Biography
Aristide Dogariu received his PhD from Hokkaido University and he is the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Professor of Optics. His research interests include optical physics, waves propagation and scattering, electromagnetism, and random media characterization. Professor Dogariu is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America, the Physical Society of America, and currently serves as the division editor of Applied Optics – Optical Technology.
Awards & Honors
- American Physical Society (APS) Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- 2019 Excellence in Research College Award
- 2015 G. G. Stokes Award
- 2014 Pegasus Professor
- 2014 Research Incentive Award
- 2013 Research Incentive Award
- 2012 College Excellence in Research Award
- 2011 Distinguished Researcher Award, College of Optics and Photonics
- 2010 2009/2010 Teaching Incentive Program Award
- 2009 2008/2009 Research Incentive Award (RIA)
- 2007 Distinguished Researcher Award, College of Optics and Photonics
Research Group
Exploring different principles for optical sensing, manipulation of electromagnetic fields, and phenomena specific to optical wave interactions with complex media.Research Scientists
Graduate Students
Cristian Hernando Acevedo Caceres
Optics Ph.D.
Shubham Dawda
Optics Ph.D.
Kang-Min Lee
Optics Ph.D.
Mahshid Zoghi
Optics Ph.D.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
Publications
Kang-Min Lee, Cristian Hernando Acevedo, and Aristide Dogariu "Edge contrast enhancement using vortex speckles" Optics Letters Vol. 50, Issue 18, pp. 5542-5545 (2025) 2025
Dawda, S (Dawda, Shubham) [1] ; Jimenez-Villar, E (Jimenez-Villar, Ernesto) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "Controlling order in strongly scattering 3D disorder" APL Photonics, Volume: 10, Issue: 7, Year 2025
Article Number: 070802 2025
Kang-Min Lee, Shubham Dawda, and Aristide Dogariu "Optical memory in random fields generated by perfect vortex beams" Optics Letters Vol. 50, Issue 14, pp. 4526-4529 (2025) 2025
Mahshid Zoghi, Ernesto Jimenez-Villar, Aristide Dogariu "Spectrally Resolved Dynamics of Delayed Luminescence in Dense Scattering Media" Materials 2025
Dipold, J (Dipold, Jessica) [1] ; Wetter, NU (Wetter, Niklaus U.) [1] ; Marques, FC (Marques, Francisco C.) [2] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [3] ; Jiménez-Villar, E (Jimenez-Villar, Ernesto) [2] , [3] "Strong enhancement of effective refractive index in structured colloids (TiO2@Silica): Localization of light
" Nanoscale, Volume: 17, Issue: 6, (2025) 2025
Eshaghi, M., Acevedo, C. H., Dogariu, A. "Ultrasensitive probing of nonequilibrium thermodynamics at liquid-vapor interfaces using dark hollow beams" Physics of Fluids Volume: 37 Issue: 2
Article Number: 022135 2025
M Zoghi, M Batarseh, R Wu, JA Tuszynski, A Dogariu "Dynamics of Delayed Luminescence in Tubulin and Microtubule Constructs: an Insight into Collective Radiative Effects" Bio-Optics: Design and Application 2025
Jazayeri, AM (Jazayeri, Amir m.) [1] ; Abdelhafiz, S (Abdelhafiz, Sohila) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "One-way optomechanical interaction between nanoparticles" Optics Express, Volume: 32, Issue: 16, Page: 28100-28111, Year:2024 2024
Acevedo, CH (Acevedo, Cristian hernando) [1] ; Dawda, S (Dawda, Shubham) [1] ; Lee, KM (Lee, Kang-min) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "Wigner distribution and entropy of partially coherent light generated by perfect optical vortices" Optics Letters, Volume: 49, Issue: 13, Page: 3830-3833, Year 2024 2024
Kang-Min Lee, Cristian Hernando Acevedo, Aristide Dogariu "Active sensing of a hidden object using Gaussian and perfect optical vortices speckles: a comparative study" Kang-Min Lee, Cristian Hernando Acevedo, Aristide Dogariu, "Active sensing of a hidden object using Gaussian and perfect optical vortices speckles: a comparative study," Proc. SPIE 13041, Three-Dimensional Imaging, Visualization, and Display 2024, 1304107 (7 June 2024); 2024
