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Yeshaiahu Fainman

University of California San Diego · US
Area of research
Electrical and Electronic Engineering · Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Research interest
Research interests include Photonic and Optical Devices, Photonic Crystals and Applications, Advanced Fiber Laser Technologies, and Plasmonic and Surface Plasmon Research.
h-index
61
citations
17,551
works
758
NIH funding
primary concept
email

Recent publications

Monolithic Silicon‐Photonics Sign‐Sign Dot‐Product Circuits Toward Artificial Intelligence and Multiple‐Input Multiple‐Output Accelerators
Nanophotonics 2026cited by 0position: contributordoi
Panel-Scale Reconfigurable Photonic Interconnects for Scalable AI Computation
IEEE Open Journal of the Solid-State Circuits Society 2025cited by 0position: contributordoi
Silicon‐Rich Nitride Refractive Index as a Degree of Freedom to Maximize Nonlinear Wave Mixing in Nanowaveguides
Advanced Photonics Research 2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Optical Comb-Based Monolithic Photonic-Electronic Accelerators for Self-Attention Computation
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 2024cited by 6position: contributordoi
Monolithic Silicon-Photonics Linear-Algebra Accelerators Enabling Next-Gen Massive MIMO
Journal of Lightwave Technology 2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Dynamics of Nonlinear Optical Losses in Silicon‐Rich Nitride Nano‐Waveguides
Advanced Optical Materials 2024cited by 3position: contributordoi
Micro-Ring Modulator Linearity Enhancement for Analog and Digital Optical Links
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2024cited by 2position: contributordoi
Advances in cost-effective integrated spectrometers
Light Science & Applications 2022cited by 274position: middledoi
Quantum materials for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing: Opportunities and challenges
APL Materials 2022cited by 67position: middledoi
Neurophotonic Tools for Microscopic Measurements and Manipulation: Status Report
Neurophotonics 2022cited by 44position: middledoi
Photonic quantum Hall effect and multiplexed light sources of large orbital angular momenta
Nature Physics 2021cited by 125position: middledoi
On-chip spectrometers using stratified waveguide filters
Nature Communications 2021cited by 117position: lastdoi
Integrated Silicon Fourier Transform Spectrometer with Broad Bandwidth and Ultra‐High Resolution
Laser & Photonics Review 2021cited by 42position: lastdoi
Thermo-optic properties of silicon-rich silicon nitride for on-chip applications
Optics Express 2020cited by 61position: middledoi
Programmable plasmonic phase modulation of free-space wavefronts at gigahertz rates
Nature Photonics 2019cited by 73position: lastdoi
Dynamically tunable and active hyperbolic metamaterials
Advances in Optics and Photonics 2018cited by 51position: lastdoi
Lasing action from photonic bound states in continuum
Nature 2017cited by 1,385position: middledoi
Nonreciprocal lasing in topological cavities of arbitrary geometries
Science 2017cited by 774position: middledoi
Near-perfect broadband absorption from hyperbolic metamaterial nanoparticles
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2017cited by 80position: middledoi
Luminescent hyperbolic metasurfaces
Nature Communications 2017cited by 75position: lastdoi
Cell type specificity of neurovascular coupling in cerebral cortex
eLife 2016cited by 255position: middledoi
Polarization selective beam shaping using nanoscale dielectric metasurfaces
Optics Express 2015cited by 96position: middledoi
All-optical control of ferromagnetic thin films and nanostructures
Science 2014cited by 679position: middledoi
Tensor of the second-order nonlinear susceptibility in asymmetrically strained silicon waveguides: analysis and experimental validation
Optics Letters 2014cited by 44position: lastdoi
Integrating microsecond circuit switching into the data center
2013cited by 302position: middledoi
Integrating microsecond circuit switching into the data center
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review 2013cited by 118position: middledoi
A Multiport Microsecond Optical Circuit Switch for Data Center Networking
IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 2013cited by 80position: middledoi
Purcell effect in sub-wavelength semiconductor lasers
Optics Express 2013cited by 64position: lastdoi
Optical tuning of silicon photonic structures with nematic liquid crystal claddings
Optics Letters 2013cited by 42position: lastdoi
Directing Data Center Traffic
Science 2013cited by 17position: firstdoi

