A collection of CREOL Masters Theses and Doctoral Dissertations.
Theses/Dissertations from 2024
High-Performance Integrated Photonic on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate, Farzaneh Arab Juneghani
Applications of Plasmonic Biosensors in Chiral and Achiral Sensing, Aritra Biswas
Optical Seed Development For Yb-Fiber Laser, James G. Brutus
Design And Implementation Of a High-Power Fiber Amplifier For Diamond Raman Laser Pump, Ryan Ellis
Sensing Using Angular Momentum of Light: From Polarization to Optical Vortices, Mahdi Eshaghi
Nonlinear Beam Deflection and Optical Properties of Semiconductors and Semimetals, Sanaz Faryadras
Photonic Integrated Circuits for Computation, Fatemeh Ghaedi Vanani
Human Visual Search Performance for Close Range Detection of Static Targets from Moving Sensor Platforms, Jennifer Hewitt
Dual Frequency Comb Mid-IR – THz Spectroscopy, Dmitrii Konnov
Monolithic Continuous Wave Single Mode Ytterbium Fiber Laser Emitting at 1064 Nanometers, Melissa K. Siver
Opto-Electronic Oscillator driven Electro-Optic Modulator based Optical Frequency Comb, Lawrence Trask
Visual Experience Enhancement in Augmented Reality Displays, Qian Yang
Next-generation High-performance Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Light Engines, Zhiyong Yang
Theses/Dissertations from 2023
Structural Transformations in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass for Hologram Recording, Roberto Alejandro Alvarez Aguirre
Fabrication of Alkaline-Earth Fluoride Ceramics for High-Power Lasers via Fusion Casting and Hot Forging, Adrian Cintron
Multi-Kilowatt Fiber Laser Amplifiers and Hollow-Core Delivery Fibers, Matthew Cooper
Optical Design Study of a High-Resolution Spectrograph Utilizing Photonic Lanterns for a Large Fiber Array Telescope, Richard D'Alo
Deep Learning-Based Microscopy, Vahid Ebrahimi
Imaging And Computation Using Vector Modes, Alireza Fardoost
Consequences and Applications of Non-differentiable Angular Dispersion and Space-time Wave Packets, Layton Alec Hall
System Wide Analysis and Determination of Accuracy, Precision, and Repeatability of a Custom Prism Coupling Refractometry Instrument, Andrew W. Howe
High-Dynamic-Range and High-Efficiency Near-Eye Display Systems, En-Lin Hsiang
Reflective Planar Optics with Cholesteric Liquid Crystal for Near-Eye Displays, Yannanqi Li
Optical Characterization of Liquids: Refractive Index and Raman Gain Coefficient Measurements, Cesar A. Lopez-Zelaya
Active Photonic Integrated Devices and Circuits on Thin-film Lithium Niobate Platform, Ehsan Ordouie
Random Channel Cryptography: Classical Key Distribution via Random Mode Mixing in Fiber, Rachel Sampson
Integrated Frequency Combs for Applications in Optical Communications & Microwave Photonics, Chinmay Shirpurkar
Long Range Propagation of Single Laser Pulses and Bursts of Pulses Through Varying Atmospheric Conditions, LaShae Smith
Minimizing Photobleaching In Fluorescence Microscopy By Spatiotemporal Control Of Light, Chun-Hung Weng
Creation of Three-Dimensional Gradient Refractive Index Profiles in Bulk Ge-As-Pb-Se Glasses, Anna Zachariou
High-efficieny Ultrafast Mid-infrared Source for Strong Field Science, Fangjie Zhou
Compact and High Optical Efficiency Near-Eye Displays with Liquid Crystal Flat Optics, Junyu Zou
Theses/Dissertations from 2022
On the Passive Sensing of Static and Dynamic Properties of Secondary Sources of Radiation, Mahed Batarseh
First and Third Order Susceptibility of Organic Molecules, Hao-Jung Chang
Volumetric Microfabrication with Structured Light, He Cheng
Third Order Nonlinear Optics in Solids, Nicholas Cox
Integrated Electro-Optic, Microwave, and Nonlinear Photonic Devices on Thin-Film Lithium Niobate, Milad Gholipour Vazimali
Uncooled Microbolometer Imaging Systems for Machine Vision, Robert Grimming
Machine Learning in Fiber Optics, Xiaowen Hu
Compact Lens Technologies: Curved Image Sensor and Volumetric Imaging Efficiency, Zhao Ma
Development of Holographic Phase Masks for Wavefront Shaping, Nafiseh Mohammadian
Filament Propagation through Atmospheric Conditions, Jessica Pena
Measurement of Transient Coherent Effects in IR/THz Double Resonance Spectroscopy in the Low-Pressure Regime, Max Schneiderman
Optimization-Based Approaches to Low-Coherence Optical Diffraction Tomography, Seth Smith-Dryden
Diamond Raman Seed Laser Using Nd:YVO4 Oscillator and Ytterbium-doped Fiber Amplifiers, Jordan Smith
Light Trapping Transparent Electrodes, Mengdi Sun
Spatio-Temporal Fluctuations of Light Interacting with Complex Media, Ruitao Wu
Light Guiding and Concentrating using Self-Collimating Spatially-Variant Photonic Crystals, Chun Xia
