Title:
Postdoctoral Researcher

Office:
4608 Engineering Building Unit 1 
 

Mailing Address:
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0407
University of California, San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0407

Email: amitmiz@ece.ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-4473
Fax: (858) 534-1225

Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 2007
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 2004
B.Sc., Electrical Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1997
 

Research Interests:

•  Nanoscale electromagnetism

•  Optical forces

•  Optical acceleration of charged particles

Awards:

•  Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Fellowship for Postdoctoral Researchers (2008)

•  Andrew and Erna Finci Viterbi Fellowship for Outstanding Graduate Students (2007)

•  Wolf Foundation Excellence Award (2006)

•  BMW Group Scientific Award (2005)

•  Applied Materials Excellence Award (2005)

•  Thomas Schwartz Award (1997)

Publications:

JOURNAL PAPERS

• A. Mizrahi, K. Ikeda, F. Bonomelli, V. Lomakin, and Y. Fainman, "Self-Alignment and Instability of Waveguides Induced by Optical Forces", Phys. Rev. A, vol. 80, no. 4, pp. 041804(R) 1-4, October 2009. (link)

• S. Banna, A. Mizrahi, and L. Schächter, "PASER - Particle Acceleration by Stimulated Emission of Radiation: Theory, Experiment, and Future Applications", Laser & Photonics Reviews, vol. 3, no. 1-2, February 2009 (invited). (link)

• A. Mizrahi, M. Horowitz, and L. Schächter, "Torque and Longitudinal Force Exerted by Eigenmodes on Circular Waveguides", Phys. Rev. A, vol. 78, no. 2, pp. 023802 1-6, August 2008. (link)

• A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, B. A. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad, L. Feng, and Y. Fainman, "Low Threshold Gain Metal Coated Laser Nanoresonators", Opt. Lett., vol. 33, no. 11, pp. 1261-1263, June 2008. (link)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Two-Slab All-Optical Spring", Opt. Lett., vol. 32, no. 6, pp. 692-694, March 2007. (link)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Electromagnetic Forces on the Dielectric Layers of the Planar Optical Bragg Acceleration Structure", Phys. Rev. E, vol. 74, no. 3, pp. 036504 1-10, September 2006. (link)

• V. Karagodsky, A. Mizrahi, and L. Schächter, "Thermal Scaling Laws of the Optical Bragg Acceleration Structure", Phys. Rev. Special Topics - Accelerators and Beams, vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 051301 1-10, May 2006. (link)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Mirror Manipulation by Attractive and Repulsive Forces of Guided Waves", Opt. Express, vol. 13, no. 24, pp. 9804-9811, November 2005. (link)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Bragg Reflection Waveguides with a Matching Layer", Opt. Express, vol. 12, no. 14, pp. 3156-3170, July 2004. (link)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Optical Bragg Accelerators", Phys. Rev. E, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 016505 1-21, July 2004. (link)
  
   

CONFERENCE PAPERS

• A. Mizrahi, V. Lomakin, B. A. Slutsky, M. P. Nezhad, L. Feng, and Y. Fainman, "Metal Coated Subwavelength Laser Resonators with Low Threshold Gain", FIO, OSA 92^nd Annual Meeting, Rochester, NY, October 2008.

• A. Mizrahi, M. Horowitz, and L. Schächter, "Longitudinal Force and Torque Exerted on a Circular Waveguide by Rotating Eigenmodes", SPIE Optics and Photonics conference, San Diego, CA, August 2008. Proceeding of SPIE, vol. 7038, pp. 70381U 1-8, August 2008.

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Forces and Binding in a Two-Mirror System", SPIE Photonics West Conference, San Jose, CA, January 2007. Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 6483, pp. 648303 1-10, February 2007.

• A. Mizrahi, V. Karagodsky, and L. Schächter, "Constraints on Structure-Based Optical Accelerators", ICFA Joint Workshop on Laser-Beam Interactions and Laser and Plasma Accelerators, Taipei, Taiwan, December 2005. International Journal of Modern Physics B, vol. 21, no. 3/4, pp. 331-342, February 2007 (Invited).

• A. Mizrahi, V. Karagodsky, and L. Schächter, "Scaling Laws of Structure-Based Optical Accelerators", The physics and Applications of High Brightness Electron Beams Workshop, Sicily, Italy, October 2005. (Invited)

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Analysis and Design of Optical Bragg Acceleration Structures", AAC'04, Advanced Accelerator Concepts 11th Workshop, Stony Brook, NY, June 2004. AIP Conference Proceedings, vol. 737, pp. 804-810, December 2004.

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Optical Bragg Acceleration Structures", Proceedings of APAC'2004, Asian Particle Accelerator Conference, Gyeongju, Korea, pp. 452-454, March 2004.

• A. Mizrahi, L. Schächter, R. L. Byer, and R. H. Siemann, "Dielectric Bragg Accelerator", Proceedings of PAC'2003, Particle Accelerator Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp. 728-730 May 2003.

• L. Schächter, S. Banna, R. L. Byer, E. Colby, B. Cowan, M. Javanmard, A. Mizrahi, R. Noble, T. Plettner, and R. H. Siemann, "Scaling Laws of a Dielectric Optical Accelerator", Proceedings of PAC'2003, Particle Accelerator Conference, Portland, Oregon, pp. 722-724, May 2003.

• A. Mizrahi and L. Schächter, "Analytic Time-Domain Expression for Transients in a Periodic Structure", Proceedings of the 22nd Convention of IEEE Tel-Aviv, pp. 95-97, December 2002.