Biography
Dr. Eric G. Johnson was the Palmetto-Net Endowed Chair in Optoelectronics and Professor of ECE at Clemson. He also served as the head of the South Carolina Smart-State Center of Economic Excellence in Optoelectronics at Clemson University. Dr. Johnson has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, MS in Electrical Sciences from the University of Central Florida, and BS Physics from Purdue University. Prior to joining Clemson, Dr. Johnson held a joint appointment as a Professor of Physics and Optical Science as well as Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (2006-2011), where he also served as the Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications. Dr. Johnson has also served two rotations (2008-2010,2018-2019) as a Program Director in photonics within the Electrical, Communications and Cyber Systems (ECCS) Division of the National Science Foundation. Dr. Johnson was an Associate Professor at the College of Optics and Photonics/CREOL at the University of Central Florida (2000-2007). Prior to that, Dr. Johnson was the Vice President of Research and Development at Digital Optics Corporation. Dr. Johnson is a Fellow of Optica/OSA, SPIE, and a senior member of IEEE. Dr. Johnson has served as a commission member for the ABET Engineering Accreditation Committee (EAC) and has served on the Board of Directors for SPIE. Dr. Johnson was also an Editor for IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices in optoelectronics, and Optica/OSA’s Applied Optics, and numerous other editorial and committee chair positions for IEEE, Optica/OSA, and SPIE. Dr. Johnson’s research spans the area of optics and photonics, with applications ranging from free space optical communications, optical imaging and sensing, and beam control applications in Directed Energy. Dr. Johnson’s recent work on structured light for imaging and sensing is an integral part of the MURI program he leads with other major research partners. Dr. Johnson’s research efforts have received over $20,000,000 in his career, with grants from ONR, AFOSR, DARPA, NSF, and other Federal Agencies. His research has also led to approximately 300 publications and 23 patents.
Awards & Honors
- 2021 McQueen Quattlebaum Faculty Achievement Award
- 2004 NSF CAREER Award
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Publications
Yaraghi, S (Yaraghi, Shaghayegh) [1] ; Mhibik, O (Mhibik, Oussama) [1] , [2] ; Yessenov, M (Yessenov, Murat) [1] , [3] ; Miller, JK (Miller, J. Keith) [1] ; Parto, M (Parto, Midya) [1] ; Johnson, EG (Johnson, Eric G.) [1] ; Abouraddy, AF (Abouraddy, Ayman F.) [1] ; Divliansky, I (Divliansky, Ivan) [1] "Resonance-free Fabry-Pérot cavity via unrestricted orbital-angular-momentum ladder-up" Nature Communications, Volume: 16, Issue: 1 (2025)
Jaxon P. Wiley, Evan Robertson, Tyler Cramer, J. Keith Miller, and Eric G. Johnson "Optimized optical propagation through underwater turbulence using off-axis Bessel-Gauss beam probing" Opt. Express 33, 17869-17883 (2025) (2025)
Cramer, T (Cramer, Tyler) [1] ; Miller, JK (Miller, J. Keith) [1] ; Reid, M (Reid, Matthew) [1] ; Robertson, E (Robertson, Evan) [1] ; Wiley, J (Wiley, Jaxon) [1] ; Johnson, EG (Johnson, Eric G.) [1] , [2] "Higher order Bessel beams integrated in time (HOBBIT) with engineered light frequencies (ELFs) " Optics Express, Volume: 32, Issue: 20, Page: 34966-34975, Year: 2024 (2024)
