#  Ph.D. Theses 

 



For the publication list, go here: [https://capasso.seas.harvard.edu/publications](/publications)

## 2023

- Dmitry Kazakov: [Active Nonlinear Mid-Infrared Photonics](http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/dissertations-theses/active-nonlinear-mid-infrared-photonics/docview/2822173461/se-2?accountid=11311)
- Aun Zaidi: [Structuring and Imaging Polarization Transformations Using Metasurfaces](http://search.proquest.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/dissertations-theses/structuring-imaging-polarization-transformations/docview/2822183299/se-2?accountid=11311)
- Soon Wei Daniel Lim: [Sculpting the Dark: Singularity Engineering with Metasurfaces](https://www.proquest.com/dissertations-theses/sculpting-dark-singularity-engineering-with/docview/2892615112/se-2?accountid=14026)

## 2020

- Noah A. Rubin: [Metasurface Polarization Optics](https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365763)
- Zhujun Shi: [Manipulating Light with Multifunctional Metasurfaces](https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365754)
- Alexander Yutong Zhu: [Flat Optics with Metasurfaces and Their Applications](https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365808)
- Raphaël Jean-Marie Fernand Pestourie: [Assume Your Neighbor Is Your Equal: Inverse Design in Nanophotonics](https://nrs.harvard.edu/URN-3:HUL.INSTREPOS:37365163)

## 2019

- Kundan Chaudhary: [Engineering Polaritons in Van Der Waals Heterostructures](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:41121295)

## 2018

- Shuyan Zhang: [Reconfigurable Metasurfaces in the Infrared](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39945358)
- Nanxi Li: [Rare-earth-doped Lasers on Silicon Photonics Platforms](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:39947175)
- Alan Jenting She: [Novel Devices for Dynamically Shaping the Wavefront and Polarization of Light](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42015658)

## 2017

- Lulu Liu: [A Floating Probe Force Microscope With Sub-Femtonewton Resolution](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37944968)
- Robert Devlin: [Nanostructured Optical Materials for Planar Photonics](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:42061477)
- Daniel Thomas Wintz: [Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy Characterization of Metastructures](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:37945000)

## 2016

- Tobias Siavash Mansuripur: [The Effect of Intracavity Field Variation on the Emission Properties of Quantum Cascade Lasers](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33840757)
- Jan Philipp Balthasar Mueller: [Polarization in Nanophotonics](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:33493384)

## 2014

- Mikhail A. Kats: [Optics at Interfaces: Ultra-thin color coatings, perfect absorbers, and metasurfaces](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11745700)
- Romain Blanchard: [Fourier optics for wavefront engineering and wavelength control of lasers](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11744450)

## 2013

- David Natheniel Woolf: [Near-Field Optical Forces: Photonics, Plasmonics and the Casimir Effect](http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11158247)

## 2010

- Jonathan Albert Fan:[ Designer nanoplamonics with self-assembled metal-dielectric colloidal clusters](https://www.proquest.com/docview/610106557)

## 2009

- Nanfang Yu: [Near-field and far-field engineering of semiconductor lasers](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304893599)
- Elizabeth Jennings Smythe: [A new technique to transfer metallic nanoscale patterns to small and non-planar surfaces: Application to a fiber optic device for surface enhanced Raman scattering detection](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304893561)
- Benjamin Guocian Lee: [Distributed feedback quantum cascade laser arrays for chemical sensing](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304893475/)
- Christine Yi-Ting Wang: [Multimode dynamics in quantum cascade lasers: From coherent instability to mode locking](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304893251)

## 2008

- Jeremy Nathan Munday: [Attractive, repulsive and rotational QED forces: Experiments and calculations](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304626037)
- Ertugrul Cubukcu: [Plasmonic laser antennas and related devices and their nearfield optics applications](https://www.proquest.com/docview/304604141/)