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EON, Vol. 04, No. 01

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Volume 4, Issue 1 Winter 2016

Electro-Optics News, University of Dayton

Faculty
Partha Banerjee
Director’s corner Partha Banerjee
Joseph Haus
Andrew Sarangan As the Inter- to the Sensors and Materi- Research Instrumentation
Mikhail Vorontsov national Year als directorates of Air (MRI) grant for the develop-
Qiwen Zhan of Light draws Force Research Labs, as ment of a high-power
Imad Agha to a close, we well as local companies adaptive phased fiber-array
Vijay Asari have made such as Applied Optimiza- laser system, with applica-
Bradley Duncan so me im- tion and Protobox for sup- tions in additive manufac-
Monish Chatterjee portant strides porting many of our stu- turing.
Andy Chong in our pro- dents. 10 students gradu- Cong Deng, an alum of
Cong Deng gram. I am happy to re- ated in Summer and Fall. Huazong University of Sci-
Matt Dierking port that we have initiated For 2015, EO graduated 3 ence and Technology
Dean Evans the process to elevate the PhDs and 13 MS students (HUST), and research schol-
Shekhar Guha electro-optics (EO) program (see p.4). Some of our MS ar in EO, initiated negotia-
Russ Hardie to a department. The pro- graduates are now pursu- tions between HUST and
Kiego Hirakawa posal has been approved ing their PhD in EO. UD for future collabora-
John Loomis by the chairs of Electrical 2015 has also been a tion. Cong, Joe Haus, and I
Jay Mathews and Computer Engineering banner year for the Intelli- recently visited HUST, the
Paul McManamon (ECE) and Physics, the Aca- gent Optics Lab and Op- largest optics institute in
Michael O’Hare demic Leadership Commit- tonicus (p.2). Mikhail Vo- China, to discuss co-
Rita Peterson tee in the School of Engi- rontsov received an Air teaching of courses in Wu-
David Rabb neering (SoE), the respec- Force Office of Scientific han, and exchange of
Guru Subramanyam tive deans of SoE and the Research (AFOSR) Defense graduate students between
Ed Watson College of Arts and Scienc- University Research Instru- the two institutions. Addi-
Thomas Weyrauch es, and by the graduate mentation Program (DURIP) tionally, Qiwen Zhan initiat-
Timothy White school. Now it awaits the grant for high-performance ed a visit of scholars and
Perry Yaney decision of the academic cluster computing. These administrators from Centro
Chenglong Zhao senate. Additionally, EO computers, which will be de Investigaciones en Opti-
also formed its first adviso- housed in Fitz Hall, will ca (CIO) in León, Mexico
Inside this ry board (see below) which satisfy the computational for similar student ex-
issue met on campus in Novem- needs for atmospheric changes. We hope these
ber. optics, and dramatically efforts bring in students
Optonicus, Intelli- This Fall, EO welcomed improve the computational from these prestigious
gent Optics Lab about 20 new students facilities of EO and ECE. institutions to EO in the
have banner year 2 into our program, many of Also, Mikhail and Thomas near future.
whom are being supported Weyrauch received a pres- I wish you all a very hap-
as teaching and research tigious National Science py, illuminating, and pro-
EO in pictures 2015 2
assistants. We are grateful Foundation (NSF) Major ductive 2016!

Selected Journal
Papers 3 EO welcomes board members to campus
Faculty Spotlight:
Chenglong Zhao 3

Recent books by EO
faculty, alumni 4

Student Spotlight:
Shiyi Wang 4 EO recently formed its advisory board and the members came for their first meeting this
Fall. Pictured here (from right to left) are: Chris Brewer (AFRL materials and EO alum),
Let’s get Digital... 4 Tim Bunning (chief scientist, AFRL materials), Mark Greiner (L3), Akhlesh Lakhtakia
(Charles Binder Endowed Professor, Penn State), Bahaa Saleh (dean of CREOL), and John
Taranto (ThorLabs and EO alum). Mike Roggeman (professor, Michigan Tech), could not
EO MS and PhD attend. John Erdei, Chair, Physics, is also pictured. The initial report from the commit-
graduates 4 tee noted that “by becoming an independent department, we are on the right track to
becoming an internationally recognized premier EO program”. Other suggestions includ-
ed adding biophotonics as a growth area, and a name change to Optics and Photonics.
Editor: Partha P. Banerjee
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Optonicus, Intelligent Optics Lab have banner year

