Selected Publications
 
Selected Publications are listed below.  Links to electronic manuscripts are given for some of the more recent articles.
1. J. E. Sohn, A. F. Garito, K. N. Desai, R. Narang, M. Kuzyk, "Synthesis of Chiral Diacetylene Polymers," Makromol. Chem. 180, 2975 (1979).  
2. M. Kuzyk, R. Norwood, and A. F. Garito, "Dispersion Measurements of the Third-Order Susceptibility of Organic Systems," J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 2, 45 (1985).  
3. K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, and J. E. Sohn, "Nonlinear Optical Processes in Orientationally Ordered Systems: Relationship Between Microscopic and Bulk Susceptibilities," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B4, 968 (1987). Invited  
4. J. D. LeGrange, M. G. Kuzyk, and K. D. Singer, "Effects of Order on Nonlinear Optical Processes in Organic Molecular Materials," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. 150b, 567 (1987). Invited  
5. K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, and J. E. Sohn, "Second Harmonic Generation of Orientationally Ordered Materials," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 4, 78 (1987).  
6. M. G. Kuzyk, J. E. Sohn, and A. F. Garito, "A Model for Solid State X-ray Polymerization," J. Polym. Sci. B, Polym. Phys. Ed. 26, 277 (1988).  
7. K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, R. B. Comizzoli, H. E. Katz, M. L. Schilling, J. E. Sohn, and S. J. Lalama, "Electrooptic Phase Modulation and Second Harmonic Generation in Corona-Poled Polymer Films," Appl. Phys. Lett. 53, 1800 (1988).  
8. C. W. Dirk and M. G. Kuzyk, "The Missing State Analysis: A Method for Determining the Origin of Molecular Nonlinear Optical Properties," Phys. Rev. A 39, 1219 (1989).  
9. M. G. Kuzyk, R. Norwood, J. Wu and A. F. Garito, "Frequency Dependence of the Optical Kerr Effect and Third-Order Electronic Nonlinear-Optical Processes of Organic Liquids," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 154 (1989); Erratum, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 1422 (1989).  
10. M. G. Kuzyk, K. D. Singer, H. E. Zahn, and L. A. King, "Second Order Nonlinear Optical Tensor Properties of Poled Films Under Stress," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6, 742 (1989).  
11. M. G. Kuzyk and C. W. Dirk, "Quick and simple Method to Measure Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties of Dye-Doper Polymer Films," Appl. Phys. Lett. 54, 1628 (1989).  
12. J. E. Sohn, K. D. Singer, M. G. Kuzyk, W. R. Holland, H. E. Katz, C. W. Dirk, and M. L. Schilling, "Materials for Nonlinear Optics—Orientationally Ordered Polymer Films," Polm. En. Sci. 29, 1205 (1989).  
13. C. W. Dirk and M. G. Kuzyk, "Damping Corrections and the Calculation of Optical Nonlinearities in Organic Molecules, Phys. Rev. B 41, 1636 (1990).  
14. M. G. Kuzyk, R. C. Moore, and L. A. King, "Second-Harmonic-Generation Measurements of the Elastic Constant of a Molecule in Polymer Matrix," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 7, 64 (1990).  
15. C. W. Dirk and M. G. Kuzyk, "Squarylium Dye-Doped Polymer Systems as Quadratic Electrooptic Materials," Chem. of Materials 2, 5 (1990).  
16. K. D. Singer, W. R. Holland, M. G. Kuzyk, G. L. Wolk, and P. A. Cahill, "Guest-Host Polymers for Nonlinear Optics," Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst 189, 123 (1990).  
