Lecturer Directory
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- Structural Simulation of Metallic Foam Via NDE 3-D Image based Modeling
- NDE Using Sensor Based Approach to Propulsion Health Monitoring Of A Turbine Engine Disk
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- Sense, Predict, & Remediate - The Science and Application of Health Monitoring in Engineered Systems
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- Molecular design for multiphoton absorption: from the visible to telecommunications wavelengths
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- Energy Harvesting Materials
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- Passive Millimetre Wave Imaging
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- Designing the James Webb Space Telescope
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- Integrated Photonics for Exploring Biological Systems
- Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Integrated Photonics
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- Computational Photomechanics
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- A Video Algorithm: Can we build a business
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- Optical Fibers as Sensors: From Structural to Security Monitoring
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- Biomimetics - Biologically Inspired Technologies
- Electroactive Polymer (EAP) Actuators as Artificial Muscles - Reality, Potential and Challenges
- Humanlike Robots
- Planetary Sample Handling Using the Ultrasonic/Sonic Driller/Corer (USDC) Mechanism
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- Effects of Scanning Degradations on Document Images
- Document Image Degradations and Analysis of Statistical Image Differences
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- Laser Processing and Chemistry: Applications in Nanopatterning, Material Synthesis, and Biotechnology
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- Superresolution imaging systems
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- Coherent Radiators Including Short-Wavelength, High-Gain, Single-Pass, Free-Electron Lasers and Associated Exotic Schemes
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- Space Optics for the 21st Century
- Maturing and Infusing Technology
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- Challenges of Space Optics, Innovative astronomical optics, Optics for the Detection & Characterization of Exo-Solar Planetary Systems
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- Fundamentals of Holographic Data Storage: Diffraction of Light by Volume Holographic Gratings
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- Dielectric elastomer actuators: current achievements and challenges
- Biomedical applications of electroactive polymer actuators
- Magnetic robotic manoeuvring of gastrointestinal video capsules
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- Electrospinning and Characterization of GaN nanofibres
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- Liquid crystal spatial light modulators. Characterization and optimization of the amplitude, phase & polarization modulation
- Polarization diffractive optics with liquid crystal displays
- Characterization of integration methods by their transfer function. Application to the obtention of the surface profile from slope measurements.
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- Focal modulation microscopy: a novel molecular imaging method for thick biological tissues
- Time domain diffuse optical tomography: novel implementations
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- Advances in liquid crystal materials for photonics and display applications
- Optically isotropic liquid crystals for photonics and display applications
- Liquid crystal and polymer nanocomposites for fast-switching displays
- Current and future trend of flexible displays
- Green Displays: Paper-like displays
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- Micro-Spectrometer for Probe-Pin Device Development
- Semi-Metallic Materials and Rare-Earth Doped Ferroelectric Materials for Spectral Variation
- Quantum Apertures: Field-Injection Grating Light Valves
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- Fibre Optic Sensors: Bringing Ideas in Optics to Engineering Reality
- Smart Structures and Fibre Optics
- Gas Spectroscopy for Environmental Monitoring Using Optical Fibre Systems
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- Applications of Lasers and Light to Medicine and Health Care
- Optics Kits for Science Education: Adventures in Color and Sound
- How Can We Monitor the Environment with Light?