It was quite a successful year stricter requirements for power Phase I SBIR contracts and two
for the Intelligent Optics Labora- and control. The proposed new Phase II SBIR contracts.
tory and Optonicus LLC team. equipment combines precise Additionally, the existing Phase
Following a review meeting in beam pointing and stabiliza- II STTR project developing an
Washington D.C., the MURI team tion, and adaptive compensa- “Extended Range Atmospheric
headed up by Mikhail Vorontsov tion for mechanical jitter, Sensing Suite” received a 14
was approved for a 2 year exten- among other key features. The month extension to perform
sion. This project studying “Deep availability of this new laser additional work. Optonicus
Atmospheric Optical Turbulence system to both industrial re- also had the opportunity to
Physics and Predictive Modeling” searchers and University pro- showcase its systems at several
brought together researchers grams will also help the local exhibitions this year. In June,
from UD, U. of Miami, AFIT, Mich- area economy in its transition the MOR-SAPR complex field
igan Tech, New Mexico State, and to high-tech industry. sensor was on display at the array cluster (above) was show-
NC State. Optonicus also had a year of Navy Opportunity Forum. In cased at DARPA’s “Wait What?”
The MURI teams research will growth adding on two new September, the SEAHAWK fiber- Technology Forum.
be enhanced by the upcoming
acquisition of a computing clus-
ter that was recently funded Capturing EO in 2015
through a AFOSR-DURIP grant
“High Performance Computation-
al Cluster for Extended-Range

“Scientific discovery
inspires us to continue
learning more about
our universe and
ourselves. It is also
difficult work and this
(NSF) award is
validation of your
efforts. UD, the state of
Ohio and our nation
will benefit from the
research you are
undertaking.”
Sherrod Brown, Ohio Senator

Atmospheric Optics Research”.

