Optical Engineering Senior Design Archives - Page 2 of 2 - Senior Design Day

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Designing a 1D Photonic Crystal Cavity for Low Threshold Laser Aided by Classical Optimization

Kunyang (Benny) Cao, B.S. Optics 2026 Advisors: Professor Pablo A. Postigo, Christer Everly 1. Abstract Low threshold laser is desired to reduce power consumption and minimize the thermal load in…

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Design of Intracavity Dichroic Directional Couplers for SHG in TFLN Resonator

Author: Yikun Jin, Qiang Lin Introduction Thin film lithium niobate (TFLN) is a promising platform for nonlinear integrated photonics, due to its strong quadratic nonlinearity and compatibility with CMOS. This…

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Edmund Optics 3-D Printed Beam Expanders

Project Overview Our project involves the the creation, from preliminary optical design to final physical systems, of three beam expander prototypes using 3-D printed mechanical housings. The designs have varying…

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RMSC GRIN Water Wave Tank

The Rochester Museum & Science Center GRIN Wave Tank project aims to create a prototype of a water tank with an interactive wave actuator that is capable of simulating refraction…

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Using Cavity Enhanced Raman spectroscopy for the detection of Hydrogen isotopologue

Summary This project is developing a Raman spectroscopy system to measure hydrogen isotopologue concentrations in the gas phase, focusing on hydrogen isotope processing at the Laboratory for Laser Energetics (LLE).…

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Tunable Bilayer Grating Coupler

Our project focuses on designing a Tunable Bilayer Grating Coupler (TBGC) that is capable of identifying the orientation of dipoles such as NV centers and single molecules. Current systems for…