17. M. G. Kuzyk, C. W. Dirk, and J. E. Sohn, "Mechanisms of Quadratic Electrooptic Modulation of Dye-Doped Polymer Systems," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 5, 842 (1990).  
18. M. G. Kuzyk and C. W. Dirk, "Effects of Centrosymmetry on the Nonresonant Electronic Third-Order Optical Susceptibility," Phys. Rev. A 41, 5098 (1990).  
19. M. C. Gabriel, N. H. Whitaker, Jr., C. W. Dirk, M. G. Kuzyk, and M. Thakur, "Measurement of Ultrafast Optical Nonlinearities using a Modified Sagnac Interferometer," Optics Letters 16, 1334 (1991).  
20. M. G. Kuzyk, U. C. Paek, and C. W. Dirk, "Dye-Doped Polymer Fibers for Nonlinear Optics," Appl. Phys. Lett. 59, 902 (1991).  
21. C. W. Dirk, L. T. Cheng, and M. G. Kuzyk, "A Simplified Three-Level Model for Describing the Molecular Third-Order Nonlinear-Optical Susceptibility," Int. J. Quant. Chem. 43, 27 (1992). Invited  
22. M. P. Andrews, M. G. Kuzyk, and F. Ghebremichael, "Local Field Enhancement of the Cubic Optical Nonlinearity in Fractal Silver Nanosphere/Poly (methylmethacrylate) Composites," Nonlinear Optics 6, 103 (1993).  
23. C. W. Dirk, N. Caballerro, and Mark G. Kuzyk, "The Quadratic Electro-optic Effect in Molecules with Large Optical Hyperpolarizabilities," Chemistry of Materials 5, 733 (1993).  
24. F. Ghebremichael, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, "Optical Second Harmonic Generation Studies of Low Temperature Transitions in Dye-Doped Polymers," Nonlinear Optics 6, 123 (1993).  
25. D. A. Cleary, R. D. Willett, F. Ghebremichael, and M.G. Kuzyk, "Temperature Dependent Second Harmonic Generation in Tin Phosphorus Sulfides," Solid State Communications 88, 39 (1993).  
26. C. Poga, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, "Quadratic Electroabsorption Studies of Third-Order Susceptibility Mechanisms in Dye-Doped Polymers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 11, 80 (1994).  
27. K. Zimmerman, F. Ghebremichael, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, "Electric-Field-Induced Polarization Current Studies in Guest-Host Polymers," J. Appl. Phys. 75, 1267 (1994).  
28. R. A. Norwood, M. G. Kuzyk, R. A. Keosian, "Electro-optic Tensor Ratio Determination of Side-Chain Copolymers with Electro-optic Interferometry," J. Appl. Phys. 75, 1869 (1994).  
29. D. J. Welker and M. G. Kuzyk, "Photomechanical Stabilization in a Polymer Fiber-Based All-Optical Circuit," Appl. Phys. Lett. 64, 809 (1994).  
30. M. G. Kuzyk, D. J. Welker, and S. Zhou, "Photomechanical Effects in Polymer Optical Fibers," Nonlinear Optics 10, 409 (1995).  
31. C. W. Dirk, S. Devanathan, M. Velez, F. Ghebremichael, and M. G. Kuzyk, "Second Harmonic Generation Measurements of the Reorientational Elastic Response of a Dye Molecule in a Random Co-Polymer of Styrene and Methyl Methacrylate," Macromolecules 27, 6167 (1994).  
32. C. Poga, T. M. Brown, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, "Characterization of the Excited States of a Squaraine Molecule with Quadratic Electroabsorption Spectrocopy," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12, 531 (1995).  
33. F. Ghebremichael, C. Poga, and M. G. Kuzyk, "Optical Second Harmonic of Conductor Interfaces," Appl. Phys. Lett. 66, 139 (1995).  
34. F. Ghebremichael and M. G. Kuzyk, "Optical Second Harmonic Generation as a Probe of the Temperature Dependence of the Distribution of Sites in a Poly (methyl methacrylate) Polymer Doped with Disperse Red 1 Azo Dye," J. Appl. Phys. 77, 2896 (1995).  
