Pierre-Alexandre Blanche

  • Faculty Affiliation: Research Professor
Associate Research Professor of Optical Sciences
Email Address: 
pablanche@optics.arizona.edu
Website: 
Pierre-Alexandre Blanche's website
Office Location: 
Meinel 521
Mailing Address: 

College of Optical Sciences
The University of Arizona
1630 E. University Blvd.
P.O. Box 210094
Tucson, AZ 85721-0094

Phone Number: 
520-626-5389
Principal Investigator(s): 
Nasser Peyghambarian
Principal Investigator(s): 
Robert A. Norwood
Education: 
  • Ph.D., University of Liege (Belgium), 1999
  • M.S., University of Liege (Belgium), 1994
Specific Research Interests: 
  • Photorefractive materials and their applications.
  • Holography and recording materials.
  • Technical holographic applications.
  • Dispersive volume phase holographic gratings and holographic optical elements.
  • Photovoltaic materials.
  • Nanostructuring and nanoparticles for optics and photonics.
  • Nonlinear optics.
  • Space instrumentation.

Current Student(s)

Patents

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8,634,119 System for holography
8,334,889 Auto stereoscopic 3-D telepresence using integral holography
8,325,402 System and method for synchronizing a spatial light modulator with a pulsed laser to record a hologram at the repetition rate of the pulsed laser
7,973,989 System and method using a voltage kick-off to record a hologram on a photorefractive polymer for 3-D holographic display and other applications

Books Authored

  • Field Guide to Holography
    Pierre-Alexandre Blanche

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