2006

Publications

2010

Spradling, Christopher*, Gerakines, P.A., Richey, C.R., Near- and Mid-Infrared Spectra of Cosmic Ice Analogs Subjected to Ultraviolet Photolysis, Inquiro, Vol. 4, p. 86-90, (2010).

“Formation of Collapsed Tetragonal Phase in EuCo2As2 under High Pressure”, Matthew Bishop*, Walter Uhoya, Georgiy Tsoi, Yogesh K. Vohra, Athena S. Sefat, and Brian C. Sales, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 22, 425701 (2010).

Radiofrequency Ablation Directionally Alters Geometry and Biomechanical Compliance of Mitral Valve Leaflets: Refinement of a Novel Percutaneous Treatment Strategy,” Shawn L Price, Carolyn G. Norwood*, Jeffrey L. Williams, H. Thomas McElderry and W. David Merryman, Cardiovascular Engineering and Technology, Vol. 1, No. 3, September( 2010) pp. 194-201

2009

C. Kim, J. M. Peppers*, D. V. Martyshkin, V. V. Fedorov, S.B. Mirov “Chromium doped ZnSe and ZnS gain media for optically and electrically pumped mid-IR lasers”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 7193, p71931J (2009)

2008

W. Mallory*, Jr., V. V. Fedorov, S. B. Mirov, U. Hömmerich, W. Palosz, and S. B. Trivedi, “Iron doped CdxMn1-xTe crystals, a new gain media for mid-IR room temperature lasers” Proc. SPIE Vol. 6871, 6871-87 (2008)

W. Mallory*, Jr., V. V. Fedorov, S. B. Mirov, U. Hömmerich, W. Palosz, and S. B. Trivedi “Iron doped CdxMn1-xTe crystals for Mid-IR room temperature lasers” Journal of Crystal Growth Vol 310 pp 4438-4442 (2008).

Vincent Nardone* and Rakesh Kapoor, “Highly sensitive evanescent wave combination tapered fiber optic fluorosensor for protein detection.” In Optical Fibers and Sensors for Medical Diagnostics and Treatment Applications VIII edited by Israel Gannot, Proceedings of SPIE Volume 6852, (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2008), 685203-1-6 (ISBN: 9780819470270)

M.E. Zvanut, S. Jeddy, and E. Towett*, G.M. Janowski, C. Brooks and D. Schlom, “An annealing study of an oxygen vacancy related defect in SrTiO₃ substrates”, J. Appl. Phys. 104, 064122 (2008).

2007

A.Gallian, A.Martinez*, P.Marine, V.V.Fedorov, S.B.Mirov, V.Badikov, D.M.Boutoussov, and M.Andriasyan, “Fe:ZnSe passive Q-switching of 2.8-µm Er:Cr:YSGG laser Cavity”, in Solid State Lasers XVI: Technology and Devices, edited by Hanna J.Hoffman, Ramesh K. Shori, and Norman Hodson, Proc. Of SPIE Vol. 6451 (SPIE, Bellingham, WE, (2007), 6451-20.

N.D. Lipham*, G.M. Tsoi, and L.E. Wenger, “Synthesis and Characterization of Sr-doped Lanthanum Manganite Nanoparticles”, IEEE Trans. Magnetics 43, 3088-3090 (2007).

S. A. Catledge, W. C. Clem, N. Shrikishen*, S. Chowdhury, A. V. Stanishevsky, M. Koopman, and Y. K. Vohra, “An Electrospun Triphasic Nanofibrous Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering”, Biomed. Mater. 2, 142 (2007).

A. Stanishevsky, P. Chinoda, S. Chowdhury, V. Thomas, A. S. Catledge, and D. Dean, “Compositionally modified hydroxyapatite nanocrystals for polymer/ceramic scaffold applications”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 897E, (2006) Materials Research Society, pp. J03-18.1 – J03-18.6.

