Publications:

[2009]


  • I.W. Frank*, P.B. Deotare*, M.W. McCutcheon, Marko Lončar, "Dynamically reconfigurable photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," submitted and posted on arXiv:0909.2278 [PDF]

  • B.M. Hausmann, M. Khan, T.M. Babinec, Y. Zhang, K. Martinick, M.W. McCutcheon, P.R. Hemmer, M. Lončar, "Fabrication of diamond nanowires for quantum information processing applications," submitted for peer review and posted on arXiv:0908.0352 [PDF]

  • T.M. Babinec, B.M. Hausmann, M. Khan, Y. Zhang, J. Maze, P.R. Hemmer, M. Lončar, "A Diamond Nanowire Single Photon Antenna," submitted for peer review and posted on arXiv: 0908.0233 [PDF]

  • M. W. McCutcheon, D. E. Chang, Y. Zhang, M.D. Lukin, and M. Lončar, "Broad-band spectral control of single photon sources using a nonlinear photonic crystal cavity," submitted for peer review and posted on arXiv: 0903.4706 [PDF]

  • D. Woolf, M. Lončar, and F. Capasso "The forces from coupled surface plasmon polaritons in planar waveguides," Optics Express, Vol. 17, 19996 (2009) [PDF]

  • D.J. Lipomi, F. Ilievski, B.J. Wiley, P.B. Deotare, M. Lončar, and G.M. Whitesides "Integrated Fabrication and Magnetic Positioning of Metallic and Polymeric Nanowires Embedded in Thin Epoxy Slabs," ACS Nano, Vol. 3, 3315 (2009) [PDF]

  • I.B. Burgess*, Y. Zhang*, M. W. McCutcheon*, A.W. Rodriguez, J. Bravo-Abad, S. G. Johnson, and M. Lončar "Design of an efficient terahertz generation in triply resonant nonlinear photonic crystal microcavities," Optics Express, Vol. 17, 20099 (2009) [PDF]

  • Y. Zhang, M.W. McCutcheon, I.B. Burgess, and M. Lončar, "Ultra-high-Q TE/TM dual-polarized photonic crystal nanocavities," Optics Letters, Vol. 34, 2694 (2009)[Selected for the September 28, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology] [PDF]

  • Q. Quan, I. Bulu, and M. Lončar, "Broadband waveguide QED system on a chip," Physical Review A, Vol. 80, 011810(R) (2009) [Published as a Rapid Communication, Selected for the August 10, 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology and the August 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information] [PDF]

  • P. B. Deotare, M. W. McCutcheon, I. W. Frank, M. Khan, and M. Lončar, "Coupled photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 95, 031102 (2009) [PDF]

  • I.B. Burgess, A.W. Rodriguez, M. W. McCutcheon, J. Bravo-Abad, Y. Zhang, S. G. Johnson, and M. Lončar, "Difference-frequency generation with quantum-limited efficiency in triply-resonant nonlinear cavities," Optics Express, Vol. 17, 9241 (2009) [PDF]

  • P. B. Deotare, M. W. McCutcheon, I. W. Frank, M. Khan, and M. Lončar, "High Quality factor photonic crystal nanobeam cavities," Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 94, 121106 (2009) [Selected for the April 13, 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (vjnano.org)] [PDF]

  • Y. Zhang and M. Lončar, "Sub-micron diameter micropillar cavities with high Quality factors and ultra-small mode volumes," Optics Letters, Vol. 34, 902 (2009)[Selected for the April 27, 2009 issue of the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology (vjnano.org)] [PDF]

  • H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, M. Lončar, and E. Ozbay, "Experimental observation of subwavelength localization using metamaterial-based cavities," Optics Letters, Vol. 34, 88 (2009) [PDF]



    • [2008]


  • M. W. McCutcheon and M. Lončar, "Design of an ultrahigh Quality factor silicon nitride photonic crystal nanocavity for coupling to diamond nanocrystals," Optics Express, Vol. 16, 19136 (2008) [PDF]

  • H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, M. Lončar, and E. Ozbay "Cavity formation in split ring resonators", Photonics and Nanostructures - Fundamentals and Applications, Vol. 6, 200 (2008) [PDF]

  • Y. Zhang and M. Lončar, "Ultra-high quality factor optical resonators based on semiconductor nanowires," Optics Express, Vol. 16, 17400 (2008). [PDF]

  • H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, M. Lončar, and E. Ozbay "Observation of Coupled Cavity Structures in Metamaterials", Applied Physics Letters (APL), 93, 121910 (2008) [PDF]

  • H. Caglayan, I. Bulu, M. Lončar, and E. Ozbay "Experimental observation of cavity formation in composite metamaterials", Optics Express, 16, 11132 (2008) [PDF]



    • [2007]


  • (News and Views)M. Lončar "Cavities lead the way", Nature Photonics, 1, 565 (2007) [PDF]
    -Corrigendum for this article can be found here: [PDF].

