Publications/Presentations

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2001 Pre-Group

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Peer Review Journal Articles

2009:

R. Camacho, J. Chan, M. Eichenfield, and O. Painter, "Characterization of radiation pressure and thermal effects in a nanoscale optomechanical cavity," submitted June 18, 2009.
[arXiv:0906.3345v1]

M. Eichenfield, J. Chan, R. Camacho, K. J. Vahala, and O. Painter, "Optomechanical Crystals," submitted June 6, 2009.
[arXiv:0906.1236v1]

J. Rosenberg, Q. Lin, K. J. Vahala, and O. Painter, "Static and dynamic wavelength routing via the gradient optical force", submitted May 20, 2009.
[arXiv:0905.3336v1]

Q. Lin, J. Rosenberg, X. Jiang, K. J. Vahala, and O. Painter, "Mechanical oscillation and cooling actuated by the optical gradient force", submitted April 20, 2009.
[arXiv:0905.2716v1]

M. Eichenfield, R. Camacho, J. Chan, K. J. Vahala, and O. Painter, "A picogram- and nanometer-scale photonic crystal opto-mechanical cavity", Nature, doi:10.1038/nature08061, May 14, 2009 (Nature AOP link).
[media coverage: ScienceNOW]
[for the lay audience]
[arXiv e-print version: physics/0812.2953]

P. E. Barclay, C. Santori, Kai-Mei Fu, R. G. Beausoleil, and O. Painter, "Coherent interference effects in a nano-assembled optical cavity-QED system", Opt. Express, Vol. 17(10), pp. 8081, May 11, 2009 (pdf).
[physics/0812.4505]

C. P. Michael, V. A. Sabnis, H. B. Yuen, A. Jamora, S. Semans, P. B. Atanackovic, and O. Painter, "High temperature cavity-polaritons in epitaxial Er₂O₃ on silicon", Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 94(13), pp. 131103, April 1, 2009 (pdf).

J. Chan, M. Eichenfield, R. Camacho, and O. Painter, "Optical and mechanical design of a "zipper" photonic crystal optomechanical cavity", Opt. Express, Vol. 17(5), pp. 3802, March 2, 2009 (pdf).
[physics/0812.4683]

2008:

C. P. Michael, H. B. Yuen, V. A. Sabnis, T. J. Johnson, R. Sewell, R. Smith, A. Jamora, A. Clark, S. Semans, P. B. Atanackovic, and O. Painter, "Growth, processing, and optical properties of epitaxial Er₂O₃ on silicon", Opt. Express, Vol. 16(24), pp. 19649, November 12, 2008 (pdf).

J. T. Robinson, K. Preston, O. Painter, and M. Lipson, "First-principle derivation of gain in high-index-contrast waveguides", Opt. Express, Vol. 16(21), pp. 16659, October 3, 2008 (pdf).

K. Srinivasan, C. P. Michael, R. Perahia, and O. Painter, "Investigations of a coherently driven semiconductor optical cavity QED system", Phys. Rev. A, Vol. 78(3), pp. 033839, September 30, 2008 (pdf).
[physics/0806.4162]

Q. Lin, T. J. Johnson, C. P. Michael, and O. Painter, "Adiabatic self-tuning in a silicon microdisk optical resonator", Opt. Express, Vol. 16(19), pp. 14801, September 4, 2008 (pdf).

Q. Lin, T. J. Johnson, R. Perahia, C. P. Michael, and O. J. Painter, "A proposal for highly tunable optical parametric oscillation in silicon micro-resonators", Opt. Express, Vol. 16(14), pp. 10596, July 1, 2008 (pdf).

V. Moreau, R. Colombelli, R. Perahia, O. Painter, L. R. Wilson, and A. B. Krysa, "Proof-of-principle of surface detection with air-guided quantum cascade lasers," Opt. Express, v16 (9), pp. 6387, May 2, 2008 (pdf).

2007:

Q. Lin, O. J. Painter, and Govind P. Agrawal, "Nonlinear Optical Phenomena in Silicon Waveguides: Modeling and Applications", Opt. Express, Vol. 15(25), pp. 16604-16644, December 10, 2007 (pdf).

