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Ruffner, Judith A.

Full Name
Ruffner, Judith A.
Employer
Sandia
Job Title
Manager, Space Sensor Engineering Department
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1990
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1993
Adviser(s)
Falco, Charles M., Gibson, Ursula J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Epitaxial Beryllium Films and Beryllium-Based Multilayer Mirrors for Soft X-rays

Ruiz Diaz, Liliana

Full Name
Ruiz Diaz, Liliana
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2018
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2019
Adviser(s)
Norwood, Robert A.

Rupper, Greg S.

Full Name
Rupper, Greg S.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2005
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2010
Adviser(s)
Binder, Rolf
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Theory of Semiconductor Laser Cooling

Ruskell, Todd G.

Full Name
Ruskell, Todd G.
Employer
NIST
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer; 1996
Adviser(s)
Sarid, Dror
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Semiconductor Modification and Characterization with a Scanning Probe Microscope

Sabatke, Derek S.

Full Name
Sabatke, Derek S.
Employer
Ball Aerospace
Job Title
Senior Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2002
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Snapshot Spectropolarimetry

Sabatke, Erin M.

Full Name
Sabatke, Erin M.
Employer
Ball Aerospace
Job Title
Senior Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2000
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2002
Adviser(s)
Burge, James H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Fundamental Principles of the Optical Design of Multiple Aperture Telescopes with Wide Fields of View

Sabet-Peyma, Farhang

Full Name
Sabet-Peyma, Farhang
Job Title
Technical Manager
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1979
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1982
Adviser(s)
Frieden, Roy B.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Entropy and Information in the Design and Analysis of Imaging Systems

Sabharwal, Yashvinder

Full Name
Sabharwal, Yashvinder
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1998
Adviser(s)
Gmitro, Arthur
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Remote Access Slit-Scanning Confocal Microscope for In-vivo Tumor Diagnosis

Saif, Babak Nasser

Full Name
Saif, Babak Nasser
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2004
Adviser(s)
Wyant, James C.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Simultaneous Phase-Shifted Speckle Interferometer

Sain, John D.

Full Name
Sain, John D.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1995
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2001
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Modeling, Design Optimization, and Performance Analysis of a Modular Gamma Camera

Sakamoto, Julia A.

Full Name
Sakamoto, Julia A.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2006
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2011
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Inverse Optical Design and Its Application

Salcin, Esen

Full Name
Salcin, Esen
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2012
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2015
Adviser(s)
Furenlid, Lars R.

Salsbury, Chase

Full Name
Salsbury, Chase
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2014
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2018
Adviser(s)
Schwiegerling, Jim

Samson, Edward Carlo Copon

Full Name
Samson, Edward Carlo Copon
Employer
KBR
Job Title
Physicist / Sr. Technical Professional
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2009
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2012
Adviser(s)
Anderson, Brian P.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Generating and Manipulating Quantized Vortices in Highly Oblate Boise-Einstein

Sandalphon, Sandy

Full Name
Sandalphon, Sandy
Employer
Cinnabar Optics
Job Title
CEO
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1993
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer; 1997
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
A Novel Technique for Simultaneously Determining the First-, Second-, and Third-Order Optical Molecular Coefficients for Nonlinear Optical Chromophores

Sanger, Gregory M.

Full Name
Sanger, Gregory M.
Employer
Exotic Electro-Optics, Inc.
Job Title
Vice President, Atmospheric Products
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1970
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1976
Adviser(s)
Noble, Robert H., Shannon, Robert R.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
MS - The Effect of Target Temperature on the Erosion Ratio of Ionically Bombarded Fused Silica
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
PhD - The Techniques and Tolerancing Required for Phasing Hexagonal-Configured Synthetic Aperture Imaging Systems

Sargent, Robert B.

Full Name
Sargent, Robert B.
Employer
Viavi Solutions
Job Title
Director, Next Generation Products
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1987
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1990
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Surface Diffusion: A Computer Study of Its Effects on Thin Film Morphology

Sartor, Mark A.

Full Name
Sartor, Mark A.
Employer
RDIS, LLC
Job Title
President
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1999
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L., Gaskill, Jack D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
MS - Characterization and Modeling of Microchannel Plate Intensified Charge Coupled Device Signal to Noise Ratio Variations with Image Size
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
PhD - Development, Characterization, and Modeling of a Tunable Filter Camera

Sasian, Jose

Full Name
Sasian, Jose
Employer
University of Arizona, Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Professor of Optical Sciences, Professor of Astronomy
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1987
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1989
Adviser(s)
Shack, Roland V.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Imagery of the Bilateral Symmetrical Optical System

Savidis, Nickolaos

Full Name
Savidis, Nickolaos
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2009
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2012
Adviser(s)
Hua, Hong, Schwiegerling, Jim
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optofluidic Adaptive Optics

Sawyer, Travis

Full Name
Sawyer, Travis
Employer
University of Arizona, Wyant College of Optical Sciences
Job Title
Assistant Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2016
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Fall; 2019
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Adviser(s)
Barton, Jennifer K.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Multimodal Optical Imaging for Tissue Characterization and Disease Diagnosis

Saxe, Steven G.

Full Name
Saxe, Steven G.
Employer
JDSU Santa Rosa
Job Title
Product Line Manager
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1985
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ion-induced Processes in Optical Coatings

Schaffer, Andrew

Full Name
Schaffer, Andrew
Employer
Honeywell Quantum Solutions
Job Title
Advanced Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Adviser(s)
Anderson, Brian P.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Methods and Probes of Vortex Generation and Control in Dilute-Gas Bose-Einstein Condensates

Schatz, Lauren

Full Name
Schatz, Lauren
Employer
Air Force Research Laboratory
Job Title
Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2020
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Non-Wyant College Adviser
Jared Males
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Development of a Three-Sided Pyramid Wavefront Sensor for Astronomical Adaptive Optics

Schaub, Michael P.

Full Name
Schaub, Michael P.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1999
Adviser(s)
Shannon, Robert R.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Aspheric and Diffractive Surfaces in One, Two and Three Element Lenses

Scherer, David R.

Full Name
Scherer, David R.
Job Title
Principal Scientist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2007
Adviser(s)
Anderson, Brian P.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Vortex Formation by Merging and Interference of Multiple Trapped Bose-Einstein Condensates

Schlitt, Heidi A.

Full Name
Schlitt, Heidi A.
Employer
Los Alamos Nat'l Labs
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1988
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1992
Adviser(s)
Dallas, William J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
A Fourier Transform Technique for Estimating Bioelectric Currents from Magnetic Field Measurements

Schmit, Joanna

Full Name
Schmit, Joanna
Employer
Bruker Nano, Inc.
Job Title
Senior Staff Optical Eng
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1996
Adviser(s)
Creath, Katherine
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Spatial Phase Measurement Techniques in Modified Grating Interferometry

Schneider, Zachary V.

Full Name
Schneider, Zachary V.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2008
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2010
Adviser(s)
Potter, Kelly Simmons
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Photoinduced Manipulation of the Molecular Assembly in Heteroieptic Titanium Metal Alkoxides for Use in Optical Sciences
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