Scientific publications
R. Tufan Erdogan, Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Wouter J. Westerveld, Sophinese Iskander-Rizk, Gerard J. Verbiest, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh, Peter G. Steeneken. Amorphous Silicon-Carbide Photonics for Ultrasound Imaging. arXiv:2507.04353v1 6 Jul 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2507.04353
Hui Wang, Nikita Dmitrievic Orlov, Thomas Descamps, J. W. Niels Los, Val Zwiller, Iman Esmaeil Zadeh. Controlling the recovery time of the superconducting nanowire single-photon detector with a voltage-controlled cryogenic tunable resistor. arXiv:2508.11832 15 August 2025. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2508.11832
Bruno Lopez-Rodriguez, Naresh Sharma, Zizheng Li, Roald van der Kolk, Jasper van der Boom, Thomas Scholte, Jin Chang, Simon Gröblacher, and Iman Esmaeil Zadeh. Magic Silicon Dioxide for Widely Tunable Photonic Integrated Circuits. ACS Photonics 2025 12 (3), 1321-1328, https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.4c01373
Hui Wang, Niels Noordzij, Mischa Mikhailov, Stephan Steinhauer, Thomas Descamps, Eitan Oksenberg, Val Zwiller, and Iman Esmaeil Zadeh. Attojoule Superconducting Thermal Logic and Memories. Nano Letters Article ASAP, 10 March 2025. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c06545
Andres Quiroga, Lorenzo Cortese, Manish Verma, Peter Dannberg, Ilias Tachtsidis, Norbert Danz, Turgut Durduran. On-skin, micro-objective enabled camera module for speckle contrast optical spectroscopy/tomography. bioRxiv 2025.06.12.659250. https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.06.12.659250
Pablo Fernández Esteberena, Lorenzo Cortese, Marta Zanoletti, Giuseppe Lo Presti, Gloria Aranda Velazquez, Sabina Ruiz Janer, Mauro Buttafava, Marco Renna, Laura Di Sieno, Alberto Tosi, Alberto Dalla Mora, Stanislaw Wojtkiewicz, Hamid Dehghani, Sixte de Fraguier, An Nguyen-Dinh, Bogdan Rosinski, Udo M. Weigel, Dibya J. Sarangi, Mattia Squarcia, Felicia A. Hanzu, Davide Contini, Mireia Mora Porta, and Turgut Durduran. Near-infrared diffuse optical characterization of human thyroid using ultrasound-guided hybrid time-domain and diffuse correlation spectroscopies. Biomed. Opt. Express 15, 7035-7055 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.538141
Z. Li, N. Sharma, B. Lopez-Rodriguez, R. van der Kolk, T. Scholte, H Voncken, J. van der Boom, S. Gröblacher, I. Esmaeil Zadeh. Heterogeneous integration of amorphous silicon carbide on thin film lithium niobate. APL Photonics 1 January 2025; 10 (1): 016120. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0228408
N. Sharma et al. Design and validation of a-SiC/SiN hybrid photonic platform for integrated quantum photonics. Mater. Quantum. Technol. 4 035401 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1088/2633-4356/ad7c0e
J.T. Pandayil, N.G. Boetti, D. Janner, T. Durduran, L. Cortese. Proof of concept validation of bioresorbable optical fibers for diffuse correlation spectroscopy. Biomed. Opt. Express 15, 6384-6398 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1364/BOE.540137
L. D. Sieno et al. Oxyhemoglobin measurements using 1064 nm light. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2024). https://doi.org/10.1109/JSTQE.2024.3512776
Los, J. W. N., Sidorova, M., Rodriguez, B. L., Qualm, P., Chang, J., Steinhauer, S., Zwiller, V., Esmaeil Zadeh, I. High-Performance Photon Number Resolving Detectors for 850-950 nm wavelengths. APL Photonics 9, 066101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0204340
Parfentyeva, V., Colombo, L., Lanka, P. et al. Fast time-domain diffuse correlation spectroscopy with superconducting nanowire single-photon detector: system validation and in vivo results. Sci Rep 13, 11982 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-39281-5
presentations
I.E. Zadeh, “Large, high performance superconducting microwire detectors for astronomy”, Stellar Intensity Interferometry Workshop 2025, 13-17 October 2025, Waischenfeld, Germany.
I.E. Zadeh, “Intensity interferometry with a 4-pixels SNSPD system”, Stellar Intensity Interferometry Workshop 2025, 13-17 October 2025, Waischenfeld, Germany.
I.E. Zadeh, “Quantum Photonics from Source to Detector: Hybrid Platforms and SNSPDs”, TW-NL Symposium: Photonics-enabled Quantum Information Processing (PhQIP), 13-16 October 2025, Taipei City, Taiwan.