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- OCT, Polarization and Dynamic Light Scattering Techniques in Biophotonics
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- Infrared Detectors
- Infrared Polarization
- Infrared Spectrometry
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- Pulsed Laser Deposition of Functional Oxide Thin Films
- Laser Based Techniques for Soft Matter Processing
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- Self-Mixing Interferometry: a Universal Yardstick to Measure Almost Everything
- From Order to Chaos and back: High-Level Coupling for Optical Cryptography
- Single-Photon Imaging Sensor with SPAD Arrays for Industrial and Bio-applications
- Developing 3-D Imaging Sensors: Problems and Technologies
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- Making the most of your presentation
- Structuring your scientific paper
- Getting messages across with graphs
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- Best Practice Photonics : building and sustaining a technical research career
- Nonlinear Fiber Optics: New Fibers - New Opportunities
- Advances in Nonlinear Ultrafast Photonics and Applications
- Rogue Waves and New Nonlinear Structures:what optics is doing for the science of nonlinear waves
- Nonlinear Physics made Practical : Canals, Continua and Pasteur's Quadrant
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- Nonlinear Effects in Optical Fibers
- Optical Solitons in Fibers
- Optical Amplifiers
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- Lecture titles available upon request
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- Can a scientist find a rewarding career in industry?
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- Challenges in Transferring Science for Society
- Developing End-to-End Large Space-Based Observational Systems, Process, Technologies and Management
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- The Promise and Payoff of Machine Vision
- Calibration Methods for 3D Measurement Systems
- 3D Machine Vision as a Shop Floor Metrology Tool
- The Art of Invention: Optics and the Recording of Knowledge
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- Developing New Materials & Methods for Micro- and Nanomanufacturing: Enabling advancement in electronics, energy, biology, and beyond
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- The Incredible Shrinking Camera
- Micro-Optics: From Theory to Real World Application
- Extending Optical Lithography with Free Form Diffractive Optical Elements Used for Off Axis Illumination
- Values at Work
- Harnessing Light for a Better World
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- Information based sensor management
- Syntactic pattern recognition utilizing ground penetrating radars for landmine detection
- Weapon detection utilizing millimeter wave radar
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- Comets, Carbonaceous Meteorites, and the Origin of the Biosphere
- Searching for Life in All the Wrong Places
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- Optical Design and Education Using Graphical Slider Tools
- NASA's Future Space Telescopes
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- Ultraspectral Sounder and Hyperspectral Imager Data Compression
- High-Performance Computing in Remote Sensing
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- Key Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
- Information Processing for Energy Efficient Communication in Wireless Sensor Networks
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- Solid-State Cadmium-Zinc-Telluride Gamma Ray Detectors
- Brookhaven National Laboratory's R&D on Advanced Sensor Technology for Homeland Security Applications
- Nuclear Radiation Detectors - Past, Present and Future
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- Polarisation and Coherence Problems in the Interferometric Fibre-Optic Sensors
- Fibre-optic Sagnac Interferometer and Related Sensing Devices
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- Lecture Titles Available on Request
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- Synthesis of Particles Possessing Magnetic and Fluorescent Properties: Application of Magnetic/Luminescent Particles in Immunoassays
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- Digital Holography for Biomedical Imaging
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- Power Scaling of Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Lasers
- Rare-Earth-Doped Fiber Sources for Spectroscopic Trace-Gas Detection
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- Computer Image Processing
- Ancient Knowledge and Current Technology
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- New Concepts for Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conversion
- All-Optical Switching
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- Nanoengineered Metamaterials
- Copycat Technology
- Surface Multiplasmonics
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- The Retinal Photoreceptor as a Fiber Optic Element
- There is More to Vision than Optics!
- Lie Algebraic Theory of Optical Aberrations
- An Introduction to Fiber Optics
- Laser Safety
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- Optical Coherence Tomography: imaging and sensing of tissues and cells
- Tissue Optics and Optical Coherence Tomography
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- A Laser-Based Device for Tissue Fusion
- Starting and Running Your Own Company: an entrepreneurial case study of KHET The Laser Game
- Medical Device Design and Development
- Invention at MIND Studios: university-based product design and development
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- Biophotonics in Microcirculation Imaging
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- SPIE Chapter Leadership: The Secrets to Leading Triumphant Organizations
- Teambuilding Principles
- Conflict Management
- Having the Right Stuff: Outstanding Resume and CVs for Outstanding Careers
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- Future Trends in Lithography for Fabricating Integrated Circuits
- Current Challenges in Advanced Lithography and Metrology for Fabricating Integrated Circuits
- Immersion Lithography
- EUV Lithography
- The American Educational System and the Future of High Technology in the USA
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- Optical design for biomedical imaging
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- Radio over GI-POF Transport Systems
- A Novel Hybrid Three-Band Transport System
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- Satellites - What Can We Picture and What Can We Use the Data For?
