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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, David S. Koos, Dan Schwartz, and Scott E. Fraser, “Phase contrast swept source optical coherence tomography at 1050 nm for mouse retinal and choroidal vasculature visualization in vivo,” SPIE/Photonics West, January 2009. [SPIE]

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B.D. Goldberg, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, P.A. Jillella, B.E. Bouma, and G.J. Tearney, “Ultraminiature swept source for point of care optical frequency domain imaging,” SPIE/Photonics West, January 2009. [SPIE]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Chulmin Joo, Johannes F. de Boer, Brett E. Bouma, and Guillermo J. Tearney “Improving phase sensitivity of the biological structure in Fourier domain optical coherence phase microscopy using maximum likelihood estimator,” SPIE/Photonics West, [6861-04], January 2008. [SPIE]

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Chulmin Joo, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Thomas Stepinac, Tayyaba Hasan, and Johannes F. de Boer, “Quantitative imaging of intracellular dynamics by spectral domain optical coherence phase microscopy,” SPIE/Photonics West, [6859-08], January 2008. [SPIE]

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Brian D. Goldberg, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Priyanka A. Jillella, Brett E. Bouma, and Gary J. Tearney, “A miniature optical smart needle system: needle guidance using optical frequency domain reflectometry,” SPIE/Photonics West, [6848-38], January 2008. [SPIE]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, G.J. Tearney, and B.E. Bouma, “High-speed wavelength-swept semiconductor laser using a diffraction grating and a polygon scanner in littrow Configuration,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, JThA30, March 2007. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

7.

M.J. Suter, B.J. Vakoc, N.S. Nishioka, A. Desjardins, M.S. Shishkov, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, B.E. Bouma, and G.J. Tearney, “Comprehensive optical frequency domain imaging of the human and porcine esophagus in vivo,” in the Proceedings of SPIE/BIOS, vol. #6429, January 2007. [SPIE]

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G.J. Tearney, S. Yun, B.J. Vakoc, M.J. Suter, A. Desjardins, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, M.S. Shishkov, I. Jang, and B.E. Bouma, “Intracoronary comprehensive volumetric microscopy with optical frequency domain imaging in vivo,” in the Proceedings of SPIE/BIOS , vol. #6242D, January 2007. [SPIE]

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M.J. Suter, B.J. Vakoc, N.S. Nishioka, A. Desjardins, M.S. Shishkov, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, B.E. Bouma, and G.J. Tearney, “In vivo comprehensive microscopy of the human distal esophagus using optical frequency domain imaging,” in the Proceedings of SPIE/BIOS , vol. #6432, January 2007. [SPIE]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, B.J. Vakoc, A. Desjardins, G.J. Tearney, and B.E. Bouma, “Depth and frequency encoding (DFE) for increasing the ranging depth in optical frequency domain imaging,” in the Proceedings of SPIE/BIOS, vol. #6429, January 2007. [SPIE]

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M. Suter, B. Vakoc, N.S. Nishioka, J. Evans, S.H. Yun, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, S. Desjardian, B.E. Bouma, and G.J. Bouma, “Comprehensive three dimensional microscopy of the porcine and human esophagus in vivo using optical frequency domain imaging,” Digestive Disease Weekly Conference, May 2006.

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P. Saghari, R. Gholizadeh, H. Abrishami, E. Pakbaznia, J.E. McGeehan, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, and A.E. Willner, “Experimental evaluation of the optimum decision threshold for varying numbers of active users in a 2D t-/spl lambda/, asynchronous O-CDMA system,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CTuFF4, 2005. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, P. Saghari, and A.E. Willner, “XPM-induced control signal degradation for DOP and RF-power-based PMD monitors in WDM systems,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CThLL2, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

14.

Y.W. Song, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Z. Pan, and A.E. Willner, “Accurate DOP monitoring of several WDM channels for simultaneous PMD compensation,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CThLL1, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

15.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, R. Gholizadeh, and A.E. Willner, “Optical and RF clock tone monitoring for measuring the nonlinear coefficient of a fiber span,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CThLL5, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Chromatic dispersion monitoring using partial optical filtering and phase-shift detection of bit rate and doubled half bit rate frequency components,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, THU2, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

17.

