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Full Name
Employer
USAF - Rome Labs
Job Title
Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1995
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Numerical Modeling of a Near-Field Scanning Optical System
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2004
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2009
Adviser(s)
Gmitro, Arthur
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ultrathin Single Channel Fiberscope for Simultaneous White Light and Flourescence Imaging
Employer
UTOS
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1982
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1988
Adviser(s)
Hopf, Fred A.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Characterizing Chaos in a Hybrid Optically Bistable Device
Employer
BAE Systems
Job Title
Systems Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1981
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1985
Adviser(s)
Hunt, Bobby R., Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Degenerate Four Wave Mixing in Thin-Film Optical Waveguides
Employer
UA Radiology Research
Job Title
Post-doctoral appointee
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1997
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2002
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Multi-Modality Imaging of Small Animals
Employer
Sandia National Labs
Job Title
Staff Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1995
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1997
Adviser(s)
Wright, Ewan M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Nonlinear Optics of Circular-Grating Distributed-Feedback Semiconductor Lasers
Full Name
Employer
MagicLeap
Job Title
Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2014
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Fall; 2021
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Spring; 2022
Adviser(s)
Hua, Hong
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
A high-throughput multi-resolution foveated laparoscope
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2017
Non-Wyant College Adviser
Stephen R. Yool
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ph.D. - In-Situ Cameras for Radiometric Correction of Remotely Sensed Data
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2024
Non-Wyant College Adviser
Close, Laird
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1994
Adviser(s)
Falco, Charles M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
New Materials for the Multilayer X-Ray Optica at Wavelengths Below 124 Angstrom by Sputtering and Molecular Beam Epitaxy
Full Name
Job Title
Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2006
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2008
Adviser(s)
Thome, Kurtis J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Hyper-Spectral Sensor Calibration Extrapolated from Multi-Spectral Measurements
Full Name
Employer
Pacific Northwest Nat'l Lab
Job Title
Senior Research Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1990
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1991
Adviser(s)
Gmitro, Arthur
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Fixed Planar Holographic Interconnects for Optically Implemented Neural Networks
Employer
Sandia National Laboratories
Job Title
Atomic Optical Sensing & Electrochemical Engineering Dept. Manager
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1996
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall;1998
Adviser(s)
Kostuk, Raymond K.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Modal Noise in Multimode Fiber Optic Links using Vertical Gravity Surface Emitting Lasers
Employer
McDonnell Douglas
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 1972
Adviser(s)
Scully, Marlan O.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Transient Optical Properties of Germanium under Irradiation by Picosecond Pulses
Full Name
Employer
University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2014
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2017
Adviser(s)
Ashok, Amit
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ph.D. - Scalable Computational Optical Imaging System Designs
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1981
Adviser(s)
Shack, Roland V.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Image Quality Criteria in the Presence of Moderately Large Aberrations
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2011
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2014
Adviser(s)
Norwood, Robert A.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2013
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2019
Adviser(s)
Liang, Rongguang
Full Name
Employer
Snap, Inc.
Job Title
Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2019
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Adviser(s)
Barton, Jennifer K., Sasián, José
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Design and Fabrication of Transportable Micro-Endoscope Systems
Full Name
Employer
College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2006
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2007
Adviser(s)
Mansuripur, Masud
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Novel Devices for Fiber Laser Application
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1982
Adviser(s)
Wyant, James C.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Polynomial Fit of Interferograms
Full Name
Employer
University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Assistant Research Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2008
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2009
Adviser(s)
Burge, James H.
Full Name
Employer
Photonics Res Lab
Job Title
Post Doc
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 1994
Adviser(s)
Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Interferometric Measurements of Nonlinear Optical Properties for all Optical Switching Applications in Dielectric Waveguides
Full Name
Employer
University of Alabama, Birmingham
Job Title
Research Associate
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Summer II; 2000
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2004
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H., Thome, Kurtis J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
M.S. - Improved Design and Characterization of an Automated Solar Radiometer
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
Ph.D. - Development and Evaluation of SemiSPECT, a Small Animal Imager Based on Eight CdZnTe Detectors
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2005
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Spring; 2009
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Spring; 2013
Adviser(s)
Hinz, Philip, Swartzlander, Grover A. Jr.
Employer
4D Technologies
Job Title
Optical Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2006
Adviser(s)
Descour, Michael, Wyant, James C.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Path Matched Vibration Insensitive Fizeau Interferometer
Employer
3M
Job Title
Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2005
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Design and Development of a Ranging-Imaging Spectrometer
Full Name
Employer
Carl Zeiss
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1997
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2001
Adviser(s)
Jessen, Poul
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Density Matrix Reconstruction of a Large Angular Momentum
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2002
Adviser(s)
Descour, Michael, Sasián, José
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Conformal Optical Design
Employer
Research & Data Systems
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2000
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H., Palmer, James M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Polarization Effects in the Radiometric Calibration of Earth Remote Sensing Satellites