2013

	72- R. Chriki, A. Yanai, J. Shappir, and U. Levy, "Enhanced efficiency of thin film solar cells using a shifted dual grating plasmonic structure," Opt. Express 21, A382-A391 (2013).
	71- L. Stern, B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, and U. Levy, "Nanoscale light-matter interactions in atomic cladding waveguides", Nature Comm. 4, 1548 (2013).
	70- G. Lerman and U. Levy, "Pin Cushion Plasmonic Device for Polarization Beam Splitting, Focusing, and Beam Position Estimation", Nano Lett., (2013).
	69- J. Bar-David, G. M. Lerman, L. Stern, N. Mazurski, and U. Levy, "Generation of a periodic array of radially polarized Plasmonic focal spots," Opt. Express 21, 3746-3755 (2013).

2012

	68- I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, J. Khurgin, J. Shappir, and U. Levy, "Waveguide based compact silicon Schottky photodetector with enhanced responsivity in the telecom spectral band," Opt. Express 20, 28594-28602 (2012).
	67- L. Stern and U. Levy, "Transmission and time delay properties of an integrated system consisting of atomic vapor cladding on top of a micro ring resonator," Opt. Express 20, 28082-28093 (2012).
	66- A. Yanai and U. Levy, "Radiation of a uniformly moving line charge in a zero-index metamaterial and other periodic media," Opt. Express 20, 18515-18524 (2012).
	65- Y. Sebbag, I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, T. Nachmias, O. Yoshaei, M. Kabla, S. E. Meltzer, and U. Levy, "Bistability in silicon microring resonator based on strain induced by a piezoelectric lead zirconate titanate thin film," Appl. Phys. Lett, 100, 141107 (2012).
	64- L. Stern, I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, and U. Levy, "Frequency Locked Micro Disk Resonator for real time and precise monitoring of refractive index," Opt. Lett. 37, 1313-1315 (2012).
	63- C. L. C. Smith, B. Desiatov, I. Goykmann, I. Fernandez-Cuesta, U. Levy, and A. Kristensen, "Plasmonic V-groove waveguides with Bragg grating filters via nanoimprint lithography," Opt. Express 20, 5696-5706 (2012).
	62- A. Yanai, M. Orenstein, and U. Levy, "Giant resonance absorption in ultra-thin metamaterial periodic structures," Opt. Express 20, 3693-3702 (2012).
	61- B. Desiatov , I. Goykhman, and U. Levy, "Parabolic tapered photonic crystal cavity in silicon," Appl. Phys. Lett, 100, 041112 (2012).

2011

	60- G. M. Lerman, M. Grajower, A. Yanai, and U. Levy, "Light transmission through a circular metallic grating under broadband radial and azimuthal polarization illumination," Opt. Lett. 36, 3972-3974 (2011).
	59- A. Einat and U. Levy, "Analysis of the optical force in the Micro Ring Resonator," Opt. Express 19, 20405-20419 (2011).
	58- B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, and U. Levy, "Plasmonic nanofocusing of light in an integrated silicon photonics platform," Opt. Express 19, 13150-13157 (2011).
	57- L. Stern, B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, G. M. Lerman, and U. Levy, "Near field phase mapping exploiting intrinsic oscillations of aperture NSOM probe," Opt. Express 19, 12014-12020 (2011).
	56- I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, J. Khurgin, J. Shappir, and U. Levy, "Locally Oxidized Silicon Surface-Plasmon Schottky Detector for Telecom Regime," Nano Lett. 11, (2011). (also highlighted in Nature Photonics)
	55- P. Ginzburg, A. Nevet, N. Berkovitch, A. Normatov, G. M. Lerman, A. Yanai, U. Levy, and M. Orenstein, "Plasmonic Resonance Effects for Tandem Receiving-Transmitting Nanoantennas," Nano Lett. 11, 220-224 (2011).

2010

	54- G. Lerman, L. Stern, and U. Levy, "Generation and tight focusing of hybridly polarized vector beams," Opt. Express 18, 27650-27657 (2010).
	53- Y. Zuta, I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, and U. Levy, "On-chip switching of a silicon nitride micro-ring resonator based on digital microfluidics platform," Opt. Express 18, 24762-24769 (2010). (media: )
	52- I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, and U. Levy, "Experimental demonstration of locally oxidized hybrid silicon-plasmonic waveguide" Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 141106 (2010).
	51- I. Goykhman, B. Desiatov, and U. Levy, "Ultrathin silicon nitride microring resonator for biophotonic applications at 970 nm wavelength" Appl. Phys. Lett. 97, 081108 (2010).
	50- B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, and U. Levy, "Demonstration of submicron square-like silicon waveguide using optimized LOCOS process," Opt. Express 18, 18592-18597 (2010).
	49- A. Yanai and U. Levy, "Tunability of reflection and transmission spectra of two periodically corrugated metallic plates, obtained by control of the interactions between plasmonic and photonic modes," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 1523-1529 (2010).
	48- A. Normatov, P. Ginzburg, N. Berkovitch, G. Lerman, A. Yanai, U. Levy, and M. Orenstein, "Efficient coupling and field enhancement for the nano-scale: plasmonic needle," Opt. Express 18, 14079-14086 (2010).
	47- G. Lerman, A. Yanai, N. Ben-Yosef, and U. Levy, "Demonstration of an elliptical plasmonic lens illuminated with radially-like polarized field," Opt. Express 18, 10871-10877 (2010).
	46- U. Levy, B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman, T. Nachmias, A. Ohayon, and S. E. Meltzer, "Design, fabrication, and characterization of circular Dammann gratings based on grayscale lithography," Opt. Lett. 35, 880-882 (2010).