J.E. McGeehan, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, P. Saghari, T.H. Izadpanah, A.E. Willner, R. Omrani, and P.V. Kumar, “3D time-wavelength-polarization OCDMA coding for increasing the number of users in OCDMA lANs,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, FE5, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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P. Saghari, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, A.B. Sahin, and A.E. Willner, “Polarization-state-rotation and filtering receiver for bandwidth-efficient- tandem single sideband systems,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, FN5, 2004. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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A. E. Willner, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, and Z. Pan, “Performance degradations and monitoring in optical networks,” Invited Paper, Asia-Pacific Optical and Wireless Communications Conference, SPIE, vol. 5282, pp. 261-274, Wuhan, China, Bellingham, WA, April 2004. [SPIE]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “DOP-based PMD monitoring in optical subcarrier multiplexed systems by carrier/sideband equalization,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, ThY4, pp. 13 – 15, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Dependence of DOP-based DGD monitors on the optical power spectrum of equal-pulse-width data formats,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, MF91, pp. 5 – 7, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

22.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, A.B. Sahin, J.E. McGeehan, Z. Pan, T. Luo, Y.W. Song, and A.E. Willner, “Polarization state rotation filtering for single sideband generation and carrier suppression using a variable DGD element,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, FM7, pp. 9 – 10, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

23.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Measuring component DGD by using polarized ASE noise and monitoring the degree of polarization,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, TuK2, pp. 13 – 15, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

24.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, T. Luo, and A.E. Willner, “Chromatic dispersion monitoring for CSRZ data using a chromatic-dispersion-biased clock,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CTHJ5, 2003.  [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Measuring component DGD using polarized fixed frequency components and monitoring the DOP,” in the Technical Digest of the LEOS Summer Topical Meetings, IEEE/LEOS, WB2.3, pp. 65 – 66, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Measuring of link DGD without polarization scrambling using the degree of polarization and symmetric/asymmetric partial optical filtering,” in IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, vol.2, pp.915 – 916, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J.E. McGeehan, and A.E. Willner, “Cancellation of second-order PMD effects on first order DOP-based DGD monitors and measurement of depolarization rate,” in IEEE/LEOS Annual Meeting Conference Proceedings, vol. 1, pp.171 – 172, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [PDF]

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A.E. Willner, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Z. Pan, L.-S. Yan, “Tutorial on polarization control and monitoring,” in the Tutorial Notes of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, WC1 – WC44, pp. 27 – 71, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

29.

T. Luo, Z. Pan, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, L.S. Yan, A.B. Sahin and A.E. Willner, “Chromatic-dispersion-insensitive PMD monitoring using optical off-center bandpass filtering,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, ThY3, pp.11 – 13, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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J.E. McGeehan, S. Kumar, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, J. Bannister, J. Touch, and A.E. Willner, “Optical time-to-live decrementing and subsequent dropping of an optical packet,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, FS6, pp. 8 – 10, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

31.

Z. Pan, Y. Wang, Y.W. Song, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, S. A. Havstad, and A.E. Willner, “Monitoring chromatic dispersion and PMD impairments in optical differential phase-shift-keyed (DPSK) systems,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, WP1, pp. 1 – 2, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

32.

Y.W. Song, Z. Pan, Y. Arieli, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, S.A. Havstad and A.E. Willner, “Enhanced suppression of nonlinearity-induced crosstalk in WDM systems using optical polarization-shift-keying,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, CTHQ2, 2003. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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C. Yu, Y. Wang, T. Luo, Z. Pan, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, A.B. Sahin, and A.E. Willner, “Chromatic-dispersion-insensitive PMD monitoring for NRZ data based on clock power measurement using a narrowband FBG notch filter,” in the proceedings of European Conference on Optical Communication, IEEE/ECOC, vol. 2, TU4.2.3, pp. 290 – 291, 2003. [Google Scholar] [PDF]

34.

L.-S. Yan, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, A.B. Sahin, J.E. McGeehan, T. Luo, Q. Yu, and A.E. Willner, “Enhanced robustness of RZ WDM systems using tunable pulse-width management at the transmitter,” in the Technical Digest of European Conference on Optical Communication, IEEE/ECOC, 2002. [IEEE Xplore] [Google Scholar] [PDF]

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S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, L.-S. Yan, J.E. McGeehan, Y.Q. Shi, A.E. Willner, and Steve Yao, “Wide-dynamic-range DGD monitoring by partial optical signal spectrum DOP measurement,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, Post-deadline paper, IEEE/OFC, pp. 924 – 926, 2002. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America][Google Scholar] [PDF]

36.

Y.W. Song, S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, D. Starodubov, J.E. Rothenberg, Z. Pan, H. Li, R. Wilcox, J. Popelek, R. Caldwell, V. Grubsky and A.E. Willner, “Tunable dispersion slope compensation for   WDM systems using a single non-channelized third-order-chirped FBG,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, pp. 580 – 581, 2002. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America][Google Scholar] [PDF]

37.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Y.W. Song, A.B. Sahin, Z. Pan, and A.E. Willner, “PMD monitoring in WDM systems for NRZ data using a chromatic-dispersion-regenerated clock,” in the Technical Digest of Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibit, IEEE/OFC, pp. 200 – 202, 2002. [IEEE Xplore] [Optical Society of America][Google Scholar] [PDF]

38.

S.M.R. Motaghian Nezam, Y. Wang, M.C. Hauer, and A.E. Willner, “Simultaneous PMD monitoring of several WDM channels using subcarrier tones,” in the Technical Digest of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, IEEE/CLEO, pp.561 – 563, 2001. [IEEE Xplore] [Google Scholar] [PDF]