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Title: Augmented Reality With Digital Metrology For Assembly
Author: Nawab, Rahma
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: This dissertation aims to create and demonstrate a fast and inexpensive quantitative dimensional inspection system for industrial assembly line applications that can detect position errors of assembled components on a scale of 1 mm and larger. The...

Title: Characterization of Broadband Optical Functionality of Freeform Optics
Author: Koerber, Jonathan
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Freeform optics, broadly described as optical elements with at least one surface lacking translational or rotational symmetry, have seen increased interest due to recent advances in optical design, fabrication, and measurement. Freeform optics pro...

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: 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: Light-assisted drying (LAD) for anhydrous preservation of biologics: processing sample volumes comparable to a therapeutic dose
Author: Furr, Daniel
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: Protein-based products have been developed to treat a range of conditions and are used in vaccines and assays. A challenge in the development of these products is maintaining the protein in the folded state during processing and storage. The most ...

Title: Optical Fiber-Based Multi-Directional Fabry-Perot Interferometry Prpbe
Author: Shabahang, Farzaneh
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: The motivation of this thesis is to create an optical probe for the measurement of surfaces in confined spaces. This thesis presents design and operation of an optical fiber-based probe to measure a surface profile or relative displacement of exte...

Title: Quantifying the Binding Affinities of the PAI-H19Y Mutant of Sleeping Beauty Transposase to DNA
Author: Arango, Maria
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics
Description: The Sleeping Beauty (SB) transposon system is the leading and only DNA transposon-based gene-delivery vehicle that has been adapted for human gene therapy. The SB system consists of a transposon DNA flanked by inverted terminal repeats (ITRs) and ...

Title: Superlens imaging and light concentration in mesoscale photonics: design and implementation
Author: Jin, Boya
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Progress in nanofabrication made possible development of metamaterials and nanoplamonics two decades ago. The area of mesoscale photonics where the characteristic dimensions of spherical, pyramidal or other building blocks are on the order of seve...

Title: Variable extended depth of field imaging using freeform optics
Author: Moein, Sara
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Recent advancements in design, manufacturing, and metrology have enabled broader use of freeform components for high-performing optical systems. Freeform optics, which lack rotational symmetry, provide additional design freedoms that can enable co...