Current Students

Kelly Dobson, Optical Information Processing

Huy Vo, Optical sectioning in holography

Visiting Scholars/Visiting Professors/Research Scientists

Sung-Wook Min, Visiting Scholar,  Seoul National University, Korea (Dec., 2005- August 2007) 

Ik Sang Kim, Professor, Information & Communication Engineering Department, Paichai University, Korea (Feb., 2006 – June 2007)

Kyu Doh, Associate Professor, School of Electronics, Telecommunication and Computer Engineering, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea (March, 2006 – Dec., 2007)

Jiangang Xia, Scholar,   Xuzhou Normal University, China (April 1995-August1996), currently at Elcan Optical Technologies, Midland, Ont., Canada

Jinwoo Park, Professor and Chair, Department of Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Korea (August 1999 - July 2000)

Dr. Vladimir Polejaev, Research Scientist, (May 2000- 2003), currently at Prime Research, Blacksburg, VA

Alumni

Masoud Motamedi (M.S., 1985), Director of System Engineering, Pactel Teletrac Corporation , CA

Thesis: An Optical/Digital Incoherent Image Processing System for Extended Depth of Field

 

John Horger (M.S.,1987), Electrical Engineer, Center for Night Vision and Electro-Optics, Fort Belvoir, VA

Thesis: Multiple Plane Wave Analysis of Acousto-Optic Diffraction of Gaussian Light Beams

 

Jinwoo Park (Ph. D., 1987), Professor and Chair, Department of Electronics Engineering, Korea University, Korea

Dissertation: Real-Time Edge Extraction with an Acousto-Optic Heterodyne Scanning System

 

Steve Cheung  (M.S., 1988), Principal RF Engineer, Applied Radar Inc., RI.

Thesis: Studies on Hybrid Optical Bistable Devices using an Acousto-Optic Modulator

 

Angela Wallace (M.S., 1989)

Thesis: A Transfer Function Approach to Acousto-Optics

 

Nicco Bhabu (M.S., 1990), Displays Group, National Semiconductor, Bangalore, India

Thesis: Analysis of 3-D Field Distributions for Focused Unapodized/Apodized Annular Beams

 

Kannan Raj (M.S., 1990), Program Manager, Primarion, Arizona

Thesis: Investigations of 3-D Optical Transfer Functions

 

Brad Duncan (Ph.D., 1991), Professor, Center for Electro-Optics, University of Dayton

Dissertation: Investigation of real-time optical scanning holography

 

Brad Schilling (M.S., 1992; Ph.D., 1997), Electrical Engineer, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate, US Army, Virginia

Thesis: Advances in real-time optical scanning holography

Dissertation: Three-Dimensional Fluorescence Microscopy by Optical Scanning Holography

 

Mark McNeill (Ph.D., 1996), Consultant, Booz|Allen|Hamilton, Arlington, Virginia

Dissertation: Three-dimensional strong acousto-optic interaction theory

 

Kyu Doh (Ph.D., 1996), Associate Professor, Hankuk Aviation University, Korea

Dissertation: Twin-image problems in optical scanning holography

 

Jeong-Han Kim (M.S., 1996), Research Engineer, LG Semicon, Korea

Thesis: Optical display of the Airy function and transient wave propagation in a dispersive medium

 

Taegeun Kim (M.S., 1997; Ph.D., 2000), Associate Professor, Department of Optical Engineering, Sejong University, Korea

Thesis: Optical scanning holography for 3-D imaging of fluorescent objects in turbid media

Dissertation: Optical three-dimensional image matching using holographic information

 

Derrek Dunn (Ph.D., 1998), Professor and Chairman, Department of Electronics, Computer, and Information Technology, N.C. A&T State University

Dissertation: Real-time optical image processing by acousto-optic Bragg diffraction

 

Alex Kourakos (M.S., 1999), System Administrator, Biz Net Technologies

Thesis: Extended depth-of-focus in a laser scanning system employing a synthesized difference-of-Gaussians pupil

 

Dong-Ik Shin, (M.S., 2002), Optical Module Laboratory, Central R&D Institute, Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Korea

Thesis: Laser Scanning Imaging for Increased Depth-Of-Focus

 

Ying Qi, (M.S., 2002), U. of Toronto, Canada

Thesis: Novel Real-Time Joint-Transform Correlation Using Acousto-Optics

 

Turan Akin, (M.S., 2006), Senior Vice President, GCB Services L.L.C.

Thesis: Simulations on Horizontal-Parallax-Only Optical Scanning Holography