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Dr.
Ting-Chung (T.-C.) Poon, Professor Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer
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Research Interests
Acousto-Optics
Hybrid
(Optical/Electronic/Digital) Image Processing
Optical
Scanning Holography (OSH) Click
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- Optical Recognition of 3-D objects
- Optical Scanning Cryptography (OSC)
- Scanning Holographic Fluorescence Microscopy
- 3-D Holographic Imaging, Processing and Display
- 3-D Optical Remote Sensing
Education
Ph.D., Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
Dissertation: A Feynman Diagram Approach to Multiple Plane Wave Scattering
in Acousto-Optic Interactions
M.S., Electrical and Computer Engineering,
Thesis: Two-Pupil Synthesis by Acousto-Optics
B.A., Physics and Mathematical Sciences with minor in Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa
A.S., York College,
Affiliations
Senior member, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
Fellow, Optical Society of
America (OSA)
Member, Photonics Society of
Chinese-Americans (PSC)
Fellow, Society of
Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)
Academic Experiences
Virginia Tech, Virginia
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor, 1994 -present
Associate Professor, 1989-1994
Assistant Professor, 1983-1989
National
Central University, Taiwan
Department of Optics and
Photonics
Adjunct Professor, 2007-present
Nihon
University, Chiba, Japan
Department
of Electronics and Computer Science
Visiting Professor, Fall, 2006
City University of
Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Department of Electronic
Engineering
Visiting Professor, Summer, 2006-2008
Shizuoka University,
Hamamatsu, Japan
Research Institute of
Electronics
Visiting Professor, Spring, 1997
Research subject: Studies on optical image processing
Sponsor: The Ministry of Education, Culture, Science and Sports, Japan.
University of Iowa, Iowa
City, Iowa
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Visiting Assistant Professor, 1982-1983
Professional Citation
SPIE Fellow Citation (1999): For achievements in the areas of
holography and microscopy, and for pioneering research in optical scanning
holography, including his invention of a 3-D holographic fluorescence
microscope.
OSA Fellow Citation (1998): For innovative contributions to real-time optical image processing, particularly to the development and applications of optical heterodyne scanning techniques.
Selected Invited Lectures
Plenary Lecture: International Topical Meeting on
Information Photonics, Hyogo, Japan, 16-20 Nov., 2008.
Plenary Lecture: Progress in Scanning Holographic Microscopy for Biomedical Applications, 2005 International Workshop on Automatic Processing of Fringe Patterns, 9/11-9/14, Stuttgart, Germany
Optical Scanning Holography, International Symposium on 3D Information and Technology, 5/18-5/21, Korea, 2004;
From Fourier Optics to Optical Scanning Holography, at Optical Sciences Center, National Central University, Taiwan, sponsored by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan, 10-day visit (2003); (20-day Visit) 2005.
Plenary Lecture: Twin-Image Elimination for 3-D Display Using Optical Scanning Holography, 3rd International Meeting on Information Display (IMID), Korea, July, 2003 (Manuscript published in IMID Proc.)
Plenary Lecture: Optical Scanning Holographic Approach to 3D Television, 2nd International Meeting on Information Display (IMID), Korea, August, 2002 (Manuscript published in IMID Proc.)
Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy Using Optical Scanning Holography, Hong Kong SPIE Chapter - Distinguished Lecture, Aug., 2000
Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Applications, Poland (Manuscripts published, 1989, 1995, 1998, 2001)
Optical Image Processing and Holography, at Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing (5/22 - 5/31), and at Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing (6/1 - 6/4), sponsored by the Foreign Affairs Office, China, 1995.
Real-Time Two-Dimensional Holographic Imaging Using an Electron-Beam-Addressed Spatial Light Modulator, Central Research Laboratory, Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Japan, 8/19-8/22, 1992.
