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Research.com Recognitions

  • 1997 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work initiating and fundamental studies elucidating lightinduced chemical reactions on surfaces
  • 1987 - IEEE Fellow For the development of novel gas lasers, and for contributions to the development of laser chemical processing technology for microelectronics fabrication.

Overview

Richard M. Osgood was affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research encompassed key areas within Engineering and Physics and Astronomy, with notable emphasis on subfields such as Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Materials Chemistry, and Bioengineering.

The scientist's work focused primarily on topics including Photonic and Optical Devices, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Semiconductor Lasers and Optical Devices, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, Optical Network Technologies, Advanced Photonic Communication Systems, and Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics.

Throughout their career, Osgood contributed to various publication venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical Review Letters
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science

Several recent papers illustrate their research scope:

  • Quantum-Well Bound States in Graphene Heterostructure Interfaces (2021), Physical Review Letters
  • On-chip non-Hermitian optical parametric amplifiers with a large bandwidth (2021), Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • A Theoretical Analysis of a Resonator-Assisted Silicon Photonic Interleaver (2020), Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
  • An Analytic and Experimental Treatment of Fiber Optic Chemical Sensing: Results on Evanescent Wave Spectrometry (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Compact and Low-loss Silicon Photonic Hybrid Mode and Wavelength (De)Multiplexer (2020), Frontiers in Optics / Laser Science

Osgood collaborated with multiple co-authors, including:

  • Xiang Meng
  • Jerry I. Dadap
  • Nicolae C. Panoiu
  • Zhongwei Dai
  • Zhaoli Gao

They also authored books published by Springer Nature, notably Principles of Photonic Integrated Circuits in 2021.

Recognition of their work included awards such as:

  • Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) in 1997, cited for pioneering work initiating and fundamental studies elucidating light-induced chemical reactions on surfaces
  • IEEE Fellow in 1987, cited for the development of novel gas lasers and for contributions to laser chemical processing technology for microelectronics fabrication

Best Publications

  • Experimental Demonstration of Near-Infrared Negative-Index Metamaterials

    Shuang Zhang;Wenjun Fan;N. C. Panoiu;K. J. Malloy

  • Direct Measurement of the Thickness-Dependent Electronic Band Structure of MoS2 Using Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy

    Wencan Jin;Po Chun Yeh;Nader Zaki;Datong Zhang

  • Mid-infrared optical parametric amplifier using silicon nanophotonic waveguides

    Xiaoping Liu;Richard M. Osgood;Yurii A. Vlasov;William M. J. Green

  • Near-infrared double negative metamaterials

    Shuang Zhang;Wenjun Fan;K. J. Malloy;S. R. J. Brueck

  • Fabrication of single-crystal lithium niobate films by crystal ion slicing

    M. Levy;R. M. Osgood;R. Liu;L. E. Cross

  • Magneto-optical isolator with silicon waveguides fabricated by direct bonding

    Yuya Shoji;Tetsuya Mizumoto;Hideki Yokoi;I-Wei Hsieh

  • Laser microphotochemistry for use in solid-state electronics

    D. Ehrlich;R. Osgood;T. Deutsch

  • Elliptical-hole photonic crystal fibers

    M. J. Steel;R. M. Osgood

  • Optical Third-Harmonic Generation in Graphene

    Sung-Young Hong;Jerry I. Dadap;Nicholas Petrone;Po-Chun Yeh

  • Ultraviolet solid-state Ce:YLF laser at 325 nm

    D. J. Ehrlich;P. F. Moulton;R. M. Osgood

  • Raman amplification in ultrasmall silicon-on-insulator wire waveguides

    Richard L. Espinola;Jerry I. Dadap;Richard M. Osgood;Sharee J. McNab

  • Fast and low-power thermooptic switch on thin silicon-on-insulator

    R.L. Espinola;M.C. Tsai;J.T. Yardley;R.M. Osgood

  • Formation of TiO2 nanoparticles by reactive-layer-assisted deposition and characterization by XPS and STM.

    Zhen Song;Jan Hrbek;Richard Osgood

  • Polarization and dispersive properties of elliptical-hole photonic crystal fibers

    M.J. Steel;R.M. Osgood

  • Asymmetric Y junctions in silicon waveguides for on-chip mode-division multiplexing

    Jeffrey B Driscoll;Richard R Grote;Brian Souhan;Jerry I Dadap

  • Waveguide optical isolator based on Mach–Zehnder interferometer

    J. Fujita;M. Levy;R. M. Osgood;L. Wilkens

  • Self-phase-modulation in submicron silicon-on-insulator photonic wires

    Eric Dulkeith;Yurii A. Vlasov;Xiaogang Chen;Nicolae C. Panoiu

  • Engineering nonlinearities in nanoscale optical systems: physics and applications in dispersion-engineered silicon nanophotonic wires

    R. M. Osgood;N. C. Panoiu;J. I. Dadap;Xiaoping Liu

  • Demonstration of metal-dielectric negative-index metamaterials with improved performance at optical frequencies

    Shuang Zhang;Wenjun Fan;Kevin J. Malloy;Steven R. J. Brueck

  • C-band wavelength conversion in silicon photonic wire waveguides

    Richard L. Espinola;Jerry I. Dadap;Richard M. Osgood;Sharee J. McNab

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerry I. Dadap
Jerry I. Dadap Columbia University
Nicolae C. Panoiu
Nicolae C. Panoiu University College London
Yurii A. Vlasov
Yurii A. Vlasov University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
William M. J. Green
William M. J. Green IBM (United States)
Roel Baets
Roel Baets Ghent University
Keren Bergman
Keren Bergman Columbia University
Gunther Roelkens
Gunther Roelkens Ghent University
Shuang Zhang
Shuang Zhang University of Hong Kong
Steven R. J. Brueck
Steven R. J. Brueck University of New Mexico
James Hone
James Hone Columbia University

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