R. A. Sims*, J. Kernal, V. V. Fedorov, S. B. Mirov, “Characterization of cobalt doped ZnSe and ZnS crystals as saturable absorbers for alexandrite lasers”, Proc. of SPIE “Solid State Lasers XV: Technology And Devices”, vol. 6100, 6100U, (2006)

Veleriy V. Konovalov, Andrew Melo*, Shane A. Catledge, Shafiul Chowdhury, and Yogesh K. Vohra, “Ultra-Smooth Nanostructured Diamond Films Deposited from He/H2CH4/N2 Microwave Plasmas”, J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 6, 258 (2006).

Lawrence Luke*, V.V.Fedorov, I.Moskalev, A.Gallian, S.B.Mirov, “Middle-infrared electroluminescence of n-type Cr-doped ZnSe crystals” in Solid State Lasers XV: Technology and Devices, edited by Hanna J.Hoffman and Ramesh K. Shori, Proc. Of SPIE Vol. 6100 (SPIE, Bellingham, WE, 2006).

Presentations

2010

“Atmospheric propagation testing with a high-power tunable thulium fiber laser system,” Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Robert Andrew Sims*, Vikas Sudesh , Martin C. Richardson, Photonics West LASE (San Francisco, CA, USA), 27 January 2010.

“High-power tunable thulium fiber laser with volume Bragg grating spectral control,” Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Robert Andrew Sims*, Vikas Sudesh , Martin C. Richardson, Photonics West LASE (San Francisco, CA, USA), 27 January 2010.

“High-energy Q-switched Tm3+-doped polarization maintaining silica fiber laser ,” Lawrence Shah, Christina C. C. Willis, Timothy S. McComb , Robert Andrew Sims*, Vikas Sudesh , Martin C. Richardson, Photonics West LASE (San Francisco, CA, USA), 25 January 2010.

“Spectral Beam Combining Tm Fiber Laser Systems,” Robert Andrew Sims*, Christina C. C. Willis, Pankaj Kadwani, Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Vikas Sudesh , Zachary Roth, Menelaos Poutous, Eric Johnson, Martin C. Richardson, Photonics West LASE (San Fransisco, CA, USA), 23-28 January 2010.

“Spectral narrowing and wavelength stabilization of thulium fiber lasers using guided-mode resonance filters.,” Robert Andrew Sims*, Tanya Dax, Zachary Roth, Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Vikas Sudesh , Menelaos Poutous, Eric Johnson, Martin C. Richardson, Photonics West LASE (San Fransisco, CA, USA), 23-28 January 2010. Oral

Ilya Mirov* and Vladimir V. Fedorov, “Laser-spectroscopic study of Er doped PbWO4 as laser and stimulated Raman scattering active crystals”, Proc. SPIE Vol. 7578, 75781I (2010)

J. Dashdorj, M. E. Zvanut, and L. J. Stanley*, “Iron-related defect levels in SrTiO3 measured by photoelectron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy”, J. Appl. Phys. 107, 083513 (2010).

Thomas V, Stanishevskaya I*, Zhang X, Xu Y, Bellis S, Vohra Y.K (2010) Biomimetic Scaffolds with Spatially Designed Nanofibers for Vascular Tissue Regeneration, 2010 Nano-Bio Research Symposium, Alabama State University, Montgomery AL.

2009

Hennessy KM, Pollot BE, Clem WC, Phipps MC, Sawyer AA, Culpepper BK, Bellis SL. The effect of Collagen I mimetic peptides on mesenchymal stem cell adhesion and differentiation, and on bone formation at hydroxyapatite surfaces. Biomaterials. 2009

Phipps MC*, Clem WC, Schmitt A, Culpepper BK, Bellis SL. Cell Interactions With, and Degradation Characteristics of Electrospun Composite Scaffolds for Bone Regeneration. UAB Stem Cell Symposium: 2009.