R. Saathof and I.E. Zadeh, “”Focal plane irradiance statistics for laser downlink beams”, SPIE Sensors + Imaging, 15-18 September 2025, Madrid, Spain.
M. Caldarola. “A Quantum Detector System For Hybrid Time-domain Diffuse Optics”, ISOTT2025, 24-28 August 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece.
X. Li. “Investigating brain oxygenation depth sensitivity profiles with TD-NIRS by using the dual-slope method”, ISOTT2025, 24-28 August 2025, Thessaloniki, Greece.
L. Kobayashi Frisk. “Algorithm for deriving absolute blood flow from reduced speckle contrast data”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
T. Durduran. “Non-invasive intracranial pressure estimation from cerebral blood flow dynamics using wavelet-based deep learning”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
M. Caldarola. “Custom SNSPD For Hybrid Time-Domain Diffuse Optics”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
L. Di Sieno. “Exploring A New Spectral Range For Time-Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
T. Palo. “Characterization and in-vivo DCS measurements with compact 1064 nm laser”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
X. Li. “Can We Accurately Retrieve Oxyhaemoglobin Concentration at 1064nm with TD-NIRS? – A Monte Carlo Simulation Study”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
F. Lange. “Optimizing Deep Tissue Monitoring With Diffuse Optics: Virtual Tools for TD-NIRS and TD-SCOS Development”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
M. Zanoletti. “Monitoring fluid responsiveness using hybrid diffuse optics during passive leg raising maneuver”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
M. Fornasier. “A compact, self-contained module for fast and non-invasive blood flow monitoring”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
J. Martinez-Garcia. “Hybrid diffuse optical monitoring of cerebral vasoreactivity in patients with acute spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
I.G. Tribak. “Validation of a simultaneous cerebral blood flow and electrophysiology monitor for language acquisition in six-month old infants”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
G. Tresanchez. “The TinyBrains prototype – a high-density hybrid diffuse optics tomography system with integrated electroencephalography for functional studies in neonates”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
L. Cortese. “Non-invasive evaluation of microvascular impairment in intensive care patients through near-infrared spectroscopy: the multicenter HEMOCOVID-19 trial”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
C. Fajardo. “Cerebral hemodynamics of idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus patients during Katzman infusion test”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
A. Yaqub. “A miniature sensor board for smarter near-infrared diffuse optical spectroscopy”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
A. Quiroga. “Compact hybrid near-infrared and speckle contrast optical spectroscopy device”, European Conferences on Biomedical Optics (ECBO), 22-26 June 2025, Munich, Germany.
A. Pifferi. “fastMOT project: Overview and update”, Laserlab-Europe General Assembly, 14 May 2025, Didcot, UK.
L. Di Sieno. “New insights for time-domain diffuse optics: instrumentation and approaches”, Photonics West 2025, 26 January 2025, San Francisco, USA.
A. Dalla Mora. “Towards optical radiography: photon-detectors to look inside the body using light”, PD24 (6th International Workshop on new Photon-Detectors), 19-22 November 2024, Vancouver, Canada.
L. Kobayashi Frisk. “Next generation time-domain diffuse optics using superconducting nanowire detectors”, Laserlab-Europe Talk, 16 October 2024, online.
I. Tachtsidis. “Introduction of fastMOT”, 1st Photonics Hellenic Symposium (PHOS), 7-8 October 2024, Heraklion, Greece.
X. Li. “Complete simulation pipeline for TD-NIRS, TD-DCS, and TD-SCOS”, fNIRS 2024 (VIII Biennial Meeting of the Society for functional near-infrared spectroscopy), 11-15 September 2024, Birmingham, UK.
L. Di Sieno. “fastMOT: Enabling Multi-Functional Deep Body Imaging With Time-Domain Diffuse Optical Tomography”, Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics, 7-10 April 2024, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
L. Di Sieno. “Assessing Oxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration by Time Domain Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy at 1064 nm”, Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics, 7-10 April 2024, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA.
T. Durduran. “Adventures in (Neuro-)Critical Care Towards Theranostics”, Optica Biophotonics Congress: Biomedical Optics, 7-10 April 2024, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA4.
L. Di Sieno. “Development and demonstration of cutting-edge technologies for time-domain diffuse optics”, 2023 IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), 12-16 November 2023, Orlando, FL, USA, pp. 1-2, doi: 10.1109/IPC57732.2023.10360741.
A. Pifferi. “fastMOT project as an example for Successful Collaborations of Science & Industry”, Laserlab-Europe Foresight Workshop on Opportunities with laser-based Technologies, 24-26 July 2023, Riga.
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