Polina Vabishchevich, Ph.D.

PhD | Scientist | Optics | Laser Physics | Material Scientist

Research Expertise

Nanophotonics
Nonlinear optics
Ultrafast physics
Magneto-optics
Metasurfaces
Condensed Matter Physics
Bioengineering
Mechanical Engineering
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Biotechnology
Computer Networks and Communications
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

About

Experimental scientist/researcher with 6+ years of academic and government lab experience in Optics and Material Science, with extensive expertise in nonlinear optics, laser physics, spectroscopy, ultrafast physics, semiconductor physics, metasurfaces, and nanofabrication (22 papers, 4 patents, >1800 citations). <br> Symposium organizer and member of professional review panels (3 conferences, 1 prize, 2 summer programs, 2 PhD theses, 30+ journal articles). Dedicated presenter and mentor in various optics and STEM-related activities. Key skills: • Optical/laser system alignment, automation, and testing. • Diffraction optics, polarization optics, spectroscopy, and interferometry. • Data processing and analysis using Matlab and Python. • Cleanroom fabrication (lithography, plasma, etc.), thin film deposition, etc. • Material characterization (SEM, AFM, Raman, etc) • Dielectric/semiconductor metasurface design, fabrication, and testing. • Electromagnetic simulations for semiconductor nano/microstructures using Lumerical FDTD, Comsol. • Software: Matlab, Comsol, Lumerical FDTD, Beamer, LabVIEW, OriginLab, Python, Beamer, CNST Nanolithography Toolbox • Strong multi-disciplinary research, analytical, and problem-solving skills. • Result-oriented team player with strong communication skills.

