Theses:
Th3. M. L. Cooper, "Modeling and Characterization of Strongly Coupled Silicon on Insulator Nanophotonic Devices" Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego (2010).
Th2. J. S. Park "Nonlinear Silicon Photonics from the Near to Mid Infrared" Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego (2010).
Th1. S. H. Yang "Giant birefringence silicon nanophotonic multi-slot waveguides for optical delay line applications" Ph.D. Thesis, University of California, San Diego (2008); co-advised with Prof. P. R. Bandaru, UCSD Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering.
Book chapters
2. S. Mookherjea, "Linear and nonlinear light localization in coupled micro-resonators" in Practical applications of microresonators in optics and photonics, A. Matsko (ed.) Taylor and Francis (2009), ISBN 978-1-42-006578-7
1. S. Mookherjea "Optical slow-wave structures and the role of disorder in slow light" in Slow Light: Science and Applications, J. B. Khurgin and R. S. Tucker (eds.) CRC Press (2008), ISBN 978-1-42-006151-2
Journal articles:
2012
45. M. A. Schenider and S. Mookherjea, "Modeling transmission time statistics of silicon nanophotonic waveguides" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, submitted (2012).
44. R. Aguinaldo, Y. Shen and S. Mookherjea, "Large dispersion of silicon directional couplers obtained via wideband microring parametric characterization" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, submitted (2012).
43. M. Davanco, J. R. Ong, A. B. Shehata, A. Tosi, I. Agha, S. Assefa. F. Xia, W. M. J. Green, S. Mookherjea and K. Srinivasan, "Telecommunications-band heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip" Applied Physics Letters, accepted (2012).
42. S. Zlatanovic, J. S. Park, F. Gholami, J. M. Chavez-Boggio, S. Moro, N. Alic, S. Mookherjea, and S. Radic, "Mid-Infrared Wavelength Conversion in Silicon Waveguides Pumped by Silica Fiber-Based Source" [invited] IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics Vol. 18, No. 2, pp. 612-620 (2012). [URL]
2011
41. S. Mookherjea and M. A. Schneider, "Avoiding bandwidth collapse in long chains of coupled optical micro-resonators", Optics Letters, Vol. 36, pp. 4557-4559 (2011). [URL]
40. J. Ong, M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, and S. Mookherjea "Low power continuous-wave four-wave mixing in silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides", Optics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 15, pp. 2964-2966 (2011). [URL]
39. Y. Shen, I. B. Divliansky, D. Basov and S. Mookherjea, "Electric field driven nano-oxidation trimming of silicon microrings and interferometers", Optics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 14, pp. 2668-2670 (2011). [URL]
38. M. L. Cooper and S. Mookherjea, "Accurate modeling of multi-band light transmission intensity and delay in long periodically-patterned silicon waveguides" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol. 23, No. 13, pp. 872-874 (2011). [URL]
37. M. L. Cooper, M. A. Schneider, G. Gupta, and S. Mookherjea "Filter-less amplification for rapid swept wavelength interferometric measurement of silicon nanophotonic waveguide group delay statistics" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters Vol. 23, No. 12, pp. 783-785 (2011). [URL]
2010
36. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, M. A. Schneider, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y. A. Vlasov, and S. Mookherjea, "Statistics of light transport in 235-ring silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides" Optics Express Vol. 18, pp. 26505-26516 (2010). [URL]
35. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, M. A. Schneider, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, D. K. Gifford, and S. Mookherjea, "Waveguide dispersion effects in silicon-on-insulator coupled-resonator optical waveguides," Optics Letters Vol. 35, pp. 3030-3032 (2010). [URL]
34. S. Zlatanovic*, J. S. Park*, S. Moro, J. M. Chavez-Boggio, I. B. Divliansky, N. Alic, S. Mookherjea, and S. Radic, "Mid-Infrared Wavelength Conversion in Silicon Waveguides using Ultracompact Telecom-Band-Derived Pump Source" Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, No. 7, (2010). [URL]
33. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, J. S. Park, M. A. Schneider, I. B. Divliansky, and S. Mookherjea,
"Quantitative Infrared Imaging of SOI Microring Resonators" Optics Letters
Vol. 35, pp. 784-786 (2010). [URL]
Spotlight on Optics,
commentary by Dr. J. E. Heebner.
