This WIKI will now concentrate on Paper Topics

===== Presentation Schedule =====
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===== Paper Topics =====
I will enter your name and the topic when you contact me.  You can also modify your entry to make it more specific or if changes arise.  Eventually, you should put a link to your primary paper(s) here so your fellow students can read it before your presentation.

  * Daniel Dorroh:  Extraordinary Optical Transmission (EOT) in arrays, apertures, etc.
    *{{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:eot.pdf|}}
  * Laura Kinnischtzke: Effective Wavelength scaling for Optical antennas
    *  {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:effective_wavelength_scaling_for_optical_antennas.pdf|}}
  * Katherine Reeves : Shaping Optical Space with Metamaterials
  * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:key_-_physreve.74.036621.pdf|Full Wave simulations in E-M cloaking}}
  * Eric Thorstad: Self-Similar Modes of Coherent Diffusion
    * [[http://prl.aps.org/pdf/PRL/v105/i18/e183602|Self-Similar Modes of Coherent Diffusion]]
  * Bob Peterson: Optical signal processing 
    * [[http://focus.aep.cornell.edu/Papers/Foster_compression.pdf|Ultrafast waveform compression using a time-domain telescope]]
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:rwp.ppt|Presentation}}
  * Martin Schroeder: Echolocation in Air
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:biosonar.pdf|Echolocation in air: biological systems, technical challenges, and transducer design}} 
    * [[http://web.ebscohost.com.floyd.lib.umn.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=2&hid=119&sid=70ef5638-e944-427e-81f2-38ce4428ba59%40sessionmgr112|Echolocation in air]]  
  *  Tanner Stevens: Subwavelength Plasmonic Waveguides
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:modes_of_slot_waveguides.pdf|}}
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:waveguide_components.pdf|}}

  * Steve Brown: Visible negative index of refraction metamaterial
    * [[http://www.nature.com/nmat/journal/v9/n5/abs/nmat2747.html|A single-layer wide-angle negative-index metamaterial at visible frequencies]]
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:a_single-layer_wide-angle_negative-index_metamaterial_at_visible_frequencies.pdf|}}


  * Di Lin: Talbot effect in non-collimated propagation
    * Analysis of wavefront propagation using the Talbot effect
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:talbot_effect_propagation.pdf|Talbot Effect pdf}}
  *Nikolay Kovalev: Optical Gyroscopes (Sources of Noise and Solutions)
    *[[http://iopscience.iop.org/0957-0233/18/10/S07/pdf/mst7_10_s07.pdf|Sensitivity and stability of an air-core
fibre-optic gyroscope (main paper]]
    *[[http://iopscience.iop.org/1009-1963/16/3/029/pdf/1009-1963_16_3_029.pdf|Phenomena of optic-bound effect on fibre optic gyro]]
  * Sean Vig: Nonlinear properties of silicon waveguides
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:nphoton.2010.185.pdf|Nonlinear silicon photonics}}
  *Karl Ludeman: Optical absorption in photovoltaic cells
     *[[http://www.stanford.edu/~mukul/publications/OpEx2008.pdf|Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells]]
     *[[http://www.me.utexas.edu/~scchen/pdf/Nanoletters.pdf|Broadband light absorption enhancement in thin-film silicon solar cells]]
  * Brian Glass: Nano-cavity lasers using plasmons
    *{{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:plasmon_lasers.pdf|Plasmon Lasers}}
  * Peter Lofgren: Wireless Communications (Multiple Antenna Systems and Interference of Electromagnetic Waves)
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:mimo_double_scattering.pdf|MIMO Diversity in the Presence of Double Scattering}} (newer, but harder to read)
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:outdoor_mimowireless_channels.pdf|Outdoor Wireless Channels: Models and Performance Prediction}} (Model which later paper analyzes)
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:measurement_of_keyhole_effect_in_mimo.pdf|Measurement of Keyhole Effect in an MIMO Channel}} (Short Experimental Paper)
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:multiple_antennas_and_electromagnetic_interference_older_office.ppt|Presentation}}
  * Alicia Hinkle: Hollow optical fibers used for carbon dioxide laser transmission
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:science1998_omnidirectionalmirror.pdf|}}
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:nature_omniguide.pdf|}}
    * {{:classes:2010:fall:phys4303.001:science_coaxialwaveguide.pdf|}} (for further reading only)
  * Ben Copenhaver: Production and characteristics of extremely loud brass instrument tones
    * [[http://dx.doi.org.floyd.lib.umn.edu/10.1121/1.3089733|Motion of the lips of brass players during extremely loud playing]]
    * Primary focus: [[http://dx.doi.org.floyd.lib.umn.edu/10.1121/1.1628682|Schlieren imaging of shock waves from a trumpet]]