35. D. J. Welker and M. G. Kuzyk, "Optical and Mechanical Multistability in a Dye-Doped Polymer Fiber Fabry-Perot Waveguide," Applied Phys. Lett. 66, 2792 (1995).  
36. D. W. Garvey, Q. Li, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, "Sagnac Interferometric Intensity Dependent Refractive Index Measurements of Polymer Optical Fiber," Optics Letters 21, 104 (1996).  
37. D. J. Welker and M. G. Kuzyk, "All-optical Devices in Polymer Optical Fiber," Nonlinear Optics 15, 435 (1996).  
38. D. W. Garvey, M. G. Kuzyk, C. W. Dirk, S. Martinez, H. Selnau Jr., P. Craig, and L. Green, "Progress Towards Making an All-optical Switch in Polymer Optical Fibers," Nonlinear Optics 15, 455 (1996).  
39. D. W. Garvey, K. Zimmerman, P. Young, J. Tostenrude, J. S. Townsend, M. Lobel, M. Dayton, R. Wittorf, M. G. Kuzyk, J. Sunick, and C. W. Dirk, "Single-mode Nonlinear-Optical Polymer Fibers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 13, 2017 (1996).  
40. D. S. Welker and M. G. Kuzyk, "All-Optical Switching in a Dye-Doped Polymer Fiber Fabry-Perot Waveguide," Applied Phys. Lett. 69, 1835 (1996).  
41. D. J. Welker and M. G. Kuzyk, "Suppressing vibrations in a sheet with a Fabry-Perot photomechanical device," Oppt. Lett. 22, 417 (1997).  Paper
42. F. Ghebremichael, M. G. Kuzyk and H. Lackritz, "Nonlinear Optics and Polymer Physics," Polymer Reviews 22, 1147 (1997).  
43. S. Vigil, Z. Zhou, B. Canfield, J. Tostenrude, and M. G. Kuzyk, "Dual-core single-mode nonlinear fiber coupler," JOSA B 15, 895 (1998).  Paper
44. K. Mathis, M. G. Kuzyk, and C. W. Dirk, ‘The mechanisms of the nonlinear optical properties of squarain dyes in PMMA polymer," JOSA B 15, 871 (1998). Paper
45. F. Ghebremichael, M. G. Kuzyk, K. D. Singer & J. Andrews, "Relationship Between the Second-Order Microscopic and Macroscopic Nonlinear Optical Susceptibilities of Poled Dye-Doped Polymers," J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 15, 2294 (1998). Paper 
46. D. J. Welker, J. Tostenrude, D. W. Garvey, B. K. Canfield & M. G. Kuzyk, "Fabrication and characterization of single-mode electro-optic polymer optical fiber," Optics Letters 23, 1826 (1998). Paper
47. R. Kruhlak and M. G. Kuzyk, "Side Illumination Fluorescence (SIF) Spectroscopy I: Principles," 16, 1749 (1999). Paper
48. R. Kruhlak and M. G. Kuzyk, "Side Illumination Fluorescence (SIF) Spectroscopy II: Applications to Squaraine dye-doped polymer optical fibers," 16, 1756 (1999). Paper
49.  M. G. Kuzyk, D. W. Garvey, B. K. Canfield, S. R. Vigil, D. J. Welker, J. Tostenrude, and C. Breckon, "Characterization of single-mode polymer optical fiber and electrooptic fiber devices," Chemical Physics, 245, 327 (1999).  
50. M. G. Kuzyk, D. W. Garvey, S. R. Vigil, D. J. Welker, "All-optical devices in polymer optical fiber," Chemical Physics, 245, 533 (1999).  
51. D. Sullivan, L. Liu, and M. G. Kuzyk, "Three-Dimensional Optical Pulse Simulation Using the FDTD Methods," IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques," 48, 1127 (2000).  
52. M. G. Kuzyk, "Fundamental limits on third-order molecular susceptibilities," Optics Letters 25, 1183 (2000). pdf Figure
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53. M. G. Kuzyk, "Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities," Physical Review Letters 85, 1218 (2000). pdf Figure
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54. S. R. Vigil and M. G. Kuzyk, “Absolute molecular optical Kerr-effect spectroscopy of dilute organic solutions and neat organic liquids,” J. Opt. Soc. Am B 18, 679 (2001).  
55.