This new resource will dramati-
cally increase EO’s computational
abilities through the purchase of
a high performance computer
housing 780 processing cores
and 4 state of the art GPU units.
Recently Mikhail, along with co-
Principal Investigator Thomas
Weyrauch, were awarded an NSF
MRI grant “Development of a
High-Power Adaptive Phased Fi-
ber-Array Laser System”. This
grant focuses on constructing a
From top left (clockwise): Haipeng Liu, Chuan Ni and Junxing Wong with Prathan Buranisiri, Par-
~10kW class continuous wave tha Banerjee and Andrew Sarangan at SPIE Annual meeting, San Diego; Dean Evans receiving his
fiber-array laser system for use in
fellowship from OSA President Philip Russell at FiO, San Jose; Sarah Krug at her MS defense;
a wide variety of industries such Partha Banerjee, Joe Haus, and Cong Deng with Ling Fu (left) and Haibin Yang (right) at Wuhan
as automotive, aerospace, de-
National Labs at HUST, Wuhan, China; Brian Dolasinski at SPIE Photonics West, San Francisco; Ed
fense, and nuclear and fusion Watson and Yun Zhao at OSA’s International Year of Light reception in San Jose. Haipeng is with
energy. With the emerging devel-
Newport, Junxing is a PhD student at U. California San Diego, and Prathan is faculty at King
opment of additive manufactur- Mongkut U., Thailand. Chuan and Sarah received their MS in EO and are continuing on their
ing techniques, high-power laser
PhD. Dean is with AFRL and is graduate faculty in EO. Brian is also employed at AFRL. Yun will
energy sources must adapt to fit complete his MS in EO in May of 2016.
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Faculty Spotlight:
Selected Journal Papers 2015
Chenglong Zhao
1. H. Li, J. W. Haus, and P. P. Scalora, “Second harmonic ized vector fields,” Appl. Opt.
Banerjee, "Application of generation from dipole nano- 54, 8123-8129 (2015).
transfer matrix method to antennas: Role of antenna 21. I. Saucedo-Orozco, R. Dr. Chenglong Zhao joined
second-harmonic generation modes and field enhance- Espinosa-Luna and Q. Zhan, Physics and EO as an assis-
in nonlinear photonic ment,” Opt. Exp. 23, 1715- "Angularly-resolved variable- tant professor in August,
bandgap structures: oblique 1729 (2015). wave-retarder using light 2015. He received his Ph.D.
incidence," J. Opt. Soc. Am. 11. J. Jia, C. Ni, A. Sarangan, scattering from a thin metal- from Peking University
B 32, 1456-1462 (2015). and K. Hirakawa, “Fourier lic cylinder," Opt.
(Beijing, China) in 2011. Pri-
2. G. Nehmetallah, P. multispectral imaging,” Opt. Comm. 352, 135-139 (2015).
Banerjee, and J. Khoury, Exp. 23, 22649-22657 22. Y. Yu and Q. Zhan, or to UD, Chenglong was at
"Adaptive defect and pattern (2015). "Generation of a spherical Penn State and NIST.
detection in amplitude and 12. J. Wong, Y. Zhao, I. Agha, focal spot in a 4Pi focusing Chenglong’s research in-
phase structures via photore- and A. Sarangan, “SU-8 system through reversing the terests include nanophoton-
fractive four-wave mixing," nanoimprint fabrication of radiation of infinite biconical ics, graphene, plasmonics,
Appl. Opt. 54, 9622-9629 wire-grid polarizers using antenna," Opt. Comm. 350, metamaterials, and optical
(2015). deep-UV interference lithog- 217-221 (2015). trapping and manipulation.
3. L. A. Williams, G. raphy,” Opt. Lett. 40, 4396- 23. B. Sun, A. Wang, C. Gu, G.
He has authored and co-
Nehmetallah, R. Aylo, and P. 4399 (2015). Chen, L. Xu, D. Chung, and
P. Banerjee, "Application of 13. C. Nunalee, P. He, S. Q. Zhan, "Mode-locked all- authored over 20 journal
up-sampling and resolution Basu, J. Minet, and M. Voron- fiber laser producing radially papers including Nature
scaling to Fresnel reconstruc- tsov, “Mapping optical tra- polarized rectangular puls- Communications, Nano Let-
tion of digital holograms," jectories through island es," Opt. Lett. 40, 1691-1694
Appl. Opt. 54, 1443-1452 wake vortices,” Metrology (2015). Bending light beams
(2015). Atm. Phys. 127, 355-368 24. Y. Yu and Q. Zhan,
4. U. Abeywickrema, P. P. (2015). "Optimization-free optical to your whim sounds
Banerjee, and N. T. Banerjee, 14. P. He, C. Nunal, S. Basu, J. focal field engineering like a job for a wizard
"Holographic assessment of Minet, M. Vorontsov, and S. through reversing the radia-
self-phase modulation and Fiorino, “Influence of heter- tion pattern from a uniform or an a complex array
blooming in a thermal medi- ogeneous refractivity on line source," Opt. Exp. 23, of bulky mirrors,
um," Appl. Opt. 54, 2857- optical wave propagation 7527-7534 (2015).
2865 (2015). in coastal environments,” 25. W. Han, W. Cheng, and Q. lenses and prisms, but
5. A. Chong, L. Wright, and F. Metrology Atm. Phys. 127, Zhan, "Design and alignment a few tiny liquid
W. Wise, " Ultrafast fiber la- 685-699 (2015). strategies of 4f systems used
sers based on self-similar 15. J. Lin, K. Yan, Y. Zhou, in the vectorial optical field bubbles may be all
pulse evolution: a review of and L. Xu, C. Gu and Q. generator," Appl. Opt. 54, that is necessary to
current progress," Rep. Prog. Zhan, "Tungsten disulphide 2275-2278 (2015).
Phys. 78, 113901 (2015). based all fiber Q-switching 26. Y. Pan, B. Gu, D. Xu, Q. open the doors for
6. Y. Tang, A. Chong, and F. cylindrical-vector beam gen- Zhan and Y. Cui, "Varying next-generation, high-
W. Wise, "Generation of 8 nJ eration," Appl. Phys. Lett. focal fields with asymmetric-
pulses from a normal- 107, 191108 (2015). sector-shaped vector beams," speed circuits and
dispersion thulium fiber la- 16. S. Wang, D. C. J. Opt. 17, 015603 (2015). displays.
ser," Opt. Lett. 40, 2361- Abeysinghe and Q. Zhan, 27. M. Wang, C. Zhao, X. Physicsorg.com
2364 (2015). “Generation of vectorial opti- Miao, Y. Zhao, J. Rufo, Y. Liu,
7. B. Dolasinski, P. E. Powers, cal fields with slot antenna- T. J. Huang, Y. Zheng. ters, ACS Nano, Nanoscale,
J. W. Haus, and A. Cooney, based metasurface,” Opt. “Plasmofluidics: Merging
"Tunable narrow band differ- Lett. 40, 4711-4713 (2015). Light and Fluid at the Micro-/
and Lab Chip. His research
ence frequency THz wave 17. Y. Yu and Q. Zhan, nano-Scale”, Small 11, 4423- findings have been widely
generation in DAST via dual “Creation of identical multi- 4444 (2015). reported by Science Daily,
seed PPLN OPG," Opt. ple focal spots with pre- 28. J. Yang, C. Hu, Q. Wen, C. Physics News, National Sci-
Exp. 23, 3669-3680 (2015). scribed axial distribution,” Zhao and J. Zhang, “Coupling ence Foundation, Science
8. M. Scalora, M. A. Vincenti, Sci. Rep., 5, 14673 (2015). between surface plasmon Codex, Science News, etc.
D. de Ceglia, C. M. Cojocaru, 18. G. Rui, Q. Zhan and Y. polaritons and transverse Chenglong currently leads
M. Grande, and J. W. Haus, Cui, “Tailoring optical com- electric polarized light via L- the Nano-photonic & Nano-
"Nonlinear Duffing oscillator plex field with spiral blade shaped nano-apertures”, Opt.
Manipulation (NPNM) Lab in
model for third harmonic plasmonic vortex lens,” Sci. Lett. 40, 978-981 (2015).
generation," J. Opt. Soc. Am. Rep. 5, 13732 (2015). the Physics building. The
B 32, 2129-2138 (2015). 19. Y. Yu and Q. Zhan, NPNM lab aims to develop
9. D. Jauregui, J. W. Haus, A. “Generation of uniform three- cutting-edge nanotechnolo-
Ben Harush Negari, J. M. Sier- dimensional optical chain gies by utilizing the light-
ra Hernandez and K. Hansen, with controllable characteris- matter interaction at na-
“Bitapered fiber sensor: Sig- tics,” J. Opt. 17, 105606 noscales for applications in
nal analysis,” Sensors and (2015). 3D nano-fabrication, single
Actuators B 218, 105– 20. B. Gu, D. Xu, G. Rui, M.
molecule detection, portable
110 (2015). Lian, Y. Cui and Q. Zhan,
10. D. de Ceglia, M. A. Vin- “Manipulation of dielectric on-chip nano-trapping, ultra-
centi, C. De Angelis, A. Loca- Rayleigh particles using high- sensitive bio-sensing, and
Chenglong in the NPNM Lab
telli, J. W. Haus and M. ly focused elliptically polar- in the Physics building. point-of-care diagnostics.
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EO @ UD EO Graduates
A joint initiative between
electrons and photons
May 2015
Ujitha Abeywickrema, PhD
Recent books by EO alumni, faculty Shiyi Wang, PhD
Zhicheng Xiao, MS
Katherine Duncan-
Chamberlin, MS
David Lombardo, MS
Yang Xu, MS

