Sri Rama "Prasanna"
Pavani
Office: ECEE 237, OCS, Engineering
Center,
CU Boulder, CO.
Phones:
1 (720) 878-2845 and 1 (303) 492-3330
Home:
3150
Madison Ave. Unit #1, Boulder, CO 80303
e-mail: pavani
at colorado dot edu
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Research
Computational optical sensing
and imaging
> 3D
imaging; phase imaging; PSF engineering
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PhD
How to
PhD? -- Prof. Avi Kak
How to be a bad grad student? -- Prof.
Christos Kozyrakis
Talking
the talk
Writing
a technical paper
CU's
PhD degree requirements
US
News
rankings in optical physics
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Publications
Journals
Three dimensional tracking of fluorescent
microspheres using a photon-limited double-helix response system
Sri Rama
Prasanna Pavani and Rafael Piestun
(submitted)
Three-dimensional
localization with nanometer accuracy using a double-helix point spread
function system
Sri Rama
Prasanna Pavani, Adam Greengard, and Rafael Piestun
(submitted)
High-efficiency rotating
point spread functions
Sri Rama
Prasanna Pavani and Rafael Piestun
Optics Express, Vol. 16 Issue 15, 3484-3489 (2008)
Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 3 Issue 4 (2008)
Quantitative
structured-illumination phase microscopy
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani, Ariel
R. Libertun, Sharon V. King, and Carol J. Cogswell
Applied Optics, Vol. 47 Issue 1,15-24
(2008)
Virtual Journal for Biomedical Optics, Vol. 3 Issue 2 (2008)
Conferences
3D localization of
fluorescent microparticles using a rotating point spread function
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani and
Rafael Piestun
OSA Frontiers in
Optics (FiO), Rochester, USA, Oct.. 2008 (accepted)
Passive 3D imaging with
quasi-rotating PSFs
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani and
Rafael Piestun
OSA Digital
holography and 3D imaging, St. Petersburg, USA, Mar. 2008
QSIP:
Phase imaging made possible in a bright field microscope
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani, Ariel
R. Libertun, Sharon V. King, and Carol J. Cogswell
SPIE Photonics West (BIOS), San Jose, USA, Jan. 2008
Quantitative
phase imaging with a bright field microscope
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani, Ariel
R. Libertun, and Carol J. Cogswell
OSA Frontiers in Optics (FiO), San Jose, USA, Sept.
2007
Efficient
rotating point
spread functions for 3D imaging
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani and
Rafael Piestun
OSA Frontiers in
Optics (FiO), San Jose, USA, Sept. 2007
Structured-illumination
quantitative phase microscopy
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani,
Ariel R. Libertun, and Carol J. Cogswell
OSA Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
(COSI), Vancouver, Canada, June 2007
Efficient
diffractive optical elements for depth from diffracted rotation systems
Sri Rama Prasanna Pavani and Rafael Piestun
OSA
Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging
(COSI), Vancouver, Canada, June 2007
Destination
Address Interpretation for automating the sorting process of Indian
Postal System
P.Sri Rama Prasanna, S.Balaji,
Thejavor Haralu Khezhie, C.Vasanthanayaki, and S.Annadurai
IEEE Tencon 2003, Vol 2, Pages
858-862,
October 2003.
A
pragmatic schema of destination address interpretation for use in
Indian postal system
P.Sri Rama Prasanna, S.Balaji, Thejavor Haralu Khezhie,
C.Vasanthanayaki, and S.Annadurai
Computer
Society of India, 2003.