M. G. Kuzyk, “Quantum Limits of the Hyper-Rayleigh Scattering Susceptibilities,” IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics 7, 774 (2001).

 
56. B. K. Canfield, C. S. Kwiatkowski, and M. G. Kuzyk, “Direct Deflection Method For Determining Refractive Index Profiles of Polymer Optical Fiber Preforms,” Applied Optics-IP 41, 3404-3411 (2002).  
57. M. A. Diaz-Garcia, S.Fernandez De Avila, and M. G. Kuzyk, “Dye-Doped Polymers for Blue Organic Diode Lasers,” Applied Physics Letters 80, 4486-4488 (2002).  
58. C. Jiang, M. G. Kuzyk, J.-L. Ding, W. E. John, and D. J. Welker, “Fabrication and Mechanical Behavior of Dye-Doped Polymer Optical Fiber,” Journal of Applied Physics 92, 4-12 (2002).  
59. B. Howell and M. G. Kuzyk, “Amplified Spontaneous Emission and Recoverable Photodegradation in Disperse-Orange-11-Doped-Polymer,” Journal of the Optical Society of America B 19 (8), 1790 (2002).  
60. W. Zhang, S. Bian, S. I. Kim, and M. G. Kuzyk, “High Efficiency Volume Gratings in DR1-doped poly (methyl methacrylate)” –Optics Letters 27 (13) 1105 (2002).  
61. M. G. Kuzyk, “Using Berry's Phase for Position Sensitive Acoustical and Stress Detection,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 19, 2346 (2002).  
62. S. Bian and M. G. Kuzyk, “Real-Time Holographic Reflection Gratings in Volume Media of Azo-Dye-Doped poly(methyl methacrylate),” Optics Letters 27, 1761 (2002).  
63. S. Bian, W. Y. Zhan, S. I. Kim, N. B. Embaye, G. J. Hanna, J. J. Park, B. K. Canfield, M. G. Kuzyk, “High-efficiency optical phase conjugation by degenerate four-wave mixing in volume media of disperse red 1-doped poly(methyl methacrylate),” Journal of Applied Physics 92, (8), 4186-4193 (2002).
  
64. M. A. Diaz-Garcia, S.Fernandez De Avila, and M. G. Kuzyk, “Energy Transfer from Organics to Rare-Earth Complexes,” Applied Physics Letters 81, 3924-3926 (2002).  
65. I. Vargas-Baca, A. P. Brown, M. P. Andrews, T. Galstian, Y. Li, H. Vali, and M. G. Kuzyk, “Linear and Nonlinear Optical Responses of a Dye Anchored to Gold Nanoparticles Dispersed in Liquid and Polymeric Matrixes,” Can. J. Chem. 80, 1625-1633 (2002).  
66. Mark G. Kuzyk, “Fundamental limits on third-order molecular susceptibilities: erratum,” Optics Letters 28, 135 (2003).  
67. Shaoping Bian, Weiya Zhang and Mark G. Kuzyk, “Erasable holographic recording in photosensitive polymer optical fibers,” Optics Letters 28, 929 (2003).  
68. M. G. Kuzyk, “Fundamental Material Limitations on Optical Devices,” Circuits and Devices 19 (5), 8 (2003).  
69. M. G. Kuzyk "Fundamental limits on two-photon absorption cross-sections," Journal of Chemical Physics 119, 8327 (2003).  
70. M. G. Kuzyk, “Fundamental Limits of Nonlinear Susceptibilities,” Optics and Photonic News, December, page 26 (2003). (Special issue “Optics in 2003”) summarizes 29 of “the most exciting research to emerge in the last 12 months …of cutting edge research.”
  
