Dr. Charles Joenathan

Areas of Specialization:

• Optical data processing, Holography, Holographic Optical Elements(HOE)
• Speckle phenomena and techniques
• Holographic recording materials
• Optical component testing, fringe analysis, fiber optic sensor and technology

Research Activities:

• Interferometry, speckle techniques
• Electronic speckle pattern interferometry
• Holography, fiber optic sensor. optical metrology

Industrial Experience:

• Senior Project Officer, Engineering Design Center (EDC), IIT, Madras, INDIA, Jan. 86-Feb.88
• Alexander von Humboldt Fellow, University of Stuttgart, Institute for Applied Optics, Germany, July 88-Oct.89 & June 93 - Aug.93
• Research Associate, Center for Applied Optics Studies, Rose-Hulman, Nov. 89-Aug. 91
• Visiting Professor, University of La Plata, Argentina

Dr. Robert M. Bunch

Areas of Specialization:

• Fiber Optics
• Optical Instruments
• Optical measurements and inspection
• Light Scattering
• Solid state physics

Research Activities:

• Development of optics-based products
• Optical instrument design and protypes
• Fiber optic components and systems
• Fiber optic sensors
• Image acquisition and image processing

Industrial Experience:

• Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California, 1982
• Naval Avionics Center, Indianapolis, contract on fiber optics, 1988
• GTE Products Corporation, consultant
• TASC.NPD Labs, Innovation Fellow

Dr. Bruce R. Danner

Retired Faculty
E-mail: Bruce.Danner@Rose-Hulman.edu

Dr. Richard P. Ditteon

Areas of Specialization:

• Astronomy
• Geometrical optics and lens design 

Research Activities:

• Asteroid astrometry
• Asteroid photometry

Industrial Experience:

• The Aerospace Corporation, technical staff, 1981-84
• Jet Propulsion Laboratory, summer 1991

Dr. Galen C. Duree, Jr.

Areas of Specialization:

• Photorefractive Phenomena
• Nonlinear Optics
• Laser Physics

Research Activities:

• Optically induced waveguides
• Wavelength Dense Multiplexing using photorefractive materials

Industrial Experience:

•  Developed a functional prototype of an optical limiter for the Night 
   Vision Lab at Fort Belvoir, VA 1993-1995

Dr. Sergio C. Granieri

Areas of Specialization:

• Fourier optics
• Optical signal processing
• Fiber optics

Research Activities:

• Optical processing of RF signals
• Optical Analog/Digital conversion
• Fiber Bragg grating fabrication

Research Experience:

• Visiting researcher, Universidad de Valencia, Spain, 1996
• Postdoctoral research fellow, Centro de Investigaciones Opticas, Argentina, 1998
• Research associate, WOMBAt project, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, 2000

Dr. Elaine M. Kirkpatrick

Areas of Specialization:

• Fine particle magnetism

Research Activities:

• Nanostructured thin films and magnetic nanoparticles

Dr. Scott R. Kirkpatrick

Areas of Specialization:

• Nano Materials
• Plasma Engineering
• Thin Film Processing
• Material Characterization 

Research Activities:

• Nano self-assemblies
• Carbon nanotube growth
• Micro Electrical Mechanical Systems
• Vacuum Deposition system design and development
• Energy scavenging systems -

Dr. Paul O. Leisher

Areas of Specialization:

• Optoelectronic devices
• Laser physics
• Solid state physics
• Microfabrication

Research Activities:

• High power, high efficiency semiconductor lasers
• External cavity semiconductor lasers
• Systems of optically combined diode lasers
• Optoelectronic device reliability
• Photonic crystals and metamaterials

Industrial Experience:

• Consultant, 2011-Present
• Manager of Advanced Technology, nLight Corporation, 2010-2011
• Senior Device Engineer, nLight Corporation, 2008-2010
• Device Engineer, nLight Corporation, 2007-2008

Dr. Renat Letfullin

Academic Positions:

• Senior Researcher, Lebedev Physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Samara Branch), 1993-2002
• Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mississippi State University, U.S.A., 2002
• Visiting Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University, U.S.A., 2003

Areas of Specialization:

• Laser Physics
• Wave Optics
• Aerosol Physics
• Bio- and Nano-photonics

Research Activities:

• Electrodynamics of the Super-High-Energy Pulsed Chemical Lasers Based on a Photon-Branched Chain Reaction.
• Auto-Wave Effect of a Photon-Branched Chain Reaction.
• Effect of Giant Laser Energy Gain  
• Optical Effect of Diffractive Multifocal Focusing of Radiation
• Theoretical modeling of the laser light interaction with Biological systems containing nanostructures
• Development of new dynamic modes for cancer cells treatment by laser activated nanoheaters
• Aerosol Optics
• Laser Heating and Evaporation of Aerosol Particles
• Optical Breakdown of Aerosols

Dr. Sudipa Mitra-Kirtley

Areas of Specialization:

• X-ray absorption spectroscopy using synchrotron radiation
• X-ray photo electron microscopy
• Scanning electron microscopy

Research Activities:

• X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) spectroscopy in complex materials (biological, fossil-fuels) to elucidate chemical structures of hetero atoms
• UV-V is absorption and fluorescence studies

Industrial Experience:

• Joint postdoctoral position with SDR and Lawrence Berkeley Lab 
• Schlumberger-Doll Research, CT (SDR)

Dr. Michael F. McInerney

Areas of Specialization:

• Electronic chip packaging
• Microscopy
• Complexity

Research Activities:

• Comparative Microscopy
• Electronic Packaging

Dr. Michael J. Moloney

Areas of Specialization:

• Acoustics
• Theoretical mechanics
• Electromagnetics 

Research Activities:

• Physics of solid-state devices
• Data acquisition via PCs
• Interaction with area high school teachers
• Quality factors in acoustical elements
• Physics educational software

Dr. Rusty Rutherford

Adjunct Faculty
E-mail: Rusty.Rutherford@Rose-Hulman.edu

Dr. Azad Siahmakoun

Areas of Specialization:

• Laser Physics
• Photorefractive materials
• Nonlinear optics
• Optical signal processing
• Microfabrication

Industrial Experience:

• Organic-dye thin film polymers for information processing
• Semiconductor materials, microsensors and optical MEMS
• Fiber-optic communication and RF-Photonics
• Applications of photorefractive materials in WDM technologies

Dr. Rajpal Sirohi

Visiting Scholar
E-mail: Rajpal.Sirohi@Rose-Hulman.edu

Dr. Maarij Syed

Areas of Specialization:

• Semiconductor Materials
• Magnetic materials
• Semiconductor Optics
• Microfabrication

Phone: 812-877-8957
Office: DL 107
CM: 173

Dr. Jerome F. Wagner

Areas of Specialization:

• Lithography

Dr. Art Western

Retired Faculty