A collection of CREOL Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.

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Theses/Dissertations from 2023

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Structural Transformations in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass for Hologram Recording, Roberto Alejandro Alvarez Aguirre

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Fabrication of Alkaline-Earth Fluoride Ceramics for High-Power Lasers via Fusion Casting and Hot Forging, Adrian Cintron

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Deep Learning-Based Microscopy, Vahid Ebrahimi

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Imaging And Computation Using Vector Modes, Alireza Fardoost

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High-Dynamic-Range and High-Efficiency Near-Eye Display Systems, En-Lin Hsiang

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Reflective Planar Optics with Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Near-Eye Displays, Yannanqi Li

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Active Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits on Thin-film Lithium Niobate Platform, Ehsan Ordouie

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Random Channel Cryptography: Classical Key Distribution via Random Mode Mixing in Fiber, Rachel Sampson

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Integrated Frequency Combs for Applications in Optical Communications & Microwave Photonics, Chinmay Shirpurkar

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Long Range Propagation of Single Laser Pulses and Bursts of Pulses Through Varying Atmospheric Conditions, LaShae Smith

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Ablation Efficiency of Metals and Semiconductors in Single Nanosecond Pulse and Femtosecond Gigahertz Burst Regimes, Owen Thome

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Creation of Three-Dimensional Gradient Refractive Index Profiles in Bulk Ge-As-Pb-Se Glasses, Anna Zachariou

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High-efficieny Ultrafast Mid-infrared Source for Strong Field Science, Fangjie Zhou

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Compact and High Optical Efficiency Near-Eye Displays with Liquid Crystal Flat Optics, Junyu Zou

Theses/Dissertations from 2022

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On the Passive Sensing of Static and Dynamic Properties of Secondary Sources of Radiation, Mahed Batarseh

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First and Third Order Susceptibility of Organic Molecules, Hao-Jung Chang

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Volumetric Microfabrication with Structured Light, He Cheng

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Third Order Nonlinear Optics in Solids, Nicholas Cox

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Integrated Electro-Optic, Microwave, and Nonlinear Photonic Devices on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate, Milad Gholipour Vazimali

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Uncooled Microbolometer Imaging Systems for Machine Vision, Robert Grimming

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Machine Learning in Fiber Optics, Xiaowen Hu

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Volume Bragg Gratings With Complex Phase Structures: A Three-Dimensional Foundation For Laser-Beam Engineering, Lam Mach

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Compact Lens Technologies: Curved Image Sensor and Volumetric Imaging Efficiency, Zhao Ma

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Development of Holographic Phase Masks for Wavefront Shaping, Nafiseh Mohammadian

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Filament Propagation through Atmospheric Conditions, Jessica Pena

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Measurement of Transient Coherent Effects in IR/THz Double Resonance Spectroscopy in the Low-Pressure Regime, Max Schneiderman

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Optimization-Based Approaches to Low-Coherence Optical Diffraction Tomography, Seth Smith-Dryden

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Diamond Raman Seed Laser Using Nd:YVO4 Oscillator and Ytterbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers, Jordan Smith

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Light Trapping Transparent Electrodes, Mengdi Sun

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Spatio-Temporal Fluctuations of Light Interacting with Complex Media, Ruitao Wu

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Light Guiding and Concentrating using Self-Collimating Spatially-Variant Photonic Crystals, Chun Xia

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Diffractive Liquid Crystal Optical Elements For Near-eye Displays, Jianghao Xiong

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Physics and Applications of Space-Time Wave Packets, Murat Yessenov

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Patterned Liquid Crystal Devices for Near-eye Displays, Kun Yin

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Multi-Plane Light Conversion: Devices and Applications, Yuanhang Zhang

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Direct Laser Writing below the Diffraction Limit by Exploring Multi-Pulse-Induced Physics, Boyang Zhou

Theses/Dissertations from 2021

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Integrated Thin-film Lithium Niobate Devices and Circuits for Nonlinear- and Quantum-optic Applications, Kamal Mohamed Khalil Abdelsalam

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Novel Optical Frequency Combs Injection Locking Architectures, Ricardo Bustos Ramirez

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High Power Ytterbium and Thulium Fiber Lasers, Justin Cook

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Development of Quantitative Intensity-Based Single-Molecule Assays, Benjamin Croop

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UV-Ozone Oxide Treatments for High-Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaic Devices, Munan Gao

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Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications in Fiber Laser Systems, Stefan Gausmann

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Spectral Dependence of Deep Subwavelength Metallic Apertures in the Mid-wave Infrared, Heath Gemar

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Directional Link Management using In-Band Full-Duplex Free Space Optical Transceivers for Aerial Nodes, A F M Saniul Haq

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Ultraviolet Solar Blind Ga2O3-Based Photodetectors, Isa Hatipoglu

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Novel Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices Enabled by Liquid Crystal Alignment Engineering, Ziqian He

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Measurement and Mitigation of Optical, Recombination and Resistive Losses in Silicon Photovoltaics, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain

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Nonlinear Light-matter Interactions in Novel Crystals for Broadband Mid-infrared Generation, Taiki Kawamori

