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Myopia Control with Optical Design

This senior design-driven project creates accurate Zemax ray-tracing models of the human eye to evaluate diffractive-refractive hybrid contact lenses for correcting wavefront error and chromatic aberration. The eventual goal is to apply the technology to school-aged children to prevent the progression of myopia development.

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Nighthawk Solutions DIY Telescope Kit for Kids; Inspiration for Science and Technology

Mission Statement The goal of our project is to create a Do-It-Yourself (DIY) telescope that provides an engaging and educational experience for kids. The telescope will come fully disassembled, empowering kids by giving them the opportunity to put it together and align it themselves. The telescope has been design with a strong emphasis on modularity […]

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Salmanowitz Thesis

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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RMSC

We designed an interactive and educational imaging system. The guest will be able to project an image onto a screen.

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PLASTIX

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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NANOAR

Have you heard of an AR coating without actually coating any materials while working for a wide bandwidth from UV to IR? That is the nanostructure coating.

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iMG

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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FIBER

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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CubeSat

We designed an optical system for a NASA ROSES proposal. The system would be housed within a CubeSat and study Zodiacal light.

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Two-Color Nonlocal Aberration Cancellation

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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Effects of Estimate Phase Screen Placement
on Digital Holography Imaging Through
Atmospheric Turbulence

Determining where best to locate estimate phase screens when correcting volume turbulence through post-processing

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Optimization of Silicon Photomultiplier Detectors for Fast Fluorescence Imaging

Improving silicon photomultiplier bandwidth for fast, low-signal applications.

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Full Poincaré Fields Composed of a Discrete Number of Plane Waves

A one or two sentence description of your project.

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Reflective Imaging in Scanning Electron Microscopes

Investigation and analysis of creating mirror fields to deflect the primary electron beam with charged materials. Electron mirrors produce a fisheye view of the interior of the SEM sample chamber.

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Zhengynag Xu Thesis

Improving closed-loop wavefront correction speed for primate retinal imaging.

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Yanik Thesis

Probability distributions of work and entropy of a qubit engine powered by simultaneous weak quantum measurements.

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iTEST

Team Rachel Chan Zihao Li Sinabu Pumulo Mentor Brandon Zimmerman Abstract The Clear Eye Test is a virtual eye prescription platform that measures refractive error of the eye with a test that can be taken with just a computer, bypassing the need for traditional optometry visits. It aims to: 1) improve the ease and accessibility […]

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CAM360 – Designing a Tilable Fully Reflective Wide Angle Telescope

Venturing into the fully reflective design space to find a wide angle telescopic design that is parallax corrected so that they can be tiled to capture a much higher field of view.

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A Photonic Electro-Optic Circuit for On-Chip Quantum Frequency Processing

Designing a Hadamard gate on an integrated Silicon photonic chip

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Impact of Optical Parametric Amplification Phase on Laser Pulse Compression

Jonathan Musgrave Advisor: Dr. Jake Bromage Optical Parametric Chirp Pulse Amplification (OPCPA) is an intensely researched topic and has gained a lot of traction in the past 25 years for the continued development of ultrashort pulse generation. A precise control and knowledge of a systems spectral and spatial phase is required for Fourier transform-limited pulse […]

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Plasmonic Nanoantenna Array Metasurfaces and Colloidal Nanoparticles for Single-Photon Source Applications

Investigating indistinguishable single-photon sources in the visible range.

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WOBBLY

Exploring mechanical solutions to reduce the effects of turbulence on the Zygo Verifire™ interferometer

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Energy and Environmental Archive OPT OPE Archive Optical Archive

Team Thermo

The solar steam turbine is a design that uses a femtosecond laser-processed superwicking metal sheet to generate electricity via steam generation. Team Thermo wishes to thank the following for their time, effort, and assistance: Subhash Singh, Chunlie Guo, Greg Schmidt, Wayne Knox, Duncan Moore, Meir Brea, Ed Herger, and James Alkins.

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Community Engagement Archive OPT OPE Archive STEM Awareness / Education Archive

SUITCASE

The Virtual Optics Suitcase makes engaging optics demonstrations accessible, encouraging careers in STEM.

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SKY

An indoor lighting system designed to simulate the sun.

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Medical Archive OPT OPE Archive Optical Archive

OTICS

The Hybrid Endoscope/Microscope project is a senior design project that aims to design and build a system that combines the endoscope’s view and the microscope’s view during ENT surgery.

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Machine Learning Archive OPT OPE Archive Optical Archive Vision Archive

EYEZ

Development of a telehealth platform that provides digital optical prescriptions, making high quality vision accessible to everyone.

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Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality Archive OPT OPE Archive Optical Archive

CIRCLE

A 360° tessellated, parallax-reduced, cinema camera system.

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Material Science Archive OPT OPE Archive Optical Archive

AR

The Nanostructure AR coating project aims to Investigate and model nanostructure AR coatings on OptiLayer and OptiRE software.

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Hyperion: A 3D Visualization Platform for Optical Design of Folded Systems

Hyperion is a 3D visualization platform for optical design. It provides a fully immersive, and interactive 3D user experience. It enables the visualization of models of folded freeform optical systems. The frontend user experience is supported by the computational ray-tracing engine of Eikonal+, an optical design research software. We have built a cross-platform light-weight version of Eikonal+ that can communicate with any user interface. We have also demonstrated a prototype of the 3D user experience using a Hololens AR display.