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Title: A path dependent quantum approximate optimization algorithm optimized by pairwise correlation of angles
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Given the current promise of quantum computing to increase the efficiency of optimization algorithms, it is important to utilize these quantum algorithms for useful applications. The quantum approximate optimization algorithm was recently develope...

Title: CHARACTERIZATION OF LIGHT-META STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS
Author: Chandra, Nitish
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Physics
Description: 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...

Title: Characterization of Signal Degradation and Polarization Backscatter in Laser-Illuminated Scenes
Author: Bodrucki, Frances
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Scenes containing laser illumination are commonly encountered in a variety of remote-sensing applications. One aspect of laser illumination is that it can interfere with electronic image acquisition, especially if it is modulated at temporal frequ...

Title: Dynamic Illumination Systems using Freeform Optics
Author: shadalou, shohreh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: 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...

Title: Femtosecond Laser-Induced Breakdown of Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide
Author: Solomon, Joel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Materials science, Physics
Description: Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have been extensively studied due to their extraordinary electronic and optoelectronic properties. In particular, monolayer semiconductor TMDs such as MoS2, WS2...

Title: Implementing and Characterizing a Quantum Divide and Conquer Variational Quantum Algorithm
Author: Gray, Alexander
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Quantum theory
Description: The current landscape of quantum computing devices consists of Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) devices, which contain around 100 or less qubits and are not fault-tolerant or error correcting. Due to the physical limitations of these device...

Title: Improving Thulium Fiber Laser Lithotripsy Efficiency
Author: Hardy, Luke
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Kidney stone disease affects approximately 10% of the U.S. population. Conventional Holmium:YAG infrared laser lithotripsy is a standard minimally invasive treatment that operates based on a photothermal interaction with the main chromophore in ti...

Title: Infrared Laser Fusion and Bisection of Blood Vessels with Real-Time Optical Diagnostic Feedback
Author: Giglio, Nicholas
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: The conventional method of suture ligation of vascular tissues during surgery is time consuming, skill intensive, and leaves foreign objects in the body. Energy-based radiofrequency(RF) and ultrasonic (US) devices have recently replaced the use of...

Title: Investigation of impedance-matching techniques for infrared antennas
Author: Moreno Cleves, Camilo
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Optics, Physics
Description: In this study, we used scattering-scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to experimentally characterize several structures relevant to infrared (IR) antenna technology, by measuring the electric near-field strength as a function of positi...

$Numerical and Optical Performance Characterization of Random Antireflective Surface Structures on Diffractive Optical Elements$

Title: Numerical and Optical Performance Characterization of Random Antireflective Surface Structures on Diffractive Optical Elements
Author: Gadamsetti, Praneeth
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Antireflective structured surfaces (ARSS) are periodic, or random, distributions of three-dimensional nano-features fabricated directly on optical quality substrates, for the suppression of surface reflectivity from the dielectric boundary. Within...

Title: OPTICAL PERFORMANCE OF RANDOM ANTIREFLECTION STRUCTURED SURFACES ON NON-VITREOUS SUBSTRATES AND FUSED SILICA MICROLENS ARRAYS
Author: Eckart, Abigail
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Random anti-reflection surface structures (rARSS) are randomly spaced, densely packed, sub-wavelength cylindrical or conical features that are fabricated on the surface of optical substrates. As light passes from the superstrate to the substrate m...

Title: Supervised Projective Learning for Electroencephalography Analysis
Author: Grear, Tyler
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: The brain-computer interface has emerged as a promising field of research with the capacity to significantly transform multiple technological sectors. The imagining of limb movement known as motor imagery (MI) serves as an auspicious paradigm for ...