Armand R. Tanguay, Jr.

Associate Professor

Armand R. Tanguay, Jr. received the B.S. degree in Physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1971, and the M.S., M.Phil., and Ph.D. degrees in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University in 1972, 1975, and 1977. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering and Materials Science in 1977 and became Associate Professor in 1983. Currently, he is Director of the Center for Photonic Technology at USC.

Research Interests

• Crystal Growth of Optical and Electronic Materials
• Dielectric and Optical Thin Film Physics
• Physical Optics
• Physics of Electrooptic, Optoelectronic, and Integrated Optical Devices
• Spatial Light Modulators
• Photorefractive Volume Holographic Optical Elements
• Fundamental Physical Limitations of Optical Information Processing and Computing
• Synthetic Aperture Radar Image Formation
• Photonic Implementations of Neural Networks

Awards

• 1978 Harding Bliss Prize (Yale University).
• 1983 Archimedes Circle Faculty Service Award.
• 1986 Fellow, Optical Society of America.
• 1986 Rudolph Kingslake Medal and Prize.
• 1986 NATO Collaborative Award.

Technical Activities

• Technical Program Committee, OSA Topical Conference on Spatial Light Modulators and Applications, Incline Village, Nevada, 1990.
• Editorial Advisory Boards, Quantum Optics; Optics and Quantum Electronics.

Recent Ph.D.s

• Sangkuk Kim, December 1987, "Study of the Total Internal Reflection Spatial Light Modulator for Optical Signal Processing Applications."
• Kasra Rastani, December 1988, "Advanced Integrated Optical Signal Processing Components."
• Praveen Asthana, August 1991, "Volume Holographic Techniques for Highly Multiplexed Interconnection Applications."

Selected Publications

• "Materials Requirements for Optical Information Processing and Computing Devices," Optical Engineering, vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 2-18, 1985.
• "Physical and Technological Limitations of Optical Information Processing and Computing," Materials Research Society Bulletin, vol. XIII, No. 8, pp. 36-40, 1988.
• "Fundamental Physical Limitations of the Photorefractive Grating Recording Sensitivity," Chapter 3 in Optical Processing and Computing, H. Arsenault, T. Szoplik, and B. Macukow, Eds., Academic Press, New York, 1989, with R. V. Johnson.
• "Photonic Implementations of Neural Networks," Chapter 9 in Neural Networks for Signal Processing, B. Kosko, Ed., Prentice-Hall, New Jersey, 1992, with B. K. Jenkins.