  • M. A. Belkin, M. Lončar, B. G. Lee, C. Pflugl, R. Audet, L. Diehl, F. Capasso, D. Bour, S. Corzine, and G. Hofler "Intra-cavity absorption spectroscopy with narrow-ridge microfluidic quantum cascade lasers", Optics Express, 15, 11262 (2 007) [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, B. G. Lee, L. Diehl, M. A. Belkin, F. Capasso, M. Giovannini, J. Faist, and E. Gini "Design and fabrication of photonic crystal quantum cascade lasers for optofluidics", Optics Express, 15, 4499 (2007) [PDF]

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    [2006]


  • L. Diehl, B. G. Lee, P. Behroozi, M. Lončar, M. Belkin, F. Capasso, T. Aellen, D. Hofstetter, M. Beck and J. Faist "Microfluidic tuning of distributed feedback quantum cascade lasers", Optics Express, 14, 11660 (2006) [PDF]

  • L. Diehl, D. Bour, S. Corzine, J. Zhu, G. Hofler, M. Lončar, M. Troccoli and Federico Capasso "High-temperature continuous wave operation of strain-balanced quantum cascade lasers grown by metal organic vapor-phase epitaxy", Appl. Phys. Lett., 89, 081101(2006) [PDF]

  • L. Diehl, D. Bour, S. Corzine, J. Zhu, G. Hofler, M. Lončar, M. Troccoli and Federico Capasso "High-power quantum cascade lasers grown by low-pressure metalorganic vapor-phase epitaxy operating in continuous wave above 400 K", Appl. Phys. Lett., 88, 201115 (2006) [PDF]

  • C. J. Barrelet, J. M. Bao, M. Lončar, H. G. Park, F. Capasso and C. M. Lieber, “Hybrid single-nanowire photonic crystal and microresonator structures”, Nano Letters, 6, pp. 11-15 (2006). [PDF]



    • [2005]


  • M. Adams, G. A. DeRose, M. Lončar and A. Scherer, “Lithographically fabricated optical cavities for refractive index sensing”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 23, pp. 3168-3173 (2005). [PDF]

  • M. L. Povinelli, M. Lončar, M. Ibanescu, E. J. Smythe, S. G. Johnson, F. Capasso and J. D. Joannopoulos, “Evenescent-wave bonding between optical waveguides”, Optics Letters, 30, pp. 3042 – 3044 (2005). [PDF]

  • M. L. Povinelli, S. G. Johnson, M. Lončar, M. Ibanescu, E. J. Smythe, F. Capasso and J. D. Joannopoulos, “High-Q enhancement of attractive and repulsive optical forces between coupled whispering-gallery-mode resonators”, Optics Express, 13, pp. 8286 – 8295 (2005) [PDF]

  • M. L. Adams, M. Lončar, A. Scherer and Y. Qiu, “Microfluidic integration of porous photonic crystals nanolasers for chemical sensing”, IEEE J. of Selected Areas in Communic., 23, pp. 1348 -1354 (2005). [PDF]




    • [2004]


  • B. Maune, M. Lončar, J. Witzens, M. Hochberg, T. Baehr-Jones. D. Psaltis, A. Scherer and Y. Qiu, “Liquid-crystal electric tuning of a photonic crystal laser”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 85, 360-362 (2004). [PDF]

  • T. Yoshie, M. Lončar, A. Scherer and Y. Qiu, “High frequency oscillation in photonic crystal nanolasers”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 84, pp. 3543-3545 (2004). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, M. Hochberg, A. Scherer and Y. Qiu, “High quality factors and room-temperature lasing in modified single-defect photonic crystal cavity”, Optics Lett.. 29, pp. 721-723 (2004). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, T. Yoshie, K. Okamoto, Y. Qiu, J. Vuckovic and A. Scherer, “Planar photonic crystal nanolasers (I): porous cavity lasers”, (invited) IEICE Trans. Elect., E87, pp. 291-299 (2004). [PDF]



