University of Rochester, Senior Design Day
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.
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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We designed an interactive and educational imaging system. The guest will be able to project an image onto a screen.
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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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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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Determining where best to locate estimate phase screens when correcting volume turbulence through post-processing
Improving silicon photomultiplier bandwidth for fast, low-signal applications.
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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.
Improving closed-loop wavefront correction speed for primate retinal imaging.
Probability distributions of work and entropy of a qubit engine powered by simultaneous weak quantum measurements.
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 […]
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.
Designing a Hadamard gate on an integrated Silicon photonic chip
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 […]
Investigating indistinguishable single-photon sources in the visible range.
Exploring mechanical solutions to reduce the effects of turbulence on the Zygo Verifire™ interferometer
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.
The Virtual Optics Suitcase makes engaging optics demonstrations accessible, encouraging careers in STEM.
An indoor lighting system designed to simulate the sun.
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.
Development of a telehealth platform that provides digital optical prescriptions, making high quality vision accessible to everyone.
A 360° tessellated, parallax-reduced, cinema camera system.
The Nanostructure AR coating project aims to Investigate and model nanostructure AR coatings on OptiLayer and OptiRE software.
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.