A collection of CREOL Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2014
Distribution of Laser Induced Heating in Multi-Component Chalcogenide Glass and its Associated Effects, Laura Sisken
Multimaterial fibers in photonics and nanotechnology, Guangming Tao
Cascaded plasmon resonances for enhanced nonlinear optical response, Seyfollah Toroghi
Generation and characterization of sub-70 isolated attosecond pulses, Qi Zhang
Self-heating control of edge emitting and vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, Yu Zhang
Theses/Dissertations from 2013
Mode-division Multiplexed Transmission In Few-mode Fibers, Neng Bai
Phase-locking Stability Of A Quasi-single-cycle Pulse, Nathan Bodnar
The Impact Of Growth Conditions On Cubic Znmgo Ultraviolet Sensors, Ryan Boutwell
Inverse Problems In Multiple Light Scattering, John Broky
External Cavity Mode-locked Semiconductor Lasers For The Generation Of Ultra-low Noise Multi-gigahertz Frequency Combs And Applications In Multi-heterodyne Detection Of Arbitrary Optical Waveforms, Josue Davila-Rodriguez
Mesoscale Light-matter Interactions, Kyle Douglass
Peak Power Scaling Of Nanosecond Pulses In Thulium Based Fiber Lasers, Christian Gaida
Pulsed Tm-fiber Laser For Mid-ir Generation, Pankaj Kadwani
Properties Of High Energy Laser Light Transmission Through Large Core Optical Cables, Christopher Kennedy
Optically Induced Forces In Scanning Probe Microscopy, Dana Kohlgraf-Owens
Metrology Of Volume Chirped Bragg Gratings Recorded In Photo-thermo-refractive Glass For Ultrashort Pulse Stretching And Compressing, Christopher Lantigua
Fabrication Of Metallic Antenna Arrays Using Nanoimprint Lithography, Yu-Wei Lin
Development Of Laser Spectroscopy For Elemental And Molecular Analysis, Yuan Liu
Femtosecond Filament Interaction As A Probe For Molecular Alignment, Erik McKee
Beam Deflection, Matthias Münnich,
Absorptive And Refractive Optical Nonlinearities In Organic Molecules And Semiconductors, Davorin Peceli
Reduced Susceptibility Of Deformation Due To Vibrational And Gravitational Effects On A Focus Variable Adaptive Lens, Victoriya Relina
Volume Phase Masks In Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Marc SeGall
Development Of Thulium Fiber Lasers For High Average Power And High Peak Power Operation, Robert Sims
Fast-response Liquid Crystals For Photonic And Display Applications, Jie Sun
Non-degenerate Two Photon Gain In Bulk Gallium Arsenide, Brendan Turnbull
High Energy, High Average Power, Picosecond Laser Systems To Drive Few-cycle Opcpa, Andreas Vaupel
Wavelength Scale Resonant Structures For Integrated Photonic Applications, Matthew Weed
Growth And Characterization Of Zno Based Semiconductor Materials And Devices, Ming Wei
Injection Locking Of Semiconductor Mode-locked Lasers For Long-term Stability Of Widely Tunable Frequency Combs, Charles Williams
Ytterbium-doped Fiber-seeded Thin-disk Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Laser System, Christina Willis-Ott
High Flux Isolated Attosecond Pulse Generation, Yi Wu
Optically Isotropic Liquid Crystals For Display And Photonic Applications, Jin Yan
Theses/Dissertations from 2012
Vertical Field Switching Blue Phase Liquid Crystals For Field Sequential Color Displays, Hui-Chuan Cheng
Submillisecond-response Blue Phase Liquid Crystals For Display Applications, Kuan Ming Chen
Phonon Modulation By Polarized Lasers For Material Modification, Sen-Yong Chen
Image Degradation Due To Surface Scattering In The Presence Of Aberrations, Narak Choi
Infrared Tapered Slot Antennas Coupled To Tunnel Diodes, Louis A. Florence
Injection-locked Semiconductor Lasers For Realization Of Novel Rf Photonics Components, Nazanin Hoghooghi
Non-reciprocal Wave Transmission In Integrated Waveguide Array Isolators, Tony Yatming Ho
Third Order Nonlinearity Of Organic Molecules, Honghua Hu
Applications Of Volume Holographic Elements In High Power Fiber Lasers, Apurva Jain
Random Transformations Of Optical Fields And Applications, Thomas Kohlgraf-Owens
High-efficiency Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Displays, Yan Li
Low Voltage Blue Phase Liquid Crystal Displays, Linghui Rao
An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Visual Effects And Object Identification Using Eye-tracking, Jonathan Rosch
Laser Filamentation Interaction With Materials For Spectroscopic Applications, Matthew Weidman
Optical Fluid-based Photonic And Display Devices, Su Xu
Lithographic Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers, Guowei Zhao
Theses/Dissertations from 2011
Ultra High Density Spectral Beam Combining By Thermal Tuning Of Volume Bragg Gratings In Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Derrek Drachenberg
Few-cycle Pulses Amplification For Attosecond Science Applications Modeling And Experiments, Michael Hemmer
