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most citedControlling evanescent waves using silicon photonic all-dielectric metamaterials for dense integration

193 citations · 900 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

physics.optics2021★ 37 cited

Temporal Walk-off Induced Dissipative Quadratic Solitons

Arkadev Roy, Rajveer Nehra, Saman Jahani +4

A plethora of applications have recently motivated extensive efforts on the generation of low noise Kerr solitons and coherent frequency combs in various platforms ranging from fib…

physics.optics2021★ 139 cited

Femtojoule, femtosecond all-optical switching in lithium niobate nanophotonics

Qiushi Guo, Ryoto Sekine, Luis Ledezma +6

Optical nonlinear functions are crucial for various applications in integrated photonics, such as all-optical information processing, photonic neural networks and on-chip ultrafast…

physics.optics2021★ 151 cited

Intense optical parametric amplification in dispersion engineered nanophotonic lithium niobate waveguides

Luis Ledezma, Ryoto Sekine, Qiushi Guo +3

Strong amplification in integrated photonics is one of the most desired optical functionalities for computing, communications, sensing, and quantum information processing. Semicond…

physics.optics2021★ 1 cited

Confining light in all-dielectric anisotropic metamaterial particles for nano-scale nonlinear optics

Saman Jahani, Joong Hwan Bahng, Arkadev Roy +2

High-index dielectrics can confine light into nano-scale leading to enhanced nonlinear response. However, increased momentum in these media can deteriorate the overlap between diff…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 21 cited

Enhancing the Performance of Superconducting Nanowire-Based Detectors with High-Filling Factor by Using Variable Thickness

Reza Baghdadi, Ekkehart Schmidt, Saman Jahani +9

Current crowding at bends of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors is one of the main factors limiting the performance of meander-style detectors with large filling fact…

quant-ph2020★ 58 cited

Non-Dissipative Non-Hermitian Dynamics and Exceptional Points in Coupled Optical Parametric Oscillators

Arkadev Roy, Saman Jahani, Qiushi Guo +4

Engineered non-Hermitian systems featuring exceptional points can lead to a host of extraordinary phenomena in diverse fields ranging from photonics, acoustics, opto-mechanics, ele…

physics.optics2020★ 50 cited

Spectral Phase Transitions in Optical Parametric Oscillators

Arkadev Roy, Saman Jahani, Carsten Langrock +2

Spectral behaviors of photonic resonators have been the basis for a range of fundamental studies, with applications in classical and quantum technologies. Driven nonlinear resonato…

physics.optics2020★ 24 cited

Mie resonance engineering in meta-shell supraparticles for nanoscale nonlinear optics

Joong Hwan Bahng, Saman Jahani, Douglas Montjoy +3

Supraparticles are coordinated assemblies of discrete nanoscale building blocks into complex and hierarchical colloidal superstructures. Holistic optical responses in such assembli…

physics.optics2020★ 9 cited

Two-dimensional extreme skin depth engineering for CMOS photonics

Matthew van Niekerk, Saman Jahani, Justin Bickford +9

Extreme skin depth engineering (e-skid) can be applied to integrated photonics to manipulate the evanescent field of a waveguide. Here we demonstrate that e-skid can be implemented…

physics.optics2020★ 17 cited

Wavelength-scale Optical Parametric Oscillators

Saman Jahani, Arkadev Roy, Alireza Marandi

Despite recent progress in nonlinear optics in wavelength-scale resonators, there are still open questions on the possibility of parametric oscillation in such resonators. We prese…

physics.ins-det2019★ 17 cited

Probabilistic vortex crossing criterion for superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors

Saman Jahani, Li-Ping Yang, Adrian Buganza Tepole +3

Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors have emerged as a promising technology for quantum metrology from the mid-infrared to ultra-violet frequencies. Despite the recent…

physics.optics2018★ 12 cited

Switching Purcell effect with nonlinear epsilon-near-zero media

Saman Jahani, Hangqi Zhao, Zubin Jacob

An optical topological transition is defined as the change in the photonic isofrequency surface around epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) frequencies which can considerably change the spontan…

physics.optics2017★ 193 cited

Controlling evanescent waves using silicon photonic all-dielectric metamaterials for dense integration

Saman Jahani, Sangsik Kim, Jonathan Atkinson +11

Ultra-compact, densely integrated optical components manufactured on a CMOS-foundry platform are highly desirable for optical information processing and electronic-photonic co-inte…

physics.optics2015★ 14 cited

Breakthroughs in Photonics 2014: Relaxed Total Internal Reflection

Saman Jahani, Zubin Jacob

Total internal reflection (TIR) is a ubiquitous phenomenon used in photonic devices ranging from waveguides and resonators to lasers and optical sensors. Controlling this phenomeno…

physics.optics2014★ 125 cited

Transparent subdiffraction optics: nanoscale light confinement without metal

Saman Jahani, Zubin Jacob

The integration of nanoscale electronics with conventional optical devices is restricted by the diffraction limit of light. Metals can confine light at the subwavelength scales nee…

physics.optics2014★ 32 cited

Photonic skin-depth engineering

Saman Jahani, Zubin Jacob

Recently we proposed a paradigm shift in light confinement strategy showing how relaxed total internal reflection and photonic skin-depth engineering can lead to sub-diffraction wa…