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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Optical Sciences"”.
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Synthesis, design and characterization of a distributed feedback grating based non-linear optical chemosensor
Current optical chemosensors that operate by a 3R sensing approach - recognize, relay and report -- generate a measurable luminescent signal in the presence of targeted analyte. However, the advancement of chemical sensing into the micro- and nanoscale regimes necessitates the development of new …
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Time Domain Spectroscopy of Graphene
… of graphene and graphene fragments to ultrafast optical pulses. I will first describe how we created few-cycle optical pulses for interacting with the graphene lattice. These pulses are created through filamentation based pulse compression. I studied how the filamentation process can be optimized …
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DESIGN, MODELING AND TESTING OF OPTICAL SURFACES IN ILLUMINATION OPTICS
… design, modeling and testing methods of optical surfaces in illumination optics.The main focus of this dissertation is to investigate the faceted non-imaging specular light reflector that is often used to generate a uniform, incoherent illuminance distribution. General design …
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Studies of Passive and Active Plasmonic Core-Shell Nanoparticles and their Applications
Coated nanoparticles (CNP) are core-shell particles consisting of differing layers of epsilon positive (EP) and epsilon negative (ENG) materials. The juxtaposition of these EP and ENG materials can lead to the possibility of coupling incident plane waves to surface plasmon resonances (SPR) for …
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Fisher Information in X-ray/Gamma-ray Imaging Instrumentation Design
Signal formation in a photon-counting x-ray/gamma-ray imaging detector is a complex process resulting in detector signals governed by multiple random effects. Recovering maximum possible information about event attributes of interest requires a systematic collection of calibration data and analysis …
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Computed Tomographic Imaging Spectrometry
A Computed Tomographic Imaging Spectrometer (CTIS) is an imaging spectrometer which can acquire a hyper-spectral data set in a single snapshot (one focal plane array integration time) with no moving parts. A specially designed dispersing element, which separates light from the three-dimensional …
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Plasmonic and Superconducting Self-Assembled MBE Grown Indium Islands
… grown silver films have been shown to possess optical constants closer to that of intrinsic silver leading to lower losses and thus allowing for higher quality plasmonics. MBE has also been used to grow silver nanocrystals and indium droplets, or islands, for plasmonics. These self-assembled …
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Nonlinear Photonics in Waveguides for Telecommunications
… infrastructures continue to rise and new optical techniques are needed to deal with massive data flows. Generating high bandwidth signals (> 40 GHz) using conventional modulation techniques is hindered by material limitations and fabrication complexities. Similarly, controlling such high …
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Thermoacoustic Imaging and Spectroscopy for Enhanced Cancer Diagnostics
Early detection of cancer is paramount for improved patient survival. This dissertation presents work developing imaging techniques to improve cancer diagnostics and detection utilizing light and microwave induced thermoacoustic imaging. In the second chapter, the well-established pre-clinical …
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Retrieving Information from Scattered Photons in Medical Imaging
… two specific medical imaging modalities: diffuse optical tomography (DOT) and single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT). To model the scattering of photons in biological tissue, we investigate using the Neumann-series form of the radiative transport equation (RTE). Since the scattering …