Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Digital phase correction of a partially coherent sparse aperture system, Sarah Elaine Krug
Analysis and applications of novel optical single- and multi-layer structures, Han Li
Suppression of moire patterns in digital holography, Peiyun Li
Room temperature lasing in GeSn alloys, Zairui Li
Accurate determination of nonlinear optical properties of cadmium magnesium telluride, David J. Lombardo
Engineering electromagnetic wave properties using subwavelength antennas structures, Shiyi Wang
Deposition methods and thermoresistive properties of vanadium oxide and amorphous silicon thin films, Mengyang Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Tapered optical fiber platform for high sensitivity refractive index sensing applications, Amit Ben Harush Negari
Propagation dynamics of spatio-temporal wave packets, Qian Cao
Wet etching optical fibers to sub-micron diameters for sensing application, Ziruo Cui
Nonlinear systems for frequency conversion from IR to RF, Brian D. Dolasinski
Fabrication of a deoxyribonucleic acid polymer ridge waveguide electro-optic modulator by nanoimprint lithography, Emily Marie Fehrman Cory
Characterizing phase noise for beam steering devices, Shane Matthew Gillespie
Evaluation of digital holographic reconstruction techniques for use in one-shot multi-angle holographic tomography, Haipeng Liu
Noninterferometric tomographic reconstruction of 3D static and dynamic amplitude and phase objects, Sarvenaz Memarzadeh
Effects of different wetting layers on the growth of smooth ultra-thin silver thin films, Chuan Ni
Degenerate frequency two beam coupling in organic media via phase modulation, Jonathan E. Slagle
Nanoimprint fabrication of wire-grid polarizers using deep-UV interference lithography, Junxin Wang
Digital holography for three dimensional tomographic and topographic measurements, Logan A. Williams
Spin Hall effect of vortex beams, Zhicheng Xiao
World wide study of the performance of a sodium guidestar, Steven M. Zuraski
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Ladar: a mono-static system for sense and avoid applications, Cullen Philip Bradley
Analysis of joint effects of refraction and turbulence on laser beam propagation in the atmosphere, David A. Bricker
Optical vortex beams: generation, propagation and applications, Wen Cheng
Phase noise analysis of 3D images from a two wavelength coherent imaging system, Benjamin Robert Dapore
Engineering of complex optical fields and its applications, Wei Han
Evanescent and plasmonic sensing using linear and radial polarization modes in tapered microfibers, Ighodalo Uchenna Idehenre
Study of metal-insulator-metal diodes for photodetection, Li Li
Wavefront control with realistic spatial light modulator in a multi-aperture imager, Guimin Wu
Numerical study on the characteristics of metal insulator metal diode integrated with spiral optical antenna, Zhijun Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Doppler shift analysis for a holographic aperture ladar system, Ross Lee Bobb
Semiconductor optical amplifier as a phase modulator for short-pulse synthetic aperture ladar and vibrometry, Jennifer Lynn Carns
Signal to noise ratio effects on aperture synthesis for digital holographic ladar, Maureen Elizabeth Crotty
Sensor hardening through translation of the detector from the focal plane, Marc A. Finet
Fluorescence enhancement using one-dimensional photonic band gap multilayer structure, Jian Gao
Seeded, gain-switched chromium doped zinc selenide amplifier, Sean A. McDaniel
Demonstrated resolution enhancement capability of a stripmap holographic aperture ladar system, Samuel Martin Venable
Optical tweezers using cylindrical vector beams, Chenchen Wan
Propagation of Gaussian beams through a modified von Karman phase screen, Erica Marie Whitfield
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Stretch processing of simultaneous, segmented bandwidth linear frequency modulation in coherent ladar, Robert L. Brown
Speckle statistics of articulating objects, Dallis Gale Conrad
Ion implantation study of Be in InSb for photodiode fabrication, Josh Duran
Longwave-infrared optical parametric oscillator in orientation-patterned gallium arsenide, Ryan K. Feaver
Diode-pumped, 2-micron, q-switched tm:YAG microchip laser, Charles D. Phelps
Analysis of atmospheric turbulence effects on laser beam propagation using multi-wavelength laser beacons, Joseph Lee Reierson
Design, fabrication, and characterization of subwavelength metallic structures, Zhi Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Sparse frequency laser radar signal modeling and doppler processing, Eric Stanton Bailey
Versatile chromium-doped zinc selenide infrared laser sources, Patrick A. Berry
The growth of columnar thin films and their characterization within the visible and near infrared spectral bands, Benjamin David Booso
Investigation of liquid crystal spatial light modulators to simulate speckle fields, Jared Michael Cordray
Design and analysis of a poled-polymer electro-optic modulator with a strip-loaded waveguide structure, Antonio Arthur Davis
