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PATENTS

1.   S. Shi, Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, and D. W. Prather, "System for Efficient Coupling to Photonic Crystal Waveguides," in US Patent & Trademark Office, 6,782,169, in US Patent & Trademark Office (Issued)
2.   Caihua Chen, D. W. Prather, B. Miao, S. Shi, and J. Murakowski, "High-Efficiency Broadband Transmission through a Double-60 Bend in a Planar Photonic Crystal Single Line Defect Waveguide," in US Patent & Trademark Office, vol. UD04-15. USA.(Oct 13,2003)
3.   Caihua Chen, D. W. Prather, S. Shi, and J. Murakowski, "An Efficient Effective Index Method for Band Diagram Calculation of Planar Structures," in US Patent & Trademark Office, vol. UD 04-29. USA.(Jan 27,2004).
4.   Caihua Chen, D. W. Prather, S. Shi, and A. Sharkawy, "Ultra-Low Propagation Loss Photonic Crystal Dispersion Guiding Structure," in US Patent & Trademark Office, vol. UD03-34 U.S. Provisional Patent Serial No. 60/484,859. USA.(July 3,2003).
5.   Caihua Chen, D. W. Prather, G. Jin, S. Shi, and A. Sharkawy, "A Uni-Directional Photonic Crystal Dispersion-Based Emitter," in US Patent &Trademark Office, vol. UD04-12 U.S. Provisional Patent Serial No. 60/511,887. USA.(0ct 16,2003).
6.   D. W. Prather, A. Sharkawy, S. Shi, and Caihua Chen, "Configurable Electro-Optical Photonic Crystal Switch Utilizing Dispersion-Based Guiding," in US Patent &Trademark Office, vol. UD 04-10 U.S. Provisional Patent Serial No. 60/510,493. USA.(Oct 10,2003).

REFEREED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS

1.   D. W. Prather, J. Murakowski, S. Shouyuan, S. Venkataraman, A. Sharkawy, Caihua Chen, and D. Pustai, "High Efficiency Coupling Structure for a Single Line-Defect Photonic Crystal Waveguide," Opt. Lett. 27, 1601-1603 (2002).
2.   Caihua Chen, A. Sharkway, S. Shi, and D. W. Prather, "Synthesis of 2-Dimensional Photonic Crystals," Optics Express 11, 317-323 (2003).
3.   Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, D. M. Pustai, S. Shi, and D. W. Prather, "Optimizing Bending Efficiency of Self-Collimated Beams in Non-Channel Planar Photonic Crystal Waveguides," Opt. Express 11, 3153 - 3159 (2003).
4.   Caihua Chen, S. Shouyuan, and D. W. Prather, "Electromagnetic Design of an All-Diffractive Millimeter-Wave Imaging System," Appl. Opt. 43, 2431-2438 (2004).
5.   Caihua Chen, G. Jin, S. Shouyuan, A. Sharkawy, and D. W. Prather, "A Unidirectional Photonic Crystal Dispersion-Based Emitter," Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 3151-3153 (2004).
6.   Caihua Chen, S. Shouyuan, D. W. Prather, and A. Sharkawy, "Beam Steering with Photonic Crystal Horn Radiators," Opt. Eng. 43, 174-180 (2004).
7.   D. W. Prather, S. Shi, D. Pustai, Caihua Chen, S. Venkataraman, A. Sharkawy, G. schneider, and J. Murakowski, "Dispersion-Based Optical Routing in Photonic Crystals," Opt. Lett. 29, 50-52 (2004).
8.   S. Shi, A. Sharkawy, Caihua Chen, and D. W. Prather, "Dispersion-Based Beam Splitter in Photonic Crystals," Opt. Lett. 29, 617-619 (2004).
9.   D. M. Pustai, S. Shouyuan, Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, and D. W. Prather, "Analysis of Splitters for Self-Collimated Beams in Planar Photonic Crystals," Optics Express 12, 1823-1831 (2004).
10.   S. Shi, Caihua Chen, and D. W. Prather, "Band Structure Calculation of Photonic Crystal Slab by Using Plane Wave Expansion Method with Perfectly Matched Layers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 21(9), 1-7(2004).
11.   Binglin Miao, Caihua Chen, S. Shi, J. Murakowski, D. W. Prather, “High-efficiency Broadband Transmission Through a Double-60° Bend in a Planar Photonic Crystal Single Line Defect Waveguide “, IEEE Photonic Tech. Lett. (to appear 2004)
12.   Binglin Miao, Caihua Chen, and D. W. Prather, “A High-Efficiency In-Plane Splitting Coupler for Planar Photonic Crystal Self-Collimation Devices “, IEEE Photonic Tech. Lett. (to appear 2005)

