Roberto Paiella

Honors, Awards, and Editorships

• Vice Chair, IEEE Laser and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), New England Chapter
• Senior Member, IEEE
• 2008 BU Office of Technology Development Ignition Award

Classes Taught

• EK307 Electric Circuit Theory
• EC560 Introduction to Photonics
• EC577
• EC591 Photonics Lab I
• EC700 Advanced Special Topics

Research Interests

• device physics and applications of semiconductor quantum structures
• optoelectronic devices based on group-III nitride semiconductors
• terahertz photonics
• plasmonics and related optoelectronic device applications
• novel device concepts and circuit architectures for ultrafast all-optical information processing

Selected Publications

• K. Driscoll, Y. Liao, A. Bhattacharyya, L. Zhou, D. J. Smith, T. D. Moustakas, and R. Paiella, “Optically Pumped Intersubband Emission of Short-Wave Infrared Radiation with GaN/AlN Quantum Wells,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 94, art. no. 081120, 2009.
• Y. Li, A. Bhattacharyya, C. Thomidis, T. D. Moustakas, and R. Paiella, “Ultrafast All-Optical Switching with Low Saturation Energy via Intersubband Transitions in GaN/AlN Quantum-Well Waveguides,” Opt. Express, vol. 15, pp. 17922-17927, 2007.
• K. Driscoll and R. Paiella, “Silicon-Based Injection Lasers Using Electronic Intersubband Transitions in the L Valleys,” Appl. Phys. Lett., vol. 89, art. no. 191110, 2006.
• F. Capasso, R. Paiella, R. Martini, R. Colombelli, C. Gmachl, T. L. Myers, M. S. Taubman, R. M. Williams, C. G. Bethea, K. Unterrainer, H. Y. Hwang, D. L. Sivco, A. Y. Cho, A. M. Sergent, H. C. Liu, and E. A. Whittaker, “Quantum Cascade Lasers: Ultrahigh-Speed Operation, Optical Wireless Communication, Narrow Linewidth, and Far-Infrared Emission,” IEEE J. Quantum Electron., vol. 38, pp. 511-532, 2002.
• R. Paiella, F. Capasso, C. Gmachl, D. L. Sivco, J. N. Baillargeon, A. L. Hutchinson, A. Y. Cho, and H. C. Liu, “Self-Mode-Locking of Quantum Cascade Lasers with Giant Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities,” Science, vol. 290, pp. 1739-1742, 2000.