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Mahmoud Jalali Mehrabad

Research Scientist, MIT

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Contact Information

Email:
mjalalim@umd.edu

About

Research Areas: 

  • Topological physics with light
  • Hybrid quantum systems

Research Groups

Recent Publications

Recent News

  • a graphic showing a chip with an array of rings that guides light and turns one color of light into many

    With Passive Approach, New Chips Reliably Unlock Color Conversion

    November 14, 2025

    Researchers at JQI have designed and tested new chips that reliably convert one color of light into a trio of hues. Remarkably, the chips all work without any active inputs or painstaking optimization—a major improvement over previous methods.

  • a graphic showing a chip with silver grooves guiding energy to a two-dimensional material

    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.

  • a schematic illustration of light carrying orbital angular momentum interacting with electrons in a sample of graphene

    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.