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Long-Range Laser-Material Interactions with High-Intensity Laser Pulses, Haley Kerrigan

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Multi-functional Fluorescence Microscopy via PSF Engineering for High-throughput Super-resolution Imaging, Jinhan Ren

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High Spectral Brightness, Broad Area Quantum Cascade Lasers, Enrique Sanchez Cristobal

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On the Information Content in Unresolved Imaging, Zhean Shen

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High Speed Modulation Characteristics of Semiconductor Nanolasers and Coupled Ring Laser Systems, Chi Xu

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The Physics of Nanoaperture Optical Traps: Design, Fabrication and Experimentation, Chenyi Zhang

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Liquid Crystal Flat Optics for Near-eye Displays, Tao Zhan

Theses/Dissertations from 2020

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Nonlinear Optical Mechanisms in Semiconductors and Enhanced Nonlinearities at Epsilon-Near-Zero, Sepehr Ahmadzadeh Benis

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Novel Fibers and Components for Space Division Multiplexing Technologies, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias

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Wave-optics Simulation of Correlated Speckle Fields, Derek Burrell

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MidWave vs LongWave Infrared Search and Track and Aerosol Scattering Target Acquisition Performance, Steven Butrimas

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Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in the Water Window, Andrew Chew

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Iterative Optical Diffraction Tomography for Reconstruction of Multiply-scattering Objects, Shengli Fan

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High Performance Micro-scale Light Emitting Diode Display, Fangwang Gou

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High-fidelity Mini-LED and Micro-LED Displays, Yuge Huang

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Multi-parameter Optical Metrology: Quantum and Classical, Walker Larson

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Machine Learning Inspired Optoelectronic Devices, Jinxin Li

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Novel Linear and Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers, Helena Estefania Lopez Aviles

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Enhancement of absorptance by ultrafast laser pulse shaping for efficient laser processing of thin polymers, Arifur Rahaman

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New Architectures for High Brightness Laser Emission: Thulium Lasers and Raman Lasers in Fiber and Diamond, Patrick Roumayah

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Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion and Polarization Diversity, Tracy Sjaardema

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High Average Brightness Broad Area Quantum Cascade Lasers, Matthew Suttinger

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Fluorescence Microscopy with Tailored Illumination Light, Jialei Tang

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Ultrafast High-energy Laser Systems for Filament Applications, Daniel Thul

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Transient Mid-IR Nonlinear Refraction in Air and Nonlinear Optical properties of Organometallic Complexes, Salimeh Tofighi

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Parallelized X-Ray Tracing with GPU Ray-Tracing Engine, Joseph Ulseth

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Few-Mode Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Ning Wang

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Development of High-power Single-mode Yb-doped Fiber Amplifiers and Beam Analysis, Steffen Wittek

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Thermodynamic Theory of Heavily Multimoded Nonlinear Optical Systems, Fan Wu

Theses/Dissertations from 2019

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Cryogenic Performance Projections for Ultra-small Oxide-free Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers, Mina Bayat

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Hybrid Integration of Second- and Third-order Highly Nonlinear Waveguides on Silicon Substrates, Guillermo Fernando Camacho Gonzalez

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Quantum Dot Light Emitting Devices (QLEDs) for Display, Lighting and Beyond, Hao Chen

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Optical Sensing of Structural Dynamics in Complex Media, Jose Rafael Guzman Sepulveda

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Novel Solid State Lasers Based on Volume Bragg Gratings, Evan Hale

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Fundamental Properties of Metallic Nanolasers, William Hayenga

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Stable, Highly Luminescent Perovskite-Polymer Composites for Photonics Applications, Juan He

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Holographic Optical Elements for Visible Light Applications in Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Fedor Kompan

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Mode Coupling in Space-division Multiplexed Systems, Huiyuan Liu

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Third-order Optical Nonlinearities for Integrated Microwave Photonics Applications, Marcin Malinowski

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Processing of Advanced Infrared Materials, Daniel Mcgill

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Non-Hermitian and Space-Time Mode Management, Nicholas Nye

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Artificial Magnetism and Topological Phenomena in Optics, Midya Parto

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Filament Plasma Density Enhancement Using Two Co-Propagating Beams, Jessica Pena

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Broadband Mid-infrared Frequency Combs Generated via Frequency Division, Qitian Ru

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Computational Imaging Systems for High-speed, Adaptive Sensing Applications, Yangyang Sun

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High Performance Liquid Crystal Devices for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Md Javed Rouf Talukder

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Design and Fabrication of Scalable Multifunctional Multimaterial Fibers and Textiles, Felix Tan

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High-dynamic-range Foveated Near-eye Display System, Guanjun Tan

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Imaging through Glass-air Anderson Localizing Optical Fiber, Jian Zhao

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Computational Imaging with Limited Photon Budget, Zheyuan Zhu

Theses/Dissertations from 2018

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Fiber Optimization for Operation Beyond Transverse Mode Instability Limitations, Joshua Bradford

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Nonlinear Dynamics in Multimode Optical Fibers, Mohammad Amin Eftekhar