeman, M. Abashin, Y. Fainman, Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 19, pp. 22786-22793, Sept. 2014.
• "Enhanced optical tuning of modified-geometry resonators clad in blue phase liquid crystals,"- Joanna Ptasinski, Iam-Choon Khoo, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Optics Letters 39(18), 5435-5438 (2014).
• Modal amplification in active waveguides with hyperbolic dispersion at telecommunication frequencies- Optics Express, vol. 22, no. 17, pp. 21088-21105, Aug. 2014.
• Maximizing the electromagnetic and chemical resonances for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of nucleic acids- L.M. Freeman, L. Pang, Y. Fainman, ACS Nano, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 8383-8391, Aug. 2014.
• Characterization of Distributed Bragg Reflectors- A. Grieco, and Y. Fainman, Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 50, pp. 453-457, Jun. 2014.
• Towards 100 Channel Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing with 100GHz Spacing on Silicon- D.T.H. Tan, A. Grieco, and Y. Fainman, Optics Express, vol. 22, pp. 10408-10415, May 2014.
• Characterization of waveguide loss using distributed Bragg reflectors- A. Grieco, B. Slutsky, and Y. Fainman, Applied Physics B, vol. 114, pp. 467-474, Mar. 2014.
• Engineered materials for all-optical helicity-dependent magnetic switching- Mangin, S., M. Gottwald, C. H. Lambert, D. Steil, V. Uhlír, L. Pang, M. Hehn et al., Nature materials 13, no. 3 (2014): 286-292
• Amorphous Al2O3 shield for thermal management in electrically pumped metallo-dielectric nanolasers- Qing Gu, Janelle Shane, Felipe Vallini, Brett Wingad, Joseph ST Smalley, Newton C. Frateschi and Yeshaiahu Fainman, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 15, 7, p.499-509 (2014).
• Tensor of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility in asymmetrically strained silicon waveguides: analysis and experimental validation- Puckett, Matthew W., Joseph ST Smalley, Maxim Abashin, Andrew Grieco, and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Optics letters 39, no. 6 (2014): 1693-1696.
• Sub-wavelength semiconductor lasers for dense chip-scale integration- Qing Gu, Joseph ST Smalley, Maziar P. Nezhad, Aleksandar Simic, Jin Hyoung Lee, Michael Katz, Olesya Bondarenko, Boris Slutsky, Amit Mizrahi, Vitaliy Lomakin and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Advances in Optics and Photonics, vol. 6, no. 1, 1-56 (2014).
• Passive Temperature Stabilization of Silicon Photonic Devices Using Liquid Crystals- Joanna Ptasinski, Iam-Choon Khoo and Yeshaiahu Fainman, Materials 2014, 7(3), 2229-2241
• Temperature dependence of the spontaneous emission factor in subwavelength semiconductor lasers- J. S. T. Smalley, Q. Gu, Y. Fainman, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 50, 3, p.175 (2014).

2013

• A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking Photonics Technology.- Farrington, N.; Forencich, A.; Porter, G.; Sun, P.-C.; Ford, J.E.; Fainman, Y.; Papen, G.C.; Vahdat, A. Letters, IEEE; Issue Date: Aug.15, 2013.
• A 10 us Hybrid Optical-Circuit/Electrical-Packet Network for Datacenters.- Nathan Farrington, Alex Forencich, Pang-Chen Sun, Shaya Fainman, Joe Ford, Amin Vahdat, George Porter, and George C. Papen. Optical Fiber Communication Conference Anaheim, California United States, March 17-21, 2013.
• Directing Data Center Traffic.- Yeshaiahu Fainman and George Porter. Science 342(6155):202-203, 2013.
• Optical/Electrical Hybrid Switching for Datacenter Communications.- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, Amin Vahdat, and George Papen. Proceedings of the 18th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC2013) / Photonics in Switching 2013 (PS2013), Kyoto, Japan, July 2013.
• Integrating Microsecond Circuit Switching into the Data Center. - G. Porter, R. Strong, N. Farrington, A. Forencich, P. Sun, T. Rosing, Y. Fainman, G. Papen, A. Vahdat. SIGCOMM, 2013.

