Papers

• 2022 Scientific Reports

  Automated photo-aligned liquid crystal elastomer film fabrication with a low-tech, home-built robotic workstation

• 2022 Materials 15

  From Light-Powered Motors, to Micro-Grippers, to Crawling Caterpillars, Snails and Beyond—Light-Responsive Oriented Polymers in Action

• 2022 Materials 15

  From light-powered motors, to micro-grippers, to crawling caterpillars, snails and beyond - light-responsive oriented polymers in action

• 2022 Sci. Rep. 12

  Automated photo-aligned liquid crystal elastomer film fabrication with a low-tech, home-built robotic station

• 2021 Materials 14, 6688

  Light-Driven Linear Inchworm Motor Based on Liquid Crystal Elastomer Actuators Fabricated with Rubbing Overwriting

• 2020 Light: Science & Applications 9, 48

  Ultra-long-working-distance spectroscopy of single nanostructures with aspherical solid immersion microlenses

• 2020 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 12.7: 8681-8686.

  Traveling Wave Rotary Micromotor Based on a Photomechanical Response in Liquid Crystal Polymer Networks

• 2020 Adv. Mat. 32, 2002779

  Optical Pliers: Micrometer-Scale, Light-Driven Tools Grown on Optical Fibers

• 2020 Appl. Opt. 59, 4703-4707

  Optical vortex torque measured with optically trapped microbarbells

• 2020 Materials 13, 2933

  Photo-Mechanical Response Dynamics of Liquid Crystal Elastomer Linear Actuators

• 2019 Macromol. Rapid Commun. 40, 1900279

  A Millimeter‐Scale Snail Robot Based on a Light‐Powered Liquid Crystal Elastomer Continuous Actuator

• 2019 Opt. Express 27, 8440-8445

  Photonic-chip-on-tip: compound photonic devices fabricated on optical fibers

• 2019 Nature Scientific Reports 9, 18872

  3-D printed biological cell phantom for testing 3D quantitative phase imaging system

• 2018 Rapid Commun. 1700224

  Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot, Macromol.

• 2018 Opt. Commun. 410, 740

  Reflecting metallic metasurfaces designed with stochastic optimization as waveplates for manipulating light polarization

• 2018 Advanced Optical Materials 6, 1700949

  Programming Photoresponse in Liquid Crystal Polymer Actuators with Laser Projector

• 2018 Opt. Express 26, 11513-11518

  Optical fiber micro-connector with nanometer positioning precision for rapid prototyping of photonic devices

• 2018 Micromachines 9, 277

  Micro-Dumbbells—A Versatile Tool for Optical Tweezers

• 2017 Adv. Mater. 1701814

  Self-Regulating Iris Based on Light-Actuated Liquid Crystal Elastomer

• 2017 Anthropological Rev. 80(2),233-242

  Study of skin of an Egyptian mummy using a scanning electron microscope, Anthropological Rev. 80(2),233-242 (2017)

• 2017 Adv. Mater. 201703554

  Light Robots: Bridging the Gap between Microrobotics and Photomechanics in Soft Materials

• 2017 Opt. Materials 73, 484

  Polarization-independent asymmetric light transmission in all-dielectric photonic structures

• 2017 Appl. Phys. B 123, 285

  Light polarization management via reflection from arrays of sub-wavelength metallic twisted bands

• 2017 Adv Mater. 29(30) 1701814

  Biomimitic materials: self-regulating iris based on light-actuated liquid crystal elastomer

• 2017 Adv. Mater. 30, 1703554

  Light Robots: Bridging the Gap between Microrobotics and Photomechanics in Soft Materials

• 2017 Macromol Rapid Commun. 39(1): 1700224

  Light-Driven, Caterpillar-Inspired Miniature Inching Robot

• 2016 J.Vis.Exp. 111, e53744

  Free-form Light Actuators — Fabrication and Control of Actuation in Microscopic Scale

• 2016 Adv. Optical Mater. 4, 1689-1694

  Light-Driven Soft Robot Mimics Caterpillar Locomotion in Natural Scale

• 2016 Science 352, 1359

  Three lessons rarely taught

• 2016 Appl. Phys. B 122, 266

  Optimization of broadband semiconductor chirped mirrors with genetic algorithm

• 2015 Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 111902

  Alignment engineering in liquid crystalline elastomers: Free-form microstructures with multiple functionalities

• 2015 Opt. Express 23, 4206-4211

  Highly asymmetric near infrared light transmission in an all-dielectric grating-on-mirror photonic structure

• 2015 Adv. Mater. 27, 3883–3887

  Light-Fueled Microscopic Walkers

• 2015 Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 211110

  Polarization-dependent diffraction in all-dielectric, twisted-band structures

• 2014 IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett. 26, 14

  Tunable Semiconductor Double-Chirped Mirror with High Negative Dispersion

• 2014 Adv. Mater. 26, 2319–2322

  High-Resolution 3D Direct Laser Writing for Liquid-Crystalline Elastomer Microstructures

• 2014 Opt. Express 22, 12545-12550

  Microstructured gradient-index antireflective coating fabricated on a fiber tip with direct laser writing

• 2014 Phot. Lett. PL 6, 11-13

  Saturable absorber mirrors for ytterbium mode-locked femtosecond lasers

• 2014 Phot. Lett. PL 6, 8-10

  Femtosecond fiber CPA system in a single pass configuration

• 2014 Springer International Publishing

  Application of Evolutionary Methods to Semiconductor Double-Chirped Mirrors Design, in Parallel Problem Solving from Nature – PPSN XIII