71. Paul R. Hoffman and Mark G. Kuzyk, "Position Determination of an Acoustic Burst Along a Sagnac Interferometer," J. Lightwave Tech. 22, 494 (2004).  
72. S. Bian and Mark G. Kuzyk, “Phase conjugation by low-power continuous-wave degenerate four-wave mixing in nonlinear polymer optical fibers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 84, 858-860 (2004).  
73. Mark G. Kuzyk, “Doubly Resonant Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Sections: It doesn't get any bigger than this,” Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 13, 461 (2004).  
74. S. Bian and Mark G. Kuzyk, “Dark Spatial Solitons in Bulk Azo-Dye-Doped Polymer Using Photoinduced Molecular Reorientation,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1104-1106 (2004).  
75. Kakoli Tripathy, Javier Perez Moreno, Mark G. Kuzyk, Benjamin J. Coe, Koen Clays, and Anne Myers Kelley, “Why Hyperpolarizabilities Fall Short of the Fundamental Quantum Limits,” J. Chem. Phys. 121, 7932 (2004).  
76. B. F. Howell and Mark, “Lasing Action and Photodegradation of Disperse Orange 11 Dye in Liquid Solution,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 85, 1901 (2004).  
77. M. A. Diaz-Garcia, E. M. Calzado, J. M. Villalvilla, P G. Boj, J. A. Quintana, and M. G. Kuzyk, “TPD-Based Blue Organic Lasers,” Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 13, 621 (2004).
  
78. B. K. Canfield and M. G. Kuzyk “Using quadratic electroabsorption to measure the hyperpolarizability, b, of asymmetric molecules,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, 723 (2005).  
79. R. J. Kruhlak and M. G. Kuzyk “Measuring the electronic third-order susceptibility of the silicon-phthalocyanine-monomethacrylate molecule with quadratic electroabsorption spectroscopy,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 22, 643 (2005).  
80. M. G. Kuzyk, Reply to comment on “Physical Limits on Electronic Nonlinear Molecular Susceptibilities,” Physical Review Letters 95, 109402 (2005).  
81.

Javier Pérez Moreno and M. G. kuzyk, “Fundamental Limits of the Dispersion of the Two-Photon Absorption Cross-Section,” J. Chem. Phys. 123, 194101 (2005).

  
82. Mark G. Kuzyk, “Compact sum-over-states expression without dipolar terms for calculating nonlinear susceptibilities,” Phys. Rev. A 72, 053819 (2005).  
83. Shaoping Bian, Dirk Robinson, and Mark G. Kuzyk, “An optically activated cantilever using photomechanical effects in dye-doped polymer fibers,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. B. 23, 697-708 (2006).  
84. Mark G. Kuzyk, “Truncated Sum Rules and their use in Calculating Fundamental Limits of Nonlinear Susceptibilities,” Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics and Materials 15, 77-87 (2006).  
85.

Mark G. kuzyk and David S. Watkins, “The effects of geometry on the hyperpolarizability,” J. Chem. Phys. 124, 244104 (2006).

  

86.

 Juefei Zhou , Mark G. Kuzyk, and David S. Watkins, “Pushing the hyperpolarizability to the limit,” Optics Letters 31, 2891 (2006).  

87.

 Kakoli Tripathy, Javier Perez-Moreno, Mark G. Kuzyk, Benjamin J. Coe, Koen Clays, and Anne Myers Kelley, “Erratum: Why Hyperpolarizabilities Fall Short of the Fundamental Quantum Limits,” J. Chem. Phys. 125, 079905 (2006).  
88.

Mark G. Kuzyk, “Fundamental limits of all nonlinear-optical phenomena that are representable by a second-order susceptibility,“ J. Chem Phys 125, 154108. (2006).

  
89.

Javier Perez-Moreno, Yuxia Zhao, Koen Clays, and Mark Kuzyk, “Modulated conjugation as a means for attaining a record high intrinsic hyperpolarizability,” Opt. Lett. (2007.