Articles
Projection of Diffraction Patterns for Use in Cold-Neutral-Atom Trapping (with Katharina Gillen-Christandl), Physical Review A (2010)
Scalar diffraction theory is combined with beam-propagation techniques to investigate the projection of near-field diffraction...
Analytical Beam Propagation Model for Clipped Focused-Gaussian Beams Using Vector Diffraction Theory (with Christopher M. Seck and Shekhar Guha), Optics Express (2010)
Vector diffraction theory is applied to the case of focused TEM00 Gaussian beams passing through...
Application of Hertz Vector Diffraction Theory to the Diffraction of Focused Gaussian Beams and Calculations of Focal Parameters (with Kendra Baughman and Shekhar Guha), Optics Express (2009)
Hertz vector diffraction theory is applied to a focused TEM00 Gaussian light field passing through...
Temperature-dependent Refractive Index Measurements of Wafer-shaped InAs and InSb (with Chris DiRocco, Peter Powers, and Shekhar Guha), Applied Optics (2008)
An experimental method is introduced to measure the refractive index and its temperature dependence for...
Vector Diffraction Theory of Refraction of Light by a Spherical Surface (with Shekhar Guha), Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics (2007)
Focusing of light by a curved surface is described using the vector Kirchhoff diffraction theory....
Presentations
Description of Light Focusing by a Lens using Vector Diffraction Theory (with Shekhar Gaha), Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Conference Proceedings: Boston, MA (2006)
For a plane wave incident on a spherical lens at normal incidence, the field distributions...
Calculations of Light Field Distributions Within and Beyond Wavelength-Scale Apertures, 89th Optical Society of America Annual Meeting Proceedings: Tucson, AZ (2005)
Light Distributions in Front of a Circular Aperture, Evaluated Using Vector Diffraction Theory (with Shekhar Guha), 88th Optical Society of America Annual Meeting Proceedings: Rochester, NY (2005)
For a plane wave (having wavelength λ) incident on a circular aperture (radius a), the...
Simplification of the Stratton-Chu Vector Diffraction Integrals and Application to Light Propagation through Curved Surfaces (with Shekhar Guha), 89th Optical Society of America Annual Meeting Proceedings: Tucson, AZ (2005)
The Stratton-Chu vector diffraction integrals are expressed in dimensionless forms and then numerically evaluated to...
Sequential Interferometric Techniques for Measuring Independent Values of the Refractive Index and Material Thickness of Semiconductor Wafers (with Shekhar Guha), 88th Optical Society of America Annual Meeting Proceedings: Rochester, NY (2004)
A technique is presented using both Michelson and Fabry-Perot interferometry to independently measure the refractive...