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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For diverse contributions to understanding the underlying physics and improving the performance of numerous electronic and optical devices, such as semiconductor secondorder nonlinear optical generators, intersubband semiconductor lasers and Raman oscillators, slow light, and plasmonic devices
  • 2006 - OSA Fellows For outstanding original contributions to the physics of nonlinear optical and electro-optical properties of semiconductors, especially the low-dimensional semiconductor structures.

Overview

Jacob B. Khurgin is affiliated with Johns Hopkins University in the United States. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, focusing heavily on photonics and optical devices. Their contributions include work in electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, biomedical engineering, artificial intelligence, as well as electronic, optical, and magnetic materials.

The scientist has published extensively, with key topics of work encompassing:

  • Photonic and Optical Devices
  • Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies
  • Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research
  • Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing
  • Optical Network Technologies
  • Photonic Crystals and Applications
  • Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and Applications

Jacob B. Khurgin's work has appeared repeatedly in several publication venues, particularly:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine
  • Laser & Photonics Review
  • The Journal of Urology
  • ACS Photonics

Recent significant publications include:

  • "Nonlinear optical properties of halide perovskites and their applications" (2020, Applied Physics Reviews)
  • "Adiabatic frequency shifting in epsilon-near-zero materials: the role of group velocity" (2020, Optica)
  • "Ultrafast quantum photonics enabled by coupling plasmonic nanocavities to strongly radiative antennas" (2020, Optica)
  • "Fast and Slow Nonlinearities in Epsilon-Near-Zero Materials" (2020, Laser & Photonics Review)
  • "Expanding the Photonic Palette: Exploring High Index Materials" (2022, ACS Photonics)

Frequent collaborators include Volker J. Sorger, Nathaniel Kinsey, Jacek Gosciniak, Rubab Amin, and Elie Kaplan-Marans. These coauthors have worked jointly on a variety of research projects, reflecting ongoing collaborative efforts in their areas of expertise.

Jacob B. Khurgin has received multiple recognitions within the scientific community. These include being named a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011 for diverse contributions to understanding and improving various electronic and optical devices, and being recognized as an OSA Fellow in 2006 for original contributions to the physics of nonlinear optical and electro-optical properties of semiconductors, especially in low-dimensional semiconductor structures.

Best Publications

  • How to deal with the loss in plasmonics and metamaterials

    Jacob B. Khurgin

  • Optical buffers based on slow light in electromagnetically induced transparent media and coupled resonator structures: comparative analysis

    Jacob B. Khurgin

  • Locally Oxidized Silicon Surface-Plasmon Schottky Detector for Telecom Regime

    Ilya Goykhman;Boris Desiatov;Jacob Khurgin;Joseph Shappir

  • On-Chip Integrated, Silicon–Graphene Plasmonic Schottky Photodetector with High Responsivity and Avalanche Photogain

    Ilya Goykhman;Ugo Sassi;Boris Desiatov;Noa Mazurski

  • Reflecting upon the losses in plasmonics and metamaterials

    Jacob B. Khurgin;Alexandra Boltasseva

  • High-Performance Single-Crystalline Perovskite Thin-Film Photodetector.

    Zhenqian Yang;Yuhao Deng;Xiaowei Zhang;Suo Wang

  • Slow light : science and applications

    Jacob B. Khurgin;Rodney S. Tucker

  • Slow light in various media: a tutorial

    Jacob B. Khurgin

  • Highly power-efficient quantum cascade lasers

    Peter Q. Liu;Anthony J. Hoffman;Matthew D. Escarra;Kale J. Franz

  • Second-order nonlinear effects in asymmetric quantum-well structures.

    J. Khurgin

  • Fundamental limits of hot carrier injection from metal in nanoplasmonics

    Jacob B. Khurgin

  • Fundamental limitations in spontaneous emission rate of single-photon sources

    Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi;Jacob B. Khurgin

  • Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators

    Jaime Cardenas;Mark A Foster;Nicolás Sherwood-Droz;Carl B Poitras

  • Waveguide based compact silicon Schottky photodetector with enhanced responsivity in the telecom spectral band

    Ilya Goykhman;Boris Desiatov;Jacob Khurgin;Joseph Shappir

  • Practicable enhancement of spontaneous emission using surface plasmons

    Greg Sun;Jacob B. Khurgin;Richard A. Soref

  • Nonlinear optical properties of halide perovskites and their applications

    Yixuan Zhou;Yuanyuan Huang;Xinlong Xu;Zeyu Fan

  • Practical enhancement of photoluminescence by metal nanoparticles

    Greg Sun;Jacob B. Khurgin;R. A. Soref

  • Comparative analysis of spasers, vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers and surface-plasmon-emitting diodes

    Jacob B. Khurgin;Greg Sun

  • Coherent frequency combs produced by self frequency modulation in quantum cascade lasers

    J. B. Khurgin;Y. Dikmelik;A. Hugi;J. Faist

  • In search of the elusive lossless metal

    Jacob B. Khurgin;Greg Sun

  • Phased-array cancellation of nonlinear FWM in coherent OFDM dispersive multi-span links

    Moshe Nazarathy;Jacob Khurgin;Rakefet Weidenfeld;Yehuda Meiman

  • ITO-based Electro-absorption Modulator for Photonic Neural Activation Function

    R. Amin;J. K. George;S. Sun;T. Ferreira de Lima

Frequent Co-Authors

Greg Sun
Greg Sun University of Massachusetts Boston
Jin U. Kang
Jin U. Kang Johns Hopkins University
Richard A. Soref
Richard A. Soref University of Massachusetts Boston
Claire F. Gmachl
Claire F. Gmachl Princeton University
Volker J. Sorger
Volker J. Sorger George Washington University
Din Ping Tsai
Din Ping Tsai City University of Hong Kong
John E. Bowers
John E. Bowers University of California, Santa Barbara
Debdeep Jena
Debdeep Jena Cornell University
Siddharth Rajan
Siddharth Rajan The Ohio State University
Igor Vurgaftman
Igor Vurgaftman United States Naval Research Laboratory

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