2009
32. M. L. Cooper and S. Mookherjea, "Numerically-assisted coupled-mode theory for silicon waveguide couplers and arrayed waveguides," Optics Express Vol. 17, 1583-1599 (2009). [URL] [PDF]
2008
31. S. Mookherjea and M. A. Schneider, "The nonlinear microring add-drop filter", Optics Express, Vol. 16, 15130-15136 (2008). [URL] [PDF]
30. S. H. Yang, M. L. Cooper, P. R. Bandaru and S. Mookherjea, "Giant birefringence in multi-slotted silicon nanophotonic waveguides", Optics Express, Vol. 16, 8306-8316 (2008). [URL] [PDF]
29. S. Mookherjea, J. S. Park, S. H. Yang and P. R. Bandaru, "Localization in silicon nanophotonic slow-light waveguides", Nature Photonics, Vol. 2, No. 2, pp. 90-93 (2008). [DOI] [PDF]
2007
28. S. Mookherjea and A. Oh, "Effect of disorder on slow light velocity in optical slow-wave structures", Optics Letters, Vol. 32, pp. 289-291 (2007). [URL] [PDF]
2006
27. S. Mookherjea, "Dynamics of nonstationary return-to-zero pulses in dispersion-managed systems", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 497-504 (2006). [URL] [PDF]
26. S. Mookherjea, "Spectral characteristics of coupled resonators", Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Vol. 23, pp. 1137-1145 (2006). [URL] [PDF]
25. U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, S. Mookherjea, and Y. Fainman, "On-chip microfluidic tuning of an optical microring resonator", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 88, art. 111107 (2006). [URL] [PDF]
24. S. Mookherjea, "Using gain to tune the dispersion relation of coupled-resonator optical waveguides", IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, vol. 18, pp. 715-717 (2006). [PDF]
2005
23. S. Mookherjea, "Mode cycling in microring optical resonators", Optics Letters, vol. 30, 2751-2753 (2005). [URL]
22. S. Mookherjea, "Engineering the dispersion of photonic crystal waveguides for counter-directional signal and pump propagation", Journal of Optics, vol. 34. no. 2, pp. 57-66 (2005).
21. S. Mookherjea, "Dispersion characteristics of coupled-resonator optical waveguide", Optics Letters, vol. 30, 2406 (2005). [URL]
20. S. Mookherjea and U. Levy, "Analysis of longitudinal-field reflection in dielectric gratings", Physical Review E, vol. 71, 056609 (2005). [URL]
19. A. Ciattoni, B. Crosignani, S. Mookherjea, and A. Yariv, "Nonparaxial dark spatial solitons in optical Kerr media", Optics Letters, vol. 30, 516 (2005). [URL]
2004
18. K. Campbell, A. Groisman, U. Levy, L. Pang, S. Mookherjea, D. Psaltis, and Y. Fainman, "A microfluidic 2x2 optical switch", Applied Physics Letters, vol. 85, 6119 (2004).