Beam switching of an Nd:YAG laser using domain engineered prisms in magnesium oxide doped congruent lithium niobate, Jonathan W. Evans
Wave propagation through multi-layer metallo-dielectrics application to super-resolution, Jean Bosco Serushema
Building and testing a high spatial resolution nulling microellipsometer using rotational polarization symmetry, Alain Ngoy Tschimwang
Development of high power fiber laser technologies, Renjie Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Propagation of vortex beams through a turbulent atmosphere, Wen Cheng
Focus engineering with spatially variant polarization for nanometer scale applications, Weibin Chen
Sparse frequency linearly frequency modulated laser radar signal generation, detection, and processing, Robert Vito Chimenti
Theoretical and computational design of terahertz frequency quantum cascade lasers, Adam Todd Cooney
Novel optical components for non-mechanical beam steering, Katherine Lisa Drain
Accurate determination of nonlinear optical parameters of semiconductors at infrared wavelengths, Leonel Pastor Gonzalez
Effects of multiple photon scattering in deciduous tree canopies, Michael A. Greiner
Transmissive beam steering through electrowetting microprism arrays, Wei Han
Perturbation analysis and experimental demonstration of holographic aperture ladar systems, Jason Wade Stafford
Improving mid-frequency contrast in sparse aperture optical imaging systems based upon the Golay-N family of arrays, Andrew James Stokes
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Charcterization of periodically poled nonlinear materials using digital image processing, James R. Alverson
Restoration of defocused imagery from incoherently illuminated imaging systems with modeled point spread functions and wiener filters, Mark R. Burky
Characterization of temperature dependent nonlinear optical properties of semiconductor materials, Vincent M. Cowan
Femtosecond laser micromachining technology, materials processing and evaluation, George Logan DesAutels
Nonlinear materials characterization with femtosecond laser pulses, Geoffrey Drake Jenkins
Theoretical and experimental study of terahertz wave generation via optical rectification, Wenzao Li
Cascaded crystal optical parametic amplifier model using measured complex beam profiles and its experimental validation, Anup R. Pandey
Two dimensional photonic crystals with anisotropic constituents and their propagation characteristics, Mohammad Masud Siraj
Novel wiregrid micropolarizers for infrared imaging polarimetry, Zhi Wu
A scanning microscope platform for high resolution nonlinear imaging and laser direct writing, Shuangyang Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2007
Sub-nanosecond infrared optical parametric pulse generation in periodically poled lithium niobate pumped by a seeded fiber amplifier, Matthew D. Cocuzzi
The design and fabrication of high performance optical interference filters for the mid-infrared region, Emily Marie Fehrman Cory
Monte Carlo simulation of tree canopy scattering and propagation, Michael A. Greiner
Effects of spatial modes on ladar vibration signature estimation, Douglas Furman Jameson
Continuous wave periodically poled lithium niobate bowtie ring optical parametric oscillator, Sean Patrick Kelley
Optical sparse aperture imaging, Nicholas James Miller
Self-pumped Gaussian beam-coupling and stimulated backscatter due to reflection gratings in a photorefractive material, Mohammad Abu Saleh
Theses/Dissertations from 2006
Imaging diffractometer with holographic encoding enhancements for laser sensing and characterization, Joseph L. Binford
Resonant polymer devices for electro-optic modulation and sensing, Brad M. Birchfield
Characterization of the temperature dependence of the index of refraction and the thermo-optic coefficient for infrared materials, Christopher J. DiRocco
The development of an all-DNA-based electro-optic waveguide modulator, Emily Marie Heckman
Resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) techniques for increasing the efficiency of quantum well photodetectors, Jang Pyo Kim
One and two dimensional surface emitting distributed feedback lasers based on MEH-PPV, Aziz Mahfoud Familia
Nonlinear effects in bulk optical materials interacting with femtosecond laser pulses, Paul Conrad Noffke
Free-space optical communications performance enhancement by use of a single adaptive optics correcting element, Jason Daniel Schmidt
Designing and testing a nulling radially symmetric microellipsometer, Alain Ngoy Tschimwang
Distinction between deterministic and random beam fanning in photorefractive materials, Arun M. Venkataraman
Theses/Dissertations from 2005
Narrow linewidth terahertzgeneration from two seeded periodically poled lithium niobate optical parametric generators and applications, Rashid Ahmed Alkuwari
Development and comparison of ultra sensitive optical absorption spectroscopy techniques employing high-finesse optical cavities, Saffar Arjmandi
Thermal lens mitigation and modeling of chromium-doped zinc selenide laser sources, Patrick A. Berry
Photonic band gap enhanced second-harmonic generation in a planar lithium niobate waveguide, Cong Deng
