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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2019 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fieldopening contributions to subwavelength integrated photonics, and the experimental and theoretical investigations of metamaterial nanostructures in optical waveguides, including metamaterial Bloch waveguides and onchip metasurfaces in the telecom and midinfrared frequencies
  • 2016 - OSA Fellows Pavel Cheben National Research Council Canada, Canada For pioneering contributions to the science of photonic integrated circuits, including Fourier-transform interferometer arrays, nanophotonic couplers and subwavelength engineering in integrated optics.
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering
  • The Canadian Academy of Engineering

Overview

Pavel Cheben is affiliated with the National Research Council Canada. Their research spans multiple areas within engineering and physics, with a focus on photonics and optical technologies.

The primary fields of study for this researcher are engineering and physics and astronomy. They have contributed extensively to subfields such as electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, surfaces, coatings and films, biomedical engineering, and spectroscopy.

Their work covers a range of topics including photonic and optical devices, advanced fiber laser technologies, photonic crystals and applications, advanced fiber optic sensors, optical coatings and gratings, advanced photonic communication systems, and plasmonic and surface plasmon research.

Selected recent publications include:

  • A review of silicon subwavelength gratings: building break-through devices with anisotropic metamaterials (2021, Nanophotonics)
  • Recent advances in metamaterial integrated photonics (2023, Advances in Optics and Photonics)
  • Perfectly vertical surface grating couplers using subwavelength engineering for increased feature sizes (2020, Optics Letters)
  • Experimental demonstration of a broadband mode converter and multiplexer based on subwavelength grating waveguides (2020, Optics & Laser Technology)
  • Experimental demonstration of metamaterial anisotropy engineering for broadband on-chip polarization beam splitting (2020, Optics Express)

The researcher frequently publishes in venues such as Optics Letters, Optics Express, arXiv (Cornell University), Laser & Photonics Review, and EPJ Web of Conferences.

Frequent co-authors include Jens H. Schmid, Alejandro Ortega-Moñux, J. Gonzalo Wangüemert-Pérez, Íñigo Molina-Fernández, and Daniele Melati.

Pavel Cheben has received several professional recognitions including being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2020. They were also made a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2019 for contributions to subwavelength integrated photonics and investigations of metamaterial nanostructures in optical waveguides. In 2016, they were recognized as an OSA Fellow for work in photonic integrated circuits including Fourier-transform interferometer arrays, nanophotonic couplers, and subwavelength engineering in integrated optics. Additionally, they are a member of The Canadian Academy of Engineering.

Best Publications

  • Subwavelength integrated photonics.

    Pavel Cheben;Robert Halir;Jens H. Schmid;Harry A. Atwater

  • Waveguide sub-wavelength structures: a review of principles and applications

    Robert Halir;Przemek J. Bock;Pavel Cheben;Alejandro Ortega‐Moñux

  • Subwavelength grating periodic structures in silicon-on-insulator: a new type of microphotonic waveguide.

    Przemek J Bock;Pavel Cheben;Jens H Schmid;Jean Lapointe

  • Refractive index engineering with subwavelength gratings for efficient microphotonic couplers and planar waveguide multiplexers

    Pavel Cheben;Przemek J. Bock;Jens H. Schmid;Jean Lapointe

  • A high-resolution silicon-on-insulator arrayed waveguide grating microspectrometer with sub-micrometer aperture waveguides.

    P. Cheben;J. H. Schmid;A. Delâge;A. Densmore

  • A Silicon-on-Insulator Photonic Wire Based Evanescent Field Sensor

    A. Densmore;D.-X. Xu;P. Waldron;S. Janz

  • Subwavelength waveguide grating for mode conversion and light coupling in integrated optics.

    Cheben P;Xu Dx;Janz S;Densmore A

  • Subwavelength grating crossings for silicon wire waveguides

    Przemek J. Bock;Pavel Cheben;Jens H. Schmid;Jean Lapointe

  • Waveguide grating coupler with subwavelength microstructures.

    Robert Halir;Pavel Cheben;Siegfried Janz;Dan-Xia Xu

  • Silicon photonic wire biosensor array for multiplexed real-time and label-free molecular detection

    A. Densmore;M. Vachon;D.-X. Xu;S. Janz

  • Broadband polarization independent nanophotonic coupler for silicon waveguides with ultra-high efficiency.

    Pavel Cheben;Jens H Schmid;Shurui Wang;Dan-Xia Xu

  • Folded cavity SOI microring sensors for high sensitivity and real time measurement of biomolecular binding.

    D X Xu;A Densmore;A Delâge;P Waldron

  • Mapping the global design space of nanophotonic components using machine learning pattern recognition

    Daniele Melati;Yuri Grinberg;Mohsen Kamandar Dezfouli;Siegfried Janz

  • Subwavelength-Grating Metamaterial Structures for Silicon Photonic Devices

    Robert Halir;Alejandro Ortega-Monux;Daniel Benedikovic;Goran Z. Mashanovich

  • Ultra-broadband nanophotonic beamsplitter using an anisotropic sub-wavelength metamaterial

    Robert Halir;Pavel Cheben;José Manuel Luque-González;Jose Darío Sarmiento-Merenguel

  • Optical off-chip interconnects in multichannel planar waveguide devices

    Pavel Cheben;Siegfried Janz;Boris Lamontagne;Dan-Xia Xu

  • Low power four wave mixing in an integrated, micro-ring resonator with Q=1.2 million

    M. Ferrera;D. Duchesne;L. Razzari;M. Peccianti

  • Wavelength independent multimode interference coupler

    A. Maese-Novo;R. Halir;S. Romero-García;D. Pérez-Galacho

  • Continuously apodized fiber-to-chip surface grating coupler with refractive index engineered subwavelength structure

    R. Halir;P. Cheben;J. H. Schmid;R. Ma

  • Spiral-path high-sensitivity silicon photonic wire molecular sensor with temperature-independent response

    A. Densmore;D.-X. Xu;S. Janz;P. Waldron

  • A photopolymerizable glass with diffraction efficiency near 100% for holographic storage

    Pavel Cheben;Marı́a L. Calvo

Frequent Co-Authors

Siegfried Janz
Siegfried Janz National Research Council Canada
Jens H. Schmid
Jens H. Schmid National Research Council Canada
Dan-Xia Xu
Dan-Xia Xu National Research Council Canada
Robert Halir
Robert Halir University of Malaga
Alejandro Ortega-Moñux
Alejandro Ortega-Moñux University of Malaga
Jean Lapointe
Jean Lapointe National Research Council Canada
Juan Gonzalo Wanguemert-Perez
Juan Gonzalo Wanguemert-Perez University of Malaga
Laurent Vivien
Laurent Vivien University of Paris-Saclay
Goran Z. Mashanovich
Goran Z. Mashanovich University of Southampton
Delphine Marris-Morini
Delphine Marris-Morini University of Paris-Saclay

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