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Title
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CHARACTERIZATION OF LIGHT-META STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS
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Author
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Chandra, Nitish
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics
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Description
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The advent of metamaterials has increased the complexity of possible light-matter interactions, creating gaps in knowledge and violating various commonly used approximations and rendering some common mathematical frameworks incomplete. Our forward...
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Dynamic Illumination Systems using Freeform Optics
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Author
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shadalou, shohreh
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Illumination systems that can create light patterns of varying sizes or shapes with high efficiency and uniformity are advantageous for a range of applications, including lighting, augmented/virtual reality, laser-based manufacturing, medicine/der...
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Title
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Evaluation of Spatial Resolution and The Non-Linearity Analysis for 3-D Metrology
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Author
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Jain, Swati
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Physics
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Description
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Structured light systems (SLS) have become increasingly important for three-dimensional shape measurements. A quantitative evaluation of the spatial resolution is also becoming increasingly important. The spatial frequency response of the instrume...
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FOCUSING, IMAGING AND RESONACE PROPERTIES OF MICROPHOTONICS STRUCTURES AND DEVICES
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Author
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Abolmaali, Farzaneh
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Structures and devices built using microspherical building blocks attract significant attention in recent years due to an extraordinary high-quality factor (Q>106) of whispering gallery modes in dielectric microspheres and due to their ability to ...
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Title
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Metasurfaces for Field Control and Detection
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Author
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Rosenbury, Christopher
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Nanoscience, Physics
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Description
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Metasurfaces have been of increasing interest in the scientific community due to their consistent ability to efficiently reproduce traditional optical elements via quasi-monolithic patterning. In this dissertation I will examine various metasurfac...
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Title
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PERFORMANCE AND SPECIFICATION OF OPTICAL COMPONENTS WITH MID-SPATIAL FREQUENCY SURFACE ERRORS
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Author
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Aryan, Hamidreza
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Mechanical engineering, Optics, Engineering
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Description
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The advent of sub-aperture computer-numerically controlled (CNC) manufacturing techniques has enabled new opportunities for high-performance optical components and systems. Freeform and other challenging designs are now possible like never before....
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Title
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SELECTIVE HEATING OF VASCULAR STRUCTURES TO CREATE CONTRAST IN MEDICAL MID-IR IMAGES
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Author
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Case, Jason
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Diagnostic imaging
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Description
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The goal of this study is to develop an enhanced mid-IR imaging modality for mapping vascular structures. This imaging technique is intended for real-time use by medical professionals during surgical procedures such as tumor removal and vascular m...
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Title
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SPATIAL FIELD CONTROL OF BROAD AREA SEMICONDUCTOR LASERS WITH INTEGRATED GRATING COUPLERS
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Author
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Smolski, Viktor
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Optics
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Description
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In this research, a method of designing a grating outcoupler to obtain the desired 2D-intensity profile and improved field distribution of the optical beam emitted by a grating coupled surface emitting laser is presented. The method is based on va...
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Title
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STRUCTURED OPTICAL MATERIALS FABRICATED USING TWO-PHOTON POLYMERIZATION
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Author
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Li, Yanzeng
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Materials science, Optics, Physics
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Description
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Artificially structured materials, which are treated as macroscopically homogeneous media, exhibit effective optical properties that can be altered by engineering the materials' intrinsic geometries at a scale much smaller than the probing electro...
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Specification and Modeling of Mid-Spatial Frequency Errors in Optical Systems
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Author
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DeMars, Luke
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics
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Description
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Recent advancements in manufacturing and post-processing of optics with sub-aperture methods have enabled greater degrees of freedom to realize complex optical surfaces. Introduction of residual mid-spatial frequency (MSF) surface errors is a cons...