O. Painter "Microphotonics: Playing with atoms", Nature Photonics, v1 (11), pp.615-616, Nov. 2007 (pdf).

K. Srinivasan and O. Painter "Linear and nonlinear optical spectroscopy of a strongly-coupled microdisk-quantum dot system", Nature, Vol. 450, pp. 862, December 6, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0707.3311]

V. Moreau, M. Bahriz, R. Colombelli, R. Perahia, O. Painter, L. R. Wilson, and A. B. Krysa, "Demonstration of air-guided quantum cascade lasers without top claddings," Opt. Express, Vol. 15(22), pp. 14861, October 26, 2007 (pdf).

M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, and O. Painter "Accurate measurement of scattering and absorption loss in microphotonic devices", Optics Letters, v32 (20), pp. 2954-2956, Oct. 15, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0707.1034]

M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, C. P. Michael, M. D. Henry, and O. Painter "Encapsulation Layers for Low-Loss Silicon Photonics", App. Phys. Lett., v91 (13), art. no. 131117, Sep. 24, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0707.0415]

K. Srinivasan, A. Stintz, S. Krishna, and O. Painter "Single quantum dot spectroscopy using a fiber taper waveguide near-field optic," App. Phys. Lett., v90 (9), art. no. 091102, Aug. 27, 2007 (pdf)
[physics/0706.1831]

M. Eichenfield, C. P. Michael, R. Perahia and O. Painter "Actuation of Micro-Optomechanical Systems Via Cavity-Enhanced Optical Dipole Forces", Nature Photonics, Vol. 1, No. 7, pp. 416-422, July 2, 2007 (pdf).
News & Views article by M. Povinelli (pdf).
[physics/0702231]

M. Bahriz, O. Crisafulli, V. Moreau, R. Colombelli, and O. Painter, "Design of mid-IR and THz quantum cascade laser cavities with complete TM photonic bandgap," Opt. Express, v15 (10), pp. 5948-5965, May 1, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0701144]

C. P. Michael, M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, C. Chrystal, and O. Painter "An optical fiber-taper probe for wafer-scale microphotonic device characterization," Opt. Express, Vol. 15, No. 8, pp. 4745-4752, April 4, 2007 (pdf).
[original submission physics/0702079]

K. Srinivasan and O. Painter "Mode coupling and cavity-quantum-dot interactions in a fiber-coupled microdisk cavity", Phys. Rev. A., v75, art. no. 023814, Feb. 23, 2007 (pdf).
[quant-ph/0606142]

C. P. Michael, K. Srinivasan, T. J. Johnson, O. Painter, K. H. Lee, K. Hennessy, H. Kim, and E. Hu "Wavelength- and material-dependent absorption in GaAs and AlGaAs microcavities," App. Phys. Lett., v90 (5), art. no. 051108, Jan. 29, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0610200]

K. Srinivasan and O. Painter "Optical fiber taper coupling and high-resolution wavelength tuning of microdisk
resonators at cryogenic temperatures", App. Phys. Lett., v90 (3), art. no. 031114, Jan. 19, 2007 (pdf).
[physics/0611127]

2006:

P. E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, B. Lev, H. Mabuchi "Integration of fiber coupled high-Q SiNx microdisks with atom chips", App. Phys. Lett., v89 (13), art. no. 131108, Sep. 27, 2006 (pdf).
[quant-ph/0605234]

K. T. Posani, V. Tripathi, S. Annamalai, N. R. Weisse-Bernstein, S. Krishna, R. Perahia, O. Crisafulli, and O. J. Painter, "Nanoscale quantum dot infrared sensors with photonic crystal cavity," App. Phys. Lett., v88, art. no. 151104, Mar. 27, 2006 (pdf).

