Alumni

Graduate Students Year Name Degree Thesis   Kazutaka Oba M.S.   1995 Espartaco Diaz Hidalgo M.S.   1996 Hiro Sasaki Ph. D.   1996 Vladimir Armstrong M.S.   1996 Fang Xu Ph.D "Polarization Selective Computer Generated Holograms" 1997 Brian Catanzaro Ph.D.   1997 Luis Humberto Detaboada M.S.   1997 Sarah Lynn Dobson M.S.   1998 Paul C. Lin M.S.   1998 Hau-Minn Lu Ph.D.   1998 Boris Aron Slutsky Ph.D "Key Distillation in Quantum Cryptography" 1998 Eric Takeuchi Ph.D "Key Distillation in Quantum Cryptography" 1998 James A. Thomas Ph.D "Optical Phased Array Beam Deflection using Lead Lanthanum Zirconate Titanate" 1998 Rongchung Tyan Ph.D "Design, Modeling and Characterization of Multifunctional Diffractive Optical Elements" 1999 Arie P. Kaplan M. Eng.   1999 Paul Elliot Shames Ph.D "Characterization and Modeling of Scattering Electrooptic Ceramics" 1999 Nathan Shou M.S.   1999 Lijun Zhu Ph.D Adaptive optics with a micromachined membrane deformable mirror for high resolution retinal imaging 2000 Dan M. Marom Ph.D "Femtosecond-rate optical signal processing with applications in ultrafast communications" 2002 Wataru Nakagawa Ph.D "Near-field phenomena in resonant and nonlinear photonic nanostructures" 2004 Dmitriy Panasenko Ph.D "Single-shot detection of ultrashort laser pulses with applications to nonlinear propagation in transparent dielectric and radio-frequency spectrum analysis" 2005 Rostislav Rokitski Ph.D "Method and applications of time-resolved space-heterodyne imaging" 2005 Chyong-Hua Chen Ph.D "Design, fabrication and characterization of optical microcavities for application specific optical devices" 2005 Chia-Ho Tsai Ph.D "GaAs-AlGaAs nanostructured composites for free-space and integrated optical devices" 2006 Nikola Alic Ph.D "Information Processing for Improved Performance in Optical Networks" 2006 Kevin Tetz Ph.D "Plasmonics in the Near-Infrared: Spatial, Spectral, and Temporal studies of Surface Plasmon Polaritons 2007 Guy Klemens Ph.D Enhancement and analysis of nonlinear optical processes in designed microstructures 2007 Robert Saperstein Ph.D "Information Processing using Longitudinal Spectral Decomposition of Ultrashort Pulses" 2007 Maziar Nezhad Ph.D "Active and Passive Plasmonic Devices" 2008 Yaoming Shen Ph.D "Photoluminescence spectral study of single CdSe/ZnS Colloidal Nanocrystals in Poly(methyl methacrylate) and Quantum Dots molecules" 2008 Kazuhiro Ikeda Ph.D "All-optical nonlinear switching in optical micro-resonators on a silicon chip" 2009 Maxim Abashin Ph.D "Near-field characterization of photonic nanodevices" Undergraduate Students Year Name 2008 Maria J. Bustamante 2008 Joshua Wang 2007 Jacob Sendowski 2006 Jeff Su 2005 Stanley Calixte 2004 Ben Pouladian 2004 Jessica Yuen 2004 David Pham 2003 Michael Moewe 2002 Semeon Litvin 2001 Mark Chaisson 2001 Steve Chen 2001 Eric Loh 2001 James Nielsen 2000 John-Paul Fryckman 1998 Jay Johnson 1997 Eric Phillips 1996 Adam Ghozeil 1994 Richard Penner Visitors Year Name Position 2008 Olesya Bondarenko Visiting Scholar 2007 Alexander Gumennik Graduate Student 2007 Hyo-Chang Kim Postdoctoral Researcher 2006 Uriel Levy Postdoctoral Researcher 2005 Efi Rotem Postdoctoral Researcher 2005 Lin Pang Postdoctoral Researcher 2005 Pang-Chen Sun Visiting Scientist 2005 Tilman Friz Scholar 2005 Pierpasquale Tortora Scholar 2005 Mufei Xiao Wu Scholar 2005 Francis T. Yu Professor 2005 Beam-hoan O Researcher 2004 Sandrine Herriot Postdoctoral Researcher 2004 Antonello Nesci Postdoctoral Researcher 2003 Katsuyuki Akutsu Sony Scholar 2003 Wataru Nakagawa Postdoctoral Researcher 2003 Nasser Payghambarian Scholar 2003 Sergey E. Pulitin Visitor 2003 Daisuke Miyazaki Scholar 2003 Rong Liu Postdoctoral Researcher 2003 Pierre Ambs Visitor 2003 Tilman Friz Visitor 2002 Tamir Husain Visitor 2002 Yuri Mazurenko Researcher 2002 Sophie Laut Postdoctoral Researcher 2002 Stephanie Le Moal Visitor 2001 Pang-Chen Sun Ph.D Assistant Research Scientist 2000 Fang Xu Ph.D Assistant Research Scientist 1999 Miguel Alvarez Scholar 1999 Sung-Do Cha Professor 1999 Igor Ciapurin Scholar Guoqiang Li Visitor Ivan Richter Visitor Cha Sungdo Visitor M. Tur Visitor