Group Members

Ph.D. & M.S. Supervised Students

• Monica A. Gubbels – M.S.(1988) – A theoretical study of nonlinear guided waves
• David R. Heatley Ph.D. (1990) – Dynamics of solitons in nonlinear optical waveguides
• Augusto Rodrigues – Ph.D. (1996) – Nonlinear pulse propagation near a two-photon resonance
• Kirk Cook – M.S. (1996) – Analysis of a model for optical breakdown in water using ultrashort pulses
• Keith Kasunic – Ph.D. (1997) – Nonlinear dynamics of circular grating distributed feedback lasers
• Michal Mlejnek – Ph.D. (1998) – Intense femtosecond pulse interaction with transparent and absorbing media
• Sierk Pötting – M.S. (1998) – Gap solitons in atomic Bose-Einstein condensates
• Joe Triscari – Ph.D. (2000) – Application of Lie theory to optical resonators: the two dimensional master equation
• John Perrault – M.S. (2002) – Simulation of nonlinear optical measurements for the carrier-envelope phase of ultrashort pulses
• Carl Maes – Ph.D. (2003) – Transverse mode properties of resonators with a Gaussian gain
• Thomas Niday – Ph.D. (2004) – Stability and transient effects in ultraviolet filaments
• Chris Anderson – M.S. (2005) – Numerical study of Bessel beam propagation
• Casey T. Streuber – M.S. (2006) – Numerical study of the Dark Poisson spot
• Dan Roskey – Ph.D. (2007) – On the role of linear processes in the development and evolution of filaments in air
• Klaus Metzger – Ph.D. (2007) – Longitudinal optical binding (U. of St. Andrews).
• Steve Lee – Ph.D. (2009) – Optical trapping: optical interferometric metrology and nanophotonics (U. of St. Andrews)
• Julia Werra – M.S. (2011) – Obtaining the momentum distribution of an oblate Bose-Einstein condensate: A numerical analysis (co-advised with Brian Anderson)
• John Mongelli – M.S. (2012) – Temporal optical soliton dynamics in fs enhancement cavities (co-advised with Jason Jones)
• Chris Shanor – M.S. (2016) – Numerical investigation of enhanced femtosecond supercontinuum via a weak seed in noble gases (co-advised with Miro Kolesik)