A collection of CREOL Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Novel Solid State Lasers Based on Volume Bragg Gratings, Evan Hale
Fundamental Properties of Metallic Nanolasers, William Hayenga
Stable, Highly Luminescent Perovskite-Polymer Composites for Photonics Applications, Juan He
Holographic Optical Elements for Visible Light Applications in Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Fedor Kompan
Mode Coupling in Space-division Multiplexed Systems, Huiyuan Liu
Third-order Optical Nonlinearities for Integrated Microwave Photonics Applications, Marcin Malinowski
Processing of Advanced Infrared Materials, Daniel Mcgill
Non-Hermitian and Space-Time Mode Management, Nicholas Nye
Artificial Magnetism and Topological Phenomena in Optics, Midya Parto
Filament Plasma Density Enhancement Using Two Co-Propagating Beams, Jessica Pena
Broadband Mid-infrared Frequency Combs Generated via Frequency Division, Qitian Ru
Computational Imaging Systems for High-speed, Adaptive Sensing Applications, Yangyang Sun
High Performance Liquid Crystal Devices for Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality, Md Javed Rouf Talukder
Design and Fabrication of Scalable Multifunctional Multimaterial Fibers and Textiles, Felix Tan
High-dynamic-range Foveated Near-eye Display System, Guanjun Tan
Imaging through Glass-air Anderson Localizing Optical Fiber, Jian Zhao
Computational Imaging with Limited Photon Budget, Zheyuan Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2018
Fiber Optimization for Operation Beyond Transverse Mode Instability Limitations, Joshua Bradford
Nonlinear Dynamics in Multimode Optical Fibers, Mohammad Amin Eftekhar
Mode-locked Laser Based on Large Core Yb3+-Doped Fiber, Fei Jia
Analysis and Design of Non-Hermitian Optical Systems, Ali Kazemi Jahromi
Development of a Tabletop Coherent Soft X-ray Source, Hanfu Kong
Liquid Crystal Phase Modulation for Beam Steering and Near-eye Displays, Yun-Han Lee
Generation and Characterization of Isolated Attosecond Pulse in the Soft X-ray Regime, Jie Li
Power Scaling of High Power Solid State Lasers., Bumjin Oh
Thin-film Lithium Niobate Photonics for Electro-optics, Nonlinear Optics, and Quantum Optics on Silicon, Ashutosh Rao
Single Mode Wavelength-Tunable Thulium Fiber, Dong Jin Shin
2 Micron Fiber Lasers: Power Scaling Concepts and Limitations, Alex Sincore
Non-Hermitian Optics, Absar Ulhassan
Cavity-Coupled Plasmonic Systems for Enhanced Light-Matter Interactions, Abraham Vazquez-Guardado
Theses/Dissertations from 2017
Harnessing Spatial Intensity Fluctuations for Optical Imaging and Sensing, Milad Akhlaghi Bouzan
Noise, Stability, and Linewidth Performance of 10-GHz Optical Frequency Combs Generated from the Nested Cavity Architecture, Kristina Bagnell
Advanced liquid crystal displays with supreme image qualities, Haiwei Chen
Photothermal Lensing in Mid-Infrared Materials, Justin Cook
Novel Photonic Resonance Arrangements Using Non-Hermitian Exceptional Points, Hossein Hodaei
Mode Evolution in Fiber Based Devices for Optical Communication Systems, Bin Huang
Enhanced Ablation by Femtosecond and Nanoseond Pulses, Haley Kerrigan
High Performance Liquid Crystals for Displays and Spatial Light Modulators, Fenglin Peng
Design of a Hydrogen-Filled Hollow-core Fiber Raman Laser, Yangyang Qin
Design and Verification of a Multi-Terawatt Ti-Sapphire Femtosecond Laser System, Patrick Roumayah
Laser-induced crystallization mechanisms in chalcogenide glass materials for advanced optical functionality, Laura Sisken
Thermal and Waveguide Optimization of Broad Area Quantum Cascade Laser Performance, Matthew Suttinger
Filament Wavefront Evolution, Daniel Thul
Generation of High-Flux Attosecond Pulses and Towards Attosecond-Attosecond Pump-Probe Experiments, Yang Wang
System for Metal Coated Fiber Fabrication, Da Zhang
High dynamic range display systems, Ruidong Zhu
Picosecond Yb-Doped Fiber Amplifier, Weibin Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2016
Monolithically Integrated InP-based Unidirectional Circulators Utilizing non-Hermiticity and Nonlinearity, Parinaz Aleahmad
Hybrid Integrated Photonic Platforms and Devices, Jeffrey Chiles
Fabrication and Characterization of Spatially-Variant Self-Collimating Photonic Crystals, Jennefir Digaum
Laser Filament Interaction with Aerosols and Clouds, Cheonha Jeon
Coupling of Laser Beams for Filament Propagation, Daniel Kepler