Nicholas Barbieri, Zahra Hosseinimakarem, Khan Lim, Magali Durand, Matthieu Baudelet, Eric Johnson, and Martin Richardson "Helical filaments" Applied Physics Letters 104(26), pp. 261109 (2014) PDF
N. Barbieri, M. Weidman, G. Katona, M. Baudelet, Z. Roth, E. G. Johnson, G. Siviloglou, D. N. Christodoulides, and M. C. Richardson "Double helical laser beams based on interfering first-order Bessel beams" Journal of the Optical Society of America A 28, pp. 1462-1469 (2011) PDF
R.A. Sims, C.C.C Wills, P. Kadwani, T.S. McComb, L. Shah, V. Sudesh, Z. Roth, M.K. Poutous, E.G. Johnson, M. Richardson "Spectral beam combining of 2 um Tm:fiber laser systems" Optics Communications vol. 284, no, 7, 1988-1991 (2011) PDF
M. Mayeh, J. Viegas, P. Srinivasan , P. Marques, J. L. Santos, E. G. Johnson, F. Farahi "Design and fabrication of slotted multimode interference devices for chemical and biological sensing" Journal of Sensors, vol. 2009, Article ID 470175, 2009 (2009)
Pradeep Srinivasan, Yigit O. Yilmaz, Eric G. Johnson "Micro Optical Spatial and Spectral Elements" Optical Engineering, vol 48(11), 2009 (2009)
Pradeep Srinivasan, Zachary A. Roth, Menelaos K. Poutous, and Eric G. Johnson "Novel method for the fabrication of spatially variant structures" J. Micro/Nanolith. MEMS MOEMS Vol. 8, 013010 (Feb. 12, 2009) (2009)
Pradeep Srinivasan, Menelaos K. Poutous, Zachary A. Roth, Yigit O. Yilmaz, Raymond C. Rumpf Eric G. Johnson "Spatial and Spectral Beam Shaping with Space Variant Guided Mode Resonance Filters" Optics Express, vol 17(22), 2009 (2009)
Vasa P, Pomraenke R, Schwieger S, Mazur YI, Kunets V, Srinivasan P, Johnson E, Kihm JE, Kim DS, Runge E, Salamo G, Lienau C "Coherent exciton-surface-plasmon-polariton interaction in hybrid metal-semiconductor nanostructures." Phys Rev Lett. 2008 Sep 12;101(11):116801 (2008)
Raymond C. Rumpf, Alok Mehta, Pradeep Srinivasan, and Eric G. Johnson "Design and Optimization of space-variant photonic crystal filters" Appl Opt. 2007 Aug 10;46 (23):5755-61 17694124 (2007)
Alok Mehta, Jeremiah D. Brown, Pradeep Srinivasan, Raymond C. Rumpf, and Eric G. Johnson "Spatially Polarizing Auto-Cloned Elements (SPACE)" Optics Letters, Vol. 32, No. 13, pp. 1935-1937, July 1 (2007). (2007)
Oleg V. Smolski, Jason K. O’Daniel, and Eric G. Johnson "Compact Vertically Stacked Master Oscillator Power Amplifier Based on Grating Coupled Laser Diodes" IEEE PHOTONICS TECHNOLOGY LETTERS, VOL. 18, NO. 18, pp.1931-1933, 2006 (2006)
J. K. O’Daniel, O. V. Smolski, E. G. Johnson "High Efficiency Dual-Wavelength Surface-Emitting Laser Incorporating Integrated Dual-Grating Reflector" IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., 2006, Vol. 18, No.3, p. 445-447 (2006)
J. K. O’Daniel, O. V. Smolski, M. G. Moharam, E. G. Johnson "Integrated wavelength stabilization of in-plane semiconductor lasers by use of a dual-grating reflector" Opt. Lett., 2006, Vol. 31, No. 2, p. 211-213 (2006)
L. Vaissié, O. Smolski, E. Johnson "Crossed-beam superluminescent diode" Opt. Lett., 2005, Vol. 30, No. 13, p. 1608-1610 (2005)
L. Vaissié, O. Smolski, A. Mehta, E. Johnson "High Efficiency Surface-Emitting Laser With Subwavelength Antireflection Structure" IEEE Photon. Tech. Lett., 2005, Vol. 17, No. 4, p. 732-734 (2005)
Raymond C. Rumpf Eric G. Johnson "Micro-photonic systems utilizing SU-8" Proceedings of SPIE MOEMS and Miniaturized Systems IV, vol. 5346, p. 64-72, January 2004. (2005)
Raymond C. Rumpf Eric G. Johnson "Near-Field Nano-Patterning of 3D Structures" Opt. Express 13, 7198-7208 (2005), (2005)