2012

• A demonstration of ultra-low-latency data center optical circuit switching- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Pang-Chen Sun, Alex Forencich, Joseph Ford, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat . ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review - Special October issue SIGCOMM '12, Volume 42 Issue 4, Pages 95-96 (August 2012, Helsinki, Finland).
• Hunting mice with microsecond circuit switches- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, pp. 115-120. ACM, 2012.

2010

• Group velocity dispersion and self phase modulation in silicon nitride waveguides- D.T.H. Tan, K. Ikeda, P.C. Sun, Y. Fainman, Appl. Phys. Lett. 96, 061101 (2010).
• Form birefringence metal and its plasmonic anisotropy- L. Feng, Z. W. Liu, V. Lomakin, Y. Fainman, Applied Physics Letters, 2010, 96
• On-chip waveguide resonator with metallic mittors- S. Zamek, A. Mizrachi, L. Feng, A. Simic, Y. Fainman, Opt Lett, 2010 , 35, 598-600
• Experimental Measurements of Supermodes in Superposition Architectures for Coherent Laser Beam Combining- M. Khajavikhan, K. John, J. Leger, IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, 2010.
• Helios: a hybrid electrical/optical switch architecture for modular data centers- Nathan Farrington, George Porter, Sivasankar Radhakrishnan, Hamid Hajabdolali Bazzazz, Vikram Subramanya, Yeshaiahu Fainman, George Papen, and Amin Vahdat. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2010, conference on SIGCOMM.

2009

• Three-dimensional composite metallodielectric nanostructure for enhanced surface plasmon resonance sensing- H. M. Chen, L. Pang, A. Kher, and Y. Fainman, Applied Physics letters, 2009, Vol. 94.
• The effects of rapid thermal annealing on doubled quantum dots grown by molecular beam epitaxy - S. Suraprapapich, Y. M. Shen, Y. Fainman, Y. Horikoshi, S. Panyakeow, & C.W. Tu, Journal of Crystal Growth, 2009, 311, 1791-1794.
• Coupled chirped vertical gratings for on-chip group velocity dispersion engineering- D.T.H. Tan, K. Ikeda, & Y. Fainman. Appl. Phys. Lett., 2009, 95.
• Controlled detection in composite nanoresonant array for surface plamon resonance sensing- L. Pang, H.M.P. Chen, L.L. Wang, J.M. Beechem and Y. Fainman, Opt. Express, 2009, 17, 14700-14709.
• Cladding-modulated Bragg gratings in silicon waveguides- D.T.H. Tan, K. Ikeda, Y. Fainman, Opt. Lett. 34, 1357-1359 (2009).
• Optical waves on nanoparticle chains coupled with surfaces- D. Van Orden, Y. Fainman, and V. Lomakin, Opt. Lett., 34, 422-424 (2009).
• Three dimensional composite metallodielectric nanostructure for enhanced surface plasmon resonance sensing- R.E. Saperstein, Y. Fainman, APL, 94, 073117 (2009).
• Nanoscale optical field localization by resonantly focused plasmons- L. Feng, D. Van Orden, M. Abashin, Q.J. Wang, Y. F. Chen, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman. Optics Express, 17, 4824-4832 (2009).
• Heterodyne near-field scanning optical microscopy with spectrally broad sources- M. Abashin, K. Ikeda, R. Saperstein, and Y. Fainman. Optics Letters, 34, 1327-1329(2009).
• Self-alignment and instability of waveguides induced by optical forces- A. Mizrahi, K. Ikeda, F. Bonomelli, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman. Phys. Rev, A 80, 041804(R) (2009).
• Coupled chirped vertical gratings for on-chip group velocity dispersion engineering- L. Feng, D. Van Orden, M. Abashin, Q.J. Wang, Y. F. Chen, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman. Appl. Phys. Lett., 95, 141109 (2009).