16. S. Mookherjea, "Semiconductor coupled-resonator optical waveguide laser", Applied Physics Letters 84, 3265 (2004). [URL]
Pre-group Journal articles:
17. B. Crosignani, A. Yariv, and S. Mookherjea, "Nonparaxial spatial solitons and propagation-invariant pattern solutions in optical Kerr media", Optics Letters, vol. 29, 1254 (2004). [URL]
15. J. K. S. Poon, J. Scheuer, S. Mookherjea, G. T. Paloczi, Y. Huang, and A. Yariv, "Matrix analysis of microring coupled-resonator optical waveguides", Optics Express 12, 90 (2004). [URL]
2003
14. G. T. Paloczi, Y. Huang, A. Yariv, and S. Mookherjea, "Polymeric Mach-Zehnder interferometer using serially coupled microring resonators", Optics Express 11, 2666 (2003). [URL]
13. A. Yariv, Y. Xu, and S. Mookherjea, "Transverse Bragg resonance laser amplifier", Optics Letters 28, 176-178 (2003). [URL]
2002
12. S. Mookherjea and A. Yariv, "Kerr-stabilized super-resonant modes in coupled-resonator optical waveguides" Physical Review E 66, 046610 (2002). [URL]
11. S. Mookherjea, D.S. Cohen and A. Yariv, "Nonlinear dispersion in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide", Optics Letters 27, 933-935 (2002). [URL]
10. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Coupled resonator optical waveguides", IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (Special Issue on Nonlinear Optics) 8, 448-456 (2002). [URL]
9. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Pulse propagation in a coupled resonator optical waveguide to all orders of dispersion", Physical Review E 65, 056601 (2002). [URL]
8. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Second harmonic generation with pulses in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide", Physical Review E 65, 026607 (2002). [URL]
7. Chan, V.W.S., Chan, S. and Mookherjea, S. "Optical distribution networks," Optical Networks Magazine 3, 25-33 (2002).
2001
6. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Optical pulse propagation in the tight-binding approximation", Optics Express 9, 91-96 (2001). [URL]
5. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Optical pulse propagation and holographic storage in a coupled-resonator optical waveguide", Physical Review E 64, 066602 (2001). [URL]
4. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Algebraic and geometric space-time analogies in nonlinear optical pulse propagation," Optics Letters 26, 1323-1325 (2001). [URL1] [URL2]
3. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Analysis of Optical Pulse Propagation with two-by-two (ABCD) Matrices" Physical Review E 64, 016611 (2001). [URL]
2. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Hamiltonian dynamics of breathers with third-order dispersion," Journal of the Optical Society of America B 18, 1150-1155 (2001).
1. Mookherjea, S. "Remotely-pumped optical distribution networks: a distributed amplifier model," Journal of Lightwave Technology 19, 926-932 (2001).
Conference papers:
2012
44. S. Mookherjea, "Quantum Light from CMOS-compatible Silicon Microresonators" IEEE Photonics Conference (2012) [invited].
43. J. R. Ong, M. Davanco, A. B. Shehata, A. Tosi, I. Agha, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y. A. Vlasov, W. M. J. Green, K. Srinivasan and S. Mookherjea "Heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip" CLEO 2012 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CWM4 (2011) [upgraded to invited].
42. M. A. Schneider and S. Mookherjea "Avoiding bandwidth collapse in hundreds of coupled silicon micro-resonators" CLEO 2012 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CM2M.3 (2012).
41. R. Aguinaldo, Y. Shen and S. Mookherjea "Large Dispersion of Silicon Waveguide Directional Couplers" CLEO 2012 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CM4A.2 (2012).
40. Y. Shen and S. Mookherjea "Static rerouting of light via tip-induced nano-oxidation in silicon interconnect components" CLEO 2012 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics JTh2A.67 (2012).
39. M. A. Schneider and S. Mookherjea "Modeling light transmission in silicon waveguides" CLEO 2011 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CM4A.1 (2012).
38. S. Mookherjea "Hundreds of Microring Resonators: Towards Overcoming Disorder Effects in Silicon Photonics" 2012 CMOS Emerging Technologies Conference, Vancouver BC, Canada (2012) [invited].
37. J. Ong, M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia and S. Mookherjea, "Slow light enhancement of four-wave mixing in coupled silicon-on-insulator microrings" Photonics West "Advances in Slow and Fast Light V" Proc. SPIE, Vol. 8273, (2012) [invited].
2011
36. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, J. R. Ong, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y. A. Vlasov and S. Mookherjea, "Correlations between light at spectrally distant wavelengths in coupled microring resonator waveguides" CLEO 2011 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CWM4 (2011).
35. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, M. A. Schneider, Y. Shen, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y. A. Vlasov and S. Mookherjea, "Statistics of photon transport in hundreds of coupled resonators" CLEO 2011 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CWM3 (2011).
34. J. R. Ong, M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y. A. Vlasov and S. Mookherjea, "Intra- and Inter-band Four-wave Mixing in Silicon Coupled Resonator Optical Waveguides" CLEO 2011 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CTuW1 (2011).
33. Y. Shen and S. Mookherjea, "Nanoscale oxidation of silicon microring resonators" CLEO 2011 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CThZ2 (2011).
32. Y. Shen, I. B. Divliansky, D. Basov and S. Mookherjea, "Perfect set-and-forget alignment of silicon photonic resonators and interferometers" OFC 2011 Proceedings of the Optical Fiber Conference, post-deadline paper PDPC3 (2011).
31. S. Mookherjea, "Slow light in hundreds of coupled silicon-on-insulator microrings" Photonics West "Advances in Slow and Fast Light IV" Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7949, 79490M (2011) [invited].
2010
30. S. Mookherjea, "Statistical optics of silicon waveguides and microring filters" IEEE Photonics Society Annual Meeting, TuT1 (2010) [invited].
29. S. Zlatanovic, J. S. Park, S. Moro, J. M. Chavez-Boggio, F. Gholami, I. B. Divliansky, N. Alic, S. Mookherjea, S. Radic "Nonlinear Mixing in Silicon Waveguides for SWIR and Mid-IR Applications" OSA Annual Meeting "Frontiers in Optics", FTuC4 (2010).
28. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, W. M. J. Green, S. Assefa, F. Xia, Y, A. Vlasov, S. Mookherjea, "235-Ring Coupled-Resonator Optical Waveguides" CLEO 2010 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CTuHH3 (2010).
27. M. L. Cooper, G. Gupta, J. S. Park, M. A. Schneider, I. B. Divliansky, and S. Mookherjea, "Characterization of SOI Microrings Using IR Imaging" CLEO 2010 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CThAA1 (2010).
26. M. L. Cooper and S. Mookherjea, "Field perturbations due to strong coupling and modal confinement in SOI arrayed waveguides" CLEO 2010 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics JThE70 (2010).
25. G. Gupta, M. L. Cooper, J. S. Park, M. A. Schneider, W. H. Steier, and S. Mookherjea, "Tuning of microring resonators" Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7612, 76120Q, Photonics West (2010) [invited]. [URL]
2009
24. J. S. Park, S. Zlatanovic, S. Moro, J. M. Chavez-Boggio, I. B. Divliansky, S. Mookherjea, S. Radic, "Mid-Infrared Four-Wave Mixing in Silicon Waveguides using Telecom-Compatible Light Sources" FiO 2009 OSA Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics, PDPB3 (2009).
23. J. S. Park, S. Zlatanovic, M. L. Cooper, J. M. Chavez-Boggio, I. B. Divliansky, N. Alic, S. Mookherjea, S. Radic, "Two-Pump Four-Wave Mixing in Silicon Waveguides" FiO 2009 OSA Annual Meeting, Frontiers in Optics, FML2 (2009).
22. M. L. Cooper and S. Mookherjea, "When and how coupled-mode theory fails in high-index contrast arrayed and multi-slot waveguides" CLEO 2009 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics JThE94 (2009).
21. S. H. Yang, M. L. Cooper, P. R. Bandaru, and S. Mookherjea, "Tuning giant birefringence in multi-slot silicon optical waveguides" CLEO 2009 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CThU3 (2009).
20. M. A. Schneider and S. Mookherjea, "Modeling the nonlinear add-drop microring filter" CLEO 2009 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CFV3 (2009).
19. S. Mookherjea and J. S. Park, "Disorder and localization in microresonator arrays" Proc. SPIE, Vol. 7194, 71940S, Photonics West (2009) [invited]. [URL]
2008
18. S. Mookherjea, M. L. Cooper, J. S. Park, S.-H. Yang, P. R. Bandaru, "Design, fabrication, and measurement of giant birefringence at telecommunications wavelengths in multi-slotted silicon nanophotonic optical waveguides" XXIX URSI General Assembly, Chicago (2008) [invited].