2009

	45- G. Lerman, and U. Levy, "Radial polarization interferometer," Opt. Express 17, 23234-23246 (2009). (also highlighted in Laser Focus World)
	44-  B. Desiatov, I. Goykhman and U. Levy, “Nanoscale Mode Selector in Silicon Waveguide for on Chip Nanofocusing Applications”, Nano Lett. 9, 3381-3386 (2009).
	43- A. Yanai and U. Levy, "The role of short and long range surface plasmons for plasmonic focusing applications," Opt. Express 17, 14270-14280 (2009).
	42- G. Lerman, Y. Lilach, and U. Levy, "Demonstration of spatially inhomogeneous vector beams with elliptical symmetry," Opt. Lett. 34, 1669-1671 (2009).
	41-  G. Lerman, A. Yanai and U. Levy, “Demonstration of Nanofocusing by the use of Plasmonic Lens Illuminated with Radially Polarized Light”, Nano Lett. 9, 2139-2143 (2009).
	40- R. Shamai and U. Levy, "On chip tunable micro ring resonator actuated by electrowetting," Opt. Express 17, 1116-1125 (2009).
	39- A. Yanai and U. Levy, "Plasmonic focusing with a coaxial structure illuminated by radially polarized light," Opt. Express 17, 924-932 (2009).

2008

38- A. Groisman, S. Zamek, K. Campbell, L. Pang, U. Levy, and Y. Fainman, "Optofluidic 1X4 switch," Opt. Express 16, 13499-13508 (2008).

37- G. Lerman and U. Levy, "Generation of a radially polarized light beam using space-variant subwavelength gratings at 1064 nm," Opt. Lett. 33, 2782-2784 (2008).

36- D. Goldring, U. Levy, I. Dotan, A. Tsukernik, M. Oksman, I. Rubin, Y. David, and D. Mendlovic, “Experimental measurement of quality factor enhancement using slow light modes in one dimensional photonic crystal,” Opt. Express 16, 5585-5595 (2008).

35- G. Lerman and U. Levy, “Effect of radial polarization and apodization on spot size under tight focusing conditions,” Opt. Express 16, 4567-4581 (2008).

34- U. Levy and R. Shamai, “Tunable Optofluidic devices,” (invited review paper) Microfluidics and Nanofluidics 4, 97-105 (2008).

2007

33- M. Abashin, U. Levy, K. Ikeda and Y. Fainman “Effects produced by metal coated near field probes on the performance of Silicon waveguides and resonators,” Opt. Lett 32, 2602-2604 (2007).

32- G. Lerman and U. Levy “Tight focusing of spatially variant vector optical fields with elliptical symmetry of linear polarization” Opt. Lett 32, 2194-2196 (2007).

31- U. Levy, M. Abashin, K. Ikeda, A. Krishnamoorthy, J. Cunningham and Y. Fainman, “Inhomogeneous Dielectric Metamaterials with Space-Variant Polarizability,” Phy. Rev. Lett, 98, 243901-243904 (2007).

30- D. Goldring, U. Levy, and D. Mendlovic, “Highly dispersive micro-ring resonator based on one dimensional photonic crystal waveguide – Design and analysis,” Opt. Express, 15, 3156- 3168 (2007)

2006

29 – K. Campbell, U. Levy, Y. Fainman and A. Groisman, “Pressure-driven devices with lithographically fabricated composite epoxy-elastomer membranes,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 89, 154105 (2006).

28 – M. Abashin, P. Tortora, I. Märki, U. Levy, W. Nakagawa, L. Vaccaro, H.P. Herzig, and Y. Fainman, “Near-field characterization of propagating optical modes in photonic crystal waveguides,” Opt. Express, 14, 1643-1657 (2006).

27 – U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, S. Mookherjea and Y. Fainman, “On-chip microfluidic tuning of an optical microring resonator,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 88, 111107-111109 (2006). Also highlighted in Nature, vol 442 (see Fig. 3, pp. 383).

26- C.H. Tsai, U Levy, L Pang and Y. Fainman, “Fabrication and characterization of GaAs-based space-variant inhomogeneous media for polarization control at 10.6μm,” Appl. Opt. 45, 1777- 1784 (2006).

2005

25 – L. Pang, U. Levy, K. Campbell, A. Groisman, and Y. Fainman, “A set of two orthogonal adaptive cylindrical lenses in a monolith elastomer device,” Opt. Express 13, 9003-9013 (2005).

