Faculty in the electro-optics and photonics department come from multiple departments across campus. They publish in a variety of refereed journals, often with grant support. Here, you can view a sampling of their research.

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Submissions from 2011

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Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging, Partha P. Banerjee, George Barbastathis, Myung Kim, and Nickolai Kukhtarev

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Fast Super-resolution with Affine Motion Using an Adaptive Wiener Filter and Its Application to Airborne Imaging, Russell C. Hardie, Kenneth J. Barnard, and Raúl Ordóñez

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Super-Resolution for Imagery from Integrated Microgrid Polarimeters, Russell C. Hardie, Daniel A. LeMaster, and Bradley Michael Ratliff

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Scalar EM Beam Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media, John M. Jarem and Partha P. Banerjee

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Binary and Core-Shell Nanoparticle Dispersed Liquid Crystal Cells for Metamaterial Applications, George Nehmetallah, Rola Aylo, and Partha P. Banerjee

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3D Visualization using Pulsed and CW Digital Holographic Tomography Techniques, George Nehmetallah, Partha P. Banerjee, D. Ferree, R. Kephart, and Sarat C. Praharaj

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Single-Beam Holographic Tomography creates Images in Three Dimensions, George Nehmetallah, Partha P. Banerjee, and Nickolai Kukhtarev

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Comparison of Turbulence-Induced Scintillations for Multi-Wavelength Laser Beacons Over Tactical (7 km) and Long (149 km) Atmospheric Propagation Paths, Mikhail Vorontsov, Venkata S. Rao Gudimetla, Gary W. Carhart, Thomas Weyrauch, Svetlana Lachinova, Ernst Polnau, Joseph Rierson, Leonid A. Beresnev, Jony Jiang Liu, and Jim F. Riker

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Experimental Demonstration of Coherent Beam Combining Over A 7 km Propagation Path, Thomas Weyrauch, Mikhail Vorontsov, Gary W. Carhart, Leonid A. Beresnev, Andrey Rostov, Ernst Polnau, and Jony Jiang Liu

Submissions from 2010

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Modeling Propagation in Negative Index Media Using Causal Complex Dispersion Relations, Rola Aylo and Partha P. Banerjee

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Perturbed Multilayered Structures of Positive and Negative Index Materials, Rola Aylo, Partha P. Banerjee, and George Nehmetallah

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Harvesting Single Ferroelectric Domain Stressed Nanoparticles for Optical and Ferroic Applications, Gary Cook, J. L. Barnes, S. A. Basun, Dean R. Evans, Ron F. Ziolo, Arturo Ponce, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Anatoliy Glushchenko, and Partha P. Banerjee

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Asymmetric Freedericksz Transitions from Symmetric Liquid Crystal Cells Doped with Harvested Ferroelectric Nanoparticles, Gary Cook, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, Ron F. Ziolo, S. A. Basun, Partha P. Banerjee, and Dean R. Evans

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Periodic, Pseudo-noise Waveforms for Multi-function Coherent Ladar, Matthew P. Dierking and Bradley D. Duncan

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Adaptive Optics Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscope with Integrated Wide-Field Retinal Imaging and Tracking, R. Daniel Ferguson, Zhangyi Zhong, Daniel X. Hammer, Mircea Mujat, Ankit H. Patel, Cong Deng, Weiyao Zou, and Stephen A. Burns

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Super-resolution Using Adaptive Wiener Filters, Russell C. Hardie

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A New Computationally Efficient CAD System for Nodule Detection in CT Imagery, Temesguen Messay, Russell C. Hardie, and Steven K. Rogers

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Experimental Demonstration of a Stripmap Holographic Aperture Ladar System, Jason W. Stafford, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

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Improving Mid-frequency Contrast in Sparse Aperture Optical Imaging Systems Based Upon the Golay-9 Array, Andrew J. Stokes, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

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Characterization of Atmospheric Turbulence Effects Over 149 km Propagation Path Using Multi-Wavelength Laser Beacons, Mikhail Vorontsov, Gary W. Carhart, Venkata S. Rao Gudimetla, Thomas Weyrauch, Eric Stevenson, Svetlana Lachinova, Leonid A. Beresnev, Jony Jiang Liu, Karl Rehder, and Jim F. Riker

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Obscuration-Free Pupil-Plane Phase Locking of A Coherent Array of Fiber Collimators, Mikhail Vorontsov, Svetlana Lachinova, Leonid A. Beresnev, and Thomas Weyrauch

Submissions from 2009

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Negative Index in the Presence of Chirality and Material Dispersion, Partha P. Banerjee and Monish Ranjan Chatterjee