“Spectral Beam Combining 2 um Thulium Fiber Laser Systems,” Christina C. C. Willis, Robert Andrew Sims*, Pankaj Kadwani, Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Vikas Sudesh , Martin C. Richardson, Zachary Roth, Menelaos Poutous, Eric Johnson, International OSA Network of Students North America Conference (College Park, MD, USA, 2009), 24-26 September 2009.

“Guided Mode Resonance Filters as Stable Line-Narrowing Feedback Elements for Tm Fiber Lasers,” Robert Andrew Sims*, Zachary Roth, Timothy S. McComb , Lawrence Shah, Vikas Sudesh , Menelaos Poutous, Eric Johnson, Martin C. Richardson, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (Baltimore, MD, USA), number CThN2, 1-5 June 2009.

“High Power, Tunable Thulium Fiber Laser System for Atmospheric Propagation Experiments,” Timothy S. McComb , Vikas Sudesh , Lawrence Shah, Robert Andrew Sims*, Martin C. Richardson, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (Baltimore, MD, USA), number CThR5, 1-4 June 2009.

“Latest developments in high-power tunable CW narrow line thulium fiber laser for deployment to the ISTEF,” Vikas Sudesh , Timothy S. McComb , Robert Andrew Sims*, Lawrence Shah, Martin C. Richardson, John Stryjewski, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing (Orlando, FL, USA, 2009), 13-17 April 2009.

C. Kim, J. Peppers*, V.V. Fedorov, S.B. Mirov, “Mid-IR Electroluminescence of Cr:ZnSe crystals co-doped with Donor and Acceptor impurities”, in The Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)/The International Quantum Electronics Conference (IQEC) (Optical Society of America, Washington, DC, 2009), CWH7

2008

Vincent Nardone* and Rakesh Kapoor, “Highly sensitive evanescent wave combination tapered fiber optic fluorosensor for protein detection” Presented at BiOS, Photonics West, 19-24 January 2008, San Jose, California, USA.

2007

N.D. Lipham*, G.M. Tsoi, and L.E. Wenger, “Synthesis and Characterization of Sr-doped Lanthanum Manganite Nanoparticles”, IEEE Trans. Magnetics 43, 3088-3090 (2007).

2006

A. Stanishevsky, P. Chinoda, S.Chowdhury, V. Thomas, A. S. Catledge, and D. Dean, “Compositionally modified hydroxyapatite nanocrystals for polymer/ceramic scaffold applications”, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 897E, (2006) Materials Research Society, pp. J03-18.1 – J03-18.6.

M.E. Zvanut, B.E. Lassiter*, G.M. Janowski, L.J. Brillson, S. Walsh, “Effects of BiFeO3 deposition on SrTiO3 substrates”, submitted to the Materials Research Society Fall 2006 Meeting, Symposium T, Ferroelectrics and Multiferroics.

M. Jackson*, M. Bulut, R. P. Camata, “Electrostatic Charge Effects in the Aggregation Behavior of Laser Ablation Aerosols,” 7th International Aerosol Conference, September 10 – 16, 2006, St. Paul, Minnesota.

Lawrence Luke*, V.V.Fedorov, I.Moskalev, A.Gallian, S.B.Mirov, “Middle-infrared electroluminescence of n-type Cr-doped ZnSe crystals”, contributed talk presented to the Photonics West 2006, February 22-26, San Jose, CA, USA, 2006.

V.V. Fedorov, I. Moskalev, Lawrence Luke*, A. Gallian*, S.B. Mirov, “Mid-infrared Electroluminescence of Cr2+ Ions in ZnSe Crystals”, contributed talk presented to the Advanced Solid-State Photonics Conference, January 29-February 1, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, USA, 2006.

A. Stanishevsky, S. Chowdhury, N. Greenstein, H. Yockell-Lelievre, J. Koskinen, “Mechanical properties and microarchitecture of nanoporous hydroxyapatite bioceramic nanoparticle coatings on Ti and TiN”, presented at Materials Research Society Fall 2006 Meeting, Boston, MA.

* Indicates undergraduate author