Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Research Scientist, MIT

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Researchers Identify Groovy Way to Beat Diffraction Limit
October 3, 2025
There's a limit to how tightly a lens can focus a laser beam. For researchers studying the interactions between light and matter, this makes experiments more challenging. A new chip made from a thin, grooved sheet of silver defies this limit, delivering the energy of 800-nanometer laser light to a sample in peaks and valleys just a few dozen nanometers apart.
Twisted Light Gives Electrons a Spinning Kick
November 26, 2024
Scientists seeking better methods for controlling the quantum interactions between light and matter demonstrated a novel way to use light to give electrons a spinning kick. In the journal Nature Photonics, they reported the results of an experiment, showing that a light beam can reliably transfer orbital angular momentum to itinerant electrons in graphene.
New Photonic Chip Spawns Nested Topological Frequency Comb
June 20, 2024
In new work, researchers at JQI have combined two lines of research into a new method for generating frequency combs.