David Voelz

Associate Professor, Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at New Mexico State University.
Fellow of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

• How to Contact Me
• Research Interests
• Some Recent Publications
• Courses I Teach
• Education

How to Contact Me:

Klipsch School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
MSC 3-0, Goddard Annex 160H
Las Cruces, NM  88003  USA

email: davvoelz@nmsu.edu

Phone: (505) 646-3471
Fax: (505) 646-6417
Dept. Office: (505) 646-3115

Research Interests:

• Imaging and Remote Sensing

• Polarization and Spectral Sensing

• Laser Beam Control

• Free Space Optical Communications

Recent Publications:

V. Thilak, D. G. Voelz; C. D. Creusere, "Polarization-based index of refraction and reflection angle estimation for remote sensing applications," Appl. Opt., v.46, no.30, p.7527-7536,2007

D. K. Borah; D. G. Voelz, "Estimation of laser beam pointing parameters in the presence of atmospheric turbulence," Appl. Opt., v.46, no.23, p.6010-6018,2007.

X. Xiao and D. Voelz, "Wave optics simulation approach for partial spatially coherent beams," Opt. Express 14, 6986-6992,2006

D. K. Borah and D. G. Voelz, "Cramer-Rao lower bounds on estimation of laser system pointing parameters by use of the return photon signal," Opt. Lett. 31, 1029-1031 (2006)

D. K. Borah, D. Voelz, and S. Basu, "Maximum-likelihood estimation of a laser system pointing parameters by use of return photon counts," Appl. Opt. 45, 2504-2509 (2006)

C. Ting, D. G. Voelz, and M. K. Giles, “Effectiveness of High-Order Adaptive Optics in Ground-Based Stellar Interferometry," Opt. Eng. 45(2), 2006.

M. T. Gruneisen, R. C. Dymale, J. R. Rotgé, D. G. Voelz, and M. Deramo, “Wavelength-agile telescope system with diffractive wavefront control and acousto-optic spectral filter,” Opt. Eng. 44(10), 103202, 2006.

X. Xiao, D. Voelz, “Wave optics simulation of partially coherent beams,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 5892, p. 219-227, 2005.

X. Xiao and D. Voelz, “Jones matrix model with field angle effects for a liquid crystal variable retarder,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 5888, p. 444-452, 2005.

V. Thilak, J. Saini, D. G. Voelz, and C. D. Creusere, Pattern recognition for passive polarimetric data using nonparametric classifiers,” Proc. SPIE Vol. 5888, p. 337-344, 2005.

T. J. Schulz and D. G. Voelz, “Signal recovery from autocorrelation and cross-correlation data,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 22, 616-624, 2005.

D. Voelz, M. Deramo, J. Piedracoba-Varela, N. Chanover, and D. Kuehn “Acousto-optic tunable filter imaging camera with the AEOS adaptive optics system,” Proc. AMOS Tech. Conf., 387-393, 2004.

Courses I Teach:

• EE 478 (528) Optical Sources, Detectors, and Radiometry
• EE 479 (529) Lasers and Application
• EE 577 Fourier Methods in Electro-Optics
• EE 578 Electro-Optical Systems (Introduction to Lens Design)
• EE 211 AC Circuits

Education:

• Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1987
• M.S. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1983
• B.S. Electrical Engineering, New Mexico State University, 1981