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 2021

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The Physics of Fire by Friction, Bradley D. Duncan

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FIFNET: A convolutional neural network for motion-based multiframe super-resolution using fusion of interpolated frames, Hamed Elwarfalli and Russell C. Hardie

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Resampling and Super-Resolution of Hexagonally Sampled Images Using Deep Learning, Dylan Flaute, Russell C. Hardie, and Hamed Elwarfalli

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Application of tilt correlation statistics to anisoplanatic optical turbulence modeling and mitigation, Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Santasri Bose-Pillai, and Richard Van Hook

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Tunable Optical Filter Using Phase Change Materials for Smart IR Night Vision Applications, Remona Heenkenda, Keigo Hirakawa (0000-0002-0818-7688), and Andrew Sarangan

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Deep learning for anisoplanatic optical turbulence mitigation in long-range imaging, Matthew A. Hoffmire, Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Richard Van Hook, and Barry K. Karch

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Simulation of anisoplanatic lucky look imaging and statistics through optical turbulence using numerical wave propagation, Michael A. Rucci, Russell C. Hardie, and Richard K. Martin

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Optical switching performance of thermally oxidized vanadium dioxide with an integrated thin film heater, Andrew M. Sarangan, Gamini Ariyawansa, Ilya Vitebskiy, and Igor Anisimov

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Wavelength and power dependence on multilevel behavior of phase change materials, Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Haiyun Guo (0000-0001-6774-0298), Andrew M. Sarangan, Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), and Imad Agha

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Scene motion detection in imagery with anisoplanatic optical turbulence using a tilt-variance-based gaussian mixture model, Richard L. Van Hook and Russell C. Hardie

Submissions from 2020

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Ensemble lung segmentation system using deep neural networks, Redha Ali, Russell C. Hardie, and Hussin K. Ragb

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Chalcogenide Cylindrical Helix Nanocollumnar Thin Films for Switchable Polarization Effects, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Andrew M. Sarangan, Qiwen Zhan, and Imad Agha

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Chalcogenide cylindrical helix nanocollumnar thin films for switchable polarization effects, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Andrew M. Sarangan, Qiwen Zhan, and Imad Agha

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Pixel Level Demonstration of Phase Change Material Based Spatial Light Modulation, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Mehdi Asheghi, Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), Andrew M. Sarangan, Kenneth E. Goodson, and Imad Agha

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Pixel level demonstration of phase change material based spatial light modulation, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Mehdi Asheghi, Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), Andrew M. Sarangan, Kenneth E. Goodson, and Imad Agha

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Vanadium dioxide phase change thin films produced by thermal oxidation of metallic vanadium, Pengfei Guo, Zach Biegler, Tyson Back, and Andrew M. Sarangan

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Tungsten-doped Ge2Sb2Te5 phase change material for high-speed optical switching devices, Pengfei Guo, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Heungdong Kwon, Christopher Perez, Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), Evan M. Smith, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Imad Agha, and Andrew M. Sarangan

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Polarization-selective modulation of supercavity resonances originating from bound states in the continuum, Chan Kyaw, Riad Yahiaoui, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Viet Tran, Kyron Keelen, Wesley Sims, Eddie C. Red, Willie S. Rockward, Mikkel A. Thomas, Andrew M. Sarangan, Imad Agha, and Thomas A. Searles

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Two-stage deep learning architecture for pneumonia detection and its diagnosis in chest radiographs, Barath Narayanan, Venkata Salini Priyamvada Davuluru, and Russell C. Hardie

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Hybrid machine learning architecture for automated detection and grading of retinal images for diabetic retinopathy, Barath Narayanan, Barath Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, Manawaduge Supun De Silva, and Nathaniel K. Kueterman

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Design of resonant cavity thin film structures with complex active layers, Andrew M. Sarangan

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Phase Change Dynamics and Two-Dimensional 4-Bit Memory in Ge2Sb2Te5 via Telecom-Band Encoding, Gary A. A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Shiva Farzinazar, Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Christopher Perez, Heungdong Kwon, Jaeho Lee, Mehdi Asheghi, Kenneth E. Goodson, Andrew M. Sarangan, Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), and Imad Agha

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Waveform-agile frequency doubled laser system for optical switching and characterization of phase change materials at Near-IR wavelengths, Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), Andrew M. Sarangan, and Imad Agha

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Waveform-Agile Frequency Doubled Laser System for Optical Switching and Characterization of Phase Change Materials at Near-IR Wavelengths, Gary A. Sevison (0000-0002-6832-0356), Joshua A. Burrow (0000-0002-1237-4662), Joshua R. Hendrickson (0000-0002-5342-0346), Andrew M. Sarangan, and Imad Agha

