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Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 2015
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2020
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1985
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1989
Adviser(s)
Stegeman, George I.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Nonlinear Grating Structures in InSb Waveguides
Employer
IEEE-USA/U.S. Senate
Job Title
IEEE-USA/AAAS Congressional Fellow (2018-2019)
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1979
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1982
Adviser(s)
Wyant, James C.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Speckle Measurements with a CCD Array: Applications to Speckle Reduction
Employer
Storage Technology
Job Title
Staff Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1994
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1998
Adviser(s)
Falco, Charles M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Influence of Ultra-Thin AU Interface Layers on the Magnetic Anisotropy and Structure of Co Films
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1993
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1999
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H., Sasián, José
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
M.S. - Design of a Polarization Preserving Right Angle Prism
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 2
Ph.D. - The Optics of Ellipsoidal Domes
Full Name
Employer
Nagasaki University Japan
Job Title
Adjunct Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1998
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2003
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Electro-Optic Polymers and Waveguide Modulators
Full Name
Job Title
Design Engineer 2
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2007
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Visible and Near Infrared Sensitive Photorefractive Polymers For Holographic Display Applications
Full Name
Employer
Air Force Research Lab
Job Title
Research Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2024
Adviser(s)
Jones, Jason R.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
An Optical Atomic Clock based on Frequency Comb Spectroscopy
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2016
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS; Fall; 2018
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Fall; 2019
Adviser(s)
Chipman, Russell A.
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1990
Adviser(s)
Gibbs, Hyatt M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Properties of CdS and CdTe Microcrystallites in Glass and an Optical Associative Memory
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1993
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1997
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Semiconductor Gamma-Ray Imaging Detectors for Nuclear Medicine
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
M.S; Fall; 2002
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2006
Adviser(s)
Fallahi, Mahmoud
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Tunable High-Power High-Brightness Optically Pumped VESCELS
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 2007
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 2015
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H., Swartzlander, Grover A. Jr.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Lens-Coupled X-Ray Imaging Systems
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Fall; 2020
Adviser(s)
Norwood, Robert A., Peyghambarian, Nasser
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1978
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1981
Adviser(s)
Wolfe, William L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
An Investigation of Computer Assisted Stray Radiation Analysis Programs
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1986
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1987
Adviser(s)
Falco, Charles M.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Multilayer Reflectors for Soft X-Rays
Full Name
Job Title
Principal Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
BS; Spring; 1993
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
MS;, Fall; 2005
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (3)
PhD; Spring; 2008
Adviser(s)
Thome, Kurtis J.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Modeling of Nanocomposite Optical Ceramics
Employer
L3Harris
Job Title
Chief Technologist, Senior Fellow
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1986
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1987
Adviser(s)
Barrett, Harrison H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
The Hotelling Trace Criterion Used for System Optimization and Feature Enhancement in Nuclear Medicine
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 2022
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Employer
Nikon Research Corp of America
Job Title
President and CEO; Adjunct Professor of Optical Sciences
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1991
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1993
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
High Numerical Aperture Imaging in Homogeneous Thin Films
Employer
Thermal Wave Imaging Inc.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1994
Adviser(s)
Dereniak, Eustace L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
High-Speed Infrared Video System for Detection of Thermal Aliasing
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
PhD; Spring; 1992
Adviser(s)
Peyghambarian, Nasser
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Sub-relaxation and Sub-dephasing Dynamics of Light-Induced Polarization in Semiconductors
Employer
Sandia National Laboratories
Job Title
Senior member, Technical Staff
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer II; 2002
Adviser(s)
Descour, Michael
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Computed Tomography Based Spectral Imaging for Fluorescence Microscopy
Full Name
Employer
Spectral Sciences, Inc.
Job Title
Principal Scientist I
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1985
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1993
Adviser(s)
Shannon, Robert R.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Undersampled Focal Plane Detection of Imagery From a Sparse Telescope Array
Employer
NVL
Job Title
Research Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1988
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1989
Adviser(s)
Macleod, Angus H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Laser-Induced Desorption and Damage of Water- and Heavy Water-Dosed Optical Thin Films
Employer
U.S. Naval Research Laboratory
Job Title
Research Physicist
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 1999
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2004
Adviser(s)
Kostuk, Raymond K.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Selectively Buried Ion-Exchanged Waveguides for Photonics Applications
Full Name
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2014
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Summer; 2016
Adviser(s)
Burge, James H.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Ph.D. - Optical Alignment with CGH Phase References
Job Title
Chief Optical Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1985
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Fall; 1986
Adviser(s)
Koliopoulos, Chris L.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Wavefront Sensing by Heterodyne Shearing Inferometry
Full Name
Employer
Magic Leap
Job Title
Waveguide Fabrication Engineer
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Fall; 2018
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 2021
Adviser(s)
Norwood, Robert A.
Employer
Essex Corp.
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (1)
MS; Spring; 1992
Degree, Semester & Year Graduated (2)
PhD; Spring; 1996
Adviser(s)
Milster, Thomas D.
Report/Thesis/Dissertation Title 1
Optical Contrast Mechanisms and Shear Force Interactions in Near-Field Scanning Optical Microscopy