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  • 2017 - OSA Fellows Rajesh  Menon University of Utah, United States “for pioneering super-resolution optical lithography and innovations in metamaterials, nanophotonics, and micro-optics, with applications in photovoltaics, computational imaging, displays, color sensors, spectroscopy and silicon photonics” (Engineering, Application and Development)

Overview

Rajesh Menon is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their primary fields of study include Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on various subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics; Biomedical Engineering; Electrical and Electronic Engineering; Surfaces, Coatings and Films; and Media Technology.

Their research covers a range of topics prominently in Optical Coatings and Gratings, Photonic and Optical Devices, Advanced Optical System Design, Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics, Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications, Advanced Fluorescence Microscopy Techniques, and Advanced Optical Imaging Technologies.

Frequent coauthors in their work include Apratim Majumder, Monjurul Meem, Sourangsu Banerji, Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez, and Tina M. Hayward, indicating collaborations across different institutions and specialties within optics and engineering.

Menon has contributed extensively to several publication venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), Optics Express, the Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, Optics Letters, and Optica.

Recent publications authored or coauthored by Rajesh Menon include:

  • Extreme-depth-of-focus imaging with a flat lens, 2020, Optica
  • Large-area, high-numerical-aperture multi-level diffractive lens via inverse design, 2020, Optica
  • Imaging from the visible to the longwave infrared wavelengths via an inverse-designed flat lens, 2021, Optics Express
  • Inverse-designed achromatic flat lens enabling imaging across the visible and near-infrared with diameter > 3 mm and NA = 0.3, 2020, Applied Physics Letters
  • Unique prospects of phase change material Sb2Se3 for ultra-compact reconfigurable nanophotonic devices, 2021, Optical Materials Express

Rajesh Menon was awarded the OSA Fellows recognition in 2017 for work in areas including super-resolution optical lithography, metamaterials, nanophotonics, and micro-optics, with applications spanning photovoltaics, computational imaging, displays, color sensors, spectroscopy, and silicon photonics.

Best Publications

  • An integrated-nanophotonics polarization beamsplitter with 2.4 × 2.4 μm2 footprint

    Bing Shen;Peng Wang;Randy Polson;Rajesh Menon

  • Imaging with flat optics: metalenses or diffractive lenses?

    Sourangsu Banerji;Monjurul Meem;Apratim Majumder;Fernando Guevara Vasquez

  • Chitosan based fiber-optic Fabry–Perot humidity sensor

    Li Han Chen;Tao Li;Chi Chiu Chan;R Menon

  • Confining light to deep subwavelength dimensions to enable optical nanopatterning.

    Trisha L. Andrew;Hsin Yu Tsai;Rajesh Menon

  • The solution structure of the Josephin domain of ataxin-3: Structural determinants for molecular recognition

    Giuseppe Nicastro;Rajesh P. Menon;Laura Masino;Philip P. Knowles

  • Chromatic-aberration-corrected diffractive lenses for ultra-broadband focusing.

    Peng Wang;Nabil Mohammad;Rajesh Menon

  • Photon-sieve lithography

    Rajesh Menon;Dario Gil;George Barbastathis;Henry I. Smith

  • Design and analysis of multi-wavelength diffractive optics

    Ganghun Kim;José A. Domínguez-Caballero;Rajesh Menon

  • Broadband imaging with one planar diffractive lens

    Nabil Mohammad;Monjurul Meem;Bing Shen;Peng Wang

  • Maskless lithography

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  • Extreme-depth-of-focus imaging with a flat lens

    Sourangsu Banerji;Monjurul Meem;Apratim Majumder;Berardi Sensale-Rodriguez

  • Ultra-high-efficiency metamaterial polarizer

    Bing Shen;Peng Wang;Randy Polson;Rajesh Menon

  • Absorbance-modulation optical lithography

    Rajesh Menon;Henry I. Smith

  • Broadband lightweight flat lenses for long-wave infrared imaging

    Monjurul Meem;Sourangsu Banerji;Apratim Majumder;Fernando Guevara Vasquez

  • The Role of Interruptions in polyQ in the Pathology of SCA1

    Rajesh P. Menon;Suran Nethisinghe;Serena Faggiano;Tommaso Vannocci

  • Computational spectrometer based on a broadband diffractive optic.

    Peng Wang;Rajesh Menon

  • Large-area, high-numerical-aperture multi-level diffractive lens via inverse design

    Monjurul Meem;Sourangsu Banerji;Christian Pies;Timo Oberbiermann

  • Integrated metamaterials for efficient and compact free-space-to-waveguide coupling

    Bing Shen;Peng Wang;Randy Polson;Rajesh Menon

  • Ultra-compact polarization rotation in integrated silicon photonics using digital metamaterials

    Apratim Majumder;Bing Shen;Randy Polson;Rajesh Menon

  • Increased photovoltaic power output via diffractive spectrum separation

    Ganghun Kim;Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero;Howard Lee;Daniel J. Friedman

  • Increasing the density of passive photonic-integrated circuits via nanophotonic cloaking

    Bing Shen;Randy Polson;Rajesh Menon

  • Zone-plate-array lithography: A low-cost complement or competitor to scanning-electron-beam lithography

    Henry I. Smith;Rajesh Menon;Amil Patel;David Chao

  • Ultra-high-sensitivity color imaging via a transparent diffractive-filter array and computational optics

    Peng Wang;Rajesh Menon

  • Fabrication of high-numerical-aperture phase zone plates with a single lithography exposure and no etching

    Dario Gil;Rajesh Menon;Henry I. Smith

  • Broadband lightweight flat lenses for longwave-infrared imaging

    Monjurul Meem;Sourangsu Banerji;Apratim Majumder;Fernando Guevara Vasquez

Frequent Co-Authors

Ayman F. Abouraddy
Ayman F. Abouraddy University of Central Florida
Mario R. Capecchi
Mario R. Capecchi University of Utah
Zeev Zalevsky
Zeev Zalevsky Bar-Ilan University
Erik M. Jorgensen
Erik M. Jorgensen University of Utah
Daniel J. Friedman
Daniel J. Friedman National Renewable Energy Laboratory
Annalisa Pastore
Annalisa Pastore King's College London
Konstantin L. Vodopyanov
Konstantin L. Vodopyanov University of Central Florida

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