Steve Blair

Steve Blair received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1998. He has been an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Utah since then. His research interests include slow-light nonlinear optics, nanoscale photonics, and real-time molecular detection arrays.

Biography Updated on 19 October 2004

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Convective flow effects on DNA biosensors
    Biosensors and Bioelectronics, vol. 22, no. 9-10, pp. 2192–2198, 2007
  2. Limitations on nonlinear pulse propagation in coupled-resonator slow-light waveguides
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 7, p. 3922, 2007
  3. Competitive displacement: A sensitive and selective method for the detection of unlabeled molecules
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 8, p. 4390, 2007
  4. Microresonator-enhanced Raman amplification
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 23, no. 6, p. 1117, 2006
  5. Intensity-tunable group delay using stimulated Raman scattering in silicon slow-light waveguides
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 3, p. 1064, 2006
  6. Competitive Displacement of DNA during Surface Hybridization
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 92, no. 1, pp. L10–L12, 2006
  7. Variational Approach to Orthogonally-polarized Optical Soliton Interaction with Cubic and Quintic Nonlinearities
    Physica Scripta, vol. 59, no. 5, pp. 365–373, 2006
  8. Effects of fill fraction on the capture efficiency of nanoscale molecular transducers
    Nanotechnology, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 2442–2448, 2006
  9. Effect of Vertical Mode Matching on Defect Resonances in One-Dimensional Photonic Crystal Slabs
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1456–1461, 2006
  10. Enhanced Fluorescence Transduction Properties of Metallic Nanocavity Arrays
    IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 778–784, 2005
  11. Second-harmonic generation from an array of sub-wavelength metal apertures
    Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. S118–S123, 2005
  12. Engineering the nonlinear phase shift with multistage autoregressive moving-average optical filters
    Applied Optics, vol. 44, no. 13, p. 2564, 2005
  13. DSP Approach to the Design of Nonlinear Optical Devices
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 10, pp. 1485–1497, 2005
  14. A Competitive Kinetic Model of Nucleic Acid Surface Hybridization in the Presence of Point Mutants
    Biophysical Journal, vol. 90, no. 3, pp. 831–840, 2005
  15. Enhanced four-wave mixing via photonic bandgap coupled defect resonances
    Optics Express, vol. 13, no. 10, p. 3868, 2005
  16. Nonlinearity enhancement in finite coupled-resonator slow-light waveguides
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 15, p. 3353, 2004
  17. Fluorescence transmission through 1-D and 2-D periodic metal films
    Optics Express, vol. 12, no. 16, p. 3686, 2004
  18. Biosensing based upon molecular confinement in metallic nanocavity arrays
    Nanotechnology, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 1368–1374, 2004
  19. Fluorescence enhancement from an array of subwavelength metal apertures
    Optics Letters, vol. 28, no. 7, p. 507, 2003
  20. Engineering the nonlinear phase shift
    Optics Letters, vol. 28, no. 20, p. 1945, 2003
  21. Selected Properties of Parallel Strand Lumber Made from Southern Pine and Yellow-Poplar
    Holzforschung, vol. 57, no. 2, pp. 207–212, 2003
  22. Self-focusing of narrow one-dimensional beams in photonic microcavity arrays
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 20, no. 7, p. 1520, 2003
  23. Nonlinear phase shift of cascaded microring resonators
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 20, no. 10, p. 2125, 2003
  24. Beyond the absorption-limited nonlinear phase shift with microring resonators
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 5, p. 357, 2002
  25. Nonlinear sensitivity enhancement with one-dimensional photonic bandgap microcavity arrays
    Optics Letters, vol. 27, no. 8, p. 613, 2002
  26. Localized multi-dimensional optical pulses in non-resonant quadratic materials
    Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, vol. 56, no. 6, pp. 511–519, 2001
  27. Anomalous loss scaling in periodically absorbing media
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 18, no. 12, p. 1943, 2001
  28. Resonant-Enhanced Evanescent-Wave Fluorescence Biosensing with Cylindrical Optical Cavities
    Applied Optics, vol. 40, no. 4, p. 570, 2001
  29. Nonparaxial one-dimensional spatial solitons
    Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, vol. 10, no. 3, p. 570, 2000
  30. Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 30, no. 7/10, pp. 697–737, 1998
  31. Multi-dimensional pulse propagation in non-resonant materials
    Physics Letters A, vol. 236, no. 5-6, pp. 520–524, 1997