Publications V. I. Kopp, V. M. Churikov,  and A. Z. Genack, "Chiral Fiber Gratings Sense the Environment", Laser Focus World, June 2008 V. I. Kopp, V. M. Churikov, G. Zhang, J. Singer, C. W. Draper, N. Chao, D. Neugroschl, and A. Z. Genack, "Chiral fiber gratings: perspectives and challenges for sensing applications" (Invited Paper), Proceedings of SPIE 6619, 66190B (2007). V. I. Kopp, V.  M. Churikov, G. Zhang, J. Singer, C. W. Draper, N. Chao, D. Neugroschl,  and A. Z. Genack,  “Single- and double-helix chiral fiber sensors” , J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 24, A48 (2007). V. I. Kopp and A. Z. Genack, “Chiral fibers", chapter in  Specialty Optical Fibers Handbook edited by Alexis Mendez and T. F. Morse.  Academic Press (2007).  V. I. Kopp, V. M. Churikov,  and A. Z. Genack,  “Synchronization of optical polarization conversion and scattering in chiral fibers” , Optics Letters 31, 571 (2006). A. Z. Genack, V. I. Kopp, V. M. Churikov, J. Singer, N. Chao, D. Neugroschl, “From planar to fiber chiral gratings” (Invited Paper), Proceedings of SPIE 5741, 90 (2005). V. I. Kopp, A. Z. Genack, V. M. Churikov, Jonathan Singer and Norman Chao, "Chiral Fiber Gratings Polarize Light", Photonics Spectra 38, 9, 78 (2004). V.I. Kopp, V.M. Churikov,  J. Singer, N. Chao, D. Neugroschl, and A. Z. Genack, "Chiral fiber gratings", Science 305, 74 (2004). A. Z. Genack, V. I. Kopp, V. M. Churikov, J. Singer, N. Chao, D. A. Neugroschl,  "Chiral fiber Bragg gratings", Proceedings of SPIE 5508, 57 (2004). V.I. Kopp and A.Z. Genack, "Double-helix chiral fibers", Optics Letters 28, 1876 (2003). V.I. Kopp, Z.-Q. Zhang and A.Z. Genack,  "Lasing in chiral photonic structures" ,  Progress in Quantum Electronics 27, 369 (2003). P.V. Shibaev, V.I. Kopp and A.Z. Genack, "Photonic materials based on mixtures of cholesteric liquid crystals with polymers" ,  J. Phys. Chem. B 107, 6961 (2003). V.I. Kopp, R. Bose, and A.Z. Genack, "Transmission through chiral twist defect in anisotropic periodic structures", Optics Letters 28, 349 (2003). V. I. Kopp, P. V. Shibaev, R. Bose, A. Z. Genack, "Anisotropic photonic-bandgap structures", Proceedings of SPIE 4655, 141 (2002). P.V. Shibaev, K. Tang, A.Z. Genack, V. Kopp, M. M. Green, "Lasing from a stiff chain polymeric lyotropic cholesteric liquid crystal",  Macromolecules 35, 3022  (2002). V.I. Kopp and A.Z. Genack,  "Twist defect in chiral photonic structures",  Physical Review Letters 89, 033901 (2002). V.I. Kopp, Z.-Q. Zhang and A.Z. Genack, "Large coherence area thin-film photonic stop-band lasers", Physical Review Letters 86, 1753 (2001). V.I. Kopp and A.Z. Genack, "Lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals", IEEE LEOS 13, No 2, 8 (1999). V. I. Kopp, A. Z. Genack, "Density of states and lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in dye-doped cholesteric liquid crystals", Proceedings of SPIE 3623, 71 (1999). V.I. Kopp, B.Fan, H.K.M. Vithana, and A.Z. Genack, "Low-threshold lasing at the edge of a photonic stop band in cholesteric liquid crystals", Optics Letters 23, 1707 (1998).