Published & in press.

Peer-reviewed papers, in reverse chronological order.

2025

On-chip multi-timescale spatiotemporal optical synchronization

L. Xu, M. J. Mehrabad, C. J. Flower, G. Moille, A. Restelli, D. G. S. Forero, Y. Chembo, S. Mittal, K. Srinivasan, M. Hafezi

Science Advances 11, eadw7696 co-first author

Led experimental demonstration and theoretical analysis of multi-timescale mode-locking.

2025

Sub-wavelength optical lattice in 2D materials

S. Sarkar, M. J. Mehrabad, D. G. S. Forero, L. Gu, C. J. Flower, L. Xu, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, S. Park, H. Jang, Y. Zhou, M. Hafezi

Science Advances 11, eadv2023 contributing author

Contributed to the design of grating couplers based on 3D FDTD simulations.

media JQI News
2024

Observation of topological frequency combs

C. J. Flower, M. J. Mehrabad, L. Xu, G. Moille, D. G. S. Forero, O. Örsel, G. Bahl, Y. Chembo, K. Srinivasan, S. Mittal, M. Hafezi

Science 384 (6702), 1356–1361 co-first author

Led theoretical simulations and the device search across 217 fabricated devices.

media Phys.org

Submitted / under review.

Manuscripts undergoing peer review.

2025

Single-shot realization of 10000-mode octave-spanning artificial gauge fields

L. Xu†*, A. Padhye, S. Sarkar, A. Parhizkar, C. J. Flower, G. Moille, K. Srinivasan, M. Hafezi, M. J. Mehrabad

submitted co-first author · corresponding

Conceived the core idea, built the theoretical model, and led experimental demonstrations.

2025

Quantum metamorphosis: emergence and the breakdown of bulk-edge dichotomy in multiscale systems

M. J. Mehrabad, A. Parhizkar, L. Xu, G. Moille, A. Dutt, D. Englund, K. Srinivasan, D. Leykam, M. Hafezi

submitted co-first author

Built the software framework for quantum metamorphosis and the nonlinear simulations.

In preparation.

Manuscripts being written.

soon

Theory of nested frequency phase matching and harmonic generations

L. Xu, A. Padhye, S. Sarkar, A. Parhizkar, G. Moille, K. Srinivasan, M. Hafezi, M. J. Mehrabad

in prep first author
soon

Poling-free multi-timescale integrated nonlinear optics in lithium niobate

A. Padhye, M. J. Mehrabad, L. Xu, P. Barya, S. Sarkar, et al.

in prep co-first author
soon

Reservoir computing with topological photonic arrays

P. Dolgirev, L. Xu, S. Sarkar, M. J. Mehrabad, M. Hafezi

in prep contributing author

denotes equal contribution. * denotes corresponding author.