August 2015
Rahmah Alzahrani, MS
Sarah Krug, MS

~10000 sq. ft, 5 labs, offices, December 2015

industrial collaborative Han Li, PhD
projects. Optical comm.,
ladar imaging, aperture Awatif Alshammari, MS
synthesis, Authors of Analog and Digital Holography: George Hongwei Chen, MS
beam steering
Nehmetallah, Rola Aylo, Logan Williams. Author
of Nanophotonics: Joe Haus. Congratulations! Xin Huang, MS
Peiyun Li, MS
Partha P. Banerjee Zairui Li, MS
Director, Electro-Optics Ying Xu, MS
Fitz Hall, 300 College Park Mengyang Zou, MS
Dayton, OH 45469, USA
Phone: 937.229.2797
Fax: 937.229.2097 Congratulations!
email: [email protected]
Admin: Meghan Brophy Let’s get Digital...
email: [email protected]
Partha Banerjee was elected general chair of
the OSA Digital Holography Topical Meeting
We are on the Web: at Heidelberg in July 2016. The meeting this
www.udayton.edu/engineering/ year is part of the OSA Imaging Congress. He
departments/electrooptics_grad/ was general chair of DH in 2010 in Miami, and
technical chair of DH in Shanghai in 2015.

Student Spotlight: Shiyi Wang

wider bandwidth, good Shiyi Wang (PhD, EO, China in 2008 and 2010,
impedance match, and bi- 2015) proposed and respectively. He was sup-
directional radiation pat- demonstrated a transmis- ported one year as a teach-
terns, and are widely used sion-type metasurface ing assistant conducting
in microwave communica- composed of carefully de- Physics labs (as is typical for
tions. As optical counter- signed rectangular slot many EO students) before
part of microwave anten- antennas for the genera- switching over to a research
nas, optical nano-antennas tion of vectorial optical assistant under Dr. Zhan.
are important devices for fields. Acting as local line- Shiyi is currently employed
converting propagating ar polarizers, these slot as a Computational Pattern-
radiation into confined/ antennas enable the spa- ing Engineer with Global
It is probably common enhanced fields in the na- tial modulation of optical Foundries (formally incorpo-
knowledge that coat noscale. Recent advances fields in amplitude, phase, rated with IBM) in New York.
hangers from your closet in resonant sub- and polarization for the Shiyi was vice-president of
can play an important role wavelength optical anten- cross-polarized compo- the SPIE student chapter
in TV reception. Indeed, nas have now offered re- nent of the scattered and attended the SPIE stu-
there are YouTube® vide- searchers the entire elec- field. dent leadership workshop in
os showing how one can tromagnetic spectrum— Shiyi joined Qiwen San Diego. An avid photog-
make a good HDTV anten- ranging from RF to X- Zhan’s research group in rapher, he was also exhibi-
na using just a few coat- rays—to design, analyze the EO program at UD in tor for two years at the EO
hangers to form a bowtie and predict new phenome- 2010, having completed booth in Dayton Techfest,
shape. Slot bowtie anten- na that were previously his BS and MS from Harbin which draws thousands of
nas have the advantage of unknown. Institute of Technology, all ages every year.