Research in my group - the Laboratory for Nano and Micro Photonics (LaNMP)  can be best summarized as exploration of light-matter interaction at the nano and micron sale. The main research focus areas are development of
(i) light confining structures such as microcavities and waveguides and
(ii) artificially engineered optical materials such as metamaterials and hybrid (Organic/Inorganic) nanocomposites.

These focus areas are motivated by the quest to develop high efficiency classical and non-classical light sources, enhanced nonlinear optical devices and small footprint photonic integrated circuits.
 
Some of the ongoing projects include:
- Cavity QED using colloidal quantum dots
- Quantum optics using metamaterials
- Organic-Inorganic hybrid nanocomposites for enhanced nonlinearity
- Metal nanoparticle composites
- Photonic integrated circuits using colloidal quantum dots

More details about my research group can be found at LANMP.ORG

Selected Publications

"Topological transitions in metamaterials," H. Krishnamoorthy, Z. Jacob, I. Kretzschmar, E. Narimanov and V. M. Menon, Science 336, 205 (2012). 
Read press coverage in Physorg, Nanowerk

"Probing Y-shaped DNA structure with time resolved FRET," S. Chatterjee, J. B. Lee, N. Valappil, D. Luo, and V. M. Menon, Nanoscale 4, 1568 (2012). 

"Flexible Optics: Recent developments in molecular gels," G. John, S. Jadhav, V. M. Menon, and V. T. John, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 51, 1760 (2012). 

“Plasmon resonance induced enhancement of reflection band in a one-dimensional metal nanocomposite photonic crystal,” S. Husaini, L. Deych and V. M. Menon, Optics  Letters 38, 1368 (2011).

"Resonant enhancement of magneto-optical polarization conversion in microdisk resonators,” L. Deych, C. Meriles, and V. M. Menon, Appl. Phys. Lett. 99, 241107 (2011).

“Investigating the distance limit of metal nanoparticle based spectroscopic ruler,” S. Chatterjee, J. B. Lee, N. Valappil, D. Luo, and V. M. Menon, Biomedical Optics Express 2, 1727 (2011).

"Towards polaritonic logic circuits," V. M. Menon, L. I . Deych, A. Lisyansky, Nature Photonics  4, 345 (2010).

“Integrated Photonics using Colloidal Quantum Dots,” V. M. Menon, SPIE Newsroom, August 2010,  DOI: 10.1117/2.1201007.003063

"Exciton Lattice polaritons in multiple quantum well based photonic crystals,"D. Goldberg, L. Deych, A. Lisyansky, Z. Shi, V. Tokranov, M. Yakimov, S. Oktyabrsky, and V. M. Menon, Nature Photonics 3, 662 (2009).

"Luminescence from a Fibonacci photonic crystal," V. Passias, Z Shi, N. Valappil, L. Deych, A. Lisyansky, and V. M. Menon,  Optics Express 17, 6636 (2009).

"Organic photonic bandgap microcavities doped with semiconductor nanocrystals for room-temperature single photon sources on demand,”  S. G. Lukishova, L. J. Bissell, V. M. Menon, N. Valappil, M. A. Hahn, C. M. Evans, B. Zimmerman, T. D. Krauss, R. W. Boyd, C. R. Stroud, Jr,,  Journal of Modern Optics 56, 167 (2009).

"Lasing from quantum dots in a spin-coated flexible microcavity," V. M. Menon, M. Luberto, N. valappil, S. Chatterjee, Optics Express 16, 19535 (2008).

"Strong coupling and hybridization of Frenkel and Wannier Mott excitons in an organic inorganic hybrid microcavity," R. J. Holmes, S. Kena-Cohen, V. M. Menon, and S. R. Forrest, Phys. Rev. B, 74, 235211 (2006).

"Light induced symmetry breaking and related giant enhancement of nonlinear properties in CdZnTe:V crystals," S. Shwartz, R. Weil, M. Segev, E. Lakin, E. Zolotoyabko, V. M. Menon, S. R. Forrest, and U. El-Hanany, Opt. Express 14, 9385 (2006).

"Photonic integration using asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) technology - II. Devices, V. M. Menon, F. Xia, and S. R. Forrest," IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronic, 11, 30-42 (2005).

"Photonic integration using asymmetric twin waveguide (ATG) technology - I. Concepts and Theory," F. Xia, V. M. Menon, and S. R. Forrest, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 11, 17-29 (2005).

"Control of Q-factor and critical coupling in microring resonators through integration of semiconductor optical amplifier," V.M. Menon, W. Tong, and S. R. Forrest, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 16, 1343-1345 (2004).

Complete List of Publications, Invited Talks, and Patents can be found here: CV

05/01-05/02: Lucent-Bell Labs Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Photonics, Princeton University

2001: Ph.D. Physics, University of Massachusetts

1995: M.Sc. Physics, University of Hyderabad, India.

Dr. Menon joined the Department of Physics at Queens College in Fall 2004 as part of the CUNY Photonics Initiative. Prior to joining QC- CUNY he was a research staff member at Princeton University (2003-04). He joined Prof. Stephen R. Forrest's group at Princeton as the Lucent Bell Labs Post Doctoral Fellow in Photonics in 2001. He received his MS in Physics from the University of Hyderabad, India in 1995 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Massachusetts in 2001. His doctoral work focused on developing far infrared quantum cascade emitters. He is a member of the CUNY photonics initiative and the New York State Center for Advanced Technology on Photonic Applications at the City University.

Vinod M. Menon
SB B204; Department of Physics
Queens College of CUNY
Flushing, NY 11367
Phone: (718) 997-3147
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Optoelectronics

Nano and Micro Photonics (Graduate Center)