Raymond K. Kostuk

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optical Sciences

Contact InformationPhoto:  Professor Raymond Kostuk

Education

  • PhD, Stanford University, 1986

  • MS, University of Rochester, 1977

  • BS, U.S. Coast Guard Academy, 1972

Employment

  • The University of Arizona:  Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department and Optical Sciences, 1997-date; Associate Professor, 1992-1997; Assistant Professor, 1987-1992

  • IBM Almaden Research Laboratory, Visiting Scientist, 1986-1987

  • Stanford University, Research Assistant, 1982-1983

  • U.S. Coast Guard, Lieutenant, 1972-1982

Professional Affiliations

  • Optical Society of America, Fellow

  • Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers, Member

  • IEEE/LEOS, Member

Professional Activities

  • 2002 Associate Editor of Optical Engineering on Holographic Systems, Techniques, and Materials 2001 Co-Chair of the SPIE Working Group on Holography

  • Chair, Fiber Communications 2001, Photonics West, SPIE

  • General Chair for the 1999 International Workshop on Parallen Interconnects jointly sponsored by OSA

  • Co-Chair for the 1998 International Workshop on Masively Parallen Processing with Optical Interconnections jointly sponsored by OSA

  • Program Committee Member for Optics in Computing Topical Meeting, 1995, 1997, 1998, and 1999

  • Program Committee Member for Holography Topical Meeting 1996

  • Program Committee Member for SPIE meetings on Practical Holography and Diffractive Optics and SLMs

  • Session Organizer on Optical Interconnects for the OSA Annual Meeting 1993

  • Reviewer for OSA publications: Applied Optics, Optics Letters, JOSA A

Awards and Honors

  • 3M, Non-Tenured Faculty Award, 1991 and 1992

  • IBM, Fellowship, 1983-1985

  • Elected Fellow of the Optical Society 2000

  • Elected SPIE Fellow 2008

Teaching

  • Opti 430/530

  • Opti 456/556

  • Opti 459-559

  • Opti 487-587

  • Opti 527

Research

  • Holographic techniques, systems, and materials

  • Ion exchange waveguide devices - interfacing to polymer and PBG layers

  • Fiber optic systems including OCDMA, error-correction codes, all-optical network issues

  • Medical imaging sensors including OCT and holographic filtering of coherent image data