MANUSCRIPTS SUBMITTED TO JOURNAL

1.   Caihua Chen, Shouyuan Shi, Janusz Murakowski, and Dennis W. Prather, “Stepwise Effective Index Method in Modeling of High-Index-Contrast Planar Photonic Crystals”, Appl. Phys. Lett., in review.
2.   Shouyuan Shi, Caihua Chen, D.W. Prather, “ Simulation of Dispersive Materials Using the Effective Index Method”, Appl. Phys. Lett, in review.
3.   Caihua Chen, S. Shi , Z. Lv, and D.W. Prather, “Self-Guiding in Low-Index-Contrast Planar Photonic Crystal,” Optical Engineering, in review.
4.   D. W. Prather, Z. Lv, and Caihua Chen, "Imaging of Amplitude and Phase by Negative Refraction," submitted to Nature (2004).

INVITED TALKS (with proceedings)

1.   D. W. Prather, Caihua Chen, S. Shi, D. Pustai, R. Venkataraman, A. Sharkawy, G. Schnieder, and J. Murakowski, "Ultra Low-Loss Photonic Crystal Wave Guides," presented at Photonics West, San Jose, CA, 2004.
2.   D. W. Prather, S. Shi, A. Sharkawy, Caihua Chen, and J. Ge, "Design and Simulation of Three-Dimensional Dispersion Surfaces in Photonic Crystal Structures," presented at the NanoTech conference, Boston, 2004.
3.   D. W. Prather, D. M. Pustai, Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, S. Shi, and J. Murakowski, "Electromagentic Engineering of the Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystal Devices," presented at IEEE Antenna and Propa. Conferences, Monterey, CA, 2004.
4.   D. M. Pustai, Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, S. Shi, J. Murakowski, and D. W. Prather, "Dispersion Engineering of Photonic Crystal Devices," presented at MRS, Boston, 2003.
5.   D. W. Prather, S. Shi, A. Sharkawy, S. E. Mcbride, P. J. Zanzucchi, Caihua Chen, D. M. Pustai, S. Venkataraman, J. A. Murakowski, and G. J. Schneider, "Dispersion Engineering of Photonic Crystals," presented at SPIE Int. Soc. Opt. Eng. 5184, 30, 2003.

REVIEWED CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS (with proceedings)

1.   Caihua Chen, S. Shi, J. Murakowski, and D. W. Prather, "Effective Index Method in Modeling of High Index Contrast Planar Photonic Crystals," presented at Photonic West, San Jose, CA, 2004.
2.   Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, S. Shi, and D. W. Prather, "Band Gap Optimization of 2-Dimensional Photonic Crystals," presented at Photonic West, San Jose, CA, 2004.
3.   S. Shi, Caihua Chen, and D. W. Prather, "Dispersion-Based Beam Splitter in Photonic Crystals," presented at Photonic West, San Jose, CA, 2004.
4.   C. Lin, Caihua Chen, G. J. Schneider, and D. W. Prather, "Fabrication of Terahertz Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Lens on Silicon-on-Insulator," presented at SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Florida, 2004.
5.   Caihua Chen, A. Sharkawy, S. Shi, and D. W. Prather, "Engineering Dispersion Properties of Photonic Crystals for Spatial Beam Routing and Non-Channel Waveguiding," presented at Integrated Photonics Research, Washington, DC, 2003.
6.   C. Lin, Caihua Chen, G. J. Schneider, P. Yao, S. Shi, A. Sharkawy, and D. W. Prather, "Terahertz-Regime Realization and Optical Characterization of Two-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Waveguides on a Silicon-on-Insulator (Soi) Substrate," presented at SPIE annual meeting, San Diego, 2003.
7.   S. Shi, Caihua Chen, and D. W. Prather, "Band Structure Calculation of Photonic Crystal Slab by Using Plane Wave Expansion Method with Perfectly Matched Layers," presented at SPIE, San Jose, 2004.