Optical Scanning Holography by Acousto-Optics, International School-Seminar on Acousto-Optics: Researches and Developments at the former Soviet Union (Manuscript published in Russia),1990
Selected
Invited Talks
Optical Scanning Holography: a
review of fundamentals, 2007 Photonics Asia, 11/09-11/15, Beijing, China
Scanning Holographic Microscopy
for Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Imaging, meeting sponsored by The
Institute of Image and Television Engineers (Japan), 9/8/2006,
Funabasi, Japan
Acousto-Optics with MATLAB, 2005 SPIE International Congress on Optics and Optoelectronics,Aug. 28- Sept. 2, Warsaw, Poland
Optical Scanning Holography for Electronic Transmission of 3-D Information,2005 Optoelectronics and Communications, Seoul, Korea (July 4-8)
Horizontal-Parallax-Only Optical Scanning Holography, 2004 ICO International Conference/ Optics and Photonics in Technology Frontier, July 12-15, Tokyo, Japan
Real-time joint transform correlation using optical heterodyning, CLEO/Pacific Rim 2003, Dec. 15-19, Taipei, Taiwan
Optical Image Recognition of 3-D
Objects by Holography, Pattern Recognition Symposium, 2002 Annual
Meeting of the Optical Society of America
Optical Scanning Holographic System for the Recognition of 3-D Objects, SPIE Conference on Photonic Devices and Algorithms for Computing, Denver, CO; SPIE Proc., 1999
One of the twenty key speakers of the Advanced Research Workshop on Acousto-Optic Imaging in Europe, 1994.
Optical Heterodyne Scanning Holography, Gordon Research Conference on Holography and Optical Information Processing, Plymouth, NH, 1991.
Professional Services
Editorships
Advisory Editorial Board
Optics & Laser Technology, 1993-present
Journal of Holography and Speckle, 2004-present
Board of Editors, OSA, 2009-2011
Information Processing Division Editor, Applied Optics, 2009-2011
Topical Editor, Applied Optics, digital holography & 3-D sensing and display, 2004-2008
Associate Editor, International Journal of Optomechatronics, 2006 - 2007
Lead Feature Editor (with
Chen S. Tsai, UC Irvine, Vitaly Voloshinov, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia, Monish Chatterjee, University
of Dayton)
Forthcoming: Feature Issue in Applied Optics on Acousto-Optics
Lead Feature Editor (with
Byoungho Lee, Seoul National University, Korea, Wolfgang Osten, Univ.
Stuttgart, Germany, and H. Yoshikawa, Nihon Univ., Japan)
Feature Issue in Applied
Optics on Digital Holography and 3-D Imaging
Lead Feature Editor (with
T. Yatagai,
Feature Issue on Digital
Holography
(Feature Issue Editorial: Applied Optics, Vol. 45, p. 821, 2006)
Guest Editor (with P.P. Banerjee,
Feature Issue on Acousto-Optic Devices and Optical Information
Processing: Research and Developments
(Guest Editorial: Optical Engineering, Vol. 38, No.7, p.1100-1101,
1999)
Lead Guest Editor (with T. Hara,
Feature Issue on Spatial Light Modulators: Research and Development
(Guest Editorial: Applied Optics, Vol. 37, No.32, p.7471, 1998)
Lead Guest Editor (with E.H. Li, University of Hong Kong)
Feature Issue on Photonics and Optical Information Processing
(Guest Editorial: International Journal of Optoelectronics, Vol. 11,
No. 6, 1997)
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Hybrid Optical Image
Processing
(Guest Editorial: Optics & Laser Technology, Vol. 28, p.49, 1996)
Guest Editor, Special Issue on Acousto-Optics
(Guest Editorial: Optical Engineering, Vol.31, p.2047, 1992)
Offices and Services in
Professional Organizations
IEEE: Secretary/Treasurer,
PSC: Technical Advisor, Appalachian Chapter of Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans (PSC), 1994 - 1995. President, Appalachian Chapter of Photonics Society of Chinese-Americans (PSC), 1996 - present (inactive).
OCA: President-elect, Southwest Virginia Chapter of Organization of
Chinese Americans (OCA), 1994 -1995. President, Southwest Virginia Chapter of
Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), 1995 - 1996. 2nd VP, Southwest
Virginia Chapter of Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA), 1996 - 1997.
To visit OCA homepage, please go to this page
: OCA
Journal Reviewer
American Journal of Physics, Applied Optics, Applied Physics Letters, Electronics and Telecommunication Research Institute (ETRI) Journal, IEEE Transactions on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Education, IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, IEEE Transactions on Sonics and Ultrasonics, International Journal of Optoelectronics, International Journal of Optomechatronics, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, Journal of Applied Physics, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Fiber and Integrated Optics, Journal of Optical Society of America A, Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, Machine Vision and Applications, Nature Photonics, Optical Engineering, Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Optics Letters, Optics Express, Optics & Laser Technology, Optics Communications, Photonics Technology Letters, Physica Scripta, Proceedings of the IEEE, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, Ultrasonics.
