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.
  • eot.pdf
• Laura Kinnischtzke: Effective Wavelength scaling for Optical antennas
  • effective_wavelength_scaling_for_optical_antennas.pdf
• Katherine Reeves : Shaping Optical Space with Metamaterials
• Full Wave simulations in E-M cloaking
• Eric Thorstad: Self-Similar Modes of Coherent Diffusion
  • Self-Similar Modes of Coherent Diffusion
• Bob Peterson: Optical signal processing
  • Ultrafast waveform compression using a time-domain telescope
  • Presentation
• Martin Schroeder: Echolocation in Air
  • Echolocation in air: biological systems, technical challenges, and transducer design
  • Echolocation in air
• Tanner Stevens: Subwavelength Plasmonic Waveguides
  • modes_of_slot_waveguides.pdf
  • waveguide_components.pdf

• Steve Brown: Visible negative index of refraction metamaterial
  • A single-layer wide-angle negative-index metamaterial at visible frequencies
  • 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
  • Talbot Effect pdf
• Nikolay Kovalev: Optical Gyroscopes (Sources of Noise and Solutions)
  • Sensitivity and stability of an air-core fibre-optic gyroscope (main paper
  • Phenomena of optic-bound effect on fibre optic gyro
• Sean Vig: Nonlinear properties of silicon waveguides
  • Nonlinear silicon photonics
• Karl Ludeman: Optical absorption in photovoltaic cells
  • Broadband optical absorption enhancement through coherent light trapping in thin-film photovoltaic cells
  • Broadband light absorption enhancement in thin-film silicon solar cells
• Brian Glass: Nano-cavity lasers using plasmons
  • Plasmon Lasers
• Peter Lofgren: Wireless Communications (Multiple Antenna Systems and Interference of Electromagnetic Waves)
  • MIMO Diversity in the Presence of Double Scattering (newer, but harder to read)
  • Outdoor Wireless Channels: Models and Performance Prediction (Model which later paper analyzes)
  • Measurement of Keyhole Effect in an MIMO Channel (Short Experimental Paper)
  • Presentation
• Alicia Hinkle: Hollow optical fibers used for carbon dioxide laser transmission
  • science1998_omnidirectionalmirror.pdf
  • nature_omniguide.pdf
  • science_coaxialwaveguide.pdf (for further reading only)
• Ben Copenhaver: Production and characteristics of extremely loud brass instrument tones
  • Motion of the lips of brass players during extremely loud playing
  • Primary focus: Schlieren imaging of shock waves from a trumpet