Mohammad Mahdi Salary

- Conducted basic and applied research to reduce the energy consumption of coherent optical communication systems - Designed high-throughput optical communication systems to enable laser communication in a distributed network with energy-constrained nodes - Simulated and analyzed the performance of inter-satellite optical communication links - Modeled the performance of phased optical apertures for laser communication - Designed and implemented a frequency comb based WDM optical transmission system

- Developed hierarchical and concurrent mathematical models and computational techniques to innovatively characterize and optimize photonic and optical systems with multiscale features involving multiphysics phenomena including electro-optics, optomechanics, and statistical thermodynamics (tools: Matlab, C++, Lumerical, COMSOL Multiphysics) - Designed plasmonic and dielectric metasurfaces with compact footprints at optical frequencies by employing resonant and geometric phase shifts for different beam-forming applications such as focusing, beam deflection, and holography - Incorporated electro-optical materials along with different free-carrier tuning mechanism into metamaterial and metasurface architectures to introduce high-speed tunability and multifunctionality - Established a new mechanism for dispersionless and local tuning of the phase of scattered light from time-modulated optical antennas by controlling the modulation phase delay - Implemented several electro-optical time-modulated reflect/transmitarray antennas for electrical beam-scanning with wide angle-of-view and ultra-low sidelobe level at different frequencies ranging from THz to near-infrared - Designed magnetless nonreciprocal time-modulated transceivers for adaptive multiple access and full-duplex optical communication in photonic networks - Developed time-modulated frequency arrays for real-time, high-speed and continuous beam-scanning with full angle-of-view in LIDAR platforms - Designed and optimized radiative heat meta-sources with partially coherent emission patterns - Analyzed the imparted optical force to nanoparticles and their mobility in many-body systems for optical trapping, acceleration and binding of nanoparticles - Investigated and modeled optomechanical actuation and deformation of graphene membranes in layered heterostructures - Trajectory modeling of light sails and synergistic engineering for efficient photonic propulsion, beam-riding stability and radiative cooling

Applied Electromagnetic Laboratory - Analyzed the scattering of electromagnetic waves from different classes of complex media with canonical geometries including anisotropic media, inhomogeneous media, chiral media, and moving media. - Developed several toolboxes and GUIs for solving electromagnetic scattering from complex media - Designed and simulated reconfigurable frequency selective surfaces via full-wave and equivalent circuit modeling - Researched the interaction between electromagnetic fields and biological systems

Concentration: Electromagnetics, Plasma and Optics Adviser: Prof. Hossein Mosallaei Dissertation Title: Space-time Photonic Metamaterials

Concentration: Electromagnetics, Plasma and Optics Adviser: Prof. Hossein Mosallaei

Concentration: Electromagnetics and Telecommunication Adviser: Prof. Ali Abdolali Dissertation Title: Reconfigurable Frequency Selective Surfaces