Research Interests: Photo-electromotive force for a fast optoelectronic sensing and material characterization, Optical sensing/tweezing of bio/chemical agents based on running-grating technique, Investigation of Photorefractive Crystals and Polymers Intermode Coupling in Single-Beam Holography; Neutron Optics with Coherent and Nonlinar Effects; and Chaos and Self-organization in Nonlinear Physics

Currently Funded Projects: Funded Projects: NASA project NAG-1620, AAMU/HBCU Consortium

Total Number of Publications: 150+

Recent Publications:
 

  1. Invited paper N.Kukhtarev, T.Kukhtareva, V.Edwards L.Mager, A.Fort,, M.Robino I.Foldvari D. Frazier,B.Penn, H.Abdeldayem T. Hudson "Volume And Surface Phase Holographic Gratings In The Photorefractive Crystals," in Photorefractive Material Conference , Budapest, Hugary, (2001)
  2. J.O.Dimmock,P.P.Banerjee, F.L.Madarasz, N.V. Kukhtarev, "Steady state analysis of self-organization of light into a scattering ring due to induced reflection gratings in photorefractive materials," Optics Commun. 175 (2000) 433-446
  3. H.Chang Kung, Hon Fai Yau, N.Kukhtarev, et al, "Double Phase Conjugation with Orthogonally Polarized Beams in a BaTiO3 Crystal," Optics Lett., Vol. 25, No 14, 1031, (2000)
  4. Invited paper: N.Kukhtarev, T.Kukhtareva et al, "Holographic Recording in Polymeric Materials with Diffusional Amplification," Proceeding of SPIE, Vol.4459, 29-38, (2002)
  5. The invited articles "Standard Photorefractive Model as a Foundation of Real-Time Holography," and "Nonlinear Self-Organization in Photorefractive Materials," Chapter 1 and 3 in book PHOTOREFRACTIVE OPTICS: Materials,Properties,Applications, Academic Press, 2000.
  6. Invited paper on SPIE Meeting : P. P. Banerjee, N. Kukhtarev,T. Kukhtareva, J. Jones and E. Ward "Identification of microorganisms through correlation in non-Bragg orders using photorefractive materials," San Diego, CA (2000)
  7. H.J.Caulfield, N.Kukhtarev, T.Kukhtareva, M.P.Schamschula, and P.Banerjee, "One-, two-, and three-beam optical chaos and self-organization effects in photorefractive materials," Mat. Res. Innovat 2(4), 194-199 (1999)
  8. N.Kukhtarev, T.Kukhtareva, P.Buchhave, "Temperature Grating for termoelectric Power Conversion, Trends in Optics and Photonics," Vol, 27, Advances in Photorefractive Materials, Effects and Divices, 224-228 (1999)
  9. S.Lyuksyutov, N.Kukhtarev, P.Buchhave, T.Kukhtareva, P.Banerjee, "Experimental Observation of Grating Contrast due to Photogalvanic Effect," Trends in Optics and Photonics, Vol. 27, Advances in Photorefractive Materials, Effects and Divices, 229-232 (1999)
  10. G.B.Loutts, M.Warren, Taylor, N.Noginov, N.Kukhtarev at all "Manganese-Doped yttrium orthoaluminate: A potential material for holographic recording and data storage," Phys.Rev.B 57(7), 3706-3709 (1998).

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