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Patch-based gaussian mixture model for scene motion detection in the presence of atmospheric optical turbulence, Richard L. Van Hook and Russell C. Hardie

Submissions from 2019

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Deep Learning Ensemble Methods for Skin Lesion Analysis towards Melanoma Detection, Redha Ali, Russell C. Hardie, Barath Narayanan, and Supun De Silva

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Fusion of interpolated frames superresolution in the presence of atmospheric optical turbulence, Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Barry K. Karch, Alexander J. Dapore, Douglas R. Droege, and Joseph C. French

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Performance analysis of machine learning and deep learning architectures for malaria detection on cell images, Barath Narayanan, Redha Ali, and Russell C. Hardie

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A Computationally Efficient U-Net Architecture for Lung Segmentation in Chest Radiographs, Barath Narayanan and Russell C. Hardie

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Optimized feature selection-based clustering approach for computer-aided detection of lung nodules in different modalities, Barath Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, Temesguen Messay Kebede, and Matthew J. Sprague

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A Holistic Registration Approach to Fusion of Interpolated Frames, Michael A. Rucci and Russell C. Hardie

Submissions from 2018

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A Leaf Recognition Approach to Plant Classification Using Machine Learning, Redha Ali, Russell C. Hardie, and Almabrok Essa

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Super-resolution in the presence of atmospheric optical turbulence, Russell C. Hardie, Michael A. Rucci, Barry K. Karch, Alex J. Dapore, and Douglas R. Droege

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Performance analysis of a computer-aided detection system for lung nodules in CT at different slice thicknesses, Barath Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, and Temesguen Messay Kebede

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Performance Analysis of Feature Selection Techniques for Support Vector Machine and its Application for Lung Nodule Detection, Barath Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, and Temesguen Messay Kebede

Submissions from 2017

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Analysis of the Joint Impact of Atmospheric Turbulence and Refractivity on Laser Beam Propagation, Victor A. Kulikov and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Comparative Analysis of Numerical Simulation Techniques for Incoherent Imaging of Extended Objects Through Atmospheric Turbulence, Svetlana Lachinova, Mikhail Vorontsov, Grigorii A. Filimonov, Daniel A. LeMaster, and Matthew E. Trippel

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Fundamentals of Nonlinear Optics, Peter E. Powers and Joseph W. Haus

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Holographic Aperture Ladar with Range Compression, Jason W. Stafford, Bradley D. Duncan, and David J. Rabb

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Agenda: Second International Workshop on Thin Films for Electronics, Electro-Optics, Energy and Sensors (TFE3S), University of Dayton Research Institute

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Speckle Effects in Target-in-the-Loop Laser Beam Projection Systems, Mikhail Vorontsov

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Numerical Modeling of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers with a Fiber-Based Saturable-Absorber, Long Wang, Andy Chong, and Joseph W. Haus

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Impact of Atmospheric Turbulence and Refractivity on the Modulation Transfer Function of Incoherent Imaging System, Zhijun Yang and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Practical Guide to the Realization of a Convertible Optical Trapping System, Chenglong Zhao

Submissions from 2016

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Single-Molecule Detection at High Concentrations with Optical Aperture Nanoantennas, Md Shah Alam, Farzia Karim, and Chenglong Zhao

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Chiral Light Intrinsically Couples to Extrinsic/Pseudo-Chiral Metasurfaces made of Tilted Gold Nanowires, Alessandro Belardini, Marco Centini, Grigore Leahu, David C. Hooper, Roberto Li Voti, Eugenio Fazio, Joseph W. Haus, Andrew Sarangan, Ventsislav K. Valev, and Concita Sibilia

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Fundamentals and Applications of Nanophotonics, Joseph W. Haus

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Giant Irradiance Spikes in Laser Beam Propagation in Volume Turbulence: Analysis and Impact, Svetlana Lachinova and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Degenerate Frequency Two-Beam Coupling in Organic Media via Phase Modulation with Nanosecond Pulses, Jonathan E. Slagle, Joseph W. Haus, Shekhar Guha, Daniel G. McLean, Douglas M. Krein, and Thomas M. Cooper

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Phase Gradient Algorithm Method for 3-D Holographic Ladar Imaging, Jason W. Stafford, Bradley D. Duncan, and David J. Rabb

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High-power Lasers for Directed-energy Applications: Comment, Mikhail Vorontsov and Thomas Weyrauch

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Fiber-Based Saturable-Absorber Action based on a Focusing Kerr Effect, Long Wang and Joseph W. Haus

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Deep Turbulence Effects Mitigation with Coherent Combining of 21 Laser Beams Over 7 km, Thomas Weyrauch, Mikhail Vorontsov, Joseph Mangano, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, David Bricker, Ernst Polnau, and Andrey Rostov

