Holography and Optical Data Storage Group

Professor Bert Hesselink

Research Activities in the Group

Recent Accomplishments

• Demonstration of an automated fully digital holographic data storage
  system. See article by J. F. Heanue, M. C. Bashaw and L. Hesselink in
  August 5, 1994 issue of Science.
  

Recent Publications

Researchers

• Postdocs and Research Associates
  1. Matthew C. Bashaw (Photorefractives)
  2. Yuval Levy (Visulaization)
  3. Ludwig Galombos (SBN fibers)
  4. Anna Akella (Glasses)
  5. Jerry Westerweel

• Current Students

  • Photorefractive effects/materials/devices
    1. Lee Smith (Photorefractive quantum wells)
    2. Muthu Jeganathan (Two-wave mixing)
    3. Raymond De Vre (Stratified Volume Holographic Optical Elements or SVHOE)
    4. John F. Heanue (Holographic data storage)
    5. Jong-Souk Yeo (Pulsed laser deposition of thin films)
    6. Korhan Gurkan (Thermal fixing)
    7. David Lande (Thermal fixing)
    8. Peter Catrysse
    9. Loukas Paraschis

  • Visualisation
    1. Yingmei Zhu
    2. Rajesh Batra

  • Other
    1. Andy Daiber (Optical Tomography)
    2. Elizabeth Downing (3D displays)
    3. Alice Liu (Glasses)
    4. Eric Bjornson (Glasses)

1. Thierry Delmarcelle , McKinsey (Belgium)
   The visulaization of second-order tensor fields (1994) [Electronic version can be found at http://www.nas.nasa.gov/NAS/grants/StanfordTensorFieldVis/home.html]
2. Mark Peercy , SGI
   Linear color representations for image synthesis, analysis, and display (1994)
3. Yuval Levy , Stanford
   Numerical analysis of three-dimensional flow solvers applied to high-angle-of-attack flows (1994)
4. Jeff Wilde , ComOne
   Growth and characterization of strontium barium niobate crystals for multiplex photorefractive holography (1992)
5. Craig Uhrich , ThermaWave
   Thesis: Submicron defect detection in periodic structures using photoreactive holography (1992)
6. Minami Yoda , GeorgiaTech
   The instantaneous concentration field in the self-similar region of a high schmidt number round jet (1992)
7. Paul Ning , SGI
   Applications of data compression to 3-d scalar field visualization (1993)
8. Lew Aronson , HP
   High density integrated-optical switch arrays based on dynamic waveguide gratings (1992)
9. Jim Helman , SGI
10. Fred Vachss , Rockwell
    Non-linear holographic response in photorefractive materials (1988)
11. Juan Agui , IBM (Spain)
    Vorticity studies in flows (1988)
12. John Pender , U. of Alaska
    Conical emissions and phase conjugation in atomic sodium (1989)
13. Steven Collicott , Purdue U.
    Laser speckle velocimetry with photorefractive recording and anamorphic optical processing (1990)
14. Ray Snyder, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris
    Instantaneous three-dimensional optical tomographic measurements of species concentration in a co-flowing jet (1988)

Former postdocs and visiting scholars (current location)

1. Rami Aharoni, (Israel)
2. Katharine E. Youden, (New Focus)