Peer-reviewed publications

• Sajed Hosseini-Zavareh, Ryan Luder, Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, HW Kushan Weerasinghe, Brian R Washburn, Kristan L Corwin, Fabrication and characterization of short acetylene-filled photonic microcells, Applied Optics, Accepted for publication, March 2019.
• Sajed Hosseini-Zavareh, Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, HW Kushan Weerasinghe, Brian R Washburn, Kristan L Corwin, Improved Acetylene-Filled Photonic Bandgap Fiber Cells Fabricated using a Tapering Method, Frontiers in Optics, JW4A. 95, 2018.
• H. W. Kushan Weerasinghe, Neda Dadashzadeh, Manasadevi P. Thirugnanasambandam, Benoit Debord, Matthieu Chafer, Frederic Gerome, Fetah Benabid, Kristan L. Corwin, and Brian R. Washburn, Toward power scaling an acetylene mid-infrared hollow-core optical fiber gas laser: effects of pressure, fiber length, and pump power, Photonics West, January 2018, Proceedings of SPIE (Accepted, In Press).
• N. Dadashzadeh, M. Thirugnanasambandam, K. Weerasinghe, B. Debord, M. Chafer, F. Gérôme, F. Benabid, B. Washburn, and K. L. Corwin, High energy, near diffraction-limited performance of OPA pumped Acetylene-filled Hollow-core Optical Fiber Gas Laser in mid-IR, Optics Express, 25, 12, 13351, 2017.
• N. Dadashzadeh, M. Thirugnanasambandam, K. Weerasinghe, B. Debord, M. Chafer, F. Gérôme, F. Benabid, B. Washburn, and K. L. Corwin, “Near-Gaussian Spatial Mode from a Mid-IR Acetylene-filled Hollow-Core Fiber Laser,” in Frontiers in Optics 2016, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2016), paper FTu1I.5.
• Neda Dadashzadeh, Manasa Thirugnanasambandam, Kushan Weerasinghe, Benoît Debord, Matthieu Chafer, Frédéric Gérôme, Fetah Benabid, Brian Washburn, Kristan Corwin, Power scaling a Mid-IR OPA pumped Acetylene filled Hollow Core Photonic Crystal Fiber Laser, CLEO: Science and Innovations, San Jose, USA, 2016, STh4O. 1
• Ryan Luder, Sajed Hosseini Zavareh,, Chenchen Wang, Manasa Thirugnanasambandam, Brian Washburn, Kristan Corwin, Short Acetylene-Filled Photonic Bandgap Fiber Cells Toward Practical Industry Standards, CLEO: Science and Innovations, San Jose, USA, 2016, SM2H. 6
• Yu Senatsky, J‑F Bisson, J Li, A Shirakawa, M Thirugnanasambandam, K Ueda, Laguerre Gaussian modes selection in diode pumped solid state lasers, Optical review, 2012, 19, 2012.
• Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, Kenichi Ueda, Generation of radially and azimuthally polarized beams in Yb: YAG laser with intracavity lens and birefringent crystal, Optics express, 2011, 19,1905
• Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, Kenichi Ueda, High order mode selection in Yb: YAG ceramic laser, Conference on Lasers and ElectroOptics/Pacific Rim, Sydney, Australia 2011, C471
• Manasadevi P Thirugnanasambandam, Yuri Senatsky, Akira Shirakawa, Kenichi Ueda, Multiring modes generation in Yb: YAG ceramic laser, 5th Laser Ceramics Symposium, Bilbao, Spain, 2011, 33, 675.
• MP Thirugnanasambandam, Yu Senatsky, K Ueda, Generation of very‑high order Laguerre‑Gaussian modes in Yb: YAG ceramic laser, Laser Physics Letters, 2010, 7, 637.

LIGO publications

As a member of the LIGO scientific collaboration, I worked as part of the instrumentation group for LIGO at California Institute of Technology. I am a co-author in all the publications authored by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration from August 2012 up to 2016. I am a current member of the LIGO India project and have been a co-author to all LSC publications since September 2018 until present. A complete list of those publications can be found below:

• Prospects for observing and localizing gravitational-wave transients with Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo and KAGRA, Living Reviews in Relativity, 2018, 21, 1-57.
• Effects of data quality vetoes on a search for compact binary coalescences in Advanced LIGO’s first observing run, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2018, 35 (6), 065010.
• Search for continuous gravitational waves from neutron stars in globular cluster NGC 6544, Physical Review D, 2017, 95 (8), 082005.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Calibration of the Advanced LIGO detectors for the discovery of the binary black-hole merger GW150914, Physical Review D, 2017, 95 (6), 062003.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Exploring the Sensitivity of Next Generation Gravitational Wave Detectors, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2017, 34 (4), 044001.
• LIGO Scientific and VIRGO Collaborations, The basic physics of the binary black hole merger GW150914. Annalen Der Physik, 2017, 529 1600209.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from advanced ligo observations surrounding GW150914, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2016, 227 (2), 14.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration , The rate of binary black hole mergers inferred from Advanced LIGO observations surrounding GW150914, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016, Volume 833, Issue 1.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron star–black hole mergers from advanced LIGO’s first observing run, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016, Volume 832, Issue 2.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Results of the deepest all-sky survey for continuous gravitational waves on LIGO S6 data running on the Einstein@Home volunteer distributed computing project, Phys. Rev. D, 2016, 94, 102002.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, First targeted search for gravitational-wave bursts from core-collapse supernovae in data of first-generation laser interferometer detectors, Phys. Rev. D, 2016, 94, 102001.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Binary Black Hole Mergers in the First Advanced LIGO Observing Run, Phys. Rev. X, 2016, 6, 041015.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Improved Analysis of GW150914 Using a Fully Spin-Precessing Waveform Model, Phys. Rev. X , 2016, 6, 041014.
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Directly comparing GW150914 with numerical solutions of Einstein’s equations for binary black hole coalescence, Phys. Rev. D, 2016, 94, 064035.
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Comprehensive all-sky search for periodic gravitational waves in the sixth science run LIGO data, Phys. Rev. D ,2016, 94, 042002,.
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Localization and broadband follow-up of the gravitational-wave transient GW150914, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016, 826, 1.
• Antares Collaboration, IceCube Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration, and Virgo Collaboration, High-energy neutrino follow-up search of gravitational wave event GW150914 with ANTARES and IceCube, Phys. Rev. D , 2016, 93, 122010
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Search for transient gravitational waves in coincidence with short-duration radio transients during 2007–2013, Phys. Rev. D 93, 122008.
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, GW151226: Observation of gravitational waves from a 22 solarmass binary blackhole coalescence, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116, 241103
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, GW150914: First results from the search for binary black hole coalescence with Advanced LIGO, Physical Review D, 2016, 93,122003
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Observing gravitational wave transient GW150914 with minimal assumptions, Physical Review D, 2016, 93,122004
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, Characterization of transient noise in Advanced LIGO relevant to gravitational wave signal GW150914 Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2016, 33,134001
• LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, Tests of General Relativity with GW150914, Physical Review Letters 2016, 116, 221101,
• LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, GW150914: Implications for the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Binary Black Holes, Physical Review Letters 2016, 116,131102
• LIGO Scientific and Virgo Collaborations, GW150914: The Advanced LIGO detectors in the Era of First Discoveries, Physical Review Letters 2016, 116,131103
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Collaboration, the BOOTES Collaboration, the Dark Energy Survey and the Dark Energy Camera GWEM Collaborations, the Fermi GBM Collaboration, Localization and broadband followup of the gravitational wave transient GW150914, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016, 826:L13
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, First low frequency allsky search for continuous gravitational wave signals, Physical Review D, 2016, 93, 042007
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Search of the Orion spur for continuous gravitational waves using a loosely coherent algorithm on data from LIGO interferometers, Physical Review D, 2016, 93, 042006
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, All sky search for long duration gravitational wave transients with initial LIGO, Physical Review D, 2016, 93, 042005
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Astrophysical implications of the binary black hole merger GW150914, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2016, 818:L22
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger, Physical Review Letters, 2016, 116, 061102
• The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, Prospects for Observing and Localizing Gravitational Wave Transients with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo, Living Rev. Relativity, 2016, 19, 1
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Searches for continuous gravitational waves from nine young supernova remnants, The Astrophysical Journal, 2015, 813, 39
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Characterization of the LIGO detectors during their sixth science run, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015, 32, 115012
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Directed search for gravitational waves from Scorpius X1 with initial LIGO data, Physical Review D, 2015, 91, 062008
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Advanced ligo, Classical and Quantum Gravity, 2015, 32, 074001
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Narrowband search of continuous gravitational wave signals from Crab and Vela pulsars in Virgo VSR4 data, Physical Review D, 2015, 91,022004
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Searching for stochastic gravitational waves using data from the two collocated LIGO Hanford detectors, Physical Review D, 2015, 91, 022003
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Improved upper limits on the stochastic gravitational wave background from 2009–2010 Ligo and Virgo data, Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113, 231101
• IceCube Collaboration, LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration, Multimessenger search for sources of gravitational waves and highenergy neutrinos: Initial results for LIGO, Virgo and IceCube, Physical Review D, 2014, 90,102002
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, First all sky search for continuous gravitational waves from unknown sources in binary systems, Physical Review D, 2014, 90, 062010
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Implementation of anstatistic all sky search for continuous gravitational waves in Virgo VSR1 data, Classical and quantum gravity, 2014, 31, 165014
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Search for gravitational waves associated with γray bursts detected by the interplanetary network, Physical Review Letters, 2014, 113, 011102
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Methods and results of a search for gravitational waves associated with gammaray bursts using the GEO 600, LIGO, and Virgo detectors, Physical Review D, 2014, 89, 122004
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Search for gravitational radiation from intermediate mass black hole binaries in data from the second LIGO-Virgo joint science run, Physical Review D, 2014, 89, 122003
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Search for gravitational wave ringdowns from perturbed intermediate mass blackholes in LIGO-Virgo data from 2005–2010, Physical Review D, 2014, 89, 102006
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, The NINJA2 project: detecting and characterizing gravitational waveforms modelled using numerical binary blackhole simulations, Classical and quantum gravity, 2014, 31,115004
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Constraints on cosmic strings from the LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave detectors, Physical Review Letters, 2014, 112, 131101
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Application of a Hough search for continuous gravitational waves on data from the fifth LIGO science run, Classical and quantum gravity, 2014, 31, 085014
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era, The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 785, 119
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, First searches for optical counterparts to gravitational wave candidate events, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2014, 211, 7
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Search for long-lived gravitational wave transients coincident with long gamma ray bursts, Physical Review D, 2013, 88, 122004
• LIGO Scientific Collaboration and Virgo Collaboration, Directed search for continuous gravitational waves from the Galactic center, Physical Review D, 2013, 88, 102002.