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A q-Parameter Approach to Analysis of Propagation, Focusing, and Waveguiding of Radially Polarized Gaussian Beams, Partha P. Banerjee, Gary Cook, and Dean R. Evans

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Adaptive Optics Instrumentation, Stephen A. Burns, Zhangyi Zhong, Weiyao Zou, Cong Deng, R. Daniel Ferguson, and Xiaoteng Qi

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Holographic Aperture Ladar, Bradley D. Duncan and Matthew P. Dierking

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Monte Carlo Simulation of Multiple Photon Scattering in Sugar Maple Tree Canopies, Michael A. Greiner, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

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Scene-Based Nonuniformity Correction with Reduced Ghosting Using a Gated LMS Algorithm, Russell C. Hardie, Frank Orion Baxley, Brandon J. Brys, and Patrick C. Hytla

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Anomaly Detection in Hyperspectral Imagery: Comparison of Methods Using Diurnal and Seasonal Data, Patrick C. Hytla, Russell C. Hardie, Michael T. Eismann, and Joseph Meola

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Monoclinic Optical Constants, Birefringence, and Dichroism of Slanted Titanium Nanocolumns Determined by Generalized Ellipsometry, Daniel Schmidt, Benjamin Booso, Tino Hofmann, Eva Schubert, Andrew Sarangan, and Mathias Schubert

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Target-in-the-loop Wavefront Sensing and Control with a Collett–Wolf Beacon: Speckle-average Phase Conjugation, Mikhail Vorontsov, V. V. Kolosov, and Ernst Polnau

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Deep Turbulence Effects Compensation Experiments with a Cascaded Adaptive Optics System Using a 3.63 m Telescope, Mikhail Vorontsov, Jim F. Riker, Gary W. Carhart, V. S. Rao Gudimetla, Leonid A. Beresnev, Thomas Weyrauch, and Lewis C. Roberts Jr.

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Adaptive Array of Phase-Locked Fiber Collimators: Analysis and Experimental Demonstration, Mikhail Vorontsov, Thomas Weyrauch, Leonid A. Beresnev, Gary W. Carhart, Ling Liu, and Konley Aschenbach

Submissions from 2008

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Modeling and Characterization of Adaptive Lanthanum-Modified Lead Zirconate Titanate (PLZT) Microlenses, Yasser A. Abdelaziez and Partha P. Banerjee

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Imaging with an Array of Adaptive Subapertures, Mathieu Aubailly and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Baseband and Envelope Propagation in Media Modeled by a Class of Complex Dispersion Relations, Partha P. Banerjee, Rola Aylo, and George Nehmetallah

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Determination of Model Airplane Attitudes using Dynamic Holographic Interferometry, Partha P. Banerjee, George Nehmetallah, Nickolai Kukhtarev, and Sarat C. Praharaj

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Hyperspectral Change Detection in the Presenceof Diurnal and Seasonal Variations, Michael T. Eismann, Joseph Meola, and Russell C. Hardie

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Performance Analysis of a New Computer Aided Detection System for Identifying Lung Nodules on Chest Radiographs, Russell C. Hardie, Steven K. Rogers, Terry Wilson, and Adam Rogers

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Color Filter Array Image Analysis for Joint Denoising and Demosaicking, Keigo Hirakawa (0000-0002-0818-7688)

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Spatio-Spectral Sampling and Color Filter Array Design, Keigo Hirakawa (0000-0002-0818-7688) and Patrick J. Wolfe

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Laser Beam Projection with Adaptive Array of Fiber Collimators. II. Analysis of Atmospheric Compensation Efficiency, Svetlana Lachinova and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Generation of Infinitely Long Phase Screens for Modeling of Optical Wave Propagation in Atmospheric Turbulence, A. M. Vorontsov, P. V. Paramonov, M. T. Valley, and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Laser Beam Projection with Adaptive Array of Fiber Collimators. I. Basic Considerations for Analysis, Mikhail Vorontsov and Svetlana Lachinova

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Wide-Field Steerable Adaptive Optics SLO with Dual Deformable Mirrors: Optical Design, Zhangyi Zhong, Cong Deng, and Stephen A. Burns

Submissions from 2007

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Cross-wind Profiling Based on the Scattered Wave Scintillations in a Telescope Focus, V. A. Banakh, D. A. Marakasov, and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Spatial and Spatiotemporal Solitary Waves and their Stabilization in Nonlinear Negative Index Materials, Partha P. Banerjee and George Nehmetallah

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Imaging Diffractometer with Holographic Encoding Enhancements for Laser Sensing and Characterization, Joesph L. Binford, Bradley D. Duncan, Jack H. Parker, Elizabeth A. Beecher, and Mark L. DeLong