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Acoustic Streaming: Probing Cell Deformability via Acoustically Actuated Bubbles, Yuliang Xie, Nitesh Nama, Peng Li, Zhangming Mao, Po-Hsun Huang, Chenglong Zhao, Francesco Costzano, and Tony Jun Huang

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Probing Cell Deformability via Acoustically Actuated Bubbles, Yuliang Xie, Nitesh Nama, Peng Li, Zhangming Mao, Po-Hsun Huang, Chenglong Zhao, Francesco Costzano, and Tony Jun Huang

Submissions from 2015

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Holographic Assessment of Self-Phase Modulation and Blooming in a Thermal Medium, Ujitha Abeywickrema, Partha P. Banerjee, and N. T. Banerjee

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Role of Antenna Modes and Field Enhancement in Second Harmonic Generation from Dipole Nanoantennas, Domenico de Ceglia, Maria Antonietta Vincenti, Costantino De Angelis, Andrea Locatelli, Joseph W. Haus, and Michael Scalora

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Tunable Narrow Band Difference Frequency THz Wave Generation in DAST via Dual Seed PPLN OPG, Brian Dolasinski, Peter E. Powers, Joseph W. Haus, and Adam Cooney

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Manipulation of Dielectric Rayleigh Particles using Highly Focused Elliptically Polarized Vector Fields, Bing Gu, Danfeng Xu, Guanghao Rui, Meng Lian, Yiping Cui, and Qiwen Zhan

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Design and Alignment Strategies of 4f Systems used in the Vectorial Optical Field Generator, Wei Han, Wen Cheng, and Qiwen Zhan

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Impact of Detector-element Active-area Shape and Fill Factor on Image Sampling, Restoration, and Super-Resolution, Russell C. Hardie, Douglas R. Droege, Alexander J. Dapore, and Mark E. Greiner

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Influence of Heterogeneous Refractivity on Optical Wave Propagation in Coastal Environments, Ping He, Christopher G. Nunalee, Sukanta Basu, Jean Minet, Mikhail Vorontsov, and Steven T. Fiorino

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Robust Super-resolution by Fusion of Interpolated Frames for Color and Grayscale Images, Barry K. Karch and Russell C. Hardie

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Application of Transfer Matrix Method to Second-Harmonic Generation in Nonlinear Photonic Bandgap Structures: Oblique Incidence, Han Li, Joseph W. Haus, and Partha P. Banerjee

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Tungsten Disulphide Based All Fiber Q-Switching Cylindrical-Vector Beam Generation, J. Lin, K. Yan, Yong Zhou, L. X. Xu, C. Gu, and Qiwen Zhan

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A Collaborative Adaptive Wiener Filter for Image Restoration Using a Spatial-Domain Multi-patch Correlation Model, Khaled M. Mohamed and Russell C. Hardie

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A Collaborative Adaptive Wiener Filter for Multi-frame Super-resolution, Khaled M. Mohamed and Russell C. Hardie

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Mapping Optical Ray Trajectories through Island Wake Vortices, Christopher G. Nunalee, Ping He, Sukanta Basu, Jean Minet, and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Tailoring Optical Complex Fields with Nano-Metallic Surfaces, Guanghao Rui and Qiwen Zhan

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Tailoring Optical Complex Field with Spiral Blade Plasmonic Vortex Lens, Guanghao Rui, Qiwen Zhan, and Yiping Cui

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Angularly-Resolved Variable Wave-Retarder using Light Scattering from a Thin Metallic Cylinder, Izcoatl Saucedo-Orozco, Rafael Espinosa-Luna, and Qiwen Zhan

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Dynamic Propagation of Optical Vortices Embedded in Full Poincaré Beams with Rotationally Polarization Symmetry, Haiyan Wang, Guanghao Rui, and Qiwen Zhan

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Generation of Vectorial Optical Fields with Slot-Antenna-Based Metasurface, Shiyi Wang, Don C. Abeysinghe, and Qiwen Zhan

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Application of Up-Sampling and Resolution Scaling to Fresnel Reconstruction of Digital Holograms, Logan Williams, George Nehmetallah, Rola Aylo, and Partha P. Banerjee

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Creation of Identical Multiple Focal Spots with Prescribed Axial Distribution, Yanzhong Yu and Qiwen Zhan

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Generation of a Spherical Focal Spot in a 4Pi Focusing System through Reversing the Radiation of Infinite Biconical Antenna, Yanzhong Yu and Qiwen Zhan

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Generation of Uniform Three-Dimensional Optical Chain with Controllable Characteristics, Yanzhong Yu and Qiwen Zhan

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Optimization-Free Optical Focal Field Engineering through Reversing the Radiation Pattern from a Uniform Line Source, Yanzhong Yu and Qiwen Zhan