M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, and O. Painter "Measuring the role of surface chemistry in silicon microphotonics," App. Phys. Lett., v88 (13), art. no. 131114, Mar. 27, 2006 (pdf).
[original submission http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0512040]

K. Srinivasan, M. Borselli, O. Painter, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna "Cavity Q, mode volume, and lasing threshold in small diameter AlGaAs microdisks with embedded quantum dots," Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 1094-1105, Feb. 6, 2006 (pdf).
[http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?id=87777]

T. J. Johnson, M. Borselli, and O. Painter "Self-induced optical modulation of the transmission through a high-Q silicon microdisk resonator," Optics Express, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 817-831, Jan. 23, 2006 (pdf).
[http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?id=87581]

2005:

K. Srinivasan, A. Stintz, S. Krishna, and O. Painter "Photoluminescence measurements of quantum-dot-containing semiconductor microdisk resonators using optical fiber taper waveguides," Phys. Rev. B, Vol 72, 205318, Nov. 10 2005 (pdf).
[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v72/e205318]

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, M. Borselli, and O. Painter, "An optical fiber-based probe for photonic crystal microcavities," IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications (special issue on photonic crystals), Vol. 23, No. 7, pp. 1321-1329, July 2005 (pdf).
[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isYear=2005&isnumber=31445&Submit32=Go+To+Iss]

K. Srinivasan, M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, P.E. Barclay, O. Painter, A. Stintz, and S. Krishna "Optical loss and lasing characteristics of high-quality-factor AlGaAs microdisk resonators with embedded quantum dots," Appl. Phys. Lett. v86, 151106, April 6, 2005 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/86/151106]

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, and O. Painter "Photonic crystal microcavities for chip-based cavity QED ," Phys. Stat. Sol. (b), v242(6), pp. 1187-1191, March 24, 2005 (pdf). {paper from ICSNN 2004 Conference in Cancun, Mexico}
[http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/abstract/110432140/ABSTRACT]

M. Borselli, T. J. Johnson, and O. Painter, "Beyond the Rayleigh scattering limit in high-Q silicon microdisks: theory and experiment," Opt. Express, Vol. 13, No. 5, pp. 1515-1530, Mar 7, 2005 (pdf). [http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-5-1515 ].

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, and O. Painter, "Nonlinear response of silicon photonic crystal micresonators excited via an integrated waveguide and fiber taper, " Optics Express, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 801-820, Feb. 7, 2005 (pdf). [http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-13-3-801 ].
(original submission http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0412002)

S.A. Maier, M.D. Friedman, P.E. Barclay, and O. Painter, "Experimental demonstration of fiber-accessible metal nanoparticle plasmon waveguides for planar energy guiding and sending," Appl. Phys. Lett. v86(7), 071103, Feb. 14, 2005 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/86/071103].
(orginal submission http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405105).

2004:

M. Borselli, K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, and O. Painter, "Rayleigh scattering, mode coupling, and optical loss in silicon microdisks," App. Phys. Lett., v85(17), pp. 3693-3695, Oct. 25, 2004 (pdf) [http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/85/3693].

K. Srinivasan and O. Painter, "Design of two-dimensional photonic crystal defect states for quantum cascade laser resonators," (http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0410068) (pdf). Supplemental data (pdf).

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, M. Borselli, O. Painter, "Optical-fiber-based measurement of an ultrasmall volume high-Q photonic crystal microcavity," Phys. Rev. B, Rapid Communications, Vol. 70, 081306(R) Aug. 25, 2004 (pdf).
[http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v70/p081306].
(original submission http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0309190).

B. Lev, K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, O. Painter, and H. Mabuchi, "Feasibility of detecting single atoms using photonic bandgap cavities," Nanotechnology, Vol 15, S556-S561 2004 (http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0402093) (pdf).

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, M. Borselli, O. Painter, "Probing the dispersive and spatial properties of planar photonic crystal waveguide modes via highly efficient coupling from optical fiber tapers," App. Phys. Lett., v85(1), pp. 4-6, Jul. 5, 2004 (pdf)
[http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/85/4].

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, and O. Painter, "Optical fiber coupling to planar photonic crystal microcavities," May 13, 2004, (http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0405064) (pdf).

K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, R. Colombelli, C. Gmachl, D.M. Tennant, A.M. Sergent, D.L. Sivco, A.Y. Cho, M. Troccoli, and F. Capasso, "Lasing mode pattern of a quantum cascade photonic crystal surface-emitting microcavity laser," App. Phys. Lett., v84 (21), pp. 4164-4166, May. 24, 2004 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/84/4164].