Broad Bandwidth Optical Frequency Combs from Low Noise, High Repetition Rate Semiconductor Mode-Locked Lasers, Anthony Klee
Intrinsic Modulation Response Modeling and Analysis for Lithographic Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers, Mingxin Li
Multi-Purpose device for analyzing and measuring ultra-short pulses, Naman Anilkumar Mehta
Sensing using Specialty Optical Fibers, Amy Van Newkirk
Design and Engineering of Ultrafast Amplifier Systems, Benjamin Webb
Advanced Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Displays, Daming Xu
Ultrafast Mechanisms of Nonlinear Refraction and Two-photon Photochromism, Peng Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2015
Transverse mode selection and brightness enhancement in laser resonators by means of volume Bragg gratings, Brian Anderson
Nano and Nanostructured Materials for Optical Applications, Panit Chantharasupawong
Low Absorption Liquid Crystal Materials for Midwave Infrared, Amy Creekmore
Towards High-Flux Isolated Attosecond Pulses with a 200 TW CPA, Eric Cunningham
Atmospheric Pressure Chemical Vapor Deposition of Functional Oxide Materials for Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells, Kristopher Davis
White Light Continuum for Broadband Nonlinear Spectroscopy, Trenton Ensley
Liquid Crystal-Based Biosensors for the Detection of Bile Acids, Sihui He
Entanglement and Coherence in Classical and Quantum Optics, Kumel Kagalwala
Conservation Laws and Electromagnetic Interactions, Veerachart Kajorndejnukul
Photon Statistics in Disordered Lattices, Hasan Kondakci
Nanoscale Control of Gap-plasmon Enhanced Optical Processes, Chatdanai Lumdee
High Efficiency and Wide Color Gamut Liquid Crystal Displays, Zhenyue Luo
Optical Propagation of Self-sustaining Wavefronts and Nonlinear Dynamics in Parabolic Multimode Fibers, Matthew Mills
Two-photon absorption in bulk semiconductors and quantum well structures and its applications, Himansu Pattanaik
Nonlinear Optical Response of Simple Molecules and Two-Photon Semiconductor Lasers, Matthew Reichert
True linearized intensity modulation for photonic analog to digital conversion using an injection-locked mode-locked laser, Edris Sarailou
Broadband Coherent Perfect Absorption in One-Dimensional Optical Systems, Massimo Maximilian Villinger
Optical Fibers for Space-Division Multiplexed Transmission and Networking, Cen Xia
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Photonic Filtering for Applications in Microwave Generation and Metrology, Marcus Bagnell
Injection-Locked Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) for Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation, Sharad Bhooplapur
Advanced Liquid Crystal Materials For Display And Photonic Applications, Yuan Chen
Large Area Conformal Infrared Frequency Selective Surfaces, Jeffrey D'Archangel
Particle Manipulation Via Optical Forces and Engineering Soft-Matter Systems With Tunable Nonlinearities., Shima Fardad
Techniques For Characterization Of Third Order Optical Nonlinearities, Manuel Ferdinandus
High resolution time-resolved imaging system in the vacuum ultraviolet region, Yuseong Jang
Specialty Fiber Lasers and Novel Fiber Devices, Clemence Jollivet
Multifunctional, Multimaterial Particle Fabrication Via an In-Fiber Fluid Instability, Joshua Kaufman
Highly-Sensitive Stoichiometric Analysis of YAG Ceramics Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Jahromi, Ali Kazemi
Laser Filamentation - Beyond Self-focusing and Plasma Defocusing, Khan Lim
Semiconductor Laser Based on Thermoelectrophotonics, Xiaohang Liu
High Performance Three-Dimensional Display Based on Polymer-Stabilized Blue Phase Liquid Crystal, Yifan Liu
Nonlinear integrated photonics on silicon and gallium arsenide substrates, Jichi Ma
Entangled Photon Pairs in Disordered Photonic Lattices, Lane Martin
Parity-time and supersymmetry in optics, Mohammad Ali Miri
Frequency Selective Detection of Infrared Radiation in Uncooled Optical Nano-Antenna Array, Sushrut Modak
Holographic Recording and Applications of Multiplexed Volume Bragg Gratings in Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Daniel Ott
LP fiber mode converters using holographic phase mask in photo-thermo-refractive glass, Aniket Patil
Multimaterial Fibers And Tapers A Platform For Nonlinear Photonics And Nanotechnology, Soroush Shabahang