- Satellite Remote Sensing as a Media Event
- Archiving, Dissemination and Compression of Multiband Satellite Data
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- The New, New Limits of Optical Lithography
- Exploring the Capabilities of Immersion Lithography
- The End of the Semiconductor Industry as We Know It
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- Zernike Polynomials and Aberration Balancing
- Gaussian Apodization and Beam Propagation
- Beam Focusing and Depth of Focus
- Imaging Through Atmospheric Turbulence
- "Effect of Random Motion on Image Quality"
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- Fundamentals of nanotechnology
- Nanotechnology: Nanofabrication and characterization techniques; Applications
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- Laser assisted Precision machining
- Nanoscale Optics: Interferometric Lithography and Nanoscale feature patterning
- Biomedical Fiber Optics
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- Lecture titles available upon request
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- Optical Parametric Oscillators and Ultrafast, Ultrastable Lasers Based on CMOS Compatible Microring Resonators.
- Integrated all Optical Oscilloscopes
- The Dawn of Nonlinear Optics in the THz regime
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- Understanding the interplay between materials and short laser pulses in micro- and nanostructuring
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- Lensfree holographic on-chip imaging for telemedicine applications
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- NanoSilicon/NanoPhotonics
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- Non linear morpho-functional imaging of tissues
- Optical manipulation of biological samples
- Non linear microscopy
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- Introduction to Semiconductor Optics
- Terahertz and Mid Infrared Sources, Detection and Applications
- 21st Century Optical Engineering: Microscopic Design of Semiconductor Lasers
- Elementary excitations and new interubband quasiparticles
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- Millimeter-wave and Submillimeter-wave Molecular Spectroscopy
- Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Radar
- Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Imaging
- Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Science and Sensing Applications
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- The Paradox of the Eye Lens
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- Laser Ablation as a New Method for Elimination of Thorns of Vegetables and Fruits
- Monitoring of Laser Skin Perforation with LIBS and Photoacoustic
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- Raman meets Medicine - Raman spectroscopy a powerful tool in Biophotonics
- Nonlinear Microspctroscopy for Biomedical Applications
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- Data Compression for Satellite Missions at Canadian Space Agency
- Rapid Prototype Activities for Optical Satellite Sensors at Canadian Space Agency
- Increase Signal-to-Noise Ratio of Satellite Sensor Data using Numerical Processing Approach
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- Temporally and Spectrally Resolved Sampling Imaging with a Specially Designed Streak Camera
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- Biophotonics and cancer
- Biophotonics to measure tissue morphology and function
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- The Fascinating World of Lasers
- Fiber Optics and its Present Relevance in Communication
- Nanophotonics
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- Adaptive Optics: The Untwinkling of the Stars
- Image Formation and Analysis
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- Success in the Research Environment: How Do You Get There From Here
- Discussion of On-Going DARPA Research Projects in the Area of Tactical Optical Systems (specific topics TBD on request)
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- Incoherent Digital Holography
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- What color is the sky at night? A tribute to Lord Rayleigh
- Optics in Nature
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- Dynamic/ Updatable 3-D Displays Using Computer Generated Holograms
- Negatively-Refracting Metamaterials;A Tutorial Introduction
- New Methods for High-Density Holographic Data Storage and Reliable Content-Addressable Search
- Nonlinear Photorefractive Materials for Information Photonics
- Laser Beams with Phase Singularities (Spinning Light)
- Photonic Band Gap Structures; An Exciting Area of Nanophotonics
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- Coherence Holography
- Role of optical vortices in focal spot engineering
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- Photonic Crystal Fibers and Photonic Bandgap Devices
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- Liquid crystal applications: from flexible displays to tunable optical metamaterials
- Controlling matter by focused beams: laser tweezers and laser shapers
- Seeing in 3D: confocal, two-photon flourescence, and CARS microscopy
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- James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Science and Mirror Fabrication Status
- 50 years of space mirrors at NASA
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- Optical Detection of a Planet Next to a Bright Star
- Human and Machine Vision
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- Electroactive polymers, devices, and their applications
- Nano-structured porous carbon and multifunctional composites and their applications in clean energy and advanced aerospace technologies
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- Optical signal processing in silicon photonic devices
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- Do photonic industries need new approaches to qualify their products?