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Talks
Passive
3D imaging with quasi-rotating PSFs
OSA Digital holography and 3D
imaging, St. Petersburg, USA, Mar. 2008
Computational optical sensing
and imaging
Optics graduate student seminar, Feb. 2008
QSIP:
Phase imaging made possible in a bright field microscope
SPIE Photonics West (BIOS), San Jose, USA, Jan. 2008
Passive
3D imaging with rotating point spread functions
[poster] Colorado
Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) annual meeting, 2007
Quantitative
phase imaging with a bright field microscope
OSA Frontiers in
Optics (FiO), San Jose, Sept. 2007
Efficient
rotating point
spread functions for 3D imaging
OSA Frontiers in
Optics (FiO), San Jose, Sept. 2007
Efficient
diffractive optical elements for depth from diffracted rotation systems
COSI
OSA conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
Structured-illumination
quantitative phase microscopy
COSI
OSA conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2007
Summer
Research at CDM Optics
Inc.
MO-ISL Research meeting, 2006
Structured-Illumination
Quantitative Phase Imaging
[Award winning poster]
Colorado Photonics Industry Association (CPIA) annual meeting, 2006
Optical
3D Fourier
Transformation and Reconstruction with a Photorefractive crystal
Physical optics, CU Boulder, 2006
Reversible
Wavelets for
Embedded Image Compression
Wavelets and Imaging, CU Boulder, 2006
Quantum
Error Correction
Quantum Optics, CU Boulder, 2006
Optical
Solitons
Nonlinear / Crystal Optics, CU Boulder,
2006
Plenoptic
Camera
MO-ISL Research meeting, 2005
Fourier
Optics Class - Fall 2006
Fourier Optics, CU Boulder, 2006
Destination
address interpretation
Undergraduate thesis defense, GCT Coimbatore, 2003
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Reports
Camera Obscura
Optoelectronic System Design, CU Boulder, 2006
Optical Solitons
Nonlinear
/ Crystal Optics, CU Boulder, 2006
Waveguide
analysis using BPM
Optical
Electronics, CU Boulder, 2006
Destination
address interpretation
Undergraduate thesis, GCT Coimbatore, 2003
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Patent
Quantitative
phase imaging with a bright field microscope
Technology tansfer office, Univ. of Colorado (in review)
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Teaching
Advanced
Optics Laboratory
Prof.
Kelvin Wagner
/ Prof.
Dana Anderson
/ Prof.
Jun Ye
Teaching Assistant,
Spring 2008
Fourier
Optics
Prof.
Rafael Piestun
Guest lecture,
Fall 2006
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Courses
Fall 2005
1.
Fourier Optics and Holography
Prof.
Kelvin Wagner
2. Advanced Linear Systems
Prof.
C.T.Mullis
3. Theory and Application of Digital
Filtering Prof.
Francois Meyer
Spring
2006 (schedule)
4. Advanced
Optics Lab
[B] [D]
Prof.
Kelvin Wagner
/ Prof.
Dana Anderson
5. Physical Optics
Prof.
Alan Mickelson
6. Introduction to
optoelectronics
Prof.
Frank Barnes
7. Imaging Systems*
Prof.
Rafael Piestun
Fall
2006 (schedule)
8. Wavelets and Imaging
Prof. Gregory Beylkin
9.
Intro to quantum optics
Prof.
Alan Mickelson
10. Optoelectronic System
Design
Prof. Robert
Mcleod
11.
Nonlinear/Crystal Optics
Prof.
Kelvin
Wagner
Spring
2007
12. Ultrafast Optics**
Prof.
Steve Cundiff
13.
Numerical methods in photonics**
Prof.
Robert
Mcleod
Fall
2007
14. Nanophotonics*
Prof.
Rafael Piestun
15.
Information Theory**
Prof.
Eugene Liu
16.
Noise and random processes**
Prof.
Tim Brown
Spring
2008
17. Detect. and extr. of
signal from noise**
Prof.
C.T.Mullis
* Audit
**
Partial audit
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links
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[Nature]
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[IAS] [Chinook]
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JOSA-A
Applied
Optics Optics
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Express
Optical
Design and Engineering Biomedical
Optics & Medical Imaging
Electronic Imaging
& Signal Processing Nanotechnology
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Mruthangam
PhD Comics
Molecular
Expressions
Microscopy Primer
Michael
Richmond's physics
classes
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2006
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