17. J. S. Park, S.-H. Yang, P. R. Bandaru, S. Mookherjea, "Light Localization in Silicon Nanophotonic Waveguides", CLEO 2008 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CWP2 (2008).
16. S.-H. Yang, P. R. Bandaru, M. L. Cooper, J. S. Park, S. Mookherjea, "Multi-Slot Silicon Optical Waveguides", CLEO 2008 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CThT1 (2008).
15. P. Bandaru, S.-H. Yang, J. S. Park, S. Mookherjea, "Nanostructured Silicon Optical Waveguides", 2008 APS March Meeting R1.00198 (2008).
2007
14. S. Mookherjea and A. Oh, "What is the velocity of slow light in weakly disordered optical slow-wave structures?", CLEO 2007 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics CThG3 (2007).
13. S. Mookherjea and A. Oh, "Enhanced nonlinear interactions in optical slow wave structures and the limiting role of disorder" SPIE European Symposium on Optics and Optoelectronics, Proc. SPIE Vol. 6582, No. 14 (2007)
2006
12. Y. Fainman, U. Levy, A. Groisman, K. Kampbell, S. Mookherjea, L. Pang, K. Tets, "Optofluidics for adaptation and sensing" Proceedings of the 2006 LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, pp. 44 - 45 (2006)
11. U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, S. Mookherjea and Y. Fainman, "On-Chip Microfluidic Tuning of an Microring Resonator" CLEO 2006 Proceedings of the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CFC1 (2006) [URL]
2005
10. S. Mookherjea "Coupled-resonator optical waveguides and mode cycling" OSA Annual Meeting: Frontiers in Optics, FWP4 (2005) [invited] [URL].
9. S. Mookherjea, "Principles and applications of coupled microring optical resonators" Proceedings of the 4th IEEE/LEOS Workshop on Fibers and Optical Passive Components WFOPC [invited], pp. 51-57, IEEE Catalog Number 05EX1021 (2005) [URL].
2004
8. L. Pang, U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, S. Mookherjea, D. Psaltis , and Y. Fainman, "A microfluidic 2x2 optical switch" LEOS Annual Meeting MM6 (2004).
Pre-group Conference articles:
2003
7. Mookherjea, S., and Yariv, A. "Multilevel communications in optical fiber communications," in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Vol. 86, Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest, Postconference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2003), pp. 692-693.
2002
6. Yariv, A. and Mookherjea, S. "Frozen Kerr-stabilized super-resonant modes in coupled-resonator optical waveguides", NLO 2002: OSA Topical Meeting on Nonlinear Optics, (July, 2002), post-deadline paper.
5. Yariv, A. and Mookherjea, S. "Optical wave propagation in periodic structures", in Frontiers in Electronics: Future Chips, Y. S. Park, M. S. Shur, and and W. Tang (eds.), Proceedings of the 2002 Workshop on Frontiers in Electronics WOFE-02, (World Scientific, Singapore, 2002), pp. 1-8.
4. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "Pulse propagation in coupled resonator optical waveguides", in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Vol. 74, Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference, OSA Technical Digest, Postconference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2002), p. 110.
2001
3. Mookherjea, S. and Chan, V.W.S. "Remotely-pumped optical distribution networks," in OSA Trends in Optics and Photonics (TOPS) Vol. 56, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, OSA Technical Digest, Postconference Edition (Optical Society of America, Washington DC, 2001), pp. 497-498.
2000
2. Chan, V.W.S., Chan, S. and Mookherjea, S. "Optical distribution networks," in OptiComm 2000: Optical Networking and Communications, Imrich Chlamtac, Editor, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 4233, 110-120 (2000).
1999
1. Mookherjea, S. and Yariv, A. "A New Architecture for Photonic Switching", National Conference on Undergraduate Research (NCUR), Rochester, NY, Session O-1 (1999).