Select Publications:

• "Noninvasive electron microscope with interaction-free quantum measurements", B. Putnam, M. F. Yanik, Phys. Rev. - Rapid Communications.
• "Sub-cellular precision on-chip small-animal immobilization, multi-photon imaging and femtosecond laser manipulation", F. Zeng, C.B. Rohde, M.F. Yanik, Lab on a Chip (2008) published on April 3rd. Supplementary Movie and Supplementary Data. Selected as HOT ARTICLE.
• "Microfluidic system for on-chip high-throughput whole-animal sorting and screening at sub-cellular resolution", C.B. Rohde, F. Zeng, R. Gonzalez-Rubio, M. Angel, M.F. Yanik, PNAS, 104, 13891 (2007) Supplementary MOVIE
• "Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal regeneration is influenced by life stage, ephrin signaling, and synaptic branching", Z. Wu, A. Ghosh-Roy, M. F. Yanik, J. Z. Zhang, Y. Jin, A. D. Chisholm, PNAS, 104, 15132 (2007).
• "Dynamic Photon Storage" Mehmet F. Yanik, S. Fan, Nature Physics, 3, 372 (2007).
• "Nerve Regeneration in C. elegans after femtosecond laser axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Invited Paper on Nanophotonics by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 12, 1283 (2006).
• "Neurosurgery: Functional Regeneration after Laser Axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. Ben-Yakar, Nature 432, 822 (2004). Supplementary Movie.
• "Stopping light all-optically", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters 92, 083901 (2004). See also Nature Highlights, March 11th 2004.
• "Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency", Mehmet F. Yanik, W. Suh, Z. Wang, S. Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 233903 (2004).
• "Time Reversal of Light with Linear Optics and Modulators", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 173903 (2004).
• "All-Optical Transistor Action With Bistable Switching in a Photonic Crystal Cross-Waveguide Geometry", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Marin Soljacic, and J.D.Joannopoulos. Optics Letters, 28, 2506 (2003). Also reviewed in Nature Materials, 3, 211, (2004).
• "Stopping and Storing Light Coherently", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review A 71, 013803 (2005).
• "Sub-micron all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, 2316 (2004).
• "High-Contrast All-Optical Bistable Switching in Photonic Crystal Microcavities", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, and Marin Soljacic. Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 2739 (2003).
• "Dynamic Photonic Structures: Stopping, Storage and Time-reversal of light", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Article by 'Studies in Applied Mathematics' (Dec. 2004).

RecenT Invited Talks:

• "Nerve Regeneration after Femtosecond Laser Nano-Surgery", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, H. N. Cinar, A. D. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Invited Talk, European Conference on Biomedical Optics, Munich, Germany, 2005.
• "Dynamic Photonic Bandgap Nanostructures for Information Processing", Mehmet F. Yanik, S. Fan, Invited Talk, LEOS, Sydney, Australia 2005.
  "Nano-scale high-speed all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Talk, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA 2005.
• "Quantum Coherent Stopping, Storage and Rewinding of Photons On-Chip", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Talk, SPIE ITCOM, Pennsylvania, 2004.
• "All-Optical Coherent Stopping and Storage of Light", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Talk, CLEO/IQEC, San Francisco, CA, 2004.
• "A Jukebox for Light: Stopping, Storing and Rewinding Light On-Chip", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, SGF Nominated Talk, Stanford, CA, 2004.
• Invited talks at MIT, Berkeley, Harvard, Stanford, Upenn, Purdue, Columbia, UCLA, UCSD, USC, Northwestern.
• Nanophotonics Talk (2003)
• Worm Regeneration Movie

Publications & Proceedings:

• "Nerve Regerenation in C. elegans after femtosecond laser axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Invited Paper on Nanophotonics by IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2006).
• "Neurosurgery: Functional Regeneration after Laser Axotomy", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, N. Cinar, A. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Nature 432, 822 (2004).
• "Stopping Light in a Waveguide with an All-Optical Analog of Electromagnetically Induced Transparency", Mehmet F. Yanik, W. Suh, Z. Wang, S. Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 233903 (2004).
• "Time Reversal of Light with Linear Optics and Modulators", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters 93, 173903 (2004). Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology November 8th, 2004 (Editor David Awschalom).
• "Sub-micron all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, IEEE Journal of Lightwave Technology, 22, 2316 (2004).
• "Stopping and Storing Light Coherently", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review A, 71, 013803 (2005). Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology January 17th, 2005 (Editor David Awschalom).
• "Stopping light all-optically", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Physical Review Letters, 92, 083901 (2004).
• Nature Highlights, March 11th 2004. Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology March 8th, 2004.
• "All-Optical Transistor Action With Bistable Switching in a Photonic Crystal Cross-Waveguide Geometry", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Marin Soljacic, and J.D.Joannopoulos. Optics Letters, 28, 2506 (2003). Also featured on Nature Materials, 3, 211, (2004).
• "High-Contrast All-Optical Bistable Switching in Photonic Crystal Microcavities", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, and Marin Soljacic. Appl. Phys. Lett., 83, 2739 (2003). Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology October 6th, 2003.
• "Dynamic Photonic Structures: Stopping, Storage, and Time-reversal of light", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Review Article in Journal of Studies in Applied Mathematics 115, 233 (2005).
• "Characterization of Single Photonic Crystal Slabs Demonstrating Strong Broandband Suppression of Transmission", Onur Kilic, Sora Kim, Yves-Alain Peter, Wonjoo Suh, Aasmund Sudbo, Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Olav Solgaard, Optics Letters 29, 2782 (2004).
• "Omnidirectional Resonance in a Metal-Dielectric-Metal Geometry", Hochoel Shin, Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Rashid Zia and Mark Brongersma, Applied Physics Letters, 84, 4421 (2004).
• "Displacement sensitive photonic crystal structures based on guided resonance in photonic crystal slabs", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet F. Yanik, Olav Solgaard, and Shanhui Fan, Applied Physics Letters, 82, 1999, 2003. Also appeared as Invited Paper in Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology February 3th 2003.
• "Local Search Methods for Quantum Computers", Tad Hogg and Mehmet F. Yanik, Local Search Methods for Quantum Computers, Xerox PARC Technical Report, 1998. Available at Los Alamos preprint quant-ph/9802043
• Invited contribution to "Computational Electrodynamics: The Finite-Difference Time-Domain Method" by Allen Taflove, Susan C. Hagness, 3rd addition.
• "Dynamic Photonic Bandgap Nanostructures for Information Processing", Mehmet F. Yanik, S. Fan, Invited Talk, LEOS, Sydney, Australia 2005.
• "Nerve Regeneration after Femtosecond Laser Nano-Surgery", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, H. N. Cinar, A. D. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Invited Talk, European Conference on Biomedical Optics 2005, Munich, Germany. Proc. SPIE 5863, 58630C (2005).
• "Nano-scale high-speed all-optical digital memory and integration of nano-scale photonic devices without isolators", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Altug, J. Vuckovic, S. Fan, Invited Talk, SPIE Photonics West, San Jose, CA 2005.
• "Quantum Coherent Stopping, Storage and Rewinding of Photons On-Chip", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Talk, SPIE ITCOM, Pennsylvania, 2004.
• "All-Optical Coherent Stopping and Storage of Light", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Invited Talk, CLEO/IQEC, San Francisco, CA, 2004. Proc. SPIE 5597, 44 (2004).
• "A Jukebox for Light: Stopping, Storing and Rewinding Light On-Chip", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, SGF Nominated Talk, Stanford, CA, 2004.
• "Femtosecond Laser Nano-surgery and Nerve Regeneration", Mehmet F. Yanik, H. Cinar, H. N. Cinar, A. D. Chisholm, Y. Jin, A. B. Yakar, Photonics West, San Jose, CA 2005. (Post-deadline talk) Proc. SPIE 5714, 138 (2005).
• "Time-reversal of light with linear optics and modulators", Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, MRS Meeting, Boston, MA, Nov. 30th 2004.
• "Stopping Light All-Optically", Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Photonics West, in San Jose, CA, 2004. (Post-deadline talk). Proc. SPIE 5360, 275 (2004).
• "Sub-micron All-optical Transistor, Memory & Large Scale Integration", Mehmet F. Yanik, Hatice Altug and Shanhui Fan, Innovators' Challenge, Berkeley, CA, Apr. 20th 2004.
• "Coherent stopping & storage of light pulses all-optically", Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan, SPRC Nano-Photonics Talk, CA, Jan 24th, 2004.
• "Tightly confining AlGaAs waveguides and microcavities for optical frequency conversion", L. Scaccabarozzi, Z. Wang, W. T. Lau, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, S. Fan, M. M. Fejer, J. S. Harris, Photonics West, San Jose, CA, USA, 2004. Proc. SPIE 5355, 111 (2004).
• "Photonic Crystals: Controlling and Sensing Light for both Evanescent and Propagating Fields", Shanhui Fan, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Y. J. Suh, X. Yu, DARPA Annual Meeting, Maui, USA, 2004.
• "Fabrication and characterization of tightly confining AlGaAs waveguides and microcavities for nonlinear optical applications", Luigi Scaccabarozzi, Zheng Wang, Xiaojun Yu, Meredith M. Lee, Wah T. Lau, Mehmet F. Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Martin M. Fejer, and James S. Harris, Jr. Proc. SPIE 5728, 299 (2005).
• "Fundamentals and Applications of Photonic Crystals", Shanhui Fan, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, W. T. Lau, W. J. Suh, X. Yu, Z. Wang, Invited Tutorial, OSA Annual Meeting, 2003.
  
