Publications

X. He, J. Arvinddbhai Patel, G. Pennington, P. McGarvey, M. van Niekerk, S. Preble, and J. Cardenas, “Fully packaged on-chip ring resonator spectrometer,” Opt. Express, 33 (14), 30594 – 30606 (2025).

K. Yanik, M. Song, Y. Mei, J. Cardenas, and AN Jordan, “Development of a Chip-Scale Optical Gryoscope with Weak Measurement Amplification Readout,” arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.17034

S. Vijayakumar, K. Vyas, D. H. G. Espinosa, O. Reshef, M. Song, K. M. Awan, S. Choudhary, J. Cardenas, R. W. Boyd, and Ksenia Dolgaleva, “Phase-matched third-harmonic generation in silicon nitride waveguides,” Nanophotonics 13 (18), 3385 – 3393 (2024).

L. Cortes-Herrera, X. He, J. Cardenas, and G. P. Agrawal, “Proposal and efficiency analysis of cascaded adiabatic frequency conversion in coupled microrings,” Phys. Rev. A 109 (6), 063510 (2024).

Jiewei Xiang, Meiting Song, Yi Zhang, Jennifer Kruschwitz, and Jaime Cardenas, "Ultrabroadband, High Color Purity Multispectral Color Filter Arrays," ACS Photonics 2024, 11, 1163−1172.

L. Cortes-Herrera, X. He, J. Cardenas, and G. P. Agrawal, “Theory of high-efficiency adiabatic frequency conversion in coupled microrings,” Phys, Rev. A 108 (6) 063514 (2023).

L. Neim, A. Yovanovich, J. Bartholomew, V. Deenadayalan, M. Ciminelli, T. Palone, M. Van Niekerk, M. Song, A. Nauriyal, J. Notaros, S. Serna Otalvaro, J. Cardenas, T. Brown, A. M. Agarwal, S. Saini, and S. F. Preble, “Hands-on photonic education kits: empowering the integrated photonics workforce through practical training,” Appl. Optics 62 (31) H24 – H32 (2023).

J. Nauriyal and J. Cardenas, “Fiber array to chip attach using laser fusion splicing for low loss,” Opt. Express, 31(13), 21863 – 21869 (2023).

Granados-Baez, A. Mukherjee, L. Qiu, C. Chakraborty, A. N. Vamivakas, and J. Cardenas, "Characterization of the on-chip cavity coupled emission of 2D materials at room temperature," 13(4), 843 – 849 (2023).

Y. Zhang, J. Nauriyal, M. Song, M. Granados-Baez, X. He, T. MacDonald, and J. Cardenas, "Engineered second-order nonlinearity in silicon nitride," 13(1), 237 – 246 (2023). Preprint: arXiv:2210.09374.

X. He, L. Cortes-Herrera, K. Opong-Mensah, Y. Zhang, G. P. Agrawal, and J. Cardenas, "Electrically induced adiabatic frequency conversion in an integrated lithium niobate ring resonator," Opt. Letters, 47(22), 5849 – 5852 (2022). 10.1364/OL.473113.

J. Sanchez-Juarez, M. Granados-Baez, A. Aguilar-Lasserre, and J. Cardenas, "Intelligent decision support system to optimize 2D materials detection using digital image processing and deep learning," Opt. Mat. Express 12(5), 1856 – 1868 (2022).

J. Steinmetz, K. Lyons, M. Song, J. Cardenas, and A. N. Jordan, "Enhanced on-chip frequency measurement using weak value amplification," Opt. Express 30(3), 3700 – 3718 (2022). Preprint: arXiv:2103.15752.

L. Cortes-Herrera, X. He, J. Cardenas, and G.P. Agrawal, "Design of an X-cut thin-film lithium niobate waveguide as a passive polarization rotator," Opt. Express 29(26), 44174 – 44188 (2021).

M. Song, J. Steinmetz, Y. Zhang, J. Nauriyal, K. Lyons, A. N. Jordan, and J. Cardenas, "Enhanced on-chip phase measurement by inverse weak value amplification," Nature Comms. 12(1), 1-7 (2021).

J. Guimbao, L. Sanchis, L. Weituschat, J. Manuel Llorens, M. Song, J. Cardenas, and P. Aitor Postigo, "Numerical Optimization of a Nanophotonic Cavity by Machine Learning for Near-Unity Photon Indistinguishability at Room Temperature," ACS Photonics 9, 1926–1935 (2022). Preprint: arXiv:2110.15000.

L. Cortes-Herrera, X. He, J. Cardenas, and G. P. Agrawal, "Coupled-mode theory of the polarization dynamics inside a microring resonator with a uniaxial core," Phys. Rev. A 103 (6), 063517 (2021).

S. Roberts, X. Ji, J. Cardenas, M. Corato‐Zanarella, and M. Lipson, "Measurements and Modeling of Atomic‐Scale Sidewall Roughness and Losses in Integrated Photonic Devices," Advanced Optical Materials 10, 2102073 (2022). Preprint: arXiv:2105.11477.

