People

Current Members

  • R. John Koshel (Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs and Professor)
    • Fall: OPTI 306 – Radiometry, Sources, and Detectors
    • Spring: OPTI 485/585 – Illumination Engineering
    • Spring: OPTI 100H – What is Light?
  • Page King (Ph.D.)
    • Stray light imaging metrics
    • Lightpipe mixing and uniformity
    • Tolerancing of freeform optics
    • Working at Ball Aerospace
  • Katherine Sherer (M.S. report)
    • Report: Modeling of Ultraviolet Scatter Using Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Functions
  • Haley Knapp (M.S. report)
    • Report: Stray Light Considerations in the design of NEO detection
  • Jesse Odle (M.S. non-thesis)

Alumni

  • Scott Newmann
    • Non-thesis (Optical Sciences, M.S., awarded) 2019 – 2020.
    • Working at ASML/Cymer
  • Meg Tidd
    • Thesis: Illumination Optic Style Recommender Algorithm (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2019 – 2020.
    • Working at Musco Lighting
  • Emma Landsiedel
    • Thesis: High-Speed White Light Interferometry for Imaging Applications (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2018 – 2019.
    • Working at MIT Lincoln Laboratories
  • Alex Erstad
    • Dissertation: Applications of Eikonals in Optical Design (Optical Sciences, Ph.D. dissertation, awarded) 2018-2019.
    • Working at KLA
  • Jared Talbot
    • Thesis: Testbed Design for Investigating the Irradiance and Intensity Uniformity Performance of Lightpipes (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2018 – 2019.
    • Working at Edmund Optics
  • Georgia Piatt
    • Thesis: From Cell to Barbule the Optics of Iridescent Bird Feathers (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2017 – 2018.
    • Working at Raytheon
  • Kaitlyn Williams
    • Thesis: Parametrizing Freeform Optical Systems for the Optimized Design of Imaging and Illumination Systems (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2016 – 2017.
    • Working at Cruise
  • Rachel Ulanch
    • Thesis: Replicating the Blue Wool Response Using a Smartphone Spectroradiometer (Optical Sciences, M.S. thesis, awarded) 2016 – 2017.
    • Working at Microsoft
  • Roger Lucheta
    • Report: A Survey of Laser Diagnostic Techniques for Combustion Measurements (Optical Sciences, M.S. report, awarded), 2014 – 2015.
    • Working at
  • Brian Cranton
    • Report: Product Development – Raman Photometer (Optical Sciences, M.S. report, awarded), 2013-2014.
    • Working at Google
  • Chen Yen Lin
    • Report: Design of Efficient Lightpipe Couplers (Optical Sciences, M.S. report, awarded), 2010 – 2011, with Jose Sasian.
    • Working at