Ray Kostuk

Professor Raymond K. Kostuk has a joint professor position with UA’s ECE Department and the College of Optical Sciences. He received a B.S. degree at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1972), an M.S. from the Institute of Optics at the University of Rochester (1977), and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford University (1986). After completing his PhD. he spent a year at the IBM Research Center in Almaden, California. His primary area of expertise is in holographic concepts, materials, and applications. He is currently investigating the application of holography and low coherence techniques to medical imaging problems. He has projects on optical coherence tomography and the use of volume holograms for obtaining spatial and spectral information from biological tissue. In another effort he is investigating the use of holographic optical elements to realize compact non-conventional solar photovoltaic concentrators. His group is also investigating holographic techniques to enhance the optical collection efficiency of low cost photovoltaic cells with laminate nanostructures and to develop holographic spectrum splitting concentrators. He is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and the Society of Photo Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and served as the holography associate editor for Applied Optics. He has recently been the Kenneth Von Behren Professor of ECE, the co-chair of the holography working group for the SPIE, and a Member of the IEEE.