2008

• Plasmonic photonic crystal with a complete band gap for surface plasmon polariton waves- L. Feng, M.H.Lu, V. Lomakin and Y. Fainman, Applied Physics Letters, 2008, Vol. 93(23).
• Optofluidic 1X4 switch- A. Groisman, S. Zamek, K. Campbell, L. Pang, U. Levy, Y. Fainman, Optics Express, 2008, Vol. 16(18),pp. 13499-13508.
• Plasmonic Sensing of Biological Analytes Through Nanoholes- G.M. Hwang, L. Pan, E.H. Mullen, Y. Fainman. IEEE Sensors Journal, 2008, Vol. 8(11-12), pp. 2074-2079.
• Wavelength selective coupler with vertical gratings on silicon chip- K. Ikeda, M. Nezhad, and Y. Fainman. Appl. Phys. Lett., 92, 201111(2008).
• Thermal and Kerr nonlinear properties of plasma-deposited silicon nitride/silicon dioxide waveguides- K. Ikeda, R.W. Saperstein, N. Alic and Y. Fainman, Opt. Express, 16, 12987-12994 (2008).
• Optimization-based analysis of modulation instability in resonant cavities- G. Klemens, Y. Fainman, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 40, 1-4, pp. 258-260 (2008).
• Low threshold gain metal coated laser nanoresonators- A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, B. A. Slutsky, M.P. Nezhad, L. Feng, and Y. Fainman, Opt. Lett., 33, 1261-1263 (2008).
• Information processing with longitudinal spectral decomoposition of ultrafast pulses - R.E. Saperstein, Y. Fainman, Applied Optics, 47, 4, pp. A21-A31(2008).
• Chip-scale dispersion engineering using chirped vertical gratings- D.T.H. Tan, K. Ikeda, R.E. Saperstein, B. Slutsky, and Y. Fainman. Optics Letters, 2008, Vol. 33(24), pp. 3013-3015.

2007

• Self-assembled Lateral Bi-quantum-dot Molecule Formation by Gas-source Molecular Mean Epitaxy- S. Suraprapapich, Y.M. Shen, V.A. Odnoblyudov, Y. Fainman, S. Panyakeow, and C.W. Tu, Journal of Crystal Growth, 301-303, 735-9, 2007.
• Tunable Transmission Resonant Filter and Modulator with Vertical Gratings- H.-C. Kim, K. Ikeda, and Y. Fainman, Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 25, pp. 1147-51, 2007.
• Continuous-Wave Band Translation Between the Near-Infrared and Visible Spectral Ranges- Rui Jiang, R.E. Saperstein, N. Alic, M. Nezhad, C.J. McKinstrie, J.E. Ford, Y. Fainman, and S. Radic. Journal of Lightwave Technology, Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 58-66, Jan. 2007.
• Photonic Bandgap Microcavities with Flat-top Response- C.-H. Chen and Y. Fainman. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 13, pp. 262-26, 2007.
• Resonant Waveguide Device with Vertical Gratings- Kim Hyo-Chang, K. Ikeda and Y. Fainman, Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 5, pp. 539-41, March 1, 2007.
• Wave Front Evolution of Negatively Refracted Waves in a Photonic Crystal- E. Schonbrun, Qi Wu, W. Park, T. Yamashita, C.J. Summers, M. Abashin, and Y. Fainman, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, No. 4, 41113-1-3, Jan. 22, 2007.
• Observation of the Splitting of Degererate Surface Plasmon Polariton Modes in a Two-Dimensional Metallic Nanohole Array- Lin Pang, K.A. Tetz, and Y. Fainman, Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 90, No. 11, pp. 111103-1-3, March 12, 2007.
• Inhomogenous Dielectric Metamaterials with Space-Variant Polarizability- U. Levy, M. Abashin, K. Ikeda, A. Krishnamoorthy, J. Cunningham, and Y. Fainman, Phys. Rev. Letters, 98, 243901, 2007.

