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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
Ph.D; Spring; 1988
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Structural Inhomogeneity and Anisotropy in Optical Filters and Thin Films; Applications to Optical Storage Media
Full Name
Employer
MicroLaser Devices, CA
Job Title
Chief Technology Officer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1988
Adviser(s)
Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Nonlinearitites in Semiconductor-Doped Glass Channel Waveguides
Full Name
Employer
University of Hawaii
Job Title
Associate Astronomer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2004
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2007
Adviser(s)
Hart, Michael
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Astronomical Adaptive Optics Using Multiple Laser Guide Stars
Full Name
Employer
KLA-Tencor Corporation
Job Title
President
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1979
Adviser(s)
Wolfe, William L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Image Parameters of Fast Evaluation of Adaptive Optical Systems
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1995
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2002
Adviser(s)
Frieden, Roy B., Meystre, Pierre
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Regularization of the Image Division Approach to Blind Deconvolution
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1988
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1991
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H., Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Cesium Atomic Resonance Filter
Full Name
Employer
ActivSurgical
Job Title
Senior Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1994
Adviser(s)
Burke, James J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Modeling and Fabrication of Variable Groove Depth Planar Waveguide Grating Couplers
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2021
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Winter; 2022
Adviser(s)
Kieu, Khanh
Full Name
Employer
3M
Job Title
Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1998
Adviser(s)
Kostuk, Raymond K.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
M.S. - Diffractive Microlenses for Fiber Optic Array Interconnects
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
Ph.D. - Fiber Bragg Gratings
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2008
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Fall; 2011
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Fall; 2012
Adviser(s)
Kueppers, Franko, Witte, Russell S.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Thermoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy for Enhanced Cancer Diagnosis
Full Name
Employer
Lawrence Livermore National Labs
Job Title
Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2003
Adviser(s)
Burge, James H., Wolfe, William L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Design for Extremely Large Telescope Adaptive Optics Systems
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2000
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2003
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Coherence and Imaging Properties of Non-Ideal Multilayer Structures
Full Name
Employer
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base
Job Title
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2000
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2003
Adviser(s)
Fallahi, Mahmoud, Wright, Ewan M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Finite Aperture Tapered Unstable Resonator Lasers
Full Name
Job Title
Senior Director, Optical Systems Engineering
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1981
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1985
Adviser(s)
Koliopoulos, Chris L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Digital Heterodyne Topography
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2010
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2012
Adviser(s)
Hart, Michael
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
High Precision Astometry Using a Diffractive Pupil and Advancements in Multi-Laser Adaptive Optics
Full Name
Job Title
Graduate Associate, Research
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1996
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 1999
Adviser(s)
Fallahi, Mahmoud
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Design and Characterization of Integrated-Optic-Based Chemical Sensors
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer I; 1997
Adviser(s)
Gibbs, Hyatt M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Physics of Semiconductor Microcavities
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
M.S; Fall; 2005
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2010
Adviser(s)
Stafford, Charles A.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Many-body Theory of Electrical, Thermal and Optical Response at Molecular Heterojunctions
Full Name
Employer
Fringe Metrology LLC
Job Title
CEO/President
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2024
Adviser(s)
Kim, Daewook
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Methods for Design, Metrology, and Alignment of Scalable Large Optical Systems
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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1992
Adviser(s)
Mansuripur, Masud
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Characterization of Magneto-Optical Media and Systems
Full Name
Employer
JWBC LLC
Job Title
Owner
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
M.S., Spring, 1974
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
Ph.D., Spring, 1976
Adviser(s)
Jacobs, Stephen F.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
M.S. - Measurement of Thermal Expansion Coefficients -- System Improvements and Homogeneity Studies
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
Ph.D. - Dimensional Stability of Low Expansivity Materials -- Time Dependent Changes in Optical Contact Interfaces and Phase Shifts on Reflection from Multilayer Dielectrics
Full Name
Employer
Arizona Optical Systems
Job Title
Principal Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Spring; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Fall; 2003
Adviser(s)
Descour, Michael, Schwiegerling, Jim
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Measuring Refractive Error in the Human Eye Using a Shack-Hartmann-Based Autorefractor
Full Name
Employer
College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Associate Research Professor, Remote Sensing
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
M.S., Spring, 1988
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
Ph.D., Spring, 1990
Adviser(s)
Slater, Philip N.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
In-Flight Methods for Satellite Sensor Absolute Radiometric Calibration
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2018
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2019
Adviser(s)
Blanche, Pierre-Alexandre
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2008
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Spring; 2011
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Fall; 2012
Adviser(s)
Greivenkamp, John E., Tyo, Scott J.
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2012
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2014
Adviser(s)
Tyo, Scott J.
Full Name
Job Title
Medical Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1982
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1984
Adviser(s)
Swindell, William
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ph.D. - Breast Tissue Classification Using Statistical Pattern Recognition of Backscattered Ultrasound
Full Name
Employer
Physics Department, San Diego State University
Job Title
Physics Instructor
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1975
Adviser(s)
Marathay, Arvind S.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Matrix-Vector Multiplication and Two-Channel Processing with Photodichroic Crystals
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1993
Adviser(s)
Gibbs, Hyatt M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Physics of Semiconductor Microcavity Lasers
Full Name
Employer
DCB Consulting
Job Title
Owner
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1977
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1980
Adviser(s)
Seraphin, Bernard O.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
The Retardation of Crystallization of CVD Amorphous Silicon and the Study of its Structural and Optical Properties