Diffractive Liquid Crystal Optical Elements For Near-eye Displays, Jianghao Xiong
Physics and Applications of Space-Time Wave Packets, Murat Yessenov
Patterned Liquid Crystal Devices for Near-eye Displays, Kun Yin
Multi-Plane Light Conversion: Devices and Applications, Yuanhang Zhang
Direct Laser Writing below the Diffraction Limit by Exploring Multi-Pulse-Induced Physics, Boyang Zhou
Theses/Dissertations from 2021
Integrated Thin-film Lithium Niobate Devices and Circuits for Nonlinear- and Quantum-optic Applications, Kamal Mohamed Khalil Abdelsalam
Novel Optical Frequency Combs Injection Locking Architectures, Ricardo Bustos Ramirez
High Power Ytterbium and Thulium Fiber Lasers, Justin Cook
Development of Quantitative Intensity-Based Single-Molecule Assays, Benjamin Croop
UV-Ozone Oxide Treatments for High-Efficiency Silicon Photovoltaic Devices, Munan Gao
Specialty Optical Fibers and Their Applications in Fiber Laser Systems, Stefan Gausmann
Spectral Dependence of Deep Subwavelength Metallic Apertures in the Mid-wave Infrared, Heath Gemar
Directional Link Management using In-Band Full-Duplex Free Space Optical Transceivers for Aerial Nodes, A F M Saniul Haq
Ultraviolet Solar Blind Ga2O3-Based Photodetectors, Isa Hatipoglu
Novel Liquid Crystal Photonic Devices Enabled by Liquid Crystal Alignment Engineering, Ziqian He
Measurement and Mitigation of Optical, Recombination and Resistive Losses in Silicon Photovoltaics, Mohammad Jobayer Hossain
Nonlinear Light-matter Interactions in Novel Crystals for Broadband Mid-infrared Generation, Taiki Kawamori
Long-Range Laser-Material Interactions with High-Intensity Laser Pulses, Haley Kerrigan
Multi-functional Fluorescence Microscopy via PSF Engineering for High-throughput Super-resolution Imaging, Jinhan Ren
High Spectral Brightness, Broad Area Quantum Cascade Lasers, Enrique Sanchez Cristobal
On the Information Content in Unresolved Imaging, Zhean Shen
High Speed Modulation Characteristics of Semiconductor Nanolasers and Coupled Ring Laser Systems, Chi Xu
The Physics of Nanoaperture Optical Traps: Design, Fabrication and Experimentation, Chenyi Zhang
Liquid Crystal Flat Optics for Near-eye Displays, Tao Zhan
Theses/Dissertations from 2020
Nonlinear Optical Mechanisms in Semiconductors and Enhanced Nonlinearities at Epsilon-Near-Zero, Sepehr Ahmadzadeh Benis
Novel Fibers and Components for Space Division Multiplexing Technologies, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias
Wave-optics Simulation of Correlated Speckle Fields, Derek Burrell
MidWave vs LongWave Infrared Search and Track and Aerosol Scattering Target Acquisition Performance, Steven Butrimas
Attosecond Transient Absorption Spectroscopy in the Water Window, Andrew Chew
Iterative Optical Diffraction Tomography for Reconstruction of Multiply-scattering Objects, Shengli Fan
High Performance Micro-scale Light Emitting Diode Display, Fangwang Gou
High-fidelity Mini-LED and Micro-LED Displays, Yuge Huang
Multi-parameter Optical Metrology: Quantum and Classical, Walker Larson
Machine Learning Inspired Optoelectronic Devices, Jinxin Li
Novel Linear and Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers, Helena Estefania Lopez Aviles
Enhancement of absorptance by ultrafast laser pulse shaping for efficient laser processing of thin polymers, Arifur Rahaman
New Architectures for High Brightness Laser Emission: Thulium Lasers and Raman Lasers in Fiber and Diamond, Patrick Roumayah
Heterogeneous Integrated Photonics for Nonlinear Frequency Conversion and Polarization Diversity, Tracy Sjaardema
High Average Brightness Broad Area Quantum Cascade Lasers, Matthew Suttinger
Fluorescence Microscopy with Tailored Illumination Light, Jialei Tang
Ultrafast High-energy Laser Systems for Filament Applications, Daniel Thul
Transient Mid-IR Nonlinear Refraction in Air and Nonlinear Optical properties of Organometallic Complexes, Salimeh Tofighi
Parallelized X-Ray Tracing with GPU Ray-Tracing Engine, Joseph Ulseth
Few-Mode Fiber Lasers and Amplifiers, Ning Wang
Development of High-power Single-mode Yb-doped Fiber Amplifiers and Beam Analysis, Steffen Wittek
Thermodynamic Theory of Heavily Multimoded Nonlinear Optical Systems, Fan Wu
Theses/Dissertations from 2019
Cryogenic Performance Projections for Ultra-small Oxide-free Vertical-cavity Surface-emitting Lasers, Mina Bayat
Hybrid Integration of Second- and Third-order Highly Nonlinear Waveguides on Silicon Substrates, Guillermo Fernando Camacho Gonzalez
Quantum Dot Light Emitting Devices (QLEDs) for Display, Lighting and Beyond, Hao Chen
Optical Sensing of Structural Dynamics in Complex Media, Jose Rafael Guzman Sepulveda