Publications

Ultrafast All-Optical Switching with Magnetic Resonances in Nonlinear Dielectric Nanostructures
Nano Letters
2015
Ultrafast all-optical tuning of direct-gap semiconductor metasurfaces
Nature Communications
2017
An all-dielectric metasurface as a broadband optical frequency mixer
Nature Communications
2018
Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation Using Broken Symmetry III–V Semiconductor Fano Metasurfaces
ACS Photonics
2018
Light-Emitting Metasurfaces: Simultaneous Control of Spontaneous Emission and Far-Field Radiation
Nano Letters
2018
High Quality Factor Toroidal Resonances in Dielectric Metasurfaces
ACS Photonics
2020
Terahertz Detection with Perfectly-Absorbing Photoconductive Metasurface
Nano Letters
2019
Frequency Conversion in a Time-Variant Dielectric Metasurface
Nano Letters
2020
Perfectly absorbing dielectric metasurfaces for photodetection
APL Photonics
2020
All-optical tuning of symmetry protected quasi bound states in the continuum
Applied Physics Letters
2019
Low-Power Absorption Saturation in Semiconductor Metasurfaces
ACS Photonics
2019
Ultrafast Polarization Shaping with Fano Plasmonic Crystals
Physical Review Letters
2012
Plasmon induced modification of silicon nanocrystals photoluminescence in presence of gold nanostripes
Scientific Reports
2018
Nonlinear photonics with metasurfaces
Photonics Research
2023
Plasmonic enhancement of linear birefringence and linear dichroism in anisotropic optical metamaterials
JETP Letters
2009
Perfect absorption in GaAs metasurfaces near the bandgap edge
Optics Express
2020
Femtosecond intrapulse evolution of the magneto-optic Kerr effect in magnetoplasmonic crystals
Physical Review B
2014
Femtosecond relaxation dynamics of surface plasmon-polaritons in the vicinity of fano-type resonance
JETP Letters
2010
Ultrafast all-optical diffraction switching using semiconductor metasurfaces
Applied Physics Letters
2021
Femtosecond pulse shaping with plasmonic crystals
JETP Letters
2015
Magnetic field-controlled femtosecond pulse shaping by magnetoplasmonic crystals
Journal of Applied Physics
2013
Manipulation of quantum dot emission with semiconductor metasurfaces exhibiting magnetic quadrupole resonances
Optics Express
2021
Spatiotemporal Control of Femtosecond Pulses
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2022
Terahertz detectors based on all-dielectric photoconductive metasurfaces
Terahertz Emitters, Receivers, and Applications X
2019
Enhanced Optical Nonlinearities in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces
OSA Advanced Photonics Congress (AP) 2019 (IPR, Networks, NOMA, SPPCom, PVLED)
2019
Optical Nonlinearities in All-Dielectric Metasurfaces
2018 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)
2018
Tunable Fully Absorbing Metasurfaces for Efficient THz Detection
2020 45th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
2020
Cascaded Third Harmonic Generation in Dielectric Metasurfaces
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2020
All-Dielectric Metasurfaces: Optical Nonlinearities and Emission Control
2019 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC)
2019
Tailoring Second Harmonic Diffraction in GaAs Metasurfaces via Crystal Orientation
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2019
All-Optical Tuning of Fano Resonances in Broken Symmetry GaAs Metasurfaces
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2019
Intensity-dependent reflectance modulation of femtosecond laser pulses in GaAs nanocylinders with magnetic resonances
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
2018
Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation in Broken Symmetry III-V Semiconductor Metasurfaces driven by Fano resonance
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2018
Frequency-mixing in GaAs dielectric metasurfaces
2017 International Conference on Optical MEMS and Nanophotonics (OMN)
2017
Frequency-super-mixing in dielectric metasurfaces
Advanced Photonics 2017 (IPR, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, PS)
2017
Random Mie-resonant metasurfaces for nonlinear harmonic generation
Plasmonics: Design, Materials, Fabrication, Characterization, and Applications XX
2022
SPDC Conversion from Bound State in the Continuum in Semiconductor Metasurfaces: Polarization Properties
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2022
Photon Pair Generation from Bound States in the Continuum in Nonlinear Metasurfaces
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2022
Synthesizing ultrafast optical pulses with arbitrary spatiotemporal control
Science Advances
2022
Perfectly absorbing photoconductive metasurfaces for terahertz applications
Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2021
2021
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion from a subwavelength layer of GaAs.
Proposed for presentation at the Photonics Online Meet-up 3 held January 13-14, 2021 in ONLINE.
2021
Perfectly-absorbing photoconductive metasurfaces for THz applications
2020 45th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
2020
Ultrafast Responses of Mie-Resonant Semiconductor Nanostructures
Nonlinear Meta-Optics
2020
Ultrafast Diffraction Switching Using GaAs Metasurfaces
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2020
Frequency Conversion in a Dielectric Time-Variant Metasurface via Optical Pumping
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2020
Photoconductive Metasurfaces for Terahertz Detection
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2020
Dielectric metasurfaces with high-Q toroidal resonances
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2020
Engineering perfect absorption in all-dielectric photoconductive metasurfaces (Conference Presentation)
Metamaterials, Metadevices, and Metasystems 2019
2019
Efficient Terahertz Detection with Perfectly-Absorbing Metasurface
2019 44th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter, and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz)
2019
Graphene-based van der Waals heterostructures towards a new type of terahertz quantum-cascade lasers
Terahertz Emitters, Receivers, and Applications X
2019
Shaping InAs quantum dot photoluminescence using GaAs nanoresonator arrays
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2018
III-V semiconductor metasurface as the optical metamixer
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2018
New Mexico Small Business Assistance (NMSBA) September 2016 Advisory Council Update
Unknown Venue
2016
Ultrafast modulation of femtosecond laser pulses in direct-gap semiconductor metasurfaces with magnetic resonances
AIP Conference Proceedings
2017
III-V dielectric metasurfaces: enhanced nonlinearities and emission control
Advanced Photonics 2017 (IPR, NOMA, Sensors, Networks, SPPCom, PS)
2017
Ultrafast all-optical tuning of magnetic modes in GaAs metasurfaces
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2017
Ultrafast Nonlinearities Driven by Magnetic Response in All-Dielectric Nanostructures
Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics
2016
Free-carrier contribution to all-optical switching in Mie-resonant hydrogenated amorphous silicon nanodisks
SPIE Proceedings
2016
Front Matter: Volume 9756
SPIE Proceedings
2016
Femtosecond control of magneto-optical effects in magnetoplasmonic crystals
SPIE Proceedings
2015
Far field beaming of Orbital Angular Momentum light states
SPIE Proceedings
2015
Magnetic Field-Controlled Shaping of Femtosecond Laser Pulses Reflected from Magnetoplasmonic Crystals
Frontiers in Optics 2013
2013
Shaping of Femtosecond Laser Pulses with Plasmonic Crystals
Frontiers in Optics 2013
2013
Femtosecond Cross-Correlation Spectroscopy of Resonantly Enhanced Surface Plasmons in Planar Plasmonic Crystals
Frontiers in Optics 2010/Laser Science XXVI
2010
Surface-plasmon relaxation dynamics in planar plasmonic crystals
IONS 8
2010
Optical chirality in plasmonic arrays of subwavelength Z-shaped apertures
SPIE Proceedings
2010
Plasmon-induced wavelength-dependent polarization switching in optical metamaterials
SPIE Proceedings
2009
Near-field optical microscopy of plasmonic effects in anisotropic metamaterials
Physica C: Superconductivity
2012
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