Panelist
NSF, Division of Biological Infrastructure, Instrument
Development for Biological Research (IDBR) Advisory Panel (3-year teram)
National Institute of Dental Research (Special Emphasis Panel)
IEEE Admission and Advancement Committee
NSF Phase I Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small
Business Technology Transfer Program (STTR) Peer Review Panel
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Biological Sciences Review Panel
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Center for scientific Review
Special Emphasis Panel
Proposal Reviewer
Army Research Office (ARO)
Cottrell College Science Awards
International Science Foundation (ISF)
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Science Foundation (NSF)
--Directorate for Engineering
--Directorate for Mathematical & Physical Sciences
-- International Programs
--Small Business Innovation Research and Small Business Technology Transfer Programs
Research Corporation
U.S. Civilian Research & Development Foundation (CRDF)
International
Hong Kong Research Grants Council
Israel Science Foundation
Netherlands Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter
Singapore Science & Engineering Research Council
The Irish Research Council for Science, Engineering and Technology
Reviewer for Presses
John Wiley & Sons, Inc., McGraw-Hill, Kluwer Academic Publishers, PWS-KENT Publishing Company, Brooks/Cole Thomson Learning, SPIE Press
Service to Students
Faculty Advisor, Virginia Tech Optical Society of America (OSA) Student Chapter, 91-present (inactive)( OSA Student Chapter founded in 1991, served as founding faculty advisor)
Faculty Advisor, Hong Kong Club of Virginia Tech, 84-86, 91-94, 97-2006 ( Hong Kong Club founded in 1984, served as founding faculty advisor)
Faculty Mentor, Internship Program of the Southwest Virginia Governor's School for Science, Mathematics, and Technology (1993, 1994)
Sponsored Research
Activities
Title: Study of Spatial Light Modulators (SLMs) with Applications to 3-D
Image Projection and Display
Investigators: T.-C. Poon and G. Indebetouw (Physics Dept.)
Sponsor: SAIC through Night Vision and Electronic Sensors
Title: Three-Dimensional Optical Pattern Recognition and REU
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (Directorate for Engineering),
1998 - 2003.
Title: Three-Dimensional Imaging by Novel Annular-Illumination (James A.
Shannon Director's Award)
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health, 1998 - 2000.
Title: Software Development for Pattern Recognition
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: Display Edge Technology, Inc.,1997 - 1998.
Title: Optical Scanning Holography
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (Directorate for
Engineering), 1994 - 1998.
Title: Instrument Development for 3-D Fluorescence Microscopy
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (Directorate for Biological
Sciences) , 1995 - 1996.
Title: ONR/HBEC Faculty Development Fellowship
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: ONR/NC A&T, 1994 - 1997.
Title: A 3-D Formalism for Acousto-Optics Bragg Diffraction of 2-D Laser
Beam Profiles
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: NASA -
Title: Novel Three-Dimensional Microscopy
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health, 1993 - 1995.
Title: Real-Time Image Processing Using Difference-of-Gaussian (DOG)
Wavelets
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: Army Research Office, 1993.
Title: Research Experience for Undergraduates
Investigators: D.J. Moore and 9 other PIs including T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation, 1992 - 1993.
Title: Patient Monitoring Sensor
Investigators: T.-C. Poon and R.O. Claus
Sponsor:
Title: Investigation of Optical Scanning Holography and Real-Time Two-Pupil
Processing
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (Directorate for Engineering)
, 1989 - 1991.
Title: Fiber Optic Sensor and Device Research
Investigators: R.O. Claus and T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: American Research Corporation of
Title: Development of Sensor System for Hospital Patient Monitoring
Investigators: R.O. Claus and T.-C. Poon
Sponsor:
Title: Optical Fiber Sensors for Smart Aerospace Structures
Investigators: R.O. Claus and T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: General Dynamics Corporation, 1988 -1989.
Title: Optoelectronic Technology Trends
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: Empire Planning Group, Inc., NY, 1988.
Title: Study of Two-pupil Synthesis by Acousto-Optics
Investigator: T.-C. Poon
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (Directorate for Engineering)
, 1984 -1986.
