Peter T. Rakich

The Rakich group focuses on experimental nonlinear optics and spectroscopy. Research areas include:

• The study of natural and artificial forms of optical nonlinearity in nanostructured effective media;
• The dynamics and evolution of nonlinear systems at new time and length scales;
• Optical forces and energetics in nanoscale systems;
• Nonlinear nano-optomechanical interactions

• H. Shin, W. Qiu, R. Jarecki, J. A. Cox, R. H. Olsson, A Starbuck, Z. Wang, and P. T. Rakich, Tailorable Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in Nanoscale Silicon Waveguides, Nature Communications, Vol 4, No. 1944, 2013.
• P. Rakich, C. Reinke, R. Camacho, P. Davids, and Z. Wang, Giant Enhancement of Stimulated Brillouin Scattering in the Subwavelength Limit, Physical Review X, vol. 2, no. 1, p. 011008, Jan. 2012.
• P. T. Rakich, Z. Wang, and P. Davids, Scaling of optical forces in dielectric waveguides: rigorous connection between radiation pressure and dispersion., Optics letters, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 2179, Jan. 2011.
• P. T. Rakich, P. Davids, and Z. Wang, Tailoring optical forces in waveguides through radiation pressure and electrostrictive forces., Optics express, vol. 18, no. 14, pp. 1443953, Jul. 2010.
• P. T. Rakich, M. a. Popovi, M. Solja, and E. P. Ippen, Trapping, corralling and spectral bonding of optical resonances through optically induced potentials, Nature Photonics, vol. 1, no. 11, pp. 658665, Nov. 2007.
• P. T. Rakich, Y. Fink, and M. Soljaci, Efficient mid-IR spectral generation via spontaneous fifth-order cascaded-Raman amplification in silica fibers., Optics letters, vol. 33, no. 15, pp. 16902, Aug. 2008.
• P. T. Rakich, M. S. Dahlem, S. Tandon, M. Ibanescu, M. Soljacic, G. S. Petrich, J. D. Joannopoulos, L. A. Kolodziejski, and E. P. Ippen, Achieving centimetre-scale supercollimation in a large-area two-dimensional photonic crystal, Nature Materials, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 9396, Feb. 2006.