    • [2003]


  • J. Witzens, T. Baehr-Jones, M. Hochberg, M. Lončar and A. Scherer, “Photonic crystal waveguide-mode orthogonality conditions and computation of intrinsic waveguide losses”, JOSA A, 10, pp. 1963-1968 (2003). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, A.Scherer and Y. Qiu, “Photonic crystal laser sources for chemical detection”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82, pp. 4648-4650 (2003). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, A. Scherer and Y. Qiu, “Nanocavity Lasers Detect Chemicals”, Laser Focus World, 39, pp. 89-91 (2003). [PDF]

  • K. Okamoto, M. Lončar, T. Yoshie, A. Scherer, Y. Qiu and P. Gogna, “Near-field scanning optical microscopy of photonic crystal nanocavities”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 82, pp. 1676-1678 (2003). [PDF]

  • A. Scherer, T. Yoshie, M. Lončar, J. Vuckovic, K. Okamoto, D. Deppe, “Photonic crystal nanocavities for efficient light confinement and emission”, (invited) J. Korean. Phys. Soc., 42, pp. S768-S773 (2003). [PDF]



    • [2002]


  • J. Witzens, M. Lončar and A. Scherer, “Self-collimation in planar photonic crystals”, IEEE J. Sel. Top. Quant. Elect., 8, pp. 1246-1257 (2002) [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, T. Yoshie, A. Scherer, P. Gogna and Y. Qiu, “Low-threshold photonic crystal laser”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 81 (15), pp. 2680-2682 (2002). [PDF]

  • A. Scherer, O. Painter, J. Vuckovic, M. Lončar and T. Yoshie, “Photonic crystals for confining, guiding and emitting light”, (invited) IEEE Trans. on Nanotech., 1 (1), pp. 4-11 (2002). [PDF]

  • J. Vuckovic, M. Lončar, H. Mabuchi and A. Scherer, “Optimization of Q-factors in micro-cavities based on free-standing membranes”, IEEE J. of Quant. Elect., 38 (7), pp. 850-856 (2002). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, D. Nedeljkovic, T. P. Pearsall, J. Vuckovic, A. Scherer, S. Kuchinsky, D. C. Allan, “Experimental and theoretical confirmation of Bloch-mode light propagation in planar photonic crystal waveguides”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 80 (10), pp. 1689-1692 (2002). [PDF]

  • . Vuckovic, M. Lončar, H. Mabuchi and A. Scherer, “Design of photonic crystal microcavities for cavity QED”, Phys. Rev. E, 65, 016608, (2002). [PDF]



    • [2001]


  • M. Lončar, J. Vuckovic and A. Scherer, “Methods for controlling positions of guided modes of photonic-crystal waveguides”, JOSA B, 18 (9), pp. 1362-1368 (2001). [PDF]

  • A. Adibi, Y. Xu, R. K. Lee, M. Lončar, A. Yariv, and A. Scherer, “Role of distributed Bragg reflection in photonic-crystal optical waveguides”, Phys. Rev. B., 64, (4) pp. 1102 (2001). [PDF]

  • H. Mabuchi, M. Armen, B. Lev, M. Lončar, J. Vuckovic, H.J. Kimble, J. Preskill, M. Roukes, A. Scherer, “Quantum networks based on cavity QED”, Quant. Info. and Comput., special issue on Implementation of Quantum Computation, 1, pp. 7-12 (2001). [PDF]



    • [2000]


  • M. Lončar, D. Nedeljkovic, T. Doll, J. Vuckovic, A. Scherer and T. P. Pearsall, “Waveguiding in planar photonic crystals”, Appl. Phys. Lett., 77 (13), pp. 1937-1939 (2000). [PDF]

  • M. Lončar, T. Doll, J. Vuckovic and A. Scherer, “Design and fabrication of silicon photonic crystal optical waveguides”, J. of Lightwave Tech., 18 (10), pp. 1402-1411 (2000). [PDF]

  • J. Vuckovic, M. Lončar, and A. Scherer, “Surface plasmon enhanced light-emitting diode”, IEEE J. Quant. Elect., 36 (10), pp. 1131-1144 (2000). [PDF]