Scholarly Activities
Books
T.-C. Poon, Optical
Scanning Holography with MATLAB, Springer, 2007 (ISBN: 978-0-387-36826-9)
T.-C. Poon and T. Kim, Engineering Optics with
Matlab,World Scientific, 2006
T.-C. Poon, editor, Digital
Holography and Three-Dimensional Display,Springer, 2006 (ISBN:
0-387-31340-0)
T.-C. Poon and P.P.Banerjee, Contemporary Optical Image Processing With Matlab ,Elsevier Science (ISBN: 0-08-043788-5)
P.P. Banerjee and T.-C. Poon, Principles of Applied Optics, McGraw Hill (ISBN 0-256-08860-8)
P.P. Banerjee and T.-C. Poon, Instructor's Solutions Manual Accompany Principles of Applied Optics, McGraw Hill (ISBN 0-256-08861-6)
Book Chapters
T.-C. Poon,Three-Dimensional Optical Remote Sensing by Optical Scanning Holography, SPIE Press, Vol. 5821, pp. 41-59, 2005 (ISBN-0-8194-5806-6).
T.-C. Poon, Horizontal-Parallax-Only
Optical Scanning Holography, in Digital
Holography and 3-D Display, Springer,
May, 2006 (ISBN:
0-387-31340-0)
T.-C. Poon, Three-Dimensional Image Processing and Optical Scanning Holography, in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics (Vol. 126),Academic Press (ISSN 1076-5670/03)
T.-C. Poon and T. Kim, Information Display with Optics, in Introduction to Information Optics,Academic Press (ISBN: 0-127-74811-3)
T.-C. Poon, Optical Scanning Holography: Principles and Applications, in Three-Dimensional Holographic Imaging,Wiley Interscience (ISBN: 0471-35894-0)
T.-C. Poon, Optical Instruments:
Heterodyne, Encyclopedia
of Modern Optics, Elsevier Physics, 2004 (ISBN 0122276000)
T.-C. Poon, Acousto-Optics, Encyclopedia of Physical Science and Technology, Academic Press (ISBN 0-122-27410-5)
Selected Invited Lectures (Full Manuscripts published)
T.-C. Poon, "Some Perspectives on Acousto-Optics and its Modern Signal Processing Applications," Proc. of 4th Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Applications (held in Poland), edited by A. Sliwinski et al., World Scientific Publishing Co., pp.213-228, 1990.
T.-C. Poon and B.D. Duncan, "Optical Scanning Holography by Acousto-Optics," Proc.of School-Seminar on Acousto-Optics: Researches and Developments (held in the former USSR), edited by S.V. Kulakov, bound by a Russian book company, pp.159 -169, 1990.
P.P. Banerjee, D. Cao, P. Gibbs, and T.-C. Poon, " Image Propagation Through Acousto-Optic Devices," 6th Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Application joint with Advances in Acousto-Optics 1995, Poland, (Proc. of SPIE , Vol. 2643, pp.158- 165, 1995).
P.P. Banerjee and T.-C. Poon, "Lensless Spatial Filtering Using Acousto-Optic Modulators," 7th Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Application joint with Advances in Acousto-Optics, Poland , SPIE Proceedings on Acousto-optics and Applications, Vol. 3581 48-57 (1998).
T.-C. Poon and T. Kim.," Optical scanning Holographic System for the Recognition of 3D Objects," SPIE Proceedings on Photonic Devices and Alorithms for Computing, Vol. 3805, pp.112-121 (Denver, CO), 1999.
T.-C. Poon and P.P. Banerjee," Two-Dimensional Feature Extraction and Beam Fanning Suppression Using Acousto-Optics," 8th Spring School on Acousto-Optics and Application joint with Advances in Acousto-Optics, Poland, SPIE Proceedings on Acousto-optics and Applications IV, Vol. 4514, pp.61-74, 2001.
T.-C. Poon," Optical Scanning Holographic Approach to Three-Dimensional Television," Proceedings of the 2nd International Meeting on Information Display, pp.281-284, 2002, Korea - Plenary Lecture.
T.-C. Poon, " Optical Scanning Cryptography," SPIE Proceedings on Wave-Optical Systems Engineering II, Vol. 5182 pp.206-211, San Diego, CA (2003)
Referred Journal Publications
To see journal citation in the '70s and '80s, please go to this page: Publications in the '70s and '80s
To
see journal citation in the '90s, please go to this page: Publications
from 1990 to present
News Published and Other
Papers
T.-C. Poon," Holography: Scan-free three-dimensional imaging," Nature Photonics, March Issue, pp. 131-132 (2008)
T.-C. Poon, "Real-Time Holography Using Optical Scanning", article published under the News Section of the journal of Optics & Laser Technology, Vol. 25, pp. 332-333, (1993).
T.-C. Poon and R. Pieper, "Construct an Optical FM Receiver," Ham Radio, pp. 53-56 (1983).