S.A. Maier, P.E. Barclay, T.J. Johnson, M.D. Friedman, and O. Painter, "A low-loss fiber accessible plasmon photonic crystal waveguide for planar energy guiding and sensing," App. Phys. Lett., v84(20), pp. 3990-3992, May 17, 2004 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/84/3990].

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, O. Painter, J. Chen, A.Y. Cho, "Fabrication of high quality factor photonic crystal microcavities in InAsP/InGaAsP membranes," Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 875-879, May, 2004 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?jvb/22/875].

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, O. Painter, "Fabrication-tolerant high quality factor photonic crystal microcavities," Optics Express, Vol. 12, No. 7, pp. 1458-1463, Apr. 5, 2004 (pdf). [http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-12-7-1458].
(original submission http://www.arxiv.org/abs/physics/0312060)

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, M. Borselli, O. Painter, "Efficient input and output fiber coupling to a photonic crystal waveguide," Optics Letters, Vol. 29, No. 7, pp. 697-699, Apr. 1, 2004 (pdf).
[http://ol.osa.org/abstract.cfm?id=79383] .

R. Colombelli, K. Srinivasan, M. Troccoli, O. Painter, C. Gmachl, D.M. Tennant, A.M. Sergent, D.L. Sivco, A.Y. Cho, and F. Capasso "Fabrication technologies for quantum cascade photonic-crystal microlasers," Nanotechnology, Vol. 15, pp. 675-681, 2004 (pdf).

2003:

D.M. Tennant, R. Colombelli, K. Srinivasan, M. Troccoli, O. Painter, C. Gmachl, F. Capasso, A.M. Sergent, D.L. Sivco, and A.Y. Cho, "Fabrication methods for a quantum cascade photonic crystal surface emitting laser," JVST-B, Vol 21(6), pp. 2907-2911 Nov/Dec. 2003 (pdf).
[http://link.aip.org/link/?jvb/21/2907]

R. Colombelli, K. Srinivasan, M. Troccoli, O. Painter, C. Gmachl, D.M. Tennant, A.M. Sergent, D.L. Sivco, A.Y. Cho, and F. Capasso "Quantum cascade surface-emitting photonic crystal laser," Science, v302 (5649), pp. 1374-1377, Nov. 21, 2003 (pdf). (R Colombelli et al., Oct. 30 2003, Sciencexpress 1090561).

K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, O. Painter, J. Chen, A.Y. Cho, C. Gmachl, "Experimental demonstration of a high-Q photonic crystal microcavity," App. Phys. Lett., v83(10), pp. 1915-1917, Sep. 8, 2003 (pdf) [http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/83/1915].

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, "Design of photonic crystal waveguides for evanescent coupling to optical fiber tapers and for integration with high-Q cavities," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, v20(11), pp. 2274-2284, Nov. 2003 (pdf).

P.E. Barclay, K. Srinivasan, M. Borselli, O. Painter, "Experimental demonstration of evanescent coupling from optical fiber tapers to photonic crystal waveguides," Electronics Letters, v39(11), pp. 842-844, May 29, 2003 (pdf).

O. Painter, K. Srinivasan, P.E. Barclay, "A Wannier-like Equation for Localized Resonant Cavity Modes of Locally Perturbed Photonic Crystals", Phys. Rev. B, v68, art. no. 035214, Jul. 2003 (pdf) [http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v68/p035214].

O. Painter, K. Srinivasan, "Localized defect states in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab waveguides: a simple model based upon symmetry analysis," Phys. Rev. B, v68, art. no. 035110, Jul. 2003 (pdf) [http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRB/v68/p035110].

K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, "Fourier space design of high-Q cavities in standard and compressed hexagonal lattice photonic crystals," Optics Express, v11(6), pp. 579-593, Mar. 24, 2003 (pdf).
[http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-11-6-579].

2002:

K. Srinivasan, O. Painter, "Momentum space design of high-Q photonic crystal optical cavities," Optics Express, v10(15), pp. 670-684 Jul. 29, 2002 (pdf).
[http://www.opticsexpress.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OPEX-10-15-670].

O. Painter, K. Srinivasan, "Polarization properties of dipolelike defect modes in photonic crystal nanocavities," Optics Letters, v27(5), pp. 339-341 Mar. 1 2002 (pdf).

