Maxim Abashin

Maxim Abashin is a CNST/UMD Postdoctoral Researcher in the CNST Nanofabrication Research Group. He received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Applied Physics and Mathematics from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, and his Ph.D. in Photonics from the University of California, San Diego. His graduate research focused on the characterization of nanophotonic devices using near-field scanning optical microscopy. Maxim is working with Henri Lezec on the implementation and improvement of nanophotonic measurement methods for studying visible-frequency metamaterials, nanoscale optical phenomena, and plasmonic devices. 

• Heterodyne Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy with Spectrally Broad Sources, M. Abashin, K. Ikeda, R. Saperstein, and Y. Fainman, Optics Letters 34, 1327-1329 (2009).
• Effects Produced by Metal-coated Near-field Probes on the Performance of Silicon Waveguides and Resonators , M. Abashin, U. Levy, K. Ikeda, and Y. Fainman, Optics Letters 32, 2602-2604 (2007).
• Near-field Characterization of Propagating Optical Modes in Photonic Crystal Waveguides , M. Abashin, P. Tortora, I. Marki, U. Levy, W. Nakagawa, L. Vaccaro, H. Herzig, and Y. Fainman, Optics Express 14, 1643-1657 (2006).
• Inhomogeneous Dielectric Metamaterials with Space-variant Polarizability, U. Levy, M. Abashin, K. Ikeda, A. Krishnamoorthy, J. E. Cunningham, and Y. Fainman, Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 243901 (2007).