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Latest work

"Optimizing Experimental Conditions for STED and g-STED Microscopy" , K. Beeson, M. Potasek, and E. Parilov, (Link to article) BioPhotonics (Jul-Aug. 2015)

"Optimizing laser and probe molecules for multi-photon microscopy", M. Potasek, K. Beeson, and E. Parilov, Proc. SPIE 9329, Multiphoton Microscopy in the Biomedical Sciences XV, 93292O (Mar. 2015)

"Biomedical applications involving multiphoton probes", M. Potasek, K. Beeson, and E. Parilov, Proc. SPIE 9339, Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Probes for Biomedical Applications VII, 933913 (Mar. 2015)

"Optimizing experimental conditions for stimulated emission depletion microscopy in biophotonics", K. Beeson, M. Potasek, and E. Parilov, Proc. SPIE 9369, Photonic Instrumentation Engineering II, 93690V (Mar. 2015)

Patents

“Determining the Interaction between Electromagnetic Radiation and a Material by Utilizing Transition Modules”,
E. Parilov, M. Potasek and K. Beeson, U.S. Patent No. 8,812,252 (issued Aug 19, 2014)

“Method, System and Software Arrangement for Determining an Interaction Between an Electromagnetic Radiation and a Material”, E. Parilov and M. Potasek, U.S. Patent No. 7,949,480 (issued May 24, 2011)

Presentations

"Graphical computational method for active materials in simulation of optical electromagnetics", M. Potasek, E. Parilov and K. Beeson, Proc. SPIE 8980, Physics and Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices XXII, 89801W (Mar. 2014)  
"Diffraction can mimic saturation in multiphoton absorbers", M. Potasek, E. Parilov and M. Walker, Proc. SPIE 8983, Organic Photonic Materials and Devices XVI, 89831H (Mar. 2014)  
"Predicting errors from spectral overlap in multi-probe and multi-laser flow cytometry ", M. Potasek, E. Parilov and K. Beeson, Proc. SPIE 8596, Reporters, Markers, Dyes, Nanoparticles, and Molecular Probes for Biomedical Applications V, 85960T (Feb. 2013)  
"Calculation of singlet oxygen formation from one photon absorbing photosensitizers used in PDT", M. Potasek, E. Parilov and K. Beeson, Proc. SPIE 8568, Optical Methods for Tumor Treatment and Detection: Mechanisms and Techniques in Photodynamic Therapy XXII, 85681D (Mar. 2013)  
“Investigation of saturation in two and three photon nano-photonic absorbers”, M. Potasek and E. Parilov, SPIE Photonics West, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XVII (Feb. 2013)  
“Numerical analysis of multi-photon parameters from ultrafast laser measurements”, M. Potasek and E. Parilov, SPIE Photonics West, Ultrafast Phenomena and Nanophotonics XVI (Jan. 2012)
“Experimental and numerical investigation of highly absorbing nonlinear organic chromophores”, E. Parilov and M. J. Potasek, SPIE Photonics West, Nonlinear Frequency Generation and Conversion: Materials, Devices, and Applications XI (Jan. 2012)
“Numerical simulation of laser pulse propagation in rare-earth-doped materials”, K. Beeson, E. Parilov and M. Potasek, SPIE Photonics West, Optical Components and Materials IX (Jan. 2012)
Invited presentation: “Engineered Nanostructures Exhibiting Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity”, Photonics West, (Jan. 2009)

Selected Publications

“A split-step finite difference method for nonparaxial nonlinear Schrödinger equation at critical dimension”, K. Malakuti and E. Parilov, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 61, Issue 7, 891-899 (Jul. 2011)

Invited paper: “Engineered Nanostructures Exhibiting Enhanced Optical Nonlinearity”, Proceedings of SPIE “Quantum Dots, Particles, and Nanoclusters”, vol. 7224, San Jose, CA, (Jan. 2009)

“Optical pulse interactions in nonlinear excited state materials”, M. J. Potasek, D. McLaughlin, and E. Parilov, NASA Scientific and Technical Aerospace Reports, Vol. 46, No. 22, 104, (Oct. 2008)

“Enhanced optical nonlinearity of surfactant-capped CdS quantum dots embedded in an optically transparent polystyrene thin film”, Y. Gao, A. Tonizzo, A. Walser, M. Potasek, and R. Dorsinville, Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 92, 033106 (Jan. 2008)

“Dynamics of a multilevel molecular absorber interacting with a train of optical pulses”, M. J. Potasek, M. F. Arend and Y. Gao, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 24, 839 (Apr. 2007).

“Generalized theoretical treatment and numerical method of time-resolved radially dependent laser pulses interacting with multiphoton absorbers”, E . Parilov and M. Potasek, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B, Vol. 23, 1894, (Sep. 2006)
– Selected for publication in Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Vol. 5, No. 10 (Oct. 2006)
– Presented at AFOSR Workshop on Nonlinear Optics, ACMS, Tucson, AZ (Oct. 2006)

Invited paper and best paper award: “Optical Switching for Novel High Bandwidth Optical Networks”, M. J. Potasek, Proc. International Conference on Computer, Communication and Control Technologies CCCT ’03 and the 9th International Conference on Information Systems Analysis and Synthesis ISAS ’03, vol. VI, eds. H. W. Chu, J. Ferrer, D. Reisis and E. Hansen, July 31- Aug. 1-2, 2003, Orlando, FL, pp. 315-320.

Invited paper: “All-Optical Switching for High Bandwidth Optical Networks”, M. J. Potasek, Optical Networks Magazine, vol. 3, pp. 30-43 (2002).

Invited Book Chapter: “High Bandwidth Optical Networks and Communications”, M. J. Potasek, Photodetectors and Fiber Optics, ed. Nalwa, Academic Press, Ch. 7, pp. 459-543, Academic Press, New York, 2001.

Special issue: “Investigation of Nonlinear Ocular Media using Femtosecond Laser Pulses”, M.J. Potasek and A.E. Paul, Lasers and Noncoherent Ocular Effects: Epidemiology, Prevention and Treatment, vol.2974, pp.66-74 (1997).