Dipold, J (Dipold, Jessica) [1] ; Wetter, NU (Wetter, Niklaus U.) [1] ; Marques, FC (Marques, Francisco C.) [2] ; Freitas, AZ (Freitas, Anderson Z.) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [3] ; Jiménez-Villar, E (Jimenez-Villar, Ernesto) [2] , [3] "Strong Raman enhancement in structured colloids: localization of light
" Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 41(6) pp.1415-1424 2024
Dawda, S (Dawda, Shubham) [1] ; Shen, Z (Shen, Zhean) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "Measuring nanoparticles shape by structured illumination" Scientific Reports 14(1) 2024
Dawda, S (Dawda, Shubham) ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) ; Schepler, KL (Schepler, Kenneth L.) "Structural, chemical, and optical design optimization of an Fe2+- doped chalcogenide fiber for mid- infrared lasing" Optical Materials Express 14(3) pp. 735-744 2024
Acevedo, CH (Acevedo, Cristian Hernando) [1] ; Eshaghi, M (Eshaghi, Mahdi) [1] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "Propagation of asymmetric optical vortex beams through turbulence and evolution of their OAM spectra" Journal of the Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science and Vision 40(12) pp.2135-2145 2023
Song, HQ Zhang, RZ Zhou, HB, Zou, KH Hu, NZ (Hu, Nanzhe) [1] ; Su, XZ (Su, Xinzhou) [1] ; Song, H (Song, Hao) [1] ; Pang, K (Pang, Kai) [1] ; Duan, YX (Duan, Yuxiang) [1] ; Park, D (Park, Daeyoung) [2] ; Lynn, B (Lynn, Brittany) [3] ; Gbur, G (Gbur, Greg) [4] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [5] ; Watkins, RJ (Watkins, Richard J.) [6] ; Miller, JK (Miller, Jerome K.) [6] ; Johnson, E (Johnson, Eric) ; Tur, M (Tur, Moshe) [7] ; Willner, AE (Willner, Alan E.) "Investigation of the 2-D modal coupling of a Laguerre Gaussian beam through the air-water interface
" Optics Communications 545 2023
Mahdi Eshaghi, Aristide Dogariu "Self-referenced single-shot low-power Stokes polarimetry" Eshaghi, M. and Dogariu, A., 2023. Self-referenced single-shot low-power Stokes polarimetry. Optics Letters, 48(17), pp.4586-4589. 2023
C. Acevedo, Y. Moreno, R. Guzman, and A. Dogariu, "Spatial intensity correlations of Mathieu speckle fields" J. Mod. Opt. 70, 283-291 (2023) 2023
Fernandez, PAA (Fernandez, Pedro A. Alvarez) [1] ; Acevedo, CH (Acevedo, Cristian Hernando) [1] ; Guzman-Sepulveda, JR (Guzman-sepulveda, Jose R.) [2] ; Dogariu, A (Dogariu, Aristide) [1] "First-order statistics of intensity and phase in Laguerre-Gauss speckles" Journal of Optical Society of America A-Optics Image Science And Vision 40(4)pp. 782-791 2023
A. Farhi and A. Dogariu "Purcell factors and Förster-resonance energy transfer in proximity to helical structures" Physical Review A, 106(1), A. 013708 2022
Alumni
PhD
Mahdi Eshaghi, PhD, Spring 2024
Ruitao Wu, PhD, Summer 2022
Mahed Batarseh, PhD, Spring 2022
Zhean Shen, PhD, Fall 2021
Jose Rafael Guzman-Sepulveda, PhD, Fall 2019
Milad Akhlaghi-Bouzan, PhD, Fall 2017
Roxana Rezvani Naraghi, PhD, Spring 2017
Veerachart Kajorndejnukul, PhD, Fall 2015
Kyle Douglass, PhD, Fall 2013
John Broky, PhD, Spring 2013
Dana Kohlgraf-Owens, PhD, Spring 2013
Thomas Kohlgraf-Owens, PhD, Fall 2012
David Haefner, PhD, Spring 2010
Erwan Baleine, PhD, Fall 2006
Chaim Schwartz, PhD, Summer 2006
Jeremy Ellis, PhD, Spring 2006
Adela Apostol, PhD, Spring 2005
Claudia Mujat, PhD, Spring 2004
Mircea Mujat, PhD, Spring 2004
Gabriel Popescu, PhD, Spring 2002
MS
Cristian Hernando Acevedo Caceres, MS, Fall 2024
Ruitao Wu, MS, Spring 2021
Mahed Batarseh, MS, Spring 2020
Jose Rafael Guzman-Sepulveda, MS, Fall 2016
Milad Akhlaghi-Bouzan, MS, Fall 2015
Roxana Rezvani Naraghi, MS, Summer 2015
Colin Constant, MS, Spring 2014
Nizamettin Kortan Ogutman, MS, Fall 2013
Kyle Douglass, MS, Spring 2011
Michael Vonniederhausern, MS, Spring 2008
John Broky, MS, Fall 2007
Thomas Kohlgraf-Owens, MS, Fall 2007
Chaim Schwartz, MS, Spring 2005
Erwan Baleine, MS, Spring 2003
Mohamed Salem, MS, Spring 2003
Claudia Mujat, MS, Fall 2001
Mircea Mujat, MS, Fall 2001
Adela Apostol, MS, Spring 2001