2013 – 2017

 2009-2012, 2013-20172018-Present

 

Journal publications

S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, R. W. Boyd and L. O’Faolain “Photonic crystal slow light waveguides in a kagome latticeOptics Letters 42, 3243-3246 (2017).

K. L. Tsakmakidism L. Shen, S. A. Schulz, X. Zheng, J. Upham, X. Deng, H. Altug, A. F. Vakakis and R. W. Boyd “Breaking Lorentz reciprocity to overcome the time-bandwidth limit in physics and engineeringScience 356, 1260 (2017).

A. A. Tahir, S. A. Schulz, I. De Leon and R. W. Boyd “Design principles for wave plate metasurfaces using plasmonic L-shaped nanoantennasJournal of Optics 19, 035001 (2017).

S. Billings, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Application-tailored optimisation of photonic crystal waveguidesJournal of Optics 18, 115005 (2016).

S. A. Schulz, A. A. Tahir, M. Z. Alam, J. Upham, I. De Leon and R. W. Boyd “Optical response of dipole antennas on an epsilon-near-zero substratePhysical Review A 93, 063846 (2016).

R. Faggiani, A. Baron, X. Zhang, L. Lalouat, S. A. Schulz, B. O’Regan, K. Vynck, B. Cluzel, F. De Fornel, T. F. Krauss and P. Lalanne “Lower bound for the spatial extent of localized modes in photonic-crystal waveguides with small random imperfectionsScientific Reports 6, 27037 (2016).

B. Gao, O. S. M. Loaiza, S. A. Schulz, K. M. Awan, J. Upham, K. Dolgaleva and R. W. Boyd “Enhanced spectral sensitivity of a chip-scale photonic-crystal slow-light interferometerOptics Letters 7, 1431 (2016).

S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, F. Bouchard, I. De Leon, E. Karimi and R. W. Boyd “Quantifying the impact of proximity error correction on plasmonic metasurfacesOptical Materials Express 5, 2798 (2015).

I De Leon, M. J. Horton, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, P. Banzer and R. W. Boyd “Strong, spectrally-tunable chirality in diffractive metasurfacesScientific Reports 5, 13034 (2015).

S. A. Schulz, A. H. K. Park, I. De Leon, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Beyond the effective index method: improved accuracy for 2D simulations of photonic crystal waveguidesJournal of Optics 7, 075006 (2015).

K. M. Awan, S. A. Schulz, D. X. Liu, K. Dolgaleva, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Post-process wavelength tuning of silicon photonic crystal slow-light waveguidesOptics Letters 40, 1952 (2015).

F. Bouchard, I. De Leon, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, E. Karimi and R. W. Boyd “Optical spin-to-orbital angular momentum conversion in ultra-thin metasurfaces with arbitrary topological chargesApplied Physics Letters 105, 101905 (2014).

E. Karimi, S. A. Schulz, I. De Leon, H. Qassim, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Generating optical orbital angular momentum at visible wavelength using a plasmonic metasurfaceLight: Science & Applications 3, e167 (2014).

M.-C. N. Dicaire, J. Upham, I. De Leon, S. A. Schulz and R. W. Boyd “Group delay measurement of fibre Bragg gratingresonances in transmission: Fourier transform interferometry versus Hilbert transform” Journal of the Optical Society of America: B 31, 1006 (2014).

J. Upham, I. De Leon, D. Grobnic, E. Ma, M.-C. N. Dicaire, S. A. Schulz, S. Murugkar and R. W. Boyd “Enhancing optical field intensities in Gaussian-profile fibre Bragg gratingsOptics Letters 39, 849 (2014).

S. A. Schulz, T. Machula, E. Karimi and R. W. Boyd “Integrated multi vector vortex beam generator” Optics Express 21, 16130 (2013).

Proceeding Publications

M. Z. Alam, I. De Leon, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Engineering a Giant Nonlinear Optical Response for a Meta-Surface on an Epsilon-Near-Zero Material” , Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016),
paper FTu1G.4.

 S. Choudhary, S. D. Sxiecicki, I. De Leon,S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, J. E. Sipe and R. W. Boyd “Superradiance in Arrays of Plasmonic Nanoantennas”, Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper FTu3D.4.

B. Gao, O. S. Magana-Loaiza,S. A. Schulz, K. M. Awan, J. Upham, K. Dolgaleva and R. W. Boyd “Enhanced Spectral Sensitivity of a Chip-Scale Photonic-Crystal Slow-Light Interferometer”, Frontiers in Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper JW4A.64.

S. Choudhary, S. D. Sziecicki, I. De Leon, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham, J. E. Sipe and R. W. Boyd “Superradiance in two-dimensional arrays of nanoantennas”, CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2016, paper FM4B.7.

A. Tahir, I. De Leon, S. A. Schulz, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Optimal Design of Plasmonic Antennas for Geometric Phase Elements”, in Frontiers of Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2015), paper FW5C.3.

A. Baron, R. Faggiani, X. Zang, L. Lalouat, S. A. Schulz, K. Vynck, B. O’Regan, B. Cluzel, F. de Fornel, T. F. Krauss and P. Lalanne “Heavy Photons for Light Localization at Vanishingly Small Disorder-Levels”, CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2015, paper FW1C.4.S.

S. A. Schulz, K. M. Awan, D. X. Liu, K. Dolgaleva, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Post-Process Tuning of Slow Light Photonic Crystal Waveguides”, in Frontiers of Optics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper FW1B.5

S. A. Schulz, E. Karimi, I. De Leon, F. Bouchard, H. Qassim, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Plasmonic Metasurfaces for the Generation of Optical Orbital Angular Momentum”, in Frontiers of OPtics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper FTu2A.3.

I. De Leon, E. Karimi, S. A. Schulz, H. Qassim, J. Upham and R. W. Boyd “Generation of light beams carrying orbital angular momentum using an ultrathin plasmonic metasurface” CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science 2014, FF1C.2

S. A. Schulz, T. Machula, J. Upham, E. Karimi and R. W. Boyd “On Chip Generation and Sorting of Orbital Angular Momentum Beams”, Advanced Photonics, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), IT5A.2

R. Leyman, D. Carnegie, N. Bazieva, G. Molis, A. Arlauskas, A. Krotkus, S. Schulz, C. Reardon, E. Clarke, E. U. Rafailov “Characterisation of InAs:GaAs quantum dot-based photoconductive THz antennas” in Photonics Conference (IPC), 2013 IEEE, p418-419.

R. Leyman, D. Carnegie, K. A. Fedorova, N. Bazieva, S. Schulz, C. Reardon, E. Clarke, E. U. Rafailov “THz emission from quantum dor-based THz antennas pumped by a tunablle quantum-dot laser diode”  2013 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Eurpe  and International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO EUROPE/IQEC).