Selected Seminars (Seminars involving job
interviews not included)
Image Processing with an Optical Heterodyne Scanning System, Signal Processing Seminar at Syracuse University, 10/16/1987.
Acousto-Optical FM Receiver, IEEE-Hong Kong Section and the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7/26/1988.
Image Processing with an Acousto-Optic Modulator, Department of Electronics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 8/17/1988.
Modern Signal Processing Using an Acousto-Optic Modulator, IEEE-Virginia Mountain Section, 9/15/88.
FM Receiver Using an Acousto-Optic Modulator, IEEE-Binghamton Section, N.Y., 12/7/89.
Real-Time Image Processing with a Two-Pupil System, Geophysics Department, Warsaw University, Warsaw, Poland, May 1989.
Optical Image Processing, Computer Science Department, Radford University, VA, 10/28/92.
Three-dimensional coding and decoding, Electrical Engineering Department, Naval Postgraduate School, CA, 2/10/1995.
Optical Scanning Holography, Korean Institute of Science and Technology, Korea, 8/23/96.
Optical Scanning Holography, and Real-Time Image Processing by Acousto-Optics, Department of Electronics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1/15/97.
Optical Scanning Holography and its Applications, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 5/10/97.
Optical Scanning Holography and 3-D Microscopy, 24th Seminar of the Tokai Research Association for Organic Devices, Hamamatsu, Japan, 5/22,1997.
Three-Dimensional Holographic Fluorescence Microscopy, Center for Biomedical Engineering, Virginia Tech, Nov., 1999.
Three-dimensional Holographic Television Using Optical Scanning Holography, Department of Computer Science, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Hong Kong,8/13/2002.
Optical Scanning Holography and its Application to 3-D Microscopy, Atto Bioscience, MD, Jan., 2003.
Holography: principles and its potential applications in the 21st Century and beyond, Electrical Engineering Department, Kwangwoon University, Korea, July 2003.
Optical Scanning Cryptography, Internet Information Retrieval Research Center, Hangkong University, Korea, July 2003.
Optical Scanning holography for 3-D Displays, Department of Electronic Engineering, IEEE AP/MTT HK Joint Chapter, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7/7/2004.
Optical Scanning holography for 3-D Imaging, Department of Electronic Engineering, Gunma University, Japan, October, 2006.
Lectures on Optical Scanning holography, Department of Electronics and Computer Science, Nihon University, Japan, October, 2006.
Scanning Holography Microscopy for 3-D Imaging, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, IEEE EMBS Hong Kong Chapter, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 7/20/2007.
Patents/Patent Disclosures
Title: Optical Heterodyne Scanning Type Holography Device
Inventors: S. Shinoda, Y. Suzuki, M. Wu and T.-C. Poon, U.S. Patent # 5,064,257
(1991)
Title: Twin-Image Elimination Apparatus and Method
Inventors: S. Shinoda, T.-C. Poon, M. Wu and Y. Suzuki, U.S. Patent # 5,805,316
(1998); Japan Patent# 3527328 (2004)
Title: Three-Dimensional Holographic Fluorescence Microscope
Inventors: T.-C. Poon, B. Schilling, G. Indebeteow and B. Storrie, U.S. Patent
# 6,038,041 (2000)
Title: Multicolor Electronic
Holography and 3D Image Projection System
Inventor: B.D. Schilling, T.-C. Poon, U.S. Patent # 6760134 (2004)
Title: Software for Pattern
Recognition
Patent Disclosure by Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (June, 2002)
Title: A device for Optical
Scanning Cryptography for Secure Wireless Transmission
Patent Disclosure by Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Oct. 2002)
Title: Method for generating
horizontal-parallax-only holographic information suitable for TV or electronic
transmission of holographic information
Patent Disclosure by Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. ((Number 04.058, July 2004)
Title: Image Coding Using
an Optical Scanning System
Inventor: T.-C. Poon et al.
Patent Disclosure by Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. (Number08-1222, 2008)
Teaching Activities
Graduate Advising
Please go to this page: Alumni
Graduate courses: Foundations of Electrical Systems, Introduction to Electro-Optics
Undergraduate courses: Network analysis, Electromagnetic theory, Communications systems, Introduction to optical information processing, Electrical theory, Circuits, Signals & Systems, Electronic networks laboratory, Electronics, RC-active filter design.
Recognized by the College of
Engineering, Virginia Tech, twice for Teaching Evaluations of overall rating of
3.60 or above (out of 4.00)