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Bidirectional Scattering Distribution Functions of Maple and Cottonwood Leaves, Michael A. Greiner, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

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A Fast Image Super-Resolution Algorithm Using an Adaptive Wiener Filter, Russell C. Hardie

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A MAP Estimator for Simultaneous Superresolution and Detector Nonunifomity Correct, Russell C. Hardie and Douglas R. Droege

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Super-Resolution Enhancement of Digital Video, Russell C. Hardie, Richard R. Schultz, and Kenneth E. Barner

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Effects of Spatial Modes on Ladar Vibration Signature Estimation, Douglas Jameson, Matthew P. Dierking, and Bradley D. Duncan

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Optical Sparse Aperture Imaging, Nicholas J. Miller, Matthew P. Dierking, and Bradley D. Duncan

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A Computationally Efficient Super-Resolution Algorithm for Video Processing Using Partition Filters, Balaji Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, Kenneth E. Barner, and Min Shao

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Study of Soliton Stabilization in D+1 Dimensions using Novel Analytical and Numerical Techniques, George Nehmetallah and Partha P. Banerjee

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Stimulated Photorefractive Backscatter Leading to Six-Wave Mixing and Phase Conjugation in Iron-Doped Lithium Niobate, Mohammad Saleh, Partha P. Banerjee, J. L. Carns, Gary Cook, and Dean R. Evans

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Aberration Production Using a High-Resolution Liquid-Crystal Spatial Light Modulator, Jason D. Schmidt, Matthew E. Goda, and Bradley D. Duncan

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Adaptive Laser Beam Projection on an Extended Target: Phase- and Field-conjugate Pre-compensation, Mikhail Vorontsov, V. V. Kolosov, and Anton Kohnle

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Atmospheric Turbulence Compensation of Point Source Images Using Asynchronous Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Technique on AMOS 3.6 m Telescope, Mikhail Vorontsov, Jim F. Riker, Gary W. Carhart, Venkata S. Rao Gudimetla, Leonid A. Beresnev, and Thomas Weyrauch

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Adaptive Optics Performance Over Long Horizontal Paths: Aperture Effects in Multi-Conjugate Adaptive Optical Systems, Miao Yu, Mikhail Vorontsov, Svetlana Lachinova, Jim F. Riker, and Venkata S. Rao Gudimetla

Submissions from 2006

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Linear and Nonlinear Propagation in Negative Index Materials, Partha P. Banerjee and George Nehmetallah

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Pocket Deformable Mirror for Adaptive Optics Applications, Leonid A. Beresnev, Mikhail Vorontsov, and Peter Wangsness

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Enhanced Cerenkov Second-Harmonic Generation in Patterned Lithium Niobate, Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, Andrew Sarangan, Aziz Mahfoud, Concita Sibilia, Michael Scalora, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov

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Photonic Band-Gap Enhanced Second-Harmonic Generation in a Planar Lithium Niobate Waveguide, Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, Andrew Sarangan, Aziz Mahfoud, Concita Sibilia, Michael Scalora, and Aleksei M. Zheltikov

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Speckle-field Propagation in “Frozen” Turbulence: Brightness Function Approach, V. V. Dudorov, Mikhail Vorontsov, and V. V. Kolosov

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Improved Optimization of Soft Partition Weighted Sum Filters and Their Application to Image Restoration, Yong Lin, Russell C. Hardie, Qin Sheng, and Kenneth E. Barner

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Numerical Modeling of Spatio-Temporal Solitons Using an Adaptive Spherical Fourier Bessel Split-Step Method, George Nehmetallah and Partha P. Banerjee

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Stabilization of a (�+1) -Dimensional Dispersion-Managed Solitons in Kerr Media by an Alternating Dispersion Structure, George Nehmetallah and Partha P. Banerjee

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Adaptive Wavefront Control with Asynchronous Stochastic Parallel Gradient Descent Clusters, Mikhail Vorontsov and Gary W. Carhart

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Adaptive Beam Director for a Tiled Fiber Array, Mikhail Vorontsov, Jim F. Riker, Ernst Polnau, Svetlana Lachinova, and Venkata S. Rao Gudimetla

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High-Speed Shack-Hartmann Wave-Front Sensor Design Utilizing Commercial-off-the-Shelf Optics, Jeffrey J. Widiker, Scott R. Harris, and Bradley D. Duncan

Submissions from 2005

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Beam Shaping by Use of Hybrid Acousto-Optics with Feedback, Yasser A. Abdelaziez, Partha P. Banerjee, and Dean R. Evans