• 2014 Appl. Phys. B 116, 141-146

  Design and fabrication of highly dispersive semiconductor double-chirped mirrors

• 2014 Opt.Express 22, 182184-18289

  Continuosly tunable Yb:KYW femtosecond oscillator based on a tunable highly dispersive semiconductor mirror

• 2013 Laser Phys. Lett. 10, 125003

  Witnessing the pulse birth — transient dynamics in a passively mode-locked femtosecond laser

• 2013 Laser Phys. Lett. 10, 085302

  A passively mode-locked, self-starting femtosecond Yb:KYW laser with a single highly dispersive semiconductor double-chirped mirror for dispersion compensation

• 2013 Proc. SPIE 8702, 87020N

  Observation of continuous wave to pulsed operation transition in a passively mode-locked femtosecond laser

• 2013 Optics Express, 21, 31919

  Transmission phase gratings fabricated with direct laser writing as color filters in the visible

• 2012 Proc. SPIE 8433, 843307

  High-performance wavelength tuning of a mid-infrared solid-state laser using a resonant diffraction grating

• 2012 Eur. J. Phys. 33, 129

  Measurement of the mass of an object hanging from a spring — revisited

• 2011 Laser Phys. Lett. 8, 606

  Low-loss wavelength tuning of a mid-infrared Cr2+:ZnSe laser using a Littrow-mounted resonant diffraction grating

• 2010 Optica Applicata 30, 121

  A compact, alignment-free autocorrelator for femtosecond laser pulses

• 2010 Opt. Express 18, 26989–26994

  Automodulations in an extended cavity, passively modelocked Ti:Sapphire oscillator — period doubling and chaos

• 2009 Phot. Lett. PL 1, 133

  A low repetition rate, passively modelocked Ti:Sapphire oscillator

• 2009 Opt. Express 17, 5630

  Passively modelocked, diode-pumped Yb:KYW femtosecond oscillator with 1 GHz repetition rate

• 2009 Las. Phys. 19, 129

  Design and Alignment Criteria for a Simple, Robust, Diode-Pumped Femtosecond Yb:KYW Oscillator

• 2008 Science 320, 638

  Coherent Control of Decoherence

• 2008 Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 133601

  Heralded Generation of Ultrafast Single Photons in Pure Quantum States

• 2008 Laser Phys. Lett. 5, 259

  SPIDER: A decade of measuring ultrashort pulses

• 2007 Opt. Express 23, 15168

  Spectral shearing interferometry with spatially chirped replicas for measuring ultrashort pulses

• 2007 J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, 2064

  Tailoring the phase-matching function for ultrashort pulse characterization by spectral shearing interferometry

• 2007 J. Mod. Opt. 54, 1939

  A short perspective on long crystals: broadband wave mixing and its application to ultrafast quantum optics

• 2007 Eur. J. Phys. 28, 789

  Cavity ring down spectroscopy experiment for an advanced undergraduate laboratory

• 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 063901

  Time-frequency domain analogues of phase space sub-Planck structures

• 2007 Opt. Lett. 32, 181

  Compact spectral shearing interferometer for ultrashort pulse characterization

• 2007 Eur. J. Phys. 28, 789-796

  Cavity ring down spectroscopy experiment for advanced undergraduate laboratory

• 2006 Photonik 6, 44

  Jenseits der Beugungsmuster: SPIDER die Anatomie ultrakurzer Laserpulse (invited paper)

• 2006 Opt. Lett. 31, 1130

  Joint spectrum of photon pairs measured by coincidence Fourier spectroscopy

• 2006 Proc. SPIE 6182, 618220

  Nonlinear photonic crystal fiber with high birefringence made of silicate glass

• 2006 Opt. Lett. 31, 1008

  Simplified Spectral Phase Interferometry for Direct Electric-Field Reconstruction using a thick nonlinear crystal

• 2006 Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 061109

  Simultaneous time and frequency gating of weak molecular fluorescence in a thick nonlinear crystal

• 2005 Proc. SPIE 5949, 59491-M

  Observation of critical self focusing during propagation of femtosecond light pulses in bulk media

• 2005 Opt. Lett. 30, 1704

  A broadband noncollinear optical parametric amplifier using a single crystal

• 2004 Rev. Sci. Instr. 75, 2482

  A single-shot autocorrelator based on a Babinet compensator

• 2004 Appl. Phys. B 78, 589

  Femtosecond laser pulses measured with a photodiode - FROG revisited

• 2004 Opt. Lett. 29, 177

  Piezo-driven deformable mirror for femtosecond pulse shaping

• 2003 Proc. SPIE Vol. 5258, 20

  Nonlinear propagation of femtosecond laser pulses in dielectrics

• 2003 Proc. SPIE Vol. 4992, 55

  Propagation of ultrashort laser pulses through transparent dielectrics in nonlinear regime

• 2002 Acta Physica Polonica 101, 89

  Nonlinear Effects with Ultrashort Laser Pulses

• 2001 The State of the Art 2000, Springer

  Femtosecond Pump-Probe Experiments with a High Repetition Rate Molecular Beam, in: Atomic and Molecular Beams

• 2001 Optoelectronics Rev. 9, 308

  Generation and diagnostics of femtosecond light pulses

• 2001 Rev. Sci. Instr. 72, 2221

  An ultra-compact autocorrelator for femtosecond laser pulses

• 2000 Opt. Commun. 186, 329

  A Poor Mans FROG

• 2000 Optica Applicata 30.1: 121-124

  Compact, alignment-free autocorrelator for femtosecond laser pulses