• "All-Optical Bistable Transistor In Photonic Crystals", Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Marin Soljacic, John D. Joannopoulos, IEEE LEOS 16th Annual Meeting in Tucson, Arizona, 2003.
• "Mechanically and optically switchable photonic crystal structures", Shanhui Fan, W. J. Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Invited Talk SPIE/APOC, Wuhan, China, 2003. Proc. SPIE 5360, 299 (2004).
• "Tunable photonic crystals enable new optical physics and devices". Shanhui Fan, Mehmet F. Yanik, and Won Joo Suh, Proc. SPIE 5511, 93 (2004).
• "Mechanically switchable photonic crystal structures based on coupled photonic crystal slabs", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Olav Solgaard and Shanhui Fan, Photonics West in San Jose, CA, 2004.
• "All-optical digital switching in Photonic Crystals", Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Marin Soljacic, John D. Joannopoulos, SPRC Meeting, CA, Sept. 15th 2003.
• "Experimental demonstration of photonic crystal filters and design of two-slab configuration with all-pass characteristics", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, and Shanhui Fan & Sora Kim, Onur Kilic, Aasmund Sudbo, and Olav Solgaard, CS-WDM Project Meeting, Stanford/USC, Jun 13 2003.
• "Optical and displacement sensors based on double-slab photonic crystal structures with displacement-sensitive transmission spectrum", Onur Kilic, Sora Kim, Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Shanhui Fan, Olav Solgaard, SPRC Meeting, CA, 2003.
• "MEMS Tunable Photonic Crystals Using Guided Resonance", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Olav Solgaard and Shanhui Fan, SPRC Annual Meeting Talk, Sept 16th, CA, 2003.
• "Displacement Sensitive Photonic Crystal Structures", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Olav Solgaard, and Shanhui Fan, Finalist in BASES-VERTEX Innovators' Challenge, Stanford, CA, Apr. 19th 2003.
• "Displacement sensitive photonic crystal structures based guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs", Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Olav Solgaard, and Shanhui Fan, SPRC Mixer, Stanford University, CA, USA, Feb 28th 2003
• "Photonic Crystals in Optical Interconnects", Zheng Wang, Wonjoo Suh, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Wahtung Lau, Shanhui Fan, Luigi Scaccabarozzi and James Harris, Stanford, CA, May 27th 2003.