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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: Dynamic aerosol and dynamic air-water interface curvature effects on a 2-Gbit/s free-space optical link using orbital-angular-momentum multiplexing
Author: Gbur, Greg, Song, Haoqian, Zhang, Runzhou, Hu, Nanzhe
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: When an orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) beam propagates through the dynamic air-water interface, the aerosol above the water and the water surface curvature could induce various degradations (e.g., wavefront distortion, beam wandering, scattering, ...

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: Improved Fidelity of Triangulation Sensor Measurements in Optical Inspection
Author: Hosseinpour, Milad
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: With the evolution of gear design requirements for new applications, classical gear inspection based on a time-consuming line-oriented tactile measurement must be replaced with a more rapid, areal inspection that can capture complex modern gear mo...

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: Massive parallel sorting of particles using unwound polygonal vortex beams
Author: Gbur, Greg
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Physics, Optics
Description: Optical sorting, as one kind of optical tweezers, is used to separate mixed particles in a background environment. This unusual tool has a wide application prospect because the non-contact and non-destructive advantages ideally suit the pressing n...

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: 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: Ultraprecision Diamond Machining of Polycarbonate Complex Multi-Sided Freeform Optics
Author: Swagler, Steven
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Mechanical engineering
Description: Advances in technology are driving optical systems to become more and more complex and compact. Ultra-precision machining centers have advanced to catch up with optical designs but there is a defined set of methods defining the use of the machines...

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...