2001:

O. Painter, K. Srinivasan, J.D. O'Brien, A. Scherer, P.D. Dapkus, "Tailoring of the resonant mode properties of optical nanocavities in two-dimensional photonic crystal slab waveguides," Journal of Optics A-Pure and Applied Optics, v3(6), pp. S161-S170, Nov. 2001 (pdf) [http://stacks.iop.org/JOptA/3/S161].

PRE-GROUP:

O. Painter, A. Husain, A. Scherer, P.T. Lee, I. Kim, J.D. O'Brien, P.D. Dapkus, "Lithographic tuning of a two-dimensional photonic crystal laser array," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, v12(9), pp. 1126-1128, Sep. 2000 (pdf).

M. Cai, O. Painter, K.J. Vahala, P.C. Sercel, "Fiber-coupled microsphere laser," Optics Letters, v25(19), pp. 1430-1432, Oct. 1 2000 (pdf).

M. Cai, O. Painter, K.J. Vahala, "Observation of critical coupling in a fiber taper to a silica-microsphere whispering-gallery mode system," Phys. Rev. Lett., v85(1), pp. 74-77, Jul. 3, 2000 (pdf).

R.K. Lee, O. Painter, Kitzke B, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, "Emission properties of a defect cavity in a two-dimensional photonic bandgap crystal slab," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, v17(4), pp. 629-633, Apr. 2000 (pdf)

O.J. Painter, A. Husain, A. Scherer, J.D. O'Brien, I. Kim, P.D. Dapkus, "Room temperature photonic crystal defect lasers at near-infrared wavelengths in InGaAsP," Journal of Lightwave Technology, v17(11), pp. 2082-2088, Nov. 1999 (pdf).

J. Vuckovic, O. Painter, Y. Xu, A. Yariv, A. Scherer, "Finite-difference time-domain calculation of the spontaneous emission coupling factor in optical microcavities," IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, v35(8), pp. 1168-1175, Aug. 1999 (pdf).

O. Painter, R.K. Lee, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, J.D. O'Brien, P.D. Dapkus, I. Kim, "Two-dimensional photonic band-gap defect mode laser," Science, v284(5421), pp. 1819-1821, Jun. 11, 1999 (pdf).

R.K. Lee, O.J. Painter, Kitzke B, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, "Photonic bandgap disk laser," Electronics Letters, v35(7), pp. 569-570, Apr. 1, 1999.

Y. Xu, J. Vuckovic, R.K. Lee, O.J. Painter, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, "Finite-difference time-domain calculation of spontaneous emission lifetime in a microcavity," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, v16(3), pp. 465-474, Mar. 1999 (pdf).

R.K. Lee, O.J. Painter, B. D'Urso, A. Scherer, A. Yariv, "Measurement of spontaneous emission from a two-dimensional photonic band gap defined microcavity at near-infrared wavelengths," App. Phys. Lett., v74(11), pp. 1522-1524, Mar. 15, 1999 (pdf) [http://link.aip.org/link/?apl/74/1522].

O. Painter, J. Vuckovic, A. Scherer, "Defect modes of a two-dimensional photonic crystal in an optically thin dielectric slab," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, v16(2), pp. 275-285, Feb. 1999 (pdf).

A. Scherer, O. Painter, B. D'Urso, R. Lee, A. Yariv, "InGaAsP photonic band gap crystal membrane microresonators," Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, v16(6), pp. 3906-3910, Nov.-Dec. 1998 (pdf).

T.F. Krauss, O. Painter, A. Scherer, J.S. Roberts, R.M. De La Rue, "Photonic microstructures as laser mirrors," Optical Engineering, v37(4), pp. 1143-1148, Apr. 1998 (pdf).

B. D'Urso, O. Painter, J. O'Brien, T. Tombrello, A. Yariv, A. Scherer, "Modal reflectivity in finite-depth two-dimensional photonic-crystal microcavities," Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics, v15(3), pp. 1155-1159, Mar. 1998 (pdf).

J.D. O'Brien, O. Painter, R. Lee, C.C. Cheng, A. Yariv, A. Scherer, "Lasers incorporating 2D photonic bandgap mirrors," Electronics Letters, v32(24), pp. 2243-2244, Nov. 21, 1996.