A. Mohanty, Q. Li, A. M. Tadayon, S. P. Roberts, G. R. Bhatt, E. Shim, X. Ji, J. Cardenas, S. A. Miller, A. Kepecs, and M. Lipson, "Reconfigurable nanophotonic silicon probes for sub-millisecond deep-brain optical stimulation," Nature Biomedical Engineering, 1-9 (2020). Pre-print: arXiv:1805.11663

S. Saini, S. Preble, M. Popović, J. Cardenas, A. Kost, E. Verlage, G. Howland, and L. C. Kimerling. "Integrated photonics and application-specific design on a massive open online course platform," In Education and Training in Optics and Photonics, p. 11143_151. Optical Society of America, 2019.

J. Nauriyal, M. Song, R. Yu, and J. Cardenas, "Fiber-to-chip fusion splicing for low-loss photonic packaging," Optica 6, 549 – 552 (2019).

J. Nauriyal, R. Yu, M. Song, and J. Cardenas, "Fiber to chip fusion splicing for robust, low loss photonic packaging," arXiv:1810.09531 (2018).

Y. Okawachi, M. Yu, J. Cardenas, X. Ji, A. Klenner, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Carrier envelope offset detection via simultaneous supercontinuum and second-harmonic generation in a silicon nitride waveguide," Opt. Lett., 43(19), 4627-4630 (2018).

A. Dutt, C. Joshi, X. Ji, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawchi, K. Luke, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "On-chip dual-comb spectroscopy," Sci. Adv. 4(3), e1701858 (2018).

A. Mohanty, Q. Li, M. A. Tadayon, G. Bhatt, E. Shim, X. Ji, J. Cardenas, S. A. Miller, A. Kepecs, and M. Lipson, "A reconfigurable nanophotonics platform for sub-millisecond, deep brain neural stimulation," arXiv:1805.11663 (2018).

R. Fain, F. Barbosa, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "Photonic needles for light delivery in deep tissue-like media," Sci. Rep. 7, 5627 (2017).

S. A. Miller, M. Yu, X. Ji, A. G. Griffith, J. Cardenas, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Low-loss silicon platform for broadband mid-infrared photonics," Optica 4, 707-712 (2017).

X. Ji, F. AS. Barbosa, S. P. Roberts, A. Dutt, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawachi, A. Bryant, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Ultra-low-loss on-chip resonators with sub-milliwatt parametric oscillation threshold," Optica 4, 619-624 (2017)

S. A Miller, M. Yu, X. Ji, A. G. Griffith, J. Cardenas, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Low-Loss Silicon Platform for Broadband Mid-Infrared Photonics," arXiv:1703.03517, 2017.

Y. Okawachi, M. Yu, J. Cardenas, X. Ji, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Coherent, directional supercontinuum via cascaded dispersive wave generation," arXiv:1708.03717 (2017).

Y. Okawachi, M. Yu, J. Cardenas, X. Ji, M. Lipson, and A. L. Gaeta, "Coherent, directional supercontinuum generation," Opt. Lett., 42(21), 4466-4469 (2017).

A. Dutt, C. Joshi, X. Ji, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawachi, K. Luke, A. L. Gaeta, M. Lipson, "On-chip dual comb source for spectroscopy," arXiv:1611.07673, 2016.

X. Ji, F. AS. Barbosa, S. P Roberts, A. Dutt, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawachi, A. Bryant, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Breaking the loss limitation of on-chip high-confinement resonators," arXiv:1609.08699, 2016.

A. Griffith, M. Yu, Y. Okawachi, J. Cardenas, A. Mohanty, A. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Coherent mid-infrared frequency combs in silicon-microresonators in the presence of Raman effects," Opt. Express  24, 13044-13050 (2016).

A. Griffith, M. Yu, Y. Okawachi, J. Cardenas, A. Mohanty, A. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Raman-assisted coherent, mid-infrared frequency combs in silicon micro resonators," arXiv:1604.06436v1 (2016).

A. Dutt, S. Miller, K. Luke, J. Cardenas, A. Gaeta, P. Nussenzveig, and M. Lipson, "Tunable squeezing using coupled ring resonators on a silicon nitride chip," Opt. Lett.  41, 223-226 (2016).

M. Zhang, S. Shah, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "Synchronization and Phase Noise Reduction in Micromechanical Oscillator Arrays Coupled through Light," Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 163902 (2015).

J. Cardenas, M. Yu, Y. Okawachi, C. Poitras, R. Lau, A. Dutt, A. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Optical nonlinearities in high-confinement silicon carbide waveguides," Opt. Lett.  40, 4138-4141 (2015).

C. T. Phare, Y-H. D. Lee, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "Graphene electro-optic modulator with 30 GHz bandwidth," Nat. Photon. 9, 511–514 (2015).

