Technical Presentations 2004

G. Ansel and B.D. Duncan; “Analysis of Cloud Induced Dispersion in a Free Space Optical Communication Link,” SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.

J.L. Binford, B.D. Duncan, M.L. DeLong and J.H. Parker, Jr.; “Imaging Diffractometer with Holographic Encoding Enhancements,” SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.

S. Blicknestaff, A. Sarangan, T.R. Nelson, K. Leedy and D. Agresta, “Techniques for Shadow Masked Deposition of Nonplanar Dielectric Layers”, SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 2004.

Adam T. Cooney, Andrew M. Sarangan, Thomas R. Nelson, Rashid Alkuwari, Peter E. Powers and James L. Blackshire, “Quantum Cascade Terahertz Emitters for Subsurface Defect Detection”, Quantitative Nondestructive Evaluation Conference, 2005.

C. Deng, J.W. Haus and A. Sarangan, “Photonic Bandgap Enhanced Second-harmonic Generation in a Planar Lithium Niobate Waveguide”, SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 2004

Cong Deng, Joseph W. Haus, Andrew Sarangan, Aziz Mahfoud, Michael Scalora, Mark Bloemer and Concita Sibilia, “Enhanced Cerenkov second-harmonic generation in a photonic band gap Lithium Niobate waveguide”, FWV7, OSA Annual Meeting, 2004.

M. N. Gurcan, K. Younis, D. Wormanns, R. C. Hardie, J. W. Hoffmeister and S. K. Rogers, “Contrast Enhancement Analysis for the Classification of Solitary Pulmonary Nodules in Computed Tomography: Automated Assessment,” Radiology Society of North America (RSNA), Nov. 28 – Dec. 3, 2004, Chicago, IL (presentation).

Jang-Pyo Kim and Andrew Sarangan, “Temperature-dependent Sellmeier equation for the refractive index of AlxGa1-xAs in the 1.46-1.58mm range”, CE7-6-THU, CLEO Europe, 2005.

Jang-Pyo Kim, Aziz Mahfoud and Andrew Sarangan, “Resonant cavity enhanced (RCE) corrugated quantum well infrared photodetectors (C-QWIP)”, American Physical Society Meeting – Ohio Section, April 2005

J.P. Kim and A. Sarangan, “An Exact Analysis of Resonant Cavity Enhanced (RCE) Photodetectors Using Transer Matrix Method (TMM) and Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD)”, SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 2004

A. Mahfoud and A. Sarangan, “Two-dimensional Distributed Feedback Lasers Using Polymer Gain Media on Glass Substrates”, SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 2004

Aziz Mahfoud, Andrew Sarangan, Cong Deng, Joseph Haus, Sarah Blickenstaff and Thomas Nelson, “Optically pumped 1-D and 2-D photonic crystal lasers based on poly (2-5-dialkoxy-phenylene-vinylene)”, FMK3, OSA Annual Meeting, 2004.

J.Schmidt, B.D. Duncan and E.A. Watson; “Statistics of Uplink Signal Fades in Ground-to-Air Laser Communications,” SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH, June 7-11, 2004.

S. Tiramareddy and A. Sarangan, “Large Bends in Grating Waveguides”, SPIE Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, 2004

Q. Zhan, “Trapping nano-particles with cylindrical polarization,” the Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., SPIE annual meeting, Denver, (2004).

Y. Zhao, Q. Zhan, and Y. Li, “Design of DOE for beam shaping with highly NA focused cylindrical vector beam,” the proceedings of SPIE Photonics Asia, Beijing, China, (2004).

Y. Zhao, Q. Zhan and Y. Li, “Focus shaping with high NA cylindrical vector beams illumination in SIL systems,” the Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., SPIE annual meeting, Denver, (2004)

Y. Zhao, Q. Zhan and Y. Li, “Design of DOE for the control of optical bubble generated by highly focused radially polarized beam,” the Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., SPIE annual meeting, Denver, (2004).

Y. Hor and Q. Zhan, “Calibration of an electro-optical variable circular retarder with application in a nulling microellipsometer,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland, OH June, (2004).

N. Meyendorf, S. Sathish, C. Druffner, J. Blackshire, J. Hoffman, Q. Zhan, R. Andrews, “High-resolution nondestructive evaluation at the Center for Materials Diagnostics,” Proc. SPIE – Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., Testing, Reliability, and Application of Micro- and Nano-Material Systems, Vol. 5392, pp. 256-265, (2004).

Y. Hor and Q. Zhan, “Calibration of an electro-optical variable circular retarder with application in a nulling microellipsometer,” Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., Testing, Reliability, and Application of Micro- and Nano-Material Systems, Vol. 5392, pp. 179-185, (2004).

E. M. Vershure, P. E. Powers, and K. L. Schepler, “Comparing the Utility of LiNbO3 and LiTaO3 as Mid-Infrared Laser Materials Using Quasi-Phasematching,” Great Lakes Photonics Symposium, Cleveland OH, June 2004.