Raymond K. Kostuk

Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Professor of Optical Sciences

Contact InformationPhoto: Professor Raymond Kostuk

Education

  • Ph.D., Stanford University, 1986

  • M.S., University of Rochester, 1977

  • B.S., 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

  • The Optical Society (OSA), Fellow

  • SPIE, Fellow

  • IEEE/LEOS, Member

Professional Activities

  • Associate Editor of Optical Engineering on Holographic Systems, Techniques, and Materials, 2002

  • Co-Chair, Working Group on Holography, SPIE, 2001

  • Chair, Fiber Communications, Photonics West, SPIE, 2001

  • General Chair, International Workshop on Parallen Interconnects, OSA, 1999

  • Co-Chair, International Workshop on Masively Parallen Processing with Optical Interconnections, OSA, 1998

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

  • Program Committee Member, Holography Topical Meeting, 1996

  • Program Committee Member, Meetings on Practical Holography and Diffractive Optics and SLMs, SPIE

  • Session Organizer, Optical Interconnects, OSA Annual Meeting, 1993

  • Reviewer, 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