Perceptual Image Quality Of Launch Vehicle Imaging Telescopes, Joshua K. Lentz
Low Noise And Low Repetition Rate Semiconductor-based Mode-locked Lasers, Dimitrios Mandridis
Design, Fabrication, And Testing Of High-transparency Deep Ultra-violet Contacts Using Surface Plasmon Coupling In Subwavelength Aluminum Meshes, Clarisse Mazuir
Theoretical Study Of Beam Transformations By Volume Diffraction, Sergiy V. Mokhov
Photodisruption in Ocular Tissue Near and at the Boundary Between the Anterior Chamber and Crystalline Lens, Richard Ty Olmstead
Low Noise, Narrow Optical Linewidth Semiconductor-based Optical Comb Source And Low Noise Rf Signal Generation, Ibrahim Tuna Ozdur
Electromagnetic Propagation Anomalies In Waveguiding Structures And Scattering Systems, Alessandro Salandrino
Characterization of the Nonlinear Refractive Index of Carbon Disulfide Over an Extended Spectral and Temporal Range, Marcus Seidel
Infrared Phased-array Antenna-coupled Tunnel Diodes, Brian Alan Slovick
Multilayered Planar Periodic Subwavelength Microstructures For Generating And Detecting Circularly Polarized Thermal Infrared Radiation, Samuel Lanning Wadsworth
Computationally Efficient Digital Backward Propagation For Fiber Nonlinearity Compensation, Likai Zhu
Theses/Dissertations from 2010
Fabrication Of Integrated Optofluidic Circuits In Chalcogenide Glass Using Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing, Troy P. Anderson
Electro-optical And All-optical Switching In Multimode Interference Waveguides Incorporating Semiconductor Nanostructures, Nathan Bickel
Application Of Antenna Synthesis And Digital Signal Processing Techniques For Active Millimeter-wave Imaging Systems, Wilson Ariel Caba
Experimental And Theoretical Approaches To Characterization Of Electronic Nonlinearities In Direct-gap Semiconductors, Claudiu Cirloganu
New Laser Technologies Analysis Of Quantum Dot And Lithographic Laser Diodes, Abdullah Demir
Freeform Reflector Design With Extended Sources, Florian Fournier
Plasmon Enhanced Near-field Interactions In Surface Coupled Nanoparticle Arrays For Integrated Nanophotonic Devices, Amitabh Ghoshal
Near-field Optical Interactions And Applications, David Haefner
The Development Of Scalable Pump Techniques For Gg Iag Fiber Lasers And Passive Athermalization Techniques For Solid State Laser, William Hageman
Fast-response Liquid Crystal Displays, Meizi Jiao
Quantum Dot Based Mode-locked Semiconductor Lasers And Applications, Jimyung Kim
Response-calibration Techniques For Antenna-coupled Infrared Sensors, Peter Krenz
Epitaxial Growth, Characterization And Application Of Novel Wide Bandgap Oxide Semiconductors, Jeremy Mares
Development Of Optical Coherence Tomography For Tissue Diagnostics, Panomsak Meemon
Nonlinear Absorption And Free Carrier Recombination In Direct Gap Semiconductors, Peter D. Olszak
Silicon-sensitized Erbium Excitation In Silicon-rich Silica For Integrated Photonics, Oleksandr Savchyn
Misalignment Induced Nodal Aberration Fields And Their Use In The Alignment Of Astronomical Telescopes, Tobias Schmid
Modeling And Design Of A Photonic Crystal Chip Hosting A Quantum Network Made Of Single Spins In Quantum Dots That Interact Via Single Photons, Hubert P. Seigneur
Long Cavity Quantum Dot Laser Diode And Monolithic Passively Mode-locked Operation, K Shavitranuruk
Accelerating Optical Airy Beams, Georgios Siviloglou
Fast Response Dual Frequency Liquid Crystal Materials, Qiong Song
Theses/Dissertations from 2009
Dense Spectral Beam Combining With Volume Bragg Gratings In Photo-thermo-refractive Glass, Oleksiy Andrusyak
Femtosecond Laser Written Volumetric Diffractive Optical Elements And Their Applications, Jiyeon Choi
Wavefront Sensor For Eye Aberrations Measurements, Costin Curatu
Analysis And Design Of Wide-angle Foveated Optical Systems, George Curatu
Optical Nonlinear Interactions In Dielectric Nano-suspensions, Ramy El-Ganainy
Design, Analysis, And Optimization Of Diffractive Optical Elements Under High Numerical Aperture Focusing, Toufic Jabbour
Power Scaling Of Large Mode Area Thulium Fiber Lasers In Various Spectral And Temporal Regimes, Timothy McComb
Gabor Domain Optical Coherence Microscopy, Supraja Murali
Nonlinear Femtosecond Near Infrared Laser Structuring In Oxide Glasses, Arnaud Royon
Silicon Carbide And Agile Optics Based Sensors For Power Plant Gas Turbines, Laser Beam Analysis And Biomedicine, Mumtaz Sheikh
Design And Fabrication Of Space Variant Micro Optical Elements, Pradeep Srinivasan
Theses/Dissertations from 2008
Integrated Optical Spr (surface Plasmon Resonance) Sensor Based On Optoelectronic Platform, Hyungseok Bang
Design And Optimization Of Nanostructured Optical Filters, Jeremiah Brown
Meshfree Approximation Methods For Free-form Optical Surfaces With Applications To Head-worn Displays, Ozan Cakmakci