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Material Characterization Techniques: χ(3), Partha P. Banerjee

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Signal Flow Analysis, Partha P. Banerjee

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Numerical Modeling of Cylindrically Symmetric Nonlinear Self-Focusing Using an Adaptive Fast Hankel Split-Step Method, Partha P. Banerjee, George Nehmetallah, and Monish Ranjan Chatterjee

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Hyperspectral Resolution Enhancement Using High-resolution Multispectral Imagery with Arbitrary Response Functions, Michael T. Eismann and Russell C. Hardie

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Multiframe Selective Information Fusion from Robust Error Estimation Theory, Sarah John and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Running Gratings in Photoconductive Materials, Nickolai Kukhtarev, Tatiana Kukhtareva, Sergei F. Lyuksyutov, M. A. Reagan, Partha P. Banerjee, and Preben Buchhave

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Subspace Partition Weighted Sum Filters for Image Restoration, Yong Lin, Russell C. Hardie, and Kenneth E. Barner

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Scene-Based Nonuniformity Correction Technique for Focal-Plane Arrays Using Readout Architecture, Balaji Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, and Robert A. Muse

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Numerical Modeling of (�+1) -Dimensional Solitons in a Sign-Alternating Nonlinear Medium with an Adaptive Fast Hankel Split-Step Method, George Nehmetallah and Partha P. Banerjee

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Partition-based Interpolation for Color Filter Array Demosaicking and Super-Resolution Reconstruction, Min Shao, Kenneth E. Barner, and Russell C. Hardie

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Target-in-the-loop Beam Control: Basic Considerations for Analysis and Wavefront Sensing, Mikhail Vorontsov and Valeriy V. Kolosov

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Atmospheric Compensation with a Speckle Beacon Under Strong Scintillation Conditions: Directed Energy and Laser Communication Applications, Thomas Weyrauch and Mikhail Vorontsov

Submissions from 2004

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Volume Holographic Recording and Readout for 90-Deg Geometry, Partha P. Banerjee, Monish Ranjan Chatterjee, Nickolai Kukhtarev, and Tatiana Kukhtareva

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Interferometric and Holographic Imaging of Surface-Breaking Cracks, James Lawrence Blackshire and Bradley D. Duncan

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Enhanced Cerenkov Second-Harmonic Generation in a Photonic Band Gap Lithium Niobate Waveguide, Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, Andrew Sarangan, Aziz Mahfoud, Michael Scalora, Mark J. Bloemer, and Concita Sibilia

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Application of the Stochastic Mixing Model to Hyperspectral Resolution Enhancement, Michael T. Eismann and Russell C. Hardie

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Stochastic Spectral Unmixing with Enhanced Endmember Class Separation, Michael T. Eismann and Russell C. Hardie

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Wide Angle Decentered Lens Beam Steering for Infrared Countermeasures Applications, Jennifer L. Gibson, Bradley D. Duncan, Edward A. Watson, and John S. Loomis

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MAP Estimation for Hyperspectral Image Resolution Enhancement Using an Auxiliary Sensor, Russell C. Hardie, Michael T. Eismann, and Gregory L. Wilson

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Analysis of a High-resolution Optical Wave-front Control System, Eric W. Justh, P. S. Krishnaprasad, and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Optically Pumped 1-D and 2-D Photonic Crystal Lasers Based on Poly (2-5-Dialkoxy-Phenylene-Vinylene), Aziz Mahfoud, Andrew Sarangan, Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, Sarah Blickenstaff, and Thomas R. Nelson

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Volume Holographic Optical Elements, Ching-Cherng Sun and Partha P. Banerjee

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Compensation of Distant Phase Distorting Layers: II. Extended Field of View Adaptive Receiver System, Mikhail Vorontsov and Miao Yu

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Free-space Laser Communications with Adaptive Optics: Atmospheric Compensation Experiments, Thomas Weyrauch and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Compensation of Distant Phase-distorting Layers. I. Narrow-field-of-view Adaptive Receiver System, Miao Yu and Mikhail Vorontsov

Submissions from 2003

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Wide Angle Achromatic Prism Beam Steering for Infrared Countermeasures Applications, Bradley D. Duncan, Philip J. Bos, and Vassili Sergan

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Digital Image Processing, Russell C. Hardie and Majeed M. Hayat

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Study of Photorefraction Response and Diffraction Efficiency in Mn:YAlO3 Crystals, M. A. Noginov, Shannon W. Helzer, G. B. Loutts, A. Booker, B. D. Lucas, D. Fider, Partha P. Banerjee, M. Morrissey, Yong K. Kim, and Richard A. Linke