Selected Publications

Invited presentation: “Engineered Nanostructures Exhibiting Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity”, Photonics West, (Jan. 2009).

Invited paper: “Engineered Nanostructures Exhibiting Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity”, Proceedings of SPIE “Quantum Dots, Particles, and Nanoclusters”, vol. 7224, San Jose, CA, (Jan. 2009).

“Optical pulse interactions in nonlinear excited state materials”, M. J. Potasek, D. McLaughlin, and E. Parilov, NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, Vol. 46, No. 22, 104, (Oct. 2008).

“Enhanced optical nonlinearity of surfactant-capped CdS quantum dots embedded in an optically transparent polystyrene thin film”, Y. Gao, A. Tonizzo, A. Walser, M. Potasek, and R. Dorsinville, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 92, 033106 (Jan. 2008)

“Dynamics of a multilevel molecular absorber interacting with a train of optical pulses”, M. J. Potasek, M. F. Arend and Y. Gao, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 24, 839 (Apr. 2007).

“Generalized theoretical treatment and numerical method of time-resolved radially dependent laser pulses interacting with multiphoton absorbers”, E . Parilov and M. Potasek, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 23, 1894, (Sep. 2006).
-- Selected for publication in Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Vol. 5, No. 10 (Oct. 2006)
-- Presented at AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, ACMS, Tucson, AZ (Oct. 2006)

Invited paper and best paper award: “Optical Switching for Novel High Bandwidth Optical Networks”, M. J. Potasek, Proc. International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies CCCT ’03 and the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis ISAS ’03, vol. VI, eds. H. W. Chu, J. Ferrer, D. Reisis and E. Hansen, July 31- Aug. 1-2, 2003, Orlando, FL, pp. 315-320.

Invited paper: “All-Optical Switching for High Bandwidth Optical Networks”, M. J. Potasek, Optical Networks Magazine, vol. 3, pp. 30-43 (2002).

Invited Book Chapter: “High Bandwidth Optical Networks and Communications”, M. J. Potasek, Photodetectors and Fiber Optics, ed. Nalwa, Academic Press, Ch. 7, pp. 459-543, Academic Press, New York, 2001.

Special issue: “Investigation of Nonlinear Ocular Media using Femtosecond Laser Pulses”, M.J. Potasek and A.E. Paul, Lasers and Noncoherent Ocular Effects: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment, vol.2974, pp.66-74 (1997).

Patents pending

“Determining the Interaction between Electromagnetic Radiation and a Material by Utilizing Transition Modules” (2009)

“Method, System and Software Arrangement for Determining an Interaction Between an Electromagnetic Radiation and a Material”, US2007/0290147 A1 (Nov. 2006). Simphotek has acquired an exclusive license to this patent application from New York University.