S. L. Mouradian, T. Schröder, C. B. Poitras, L. Li, J. Goldstein, E. H. Chen, M. Walsh, J. Cardenas, M. L. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, M. Lipson, and D. England, "Scalable integration of long-lived quantum memories into a photonic circuit," Phys, Rev. X 5, 031009 (2015).

M. Zhang, S. Shah, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "Synchronization and phase noise reduction in micromechanical oscillators arrays coupled through light," arXiv:1505.02009, 2015.

A. Griffith, R. K. W. Lau, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawachi, A. Mohanty, R. Fain, Y-H. D. Lee, M. Yu, C. T. Phare, C. B. Poitras, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation," Nat. Commun. 6:6299 (2015).

B. Stern, X. Zhu, C. Chen, L. Tzuang, J. Cardenas, K. Bergman, and M. Lipson, "On-chip mode-division multiplexing switch," Optica  2, 530-535 (2015).

B. Stern, X. Zhu, C. P. Chen, L. D. Tzuang, J. Cardenas, K. Bergman, and M. Lipson, "Integrated switch for simultaneous mode-division multiplexing (MDM) and wavelength-division multiplexing (WDM)," arXiv:1502.04692 (2015).

C. T. Phare, Y-H. D. Lee, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "30 GHz zeno-based Graphene electro-optic modulator," arXiv:1411.2053 (2014).

S. Miller, K. Luke, Y. Okawachi, J. Cardenas, A. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "On-chip frequency comb generation at visible wavelengths via simultaneous second- and third-order optical nonlinearities," Opt. Express 22, 26517-26525 (2014).

J. Cardenas, C. B. Poitras, K. Luke, L. W. Luo, P. A. Morton and M. Lipson, "High coupling efficiency etched facet tapers in silicon waveguides," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 26(23), 2380-2382 (2014).

S. L. Mouradian, T. Schroder, C. B. Poitras, L. Li, J. Goldstein, E. H. Chen, J. Cardenas, M. L. Markham, D. J. Twitchen, M. Lipson, and D. Englund, "The scalable integration of long-lived quantum memories into a photonic circuit," arXiv:1409.7965 (2014).

A. Griffith, R. K. W. Lau, J. Cardenas, Y. Okawachi, A. Mohanty, R. Fain, Y-H. D. Lee, M. Yu, C. T. Phare, C. B. Poitras, A. L. Gaeta, and M. Lipson, "Silicon-chip mid-infrared frequency comb generation," arXiv:1408.1039 (2014).

B. Guha, J. Cardenas, and M. Lipson, "Athermal silicon microring resonators with titanium oxide cladding," Opt. Express, 21, 26557-26563 (2013).

J. Cardenas, P. A. Morton, J. B. Khurgin, A. Griffith, C. B. Poitras, K. Preston, and M. Lipson, "Linearized silicon modulator based on a ring assisted Mach Zehnder interferometer," Opt. Express, 21, 22549-22557, (2013).

J. Cardenas, M. Zhang, C. T. Phare, S. Y. Shah, C. B. Poitras, and M. Lipson, "High Q SiC microresonators," Opt. Express, 21 (2013).

A. Griffith, J. Cardenas, C. Poitras, and M. Lipson, "High quality factor and high confinement silicon resonators using etchless process," Opt. Express  20, 21341-21345 (2012).

P. A. Morton, J. Cardenas, J. B. Khurgin and M. Lipson, "Fast thermal switching of wideband optical delay line with no long-term transient," IEEE Photon. Technol. Lets. 24 (6,) 512-514 (2012).

A. Johnson, Y. Okawachi, J. Levy, J. Cardenas, K. Saha, M. Lipson, and A. Gaeta, "Chip-based frequency combs with sub-100 GHz repetition rates," Opt. Lett.  37, 875-877 (2012).

L. Luo, G. Wiederhecker, J. Cardenas, C. Poitras, and M. Lipson, "High quality factor etchless silicon photonic ring resonators," Opt. Express 19, 6284-6289 (2011).

J. Cardenas, M. Foster, N. Sherwood-Droz, C. Poitras, H. Lira, B. Zhang, A. Gaeta, J. Khurgin, P. Morton, and M. Lipson, "Wide-bandwidth continuously tunable optical delay line using silicon microring resonators," Opt. Express 18, 26525-26534 (2010).

J. Noh, R. Anderson, S. Kim, J. Cardenas, and G. Nordin, "In-plane photonic transduction of silicon-on-insulator microcantilevers," Opt. Express 16, 12114-12123 (2008).

Y. Lin, J. Cardenas, S. Kim, and G. Nordin, "Reduced loss through improved fabrication for single air interface bends in polymer waveguides," Opt. Express  14, 12803-12813 (2006).

L. Li, J. Cardenas, J. Jiang, G. Nordin, "Compact integrated depolarizer for IFOG," Opt. Eng. 45 (5), (2006).

J. Cardenas, L. Li, S. Kim, and G. Nordin, "Compact low loss single air interface bends in polymer waveguides," Opt. Express  12, 5314-5324 (2004).