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  • 2019 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to terahertz technology and microwave photonics
  • 2018 - OSA Fellows Mona Jarrahi Univ. of California, Los Angeles, USA For pioneering contributions to terahertz optoelectronics and microwave photonics through development of novel engineered materials, plasmonic nanostructures and quantum well devices.
  • 2018 - SPIE Fellow

Overview

Mona Jarrahi is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a strong focus on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Artificial Intelligence, Biomedical Engineering, and Acoustics and Ultrasonics.

The scientist's main topics of research encompass Photonic and Optical Devices, Terahertz Technology and Applications, Neural Networks and Reservoir Computing, Random Lasers and Scattering Media, Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies, Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research, and Superconducting and THz Device Technology.

Recent significant publications by Mona Jarrahi include:

  • Spectrally encoded single-pixel machine vision using diffractive networks, 2021, Science Advances
  • High-throughput terahertz imaging: progress and challenges, 2023, Light Science & Applications
  • Computational imaging without a computer: seeing through random diffusers at the speed of light, 2022, eLight
  • Misalignment resilient diffractive optical networks, 2020, Nanophotonics
  • Snapshot multispectral imaging using a diffractive optical network, 2023, Light Science & Applications

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Nature Communications, Light Science & Applications, and Optics Express.

Mona Jarrahi has collaborated extensively with other researchers, with frequent coauthors including Aydogan Özcan, Jingxi Li, Deniz Turan, Yuhang Li, and Deniz Mengü.

Among honors received, Mona Jarrahi was named an IEEE Fellow in 2019 for contributions to terahertz technology and microwave photonics. They were also a SPIE Fellow in 2018, and recognized as an OSA Fellow the same year for pioneering contributions to terahertz optoelectronics and microwave photonics through novel engineered materials, plasmonic nanostructures, and quantum well devices.

Best Publications

  • All-optical machine learning using diffractive deep neural networks

    Xing Lin;Yair Rivenson;Nezih T. Yardimci;Muhammed Veli

  • Significant performance enhancement in photoconductive terahertz optoelectronics by incorporating plasmonic contact electrodes

    C.W. Berry;N. Wang;M.R. Hashemi;M. Unlu

  • All-Optical Machine Learning Using Diffractive Deep Neural Networks

    Xing Lin;Yair Rivenson;Nezih T. Yardimci;Muhammed Veli

  • Terahertz pulse shaping using diffractive surfaces.

    Muhammed Veli;Deniz Mengu;Nezih T. Yardimci;Yi Luo

  • Design of task-specific optical systems using broadband diffractive neural networks

    Yi Luo;Deniz Mengu;Nezih T. Yardimci;Yair Rivenson

  • High-Power Terahertz Generation Using Large-Area Plasmonic Photoconductive Emitters

    Nezih T. Yardimci;Shang-Hua Yang;Christopher W. Berry;Mona Jarrahi

  • Electronically-Controlled Beam-Steering through Vanadium Dioxide Metasurfaces

    Mohammed Reza M Hashemi;Shang Hua Yang;Shang Hua Yang;Tongyu Wang;Nelson Sepúlveda

  • 7.5% Optical-to-Terahertz Conversion Efficiency Offered by Photoconductive Emitters With Three-Dimensional Plasmonic Contact Electrodes

    Shang-Hua Yang;Mohammad R. Hashemi;Christopher W. Berry;Mona Jarrahi

  • Spectrally encoded single-pixel machine vision using diffractive networks

    Jingxi Li;Deniz Mengu;Nezih T. Yardimci;Yi Luo

  • Gold-patched graphene nano-stripes for high-responsivity and ultrafast photodetection from the visible to infrared regime

    Semih Cakmakyapan;Ping Keng Lu;Aryan Navabi;Mona Jarrahi

  • Terahertz generation using plasmonic photoconductive gratings

    Christopher W Berry;Mona Jarrahi

  • Computational Imaging Without a Computer: Seeing Through Random Diffusers at the Speed of Light

    Yi Luo;Yifan Zhao;Jingxi Li;Ege Cetintas

  • Misalignment resilient diffractive optical networks

    Deniz Mengu;Yifan Zhao;Nezih T. Yardimci;Yair Rivenson

  • High Sensitivity Terahertz Detection through Large-Area Plasmonic Nano-Antenna Arrays.

    Nezih Tolga Yardimci;Mona Jarrahi

  • Nanostructure-Enhanced Photoconductive Terahertz Emission and Detection.

    Nezih Tolga Yardimci;Mona Jarrahi

  • Generation of high power pulsed terahertz radiation using a plasmonic photoconductive emitter array with logarithmic spiral antennas

    Christopher W. Berry;Mohammad R. Hashemi;Mona Jarrahi

  • Advanced Photoconductive Terahertz Optoelectronics Based on Nano-Antennas and Nano-Plasmonic Light Concentrators

    Mona Jarrahi

  • Analysis of periodic metallic nano-slits for efficient interaction of terahertz and optical waves at nano-scale dimensions

    Bing-Yu Hsieh;Mona Jarrahi

  • Switchable scattering meta-surfaces for broadband terahertz modulation.

    M. Unlu;M. R. Hashemi;C. W. Berry;S. Li

  • High power terahertz generation using 1550 nm plasmonic photomixers

    Christopher W. Berry;Mohammad R. Hashemi;Mohammad R. Hashemi;Sascha Preu;Hong Lu

  • A High-Power Broadband Terahertz Source Enabled by Three-Dimensional Light Confinement in a Plasmonic Nanocavity.

    Nezih Tolga Yardimci;Semih Cakmakyapan;Soroosh Hemmati;Mona Jarrahi

Frequent Co-Authors

Yi Luo
Yi Luo University of Science and Technology of China
Thomas H. Lee
Thomas H. Lee Stanford University
Diana L. Huffaker
Diana L. Huffaker The University of Texas at Arlington
Dim-Lee Kwong
Dim-Lee Kwong National University of Singapore
Liam P. Barry
Liam P. Barry Dublin City University
Masahiko Tani
Masahiko Tani University of Fukui
Kang L. Wang
Kang L. Wang University of California, Los Angeles
Roger Fabian W. Pease
Roger Fabian W. Pease Stanford University
Seth R. Bank
Seth R. Bank The University of Texas at Austin
Xiuling Li
Xiuling Li University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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