Publications:

• "High SBS-threshold single-mode single-frequency monolithic pulsed fiber laser in the C-band," Wei Shi, Eliot Petersen, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, and Nasser Peyghambarian, Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 10, pp. 8237-8245, May 2009.   DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.008237
  
• "High-Power All-Fiber-Based Narrow-Linewidth Single-Mode Fiber Laser Pulses in the C-Band and Frequency Conversion to THz Generation."  Wei Shi, Matthew A. Leigh, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Dan T. Nguyen, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, and Nasser Peyghambarian.  IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume 15, Issue 2, pp. 377-384, April 2009.  DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2008.2010234.
•  "Narrowband Pulsed THz Source Using Eyesafe Region Fiber Lasers and a Nonlinear Crystal."  Matthew A. Leigh, Wei Shi, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Shibin Jiang, and Nasser Peyghambarian.  IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 1, Number 21,  pp 27-29,  January 1, 2009.  DOI: 10.1109/LPT.2008.2008195. 
  
• High Power Pulsed Fiber Laser Sources and their use in Terahertz Generation.  University of Arizona, PhD Dissertation, December 2008.
  
• "High peak power single frequency pulses using a short polarization maintaining phosphate glass fiber with a large core," Matthew Leigh, Wei Shi, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Shibin Jiang, Nasser Peyghambarian.  Applied Physics Letters, Volume 92, Issue 18, p 181108.  May 8, 2008.
  
• "Photonic Narrow Linewidth GHz Source Based on Highly Codoped Phosphate Glass Fiber Lasers in a Single MOPA Chain,"  Wei Shi, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Shibin Jiang. IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, Volume 20, Issue 2, pp69-71, January 15, 2008.
  
• "Compact, single frequency all-fiber Q-switched laser at 1 um," Matthew Leigh, Wei Shi, Jie Zong, Jiafu Wang, Shibin Jiang, Nasser Peyghambarian, Optics Letters, Volume 32, Issue 8, pp 897-899, March 19, 2007.

• Featured on Optics.org. "All-fiber Q-switched laser operates at 1 micron."  April 13, 2007.
  
• Featured in Photonics Spectra. "Single Longitudinal Mode Oscillates in Q-Switched Fiber Laser." May, 2007. 

• "Single-frequency terahertz source pumped by Q-switched fiber lasers based on difference-frequency generation in GaSe crystal"  Wei Shi, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong, and Shibin Jiang, Optics Letters, Vol. 32, Issue 8, pp. 949-951, March 19, 2007. 
• Selected for Virtual Journal of Ultrafast Science, Volume 6, Issue 4, April 2007. 
• Selected for Virtual Journal of THz Science and Technology, April 2007. 
• Featured in Photonics Spectra. "Two Q-Switched Fiber Lasers Generate Terahertz Radiation." May, 2007.

• "Small mode-size waveguides in quantum-dot-doped glasses by Ag-film ion exchange," Jason M. Auxier, Seppo Honkanen, Michael M. Morrell,  Matthew A. Leigh, Sabyasachi Sen, Nicholas F. Borrelli, and Axel Schülzgen, Journal of Applied Physics, Volume 99, Issue 12, pp: 126101-03, 15 June 2006. 
• "Silver and potassium ion-exchanged waveguides in glasses doped with PbS semiconductor quantum dots," Jason M. Auxier, Seppo Honkanen, Axel Schülzgen, Michael M. Morrell, Matthew A. Leigh, Sabyasachi Sen, Nicholas F. Borrelli, and Nasser Peyghambarian,  Journal of the Optical Society of America B, Volume 23, Issue 6, pp: 1037-45, June 2006.
• “Determination of thermal length and pumping radius in gain medium in laser-diode-pumped Nd:YVO4 lasers.” Feng Song, Chaobo Zhang, Xin Ding, Jingjun Xu, Guangyin Zhang, Matthew Leigh, Nasser Peyghambarian. Applied Physics Letters, Volume 81, Number 12, pp: 2145-47, 16 September 2002.
• The Physics of Self-Assembling Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Their Use in Laser Devices.   Matthew Leigh. University of Iowa, MS Thesis, July 2000. 

Patents:

• "Simultaneously Q-Switched Fiber Lasers using a shared modulator."  Shibin Jiang, Wei Shi, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong.  11/588,933, filed 27 October 2006.

• "Fiber-Laser-Based Gigahertz Sources through Difference Frequency Generation (DFG) by Nonlinear Optical (NLO) Materials."  Shibin Jiang, Wei Shi, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong.  11/588,628, filed 19 October 2006.

 Conferences and Presentations:

• "Directed Energy Range Safety Data Collection at PMRF," Timothy Murphy, Matthew Leigh, Jeffery Bohn, Andrew Baronavski, John Kurtz, Directed Energy Test and Evaluation Conference,  August 12, 2009, Albaquerque, NM.
  
• "High-energy single-mode single-frequency all-fiber laser pulses covering C-band based on highly co-doped phosphate glass fibers," Wei Shi, Eliot B. Petersen, Matthew Leigh, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Arturo Chavez-Pirson, Nasser Peyghambarian, Fiber Lasers VI: Technology, Systems, and Applications, Proc.  SPIE 7195, 71951H, January 2009. Presented at Photonics West, San Jose, CA. doi: 10.1117/12.808732
  
• "Large Core Phosphate Glass Fibers used to Power Scale C-Band Optical Pulses."  Matthew Leigh, Wei Shi, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Shibin Jiang, Nasser Peyghambarian.  Materials Research Society 2008 Spring Meeting, Symposium K: Materials and Devices for Laser Remote Sensing and Optical Communication, San Francisco, CA, March 26, 2008.   
•  "Power scaling for narrow linewidth C-band pulsed fiber lasers using a highly Er/Yb co-doped phosphate glass fiber." Wei Shi, Matt Leigh, Jie Zong, Zhidong Yao, Shibin Jiang.  Photonics West: Integrated Optoelectronic Devices, 19 - 24 January 2008, San Jose, California.  Published in Optical Components and Materials V, Proc. SPIE 6890, February 5, 2008.
  
•  "Parametric THz Generation Pumped by Q-Switched Fiber."  Wei Shi, Matt Leigh, Jie Zong, Shibin Jiang.  Advanced Solid State Photonics 2007 Technical Digest, MB 10, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, January 18-21, 2007.
•  "Writing Annular Waveguides in Co-Doped Phosphate Glass using Ultrafast Pulses." Matthew A. Leigh, Axel Schülzgen, Seppo Honkanen, Michael Morrell, Nasser Peyghambarian.  Frontiers in Optics/Laser Science XXI, Tucson, Arizona, 18 October 2005.
•  "Waveguides in Glass formed by Ultrafast Lasers and AFM Metrology of their Ablation Craters." Matthew Leigh.  American Physical Society Four Corners Meeting 2002, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, 4 October, 2002
  

 Employment:

• Companies:  Envisioneering, Inc., NP Photonics, Spectra-Physics, Mathtech Inc., American Laser Corporation, U. S. Synthetic.
• Universities:  University of Arizona (Physics PhD, Optical Science minor), University of Iowa (M. S. Physics),  Brigham Young University  (Physics B. S., Mathematics minor).
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