2006

• Receiver Structure Trade-offs in Equalized High-speed Fiber-Optic Links.- Alic, N.; Papen, G.C.; Radic, S; and Fainman, Y. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Vol. 18, No. 17, pp. 1810-12, Sept. 2006.
• Experimental Demonstration of 10 Gb/s NRZ Extended Dispersion-Limited Reach Over 600 km-SMF Link Without Optical Dispersion.- Alic, N.; Papen, G.C.; Saperstein, R.E.; Jiang, R.; Marki, C.; Fainman, Y.; Radic, S.; and Andrekson, P.A. Optical Fiber Communication Conference and National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference (OFCNFOEC 2006), IEEE, pp. 3, 2006.
• Parametric Wavelength Conversion from Conventional Near-infrared to Visible Band- R. Jiang, R.E. Saperstein, N. Alic, M. Nezhad, C. McKinstrie, J. Ford, Y. Fainman, and S. Radic. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 18, pp. 2445-47, Dec. 2006.
• Doubly Negative Metamaterials in the Near Infrared and Visible Regimes Based on Thin Film Nanocomposites- V. Lomakin, Y. Fainman, Y. Urzhumov, and G. Shvets. Optics Express, Vo. 14, No. 23, pp. 11164-11177, Nov. 2006.
• Surface Plasmonic Fields in Nonophotonics- Y. Fainman, K. Tetz, R. Rokitski, and L. Pang. Optics & Photonics News, Vol. 17, No. 7-8, pp. 24-29, Jul.-Aug. 2006.
• Pressure-driven Devices with Lithographically Fabricated Composite Epoxy-elastomer Membranes- K. Campbell, U. Levy, Y. Fainman, and A. Groisman. Applied Physics Letters, 89, pp. 154105-07, Oct. 2006.
• Near Field Characterization of Propagating Optical Modes in Photonic Crystal Waveguides- M. Abashin, P. Tortora, I. Marki, U. Levy, W. Nakagawa, L. Vaccaro, H. Herzig, and Y. Fainman. Optics Express, 14, pp. 1643-1657, 2006.
• On-chip Microfluidic Tuning of an Optical Microring Resonator- U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, S. Mookherjea, and Y. Fainman. Applied Physics Letters, 88, pp. 111107-111109, 2006.
• Form-birefringent Space-variant Inhomogeneous Medium Element for Shaping Point-spread Functions- C-H Tsai, U. Levy, L. Pang, and Y. Fainman. Appl. Optics, 45, pp. 1777-1784, 2006.
• High-resolution Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensor Based on Linewidth-optimized Nanohole Array Transmittance - K. Tetz, L. Pang, and Y. Fainman, Optics Lett., 31, pp. 1528-1530, 2006.
• Optimization-based Calculation of Optical Nonlinear Processes in a Micro-resonator - G. Klemens and Y. Fainman. Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 21, 9864-9872, Oct. 2006.
• Nonlinear Fabry-Perot Resonator with a Silicon Photonic Crystal Waveguide - K. Ikeda and Y. Fainman. Optics Letters, 31, 3486-3488, 2006.
• Nanophotonics for Integrated Information Systems- Uriel Levy, Kevin Tetz, Rostislav Rokitski, Hyu-Chang Kim, Chia-Ho Tsai, Maxim Abashin, Lin Pang, Maziar Zezhad, and Yeshaiahu Fainman. [Conference paper]. Proceedings (SPIE), 6124, 61240, 2006.
• nformation Processing with Spectral Decomposition of Ultrafast Pulses in the Time Domain- R.E. Saperstein, N. Alic, D. Panasenko, X.B. Xie, P.K. Yu, and Y. Fainman. [Conference paper]. Proceedings SPIE, Vol. 6311, 63111F, Optical Information Systems IV, 2006.
• Tunable Transmission Resonant Filter and Modulator with Vertical Gratings- Kim, H.-C.; Ikeda, K.; Krishnamoorthy, A.; Cunningham, J.; Fainman Y. IEEE LEOS Annual Conference, 2006.
• Optofluicid Plasmonics- Kevin Tetz, Lin Pang, Maziar Zazhad, and Yeshaiyahu Fainman, Proceedings SPIE, 6124, 612404, 2006.
• Nanophotonic Structures and Devices with Polymers- Kevin Tetz, and Yeshaiyahu Fainman. [Conference paper]. ACS National Meeting, C3-386, 2006.
• Devices Utilizing Free-Space Optics on a Chip- Maxim Abashin, Uriel Levy, Kazuhiro Ikeda, Ashok Krishnamoorthy, John Cunningham, and Yeshaiyahu Fainman. [Conference paper]. 2006 IEEE LEOS Annual Conference, Nov. 2006.
• Influence of the Near-Field Probe on the Performance of Nanohotonic Devices- Maxim Abashin, Uriel Levy, Kazhuhiro Ikeda, and Yeshaiyahu Fainman. [Conference paper]. NFO9, 2006.

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