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.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)
M. Eshaghi, C.H. Acevedo, M. Batarseh, J.R. Guzman-Sepulveda and A. Dogariu "Phase memory of optical vortex beams" Scientific Reports, 12(1), A. 10428 (2022)
Alumni
PhD
Mahdi Eshaghi, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2024Ruitao Wu, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2022
Mahed Batarseh, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2022
Zhean Shen, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2021
Jose Rafael Guzman-Sepulveda, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2019
Milad Akhlaghi-Bouzan, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017
Roxana Rezvani Naraghi, Physics Ph.D., Spring 2017
Veerachart Kajorndejnukul, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2015
Kyle Douglass, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2013
John Broky, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2013
Dana Kohlgraf-Owens, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2013
Thomas Kohlgraf-Owens, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2012
David Haefner, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2010
Erwan Baleine, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2006
Chaim Schwartz, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2006
Jeremy Ellis, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2006
Adela Apostol, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Claudia Mujat, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2004
Mircea Mujat, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2004
Gabriel Popescu, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2002