Submissions from 2014

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Multilayer Periodic and Random Metamaterial Structures: Analysis and Applications, Rola Aylo, George Nehmetallah, Han Li, and Partha P. Banerjee

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Accounting for the Effect of Large-scale Atmospheric Inhomogeneities in Problems of Laser Radiation Propagation Along Long High-altitude Paths, V. V. Kolosov, V. V. Dudorov, G. A. Filimonov, A. S. Panina, and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Multiframe Adaptive Wiener Filter Super-Resolution with JPEG2000-Compressed Images, Barath Narayanan Narayanan, Russell C. Hardie, and Eric J. Balster

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Computationally Efficient Video Restoration for Nyquist Sampled Imaging Sensors Combining an Affine-motion-based Temporal Kalman Filter and Adaptive Wiener Filter, Michael Armand Rucci, Russell C. Hardie, and Kenneth J. Barnard

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Holographic Volume Displacement Calculations via Multiwavelength Digital Holography, Logan Williams, Partha P. Banerjee, George Nehmetallah, and Sarat C. Praharaj

Submissions from 2013

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Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Materials for Novel Photonic Applications, Partha P. Banerjee, Dean R. Evans, Wei Lee, Victor Yu. Reshetnyak, and Nelson Tansu

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Nanowire Metal-Insulator-Metal Plasmonic Devices, Joseph W. Haus, Li Li, Cong Deng, Nkorni Katte, Michael Scalora, Domenico de Ceglia, and Maria Antonietta Vincenti

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Adaptive Wiener Filter Super-Resolution of Color Filter Array Images, Barry K. Karch and Russell C. Hardie

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Exotic Laser Beam Engineering with Coherent Fiber-Array Systems, Svetlana Lachinova and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Achieving Enhanced Gain in Photorefractive Polymers by Eliminating Electron Contributions Using Large Bias Fields, C. M. Liebig, S. H. Buller, Partha P. Banerjee, S. A. Basun, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, J. Thomas, Cory W. Christenson, N. Peyghambarian, and Dean R. Evans

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Enhanced Correlation of Received Power-Signal Fluctuations in Bidirectional Optical Links, Jean Minet, Mikhail Vorontsov, Ernst Polnau, and Daniel Dolfi

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Bit Error Rate in Free-Space Optical Communication Systems with a Partially Coherent Transmitting Beam, Mikhail Vorontsov, V. V. Dudorov, M. O. Zyryanova, V. V. Kolosov, and G. A. Filimonov

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Digital Tomographic Compressive Holographic Reconstruction of Three-Dimensional Objects in Transmissive and Reflective Geometries, Logan Williams, George Nehmetallah, and Partha P. Banerjee

Submissions from 2012

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Scintillation Resistant Wavefront Sensing Based on Multi-Aperture Phase Reconstruction Technique, Mathieu Aubailly and Mikhail Vorontsov

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Time Dynamics of Self-Pumped Reflection Gratings in a Photorefractive Polymer, Partha P. Banerjee, S. H. Buller, C. M. Liebig, S. A. Basun, Gary Cook, Dean R. Evans, Pierre-Alexandre Blanche, J. Thomas, Cory W. Christenson, and N. Peyghambarian

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Saturated Semiconductor Optical Amplifier Phase Modulation for Long Range Laser Radar Applications, Jennifer L. Carns, Bradley D. Duncan, and Matthew P. Dierking

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Q-switched Er/Yb Double Clad Single Mode Fiber Laser, Andres Gonzalez Garcia, Baldemar Ibarra-Escamilla, Eugene A. Kuzin, Olivier M. Pottiez, Manuel Duran Sanchez, Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, and Peter E. Powers

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Fast Super-Resolution Using an Adaptive Wiener Filter with Robustness to Local Motion, Russell C. Hardie and Kenneth J. Barnard

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Co-Sputtered SiC + Ag Nanomixtures as Visible Wavelength Negative Index Metamaterials, George Nehmetallah, Rola Aylo, Peter Powers, Andrew Sarangan, J. Gao, Han Li, A. Archari, and Partha P. Banerjee

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Applications of Digital and Analog Holography in Three-Dimensional Imaging, George Nehmetallah and Partha P. Banerjee

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Demonstrated Resolution Enhancement Capability of a Stripmap Holographic Aperture Ladar System, Samuel M. Venable, Bradley D. Duncan, Matthew P. Dierking, and David J. Rabb

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Speckle-Metric-Optimization-Based Adaptive Optics for Laser Beam Projection and Coherent Beam Combining, Mikhail Vorontsov, Thomas Weyrauch, Svetlana Lachinova, Micah Gatz, and Gary W. Carhart