Publications
Journals
[J17] Jawaria Maqbool, Syed Talal Hasan, and M. Imran Cheema, "Towards optimal multimode fiber imaging by leveraging input polarization and deep learning," Optical Fiber Technology, Volume 87, 103896 (2024).
Data and Code used in the paper.
[J16] Ubaid Ullah, Seerat Saleem, Muddassar Farooq, Basit Yameen, and M. Imran Cheema, "Lipoarabinomannan-based tuberculosis diagnosis using a fiber cavity ring down biosensor," Biomed. Opt. Express 15(3), 1428-1436 (2024).
[J15]Hira Khalid, Sheikh Muhammad Sajid, M. Imran Cheema, and Erich Leitgeb, "Optical signal attenuation through smog in controlled laboratory conditions," Photonics 11(2), 172, (2024).
[J14] Faiza Iftikhar, Raja Ahmad, M. Imran Cheema, "Modeling of a fiber Fabry-Pérot sensor in the broken PT-symmetric region," Optics Continuum, 2 (10), (2023).
[J13] Ubaid Ullah, Zarfishan Tahir, Obaidullah Qazi, Shaper Mirza, and M. Imran Cheema, "Raman Spectroscopy and Machine Learning-based Optical Sensor for Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnosis via Sputum," Tuberculosis (136), 102251, 2022.
[J12] Ubaid Ullah and M. Imran Cheema, "Spatiotemporal thermal analysis of tapered fibers in optical cavity sensing applications at 633 nm and 1550 nm", Optics Continuum, 4 (11), 2734-2746 (2021).
[J11] Ubaid Ullah and M. Imran Cheema, "Phase shift-cavity ring down spectroscopy in linear and active fiber cavities for sensing applications at 1550 nm", IEEE Sensors Journal, 21 (12), 13335-13341 (2021).
First disclosure: Jan 7, 2021 and in [C8].
[J10] M. Daniyal Ghauri, Syed Zajif Hussain, Ubaid Ullah, R. M. Armaghan Ayaz, Rahman Shah Zaib Saleem, Alper Kiraz, and M. Imran Cheema, "Detection of aflatoxin M1 by fiber cavity attenuated phase shift spectroscopy", Optics Express 29 (3), 3873-3881 (2021)
[J9] R. M. A. Ayaz, Y. Uysalli, B. Morova, N. Bavili, U. Ullah, M. D. Ghauri, M. Imran Cheema, and A. Kiraz, "Linear Cavity Tapered Fiber Sensor Using Mode Tracking Phase Shift Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy", Journal of Optical Society of America B, 37 (6), 1707-1713, (2020). ( Joint corresponding author with A. Kiraz)
[J8] Faiza Iftikhar, Usman A. Khan, and M. Imran Cheema, "Digital synthesis of multistage etalons based upon unequal cavity lengths," Journal of Optical Society of America B, 37 (6), 1630-1636, (2020).
[J7] Ubaid Ullah, Muhammad Yasin, Alper Kiraz, and M. Imran Cheema, "Digital sensor based on multicavity fiber interferometers," Journal of Optical Society of America B, 36 (9), 2587-2592 (2019)
[J6] M. Imran Cheema, and Andrew G. Kirk, "Analytical expressions for waveguide-coupled phase shift microcavity ring down spectroscopy," Journal of Optical Society of America B, 32 (2), 355-362 (2015)
[J5] M. Imran Cheema, Ce Shi, Andrea M. Armani, and Andrew G. Kirk "Optimizing the signal to noise ratio of microcavity sensors," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 26 (20), 2023-2026 (2014)
[J4] M. Imran Cheema, Usman A. Khan, Andrea M. Armani, and Andrew G. Kirk, "Towards more accurate microcavity sensors: maximum likelihood estimation applied to combination of quality factor and wavelength shifts", Optics Express 21, 22817-22828 (2013)
[J3] M. Imran Cheema, and Andrew G. Kirk. "Accurate determination of the quality factor and tunneling distance of axisymmetric resonators for biosensing applications," Optics Express 21, 8724-8735 (2013).(Selected for Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 8, Issue 5, 2013.)
[J2] M. Imran Cheema, Simin Mehrabani, Ahmad A. Hayat, Yves-Alain Peter, Andrea M. Armani and Andrew G. Kirk, "Simultaneous measurement of quality factor and wavelength shift by phase shift microcavity ring down spectroscopy", Optics Express 20, 9090-9098 (2012) (Erratum: Optics Express, Vol. 21, Issue 13, pp. 15430-15431 (2013)). (Selected for Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 7, Issue 6, 2012.)
[J1] Ashraf A Aly, M. Imran Cheema, Murtuza Tambawala, Ryan Laterza, Eileen Zhou, Kalani Rathnabharathi, Frank S Barnes, "Effects of 900-MHz radio frequencies on the chemotaxis of human neutrophils in vitro", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering 55 (2), 795-797 (2008).