- Dynamic response of opto-electronic and photonic systems to shocks and vibrations
- Adhesively bonded and solde assemblies in opto-electronics and photonics
- Optical Fiber Interconnects: Design for Reliability
- Probabilistic Design for Reliability
- Thermal stress failures in opto-electronics and photonics: prediction and prevention
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- Data-non-intrusive photonics-based credit card verifiers
- Thermal Analyzer for Deceptive Detection
- Fourier-Optics based Object Assessment System for Quality Control Purpose
- Diffusing optics and photonics in our community
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- Laser Spectroscopy for Detection and Treatment of Human Malignancies
- Early Cancer Detection by Laser-Induced Fluorescence
- Photodynamic Therapy - Technical and Clinical Aspects
- Possible Third World Applications of Laser Spectroscopy in Medicine
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- Environmental and medical applications of laser spectroscopy
- Laser spectroscopy applied to energy, environmental and medical research
- Multidisciplinary laser radar techniques
- Gas in Scattering Media Absorption Spectroscopy - Laser spectroscopy in unconventional environments
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- Principles and Techniques for Optical Three-Dimensional Shape Measurements: From Macroscopic to Microscopic Objects
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- Evolution of Flight Programs: Still in Real-Time?
- Sensor Correlation: A Prelude to Track Fusion
- Metrics for Track Correlation: Why so important?
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- Tissue Optics and Controlling of Tissue and Blood Optical Properties
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- Lecture titles available upon request
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- Seeing sharp and shallow with optical coherence tomography (OCT): imaging tissue microstructure and microvasculature for early disease detection and therapeutic response monitoring
- Polarized light applications in biomedicine: assessing tissue anisotropy and chiral molecule (glucose) content
- A light at the end of the tunnel: optical fiber sensors and their use for dynamic feedback during laser thermal therapy
- Quantifying the effects of tissue on light -- optical diagnostics in medicine
- Slash-and-burn versus controlled tissue modification -- therapeutic applications of light in medicine
- Light propagation in biological tissues -- where does the light go?
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- Active Optics - They're Not Just for Telescopes Anymore
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- A career in scientific publishing and editing - Life as an editor
- Communicating optics with the public - my journey in optics
- Manuscript preparation and submission
- Introduction to Nature Photonics
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- Dynamic Interferometry
- Advances in Interferometric Surface Measurement
- Experiences Starting and Growing Optics Companies
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- Computer-generated hologram for 3D display
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- Introduction of color information in pattern recognition by correlation methods
- Use of liquid crystal spatial light modulators in phase only regime in diffractive optics
- Modification of the PSF of optical systems with non uniform transmission filters. Use of liquid crystal spatial light modulators
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- Ellipsometry for Thin-Film Metrology
- Entrepreneurship: A State of Mind (A 21st century Optical Technology Real-Life Experience)
- Polarization-Based Optical Logic
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- Spatial Polarization Engineering and Its Applications in Optical Instrumentation
- Antenna radiation and plasmonic nanofocusing
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- A Novel Thermal Face Recognition Approach Based on Orientation Code
- Night Vision Enhancement with Multispectral Images by Using Advanced Fusion and Adaptive Colorization
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