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The Optical Data Storage Center's Research
and Teaching Faculty
Under the aegis of the University of
Arizona's College of Optical Sciences, one of the world's premier institutes
for research and teaching in optics, ODSC faculty members, scientists and
students are filling a key role in the growth of the optical data storage
industry. In addition to their
research programs and teaching activities, ODSC
faculty members, scientists and students are prolific authors,
publishing hundreds of articles in refereed journals, presenting papers
that have appeared in proceedings or digests, delivering nearly 200
unpublished presentations, publishing two books and contributing chapters
to another 18 books. Thirty-one ODSC students have received the PhD
and another twenty-eight have received the MS degree. Twenty-four
invention disclosures have been submitted and, from these, seven patents
have been created. Faculty members have also conducted fourteen
workshops recently.
Dr. Dennis Howe
Research Professor and Adjunct Lecturer. Optical data storage. Estimation/prediction of recovered data
reliability and design of new coding techniques for error control.
Design of new recording data formats to provide improved performance and
data reliability. Use of optical (Fourier) filtering and
super-resolution to enhance performance of optical storage systems.
Diode laser-to-waveguide coupling. Second harmonic generation in
nonlinear waveguides.
Dr. Terril
Hurst
Adjunct Professor. Networked data storage systems performance.
Alternative clustered-cache algorithms and architectures for scalable
throughput in data storage arrays. Cooperative web-caching algorithms.
Physical limits of materials used as data storage media. Precision
servomechanics for data storage devices.
Dr. Pramod Khulbe
Assistant Research Professor. Optical
and biological data storage. Nonlinear optics. Optical and
electronic properties of semiconducting materials/devices.
Applications of Raman scattering and other laser spectroscopic techniques
in condensed matter physics. Spectroscopy of flames/plasma.
Dr. Alan Kost
Associate Professor. Optical data storage.
Optical switching. Ultra-stable lasers. Semiconductor lasers.
Mid-infrared semiconductor lasers. Optical limiting. Opto-electronic
devices.
Dr. Masud Mansuripur
Chair of Optical Data Storage and
Professor.
Optical data storage. Magneto-optics. Optics of polarized
light in systems of high numerical aperture. Magnetic and
magneto-optical properties of thin solid films. Magnetization
dynamics. Integrated optics for optical heads. Information
theory. Optical signal processing. Coding of data for
efficient and reliable data storage.
Dr
Terry McDaniel
Adjunct Research Professor. Data storage technology – the
physics of magnetic, optical, and thermomagnetic recording. Component and
system design. Computer modeling and component / system simulation
(magnetic, micromagnetic, thermal, optical). Magneto-optic recording.
Issues in recording system / component characterization and metrology.
Dr. Tom Milster
Research Professor. Improving data density and
signal readout quality in super resolution optical storage systems.
Design and implementation of novel storage modalities. Near-field
scanning optical microscopy (NSOM) and photon scanning tunneling
microscopy (PSTM). Laser diode optical systems. Micro-optical
components and optical systems.
Dr. Dror Sarid
Optical Data Storage Center Director
and Professor. Nanotechnology for data storage applications
using scanning probe microscopy techniques. Raman scattering with nanometer resolution.
Nanometer-size data storage. Atomic force microscopy. Scanning
tunneling microscopy. Chemical FET. |