24- P. Tortora, M. Abashin, I. Märki, W. Nakagawa, L. Vaccaro, M. Salt, H. P. Herzig, U. Levy, and Y. Fainman, “Observation of amplitude and phase in ridge and photonic crystal waveguides operating at 1.55 μm using heterodyne scanning near-field optical microscopy,” Opt. Lett. 30, 2885-2887 (2005).

23- C-H - Chen, L. Pang, C-H Tsai, U. Levy and S. Fainman, “A compact and integrated TM-pass waveguide polarizer design with a Mach-Zehnder structure,” Opt. Express 13, 5347-5352 (2005).

22 – U. Levy, H. C. Kim, C. H. Tsai and Y. Fainman, “Near IR demonstration of computergenerated holograms implemented using subwavelength gratings with space-variant orientation,” Opt. Lett., 30, 2089-2091 (2005).

21 - D. Goldring, E. Alperovich, U. Levy and D. Mendlovic, “Analysis of waveguide-splitter junction in high-index Silicon-On-Insulator waveguides,” Opt. Express, 13, 2931-2940 (2005).

20 - S. Mookherjea and U. Levy, “Analysis of longitudinal field reflection in dielectric gratings,” Phys. Rev. E, 71, 056609:1-5 (2005).

19 – L. Pang, M. Zezhad, U. Levy, C. H. Tsai and Y. Fainam, “Fabrication of subwavelength gratings in GaAs using SU8 mask,” Appl. Opt. 44, 2377-2381 (2005).

18 - U. Levy, M. Nezhad, H. C. Kim, C. H. Tsai, L. Pang and Y. Fainman, “Implementation of graded index medium using subwavelength structures with graded fill factor,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A. 22, 724-733 (2005).

2004

17 - K Campbell, A. Groisman, U. Levy, L. Pang, S. Mookherjea, D. Psaltis and Y. Fainman, “A microfluidic 2x2 optical switch,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 6119-6121 (2004).

16 - U. Levy, C. H. Tsai, H. C. Kim and Y. Fainman, “Design, fabrication and characterization of subwavelength computer-generated holograms for spot array generation,” Opt. Express, 12, 5345 – 5355 (2004).

15 – U. Levy, C. H. Tsai, L. Pang and Y. Fainman, “Engineering space-variant inhomogeneous media for polarization control,” Opt. Lett., 29, 1718-1720 (2004).

14 – U. Levy and Y. Fainman, “Dispersion properties of inhomogeneous nanostructures,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 21, 881-889 (2004).

13 - U. Levy, E. Marom and D. Mendlovic, “Thin element approximation for the analysis of blazed gratings: simplified model and validity limits, ” Opt. Commun., 229, 11-21 (2004).

2000-2003

12 – D. Elkind, Z. Zalevsky, U. Levy and D. Mendlovic, “Optical Transfer Function Shaping and Depth of Focus by using a Phase Only Filter,” Appl. Opt., 42, 1925-1931 (2003).

11- Z. Zalevsky, D. Mendlovic, E. Marom, N. Cohen, E. Goldenberg, N.Konforti, A. Shemer, G. Shabtay, U. Levy and Roy Appelman, “Ultrafast All-Optical Switching,” J. Opt. Network., 1, 170- 183, (2002).

10 - U. Levy, E. Marom and D. Mendlovic, “Simultaneous multicolor image formation with a single diffractive optical element,” Opt. Lett., 26, 1149-1151 (2001).

9- U. Levy, Y. Shrot, D. Mendlovic and E. Marom, “On-axis centro-symmetric computer generated holograms,” Appl. Opt., 40, 5928-5937 (2001).

8- Z. Zalevsky, D. Mendlovic, U. Levy and G. Shabtay, “A New Optical Random Coding Technique for Security Systems,” Opt. Commun., 180, 15-20 (2000).

7- G. Shabtay, Z. Zalevsky, U. Levy and D. Mendlovic, “Optimal synthesis of 3-D complex amplitude distributions,” Opt. Lett., 25, 363-365 (2000).

6- U. Levy D. Mendlovic and E. Marom, “Efficiency analysis of diffractive lenses,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A., 18, 86-93 (2001).

1997-2000

5- U. Levy, D. Mendlovic, Z. Zalevsky, G. Shabtay, and E. Marom, “Novel iterative algorithm for determining optimal beam profiles in a 3-D space,” Appl. Opt. 38, 6732-6736 (1999).

4- U. Levy, N. Cohen and D. Mendlovic, “Analytic approach for optimal quantization of diffractive optical elements,” App. Opt., 38, 5527-5532 (1999).

3- U. Levy, E. Marom, D. Mendlovic “Some Modifications of Detour Phase Computer Generated Holograms,” Appl. Opt., 37, 3044-3052 (1998).

2- U. Levy, D. Mendlovic, Z. Zalevsky, “On-Axis Phase Only Computer Generated Holograms based on minimal etching process,” J.Mod.Opt., 45, 1437-1449 (1998).

1- D. Mendlovic, G. Shabtay, U. Levy, Z. Zalevsky, E. Marom “Encoding Techniques for the design of zero order (on Axis) Fraunhofer computer-generated holograms," Appl. Opt., 36, 8427- 8434 (1997).

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