Introduction to Laser Research - Student Projects

2018

MIDN Appel, MIDN Lachgar, MIDN Silver, MIDN Usadi

 

• Beam Propagation Through Turbid Air and Water

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MIDN Boskov, MIDN Hamilton, MIDN Midgette

 

• Underwater Communications

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MIDN Butchko, MIDN Perry

 

• Laser Light Interference Modeling and Defense

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MIDN Cheshire, MIDN Viswanathan, MIDN Engl, MIDN Hobson

 

• Impact of Water Turbidity on Laser Light Transmission

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MIDN Grant, MIDN Porter, MIDN Ryder

 

• Effect of Salinity on Light Propagation Through Water

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MIDN Peralta, MIDN Lockhart, MIDN Caron

 

• Application of Snell's Law on Optical Cloaking

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MIDN Prince, MIDN Rost, MIDN Nguyen

 

• Analyzing Wavelengths of Laser Propagating Underwater

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MIDN Schieuer, MIDN Gatbonton, MIDN Wiedemann

 

• Laser Beam Focus with SLM

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2017

MIDN Sweet, MIDN Pattison

• Laser Propagation Through a Turbulent Atmosphere

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MIDN Schwarzkopf

• Using SVD to Efficiently Analyze Data

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MIDN Cosstantino

• Probability Density of a Partially Coherent Gaussian Laser Beam in Environmental Turbulence

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MIDN Colin, MIDN Kelly, MIDN Cassandra, MIDNSuter, MIDN Weninger

• Mathematical Modeling of Airy Disk Diffraction

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MIDN Lee, MIDN Sinkovitz, MIDN Troy, MIDN Wellins

• Arago Spot Verification

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2016

MIDN Cabrera, MIDN Slavens

• Laser Propagation in the Maritime Environment

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MIDN Zion, MIDN Lanham

• Atmospheric Effects on Laser Propagation

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2015

MIDN Peeleman, MIDN Carlson, MIDN Vasconez

• Submarine Laser Propagation

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MIDN Carpenter, MIDN O'Bryant

• Laser Light Propagation in Fog

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MIDN Vasconez, MIDN Carpenter

• Far-Field Propagation Through a Round Aperture

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MIDN O'Bryant, MIDN Carlson, MIDN Peeleman

• Modeling Laser Propagation Through Slits

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MIDN Kelly, MIDN Suter, MIDN Weninger

• Mathematical Modeling of Airy Disk Diffraction

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2014

MIDN Kelsey, MIDN Rosenthal

• Laser Propagation in an Ocean Environment

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MIND Bandarra, MIDN Vegel

• Home-grown Laser Countermeasures with Paint

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MIDN Cully, MIDN Giornelli

• Laser Guidance Countermeasures - Materials

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MIDN Costantino

• Probability Density Analyses of Partially Coherent Gaussian Laser Beam in a Turbulent Environment

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2013

MIDN Lipp, MIDN Quandt

An Evaluation of the Scintillation Index and Average Intensity of Coherent and Incoherent Laser Light

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 2012

MIDN Hallgren, MIDN Stensrud

• Analysis of Gaussian Beam Distribution Qualities of a Helium-Neon Laser  - Poster
• Analysis of Gaussian Beam Distribution Qualities of a Helium-Neon Laser  - Paper

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MIDN Maldonado, MIDN Carothers, MIDN Lucas

• Laser Beam Propagation in the Environment of the HydroLab

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MIDN Kuerbitz, MIDN Suqi

• Young's Double Slit Experiment 

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