Book Chapters
[B2]M. Imran Cheema and Faiza Iftikhar, "Integrated photonic and plasmonic biosensors," in Biophotonics and Biosensing: from fundamental research to clinical trials through advances of signal and image processing, Editor(s): Andrea Armani, Tatevik Chalyan, David D. Sampson, Elsevier, pp 189-214 (2024), ISBN 9780443188404.
[B1]Rana M. Armaghan Ayaz, Yigit Uysalli, Nima Bavili, Berna Morova, M. Imran Cheema, and Alper Kiraz, "Refractive Index Sensing by Phase Shift Cavity Ringdown Spectroscopy", Light-Matter Interactions Towards the Nanoscale
NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer, Dordrecht, pp 239–241 (2022)
Conferences/Talks
[C17]Jawaria Maqbool, Syed Talal Hassan, and M.Imran Cheema, "Application of conditional generative adversarial networks toward time-efficient and high-fidelity imaging via multimode fibers," SPIE Photonics West OPTO, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2024.
[C16] Ubaid Ullah, Seerat Saleem, Muddassar Farooq, Basit Yameen, and M. Imran Cheema, "Toward Rapid Tuberculosis Diagnostics: Optical Fiber Sensor for LAM Detection," SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2024.
[C15]Ubaid Ullah, Daniyal Ghauri, Falak Sher, M. Imran Cheema, "Arsenic Detection in Drinking water using Evanescent Fiber Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy," SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2023.
[C14]M. Imran Cheema, Daniyal Ghauri, and Ubaid Ullah, "Detecting aflatoxin M1 using wavelength-scanned fiber cavity attenuated phase shift spectroscopy," SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2022. (Invited)
[C13]Ubaid Ullah, Zarfishan Tahir, Obaidullah Qazi, Shaper Mirza, and M. Imran Cheema, "Tuberculosis diagnosis from sputum using Raman spectroscopy," SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2022.
[C12]Rabeeya Hamid and M. Imran Cheema, “Use of machine learning in a speckle-based optical fiber sensor for temperature detection,” SPIE Photonics West OPTO, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2022.
[C11] Faiza Iftikhar and M. Imran Cheema," Bandpass Filter with Flat-Top Transmission Using Multistage Fabry-Perot with Unequal Cavity Lengths", SPIE Photonics West OPTO, San Francisco, USA, Mar 2021.
[C10] Ubaid Ullah, Murtaza Haider Syed, Daniyal Ghauri, Falak Sher, and M. Imran Cheema, "Fluoride Detection in Drinking water using Evanescent Fiber Cavity Ring Down Spectroscopy", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Mar 2021.
[C9] Ubaid Ullah and M. Imran Cheema, "Fabry-Perot etalon with three fiber Bragg gratings as a digital sensor", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Feb 2020.
[C8] M. Imran Cheema, Ubaid Ullah, M.D. Ghauri, R.M.A. Ayaz, Y. Uysalli, B. Morova and A. Kiraz, "Amplified phase shift fiber cavity ring down spectroscopy for biosensing applications at 1550nm", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA Feb 2020.
[C7] Faiza Iftikhar, Usman A. Khan, and M. Imran Cheema," FSR enhancement based on digital design of multi-etalons with asymmetric lengths of cavities", IEEE Photonics Conference (IPC), San Antonio, TX ,USA, Sep 28-Oct 4 2019
[C6] M. Imran Cheema and Andrew G. Kirk, "Cavity ring down spectroscopy in whispering gallery mode microcavities for biosensing applications", COST MP1205 General Meeting and Conference, Istanbul, Turkey, 11-13 April 2016.
[C5] Andrew G. Kirk and M. Imran Cheema, "Optimally combining wavelength and quality factor information for sensing in whispering gallery mode optical microcavities", Photonics North, Montreal, Canada, May 2014 (Invited)
[C4] M. Imran Cheema, Usman A. Khan, Andrea M. Armani, and Andrew G. Kirk, " Application of phase shift ring down spectroscopy to microcavities for biosensing", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, SanFrancisco, USA, Feb 2013. ( Keynote Paper, Presentation by A.G. Kirk)
[C3] M. Imran Cheema, Andrew G. Kirk, Simin Mehrabani, Andrea M. Armani, Ahmad A. Hayat, Francis Vanier, Yves-Alain Peter. "Experimental demonstration of application of ringdown measurement approach to microcavities for biosensing", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2012.
[C2] M. Imran Cheema and Andrew G. Kirk. "Application of ring down measurement approach to micro-cavities for bio-sensing applications", SPIE Photonics West BIOS, San Francisco, USA, Jan 2011.
[C1] M. Imran Cheema and Andrew G. Kirk. "Implementation of the perfectly matched layer to determine the quality factor of axisymmetric resonators in COMSOL", COMSOL conference, Boston, USA, Oct 2010.
Thesis
M. Imran Cheema, "Towards optimal whispering gallery mode microcavity sensors: Novel techniques and analyses," Ph.D. Thesis, ECE Department, McGill University, Sep. 2013.