Grants

PIC: Hybrid Photonic-Electronic Reprogrammable Reservoir Computing with Polarization Modes-enhanced Dimensionality
NSF2217453$428,0002023–2026PIRePORTER
ASCENT: Collaborative Research: Programmable Photonic Computation Accelerators (PPCA)
NSF2023730$466,0042020–2024PIRePORTER
Quantum Communication Circuits on a CMOS Chip (QC4)
NSF1901844$360,0002019–2022PIRePORTER
PIC: Mobile in Situ Fourier Transform Spectrometer on a Chip
NSF1807890$419,4002018–2022PIRePORTER
CREWS: Chemical Resonance Excitation Wavelength Selection for Label-Free DNA Analysis
NSF1704085$400,0002017–2021PIRePORTER
Synthesis of Second-Order Optical Nonlinearities with Electronic Metamaterials
NSF1707641$350,0002017–2021PIRePORTER
E2CDA: Type I: Collaborative Research: Energy Efficient Computing with Chip-Based Photonics
NSF1640227$411,7082016–2020PIRePORTER
Collaborative Research: EAGER: Generation and Manipulation of New Sources in 20-60 micron on a Chip
NSF1644647$140,0002016–2018PIRePORTER
Exploring the Frontier of Photonic Device Size, Speed, and Efficiency Limits with Gain-enhanced Multifuncional Metamaterials
NSF1507146$350,0002015–2019PIRePORTER
Fundamental Investigations of Nanolaser Physics: Statistical Properties, Thermal Stability, and Temporal Dynamics of Light Emission
NSF1405234$349,9992014–2018PIRePORTER
EAGER: Cartridge lab-on-chip (CLOC) for Mobile Health
NSF1445158$312,0002014–2017PIRePORTER
MRI: Development of Engineering testbed: Universal chip scale photonic testing instrument (UCPTI)
NSF1229677$1,060,0002012–2015PIRePORTER
MRI-R2: Acquisition of Electron Beam Writer for Southern California Recovery Investment in Nanotechnology (SCRIN)
NSF0959072$1,960,0002010–2013PIRePORTER
Theory and Measurement of the Purcell Effect in Nanoscale Metallo-dielectric Laser Cavities
NSF1063976$149,9942010–2012PIRePORTER
Chip-scale optical parametric oscillators
NSF0901429$349,9982009–2013PIRePORTER
NIRT: Opto-Plasmonic Nanoscope
NSF0608863$1,191,0002006–2011PIRePORTER
NIRT: Nanophotonics for Optical Delay Engineering (NODE)
NSF0403589$1,316,0002004–2009PIRePORTER
Time-resolved nanoscale detection of complex amplitude in the near field of functional nanophotonic devices
NSF0304573$276,0002003–2006PIRePORTER
Ultra-High-Capacity Optical Communications and Networking: Optical CDMA with Femtosecond Pulses for Ultra-High-Capacity Communications and Networking
NSF0123405$468,2502001–2005PIRePORTER
Chemical and Biological Sensors based on Porous Silicon Photonic Micro-Systems
NSF0088060$510,0002000–2003PIRePORTER
Optical Nonlinearities Enhanced by Near-Field Diffraction in Artificial Dielectric Nanostructures
NSF9912476$294,0002000–2004PIRePORTER
Optical CDMA for Internet Operation at Terabit Rates
NSF9813721$718,0001998–2002PIRePORTER
3-D Quantitative Imaging and Correlation by Spatially Incoherent Chromatic Interferometry
NSF9810102$250,0001998–2002PIRePORTER
Near Field Diffractive Optical Elements with Multifunctionality and Programmability
NSF9632874$280,0001996–2000PIRePORTER
Inspection with Holographic Optical Elements
NSF9415834$299,3041994–1998PIRePORTER

Frequent collaborators

· 7 papers (2024–2026) · 5 papers (2024–2026)Bill Lin · University of Washington5 papers (2024–2026)Felipe Vallini · Los Angeles Mission College5 papers (2013–2019)Joseph S. T. Smalley · DigiLens (United States)5 papers (2013–2018)George Porter · University of California San Diego4 papers (2013–2013)Boubacar Kanté · Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory4 papers (2017–2021)Babak Bahari · University of Southern California3 papers (2017–2021)Amin Vahdat · Google (United States)3 papers (2013–2013)Alex Forencich · University of California San Diego3 papers (2013–2013)Abdelkrim El Amili · OEwaves (United States)3 papers (2017–2021) · 3 papers (2024–2026)George C. Papen · Google (United States)3 papers (2013–2013)Nathan Farrington · Google (United States)3 papers (2013–2013)Eric E. Fullerton · University of California San Diego3 papers (2014–2022)Boris Slutsky · University of California, San Diego2 papers (2012–2013)Pang Chen-Sun · University of California San Diego2 papers (2013–2013)Ang Li · Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics2 papers (2021–2022)Zhaowei Liu · University of California San Diego2 papers (2017–2017)Abdoulaye Ndao · University of California San Diego2 papers (2017–2021)