Miao Yu
UMD Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering
University of Maryland
2107 Myers Building
College Park, Maryland 20742
phone: 301-403-8353
fax: 301-403-2098
email: 
Education
- Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Maryland, 2002
- M.S. Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China, 1998
- B.S. Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University, China, 1996
Research Interests
- adaptive optics
- fiber optic systems
- advanced sensor systems
- optical components and devices
- theoritical and experimental mechanics
Current Work
- Conducting research on laser beam propagation in atmospheric turbulence under conditions of strong intensity scintillations and nonlinear effects based on adaptive optics.
- Simulating multi-conjugate adaptive optical systems for high resolution wavefront compensation.
- Evaluating the bandwidth of adaptive optical systems.
Documents
Publications
Recent papers published as primary author
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Adaptive optics performance over long horizontal paths aperture effects in multiconjugate adaptive optical systems
AMOS Conference Proceedings (2007) -
Remote sensing of atmospheric wind profiles using spatio-temporal
intensity information and wavefront sensor information
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5998 (2005) -
Compensation of distant phase-distorting layers. I. Narrow field-of-view adaptive receiver system
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Volume 21 (2004) -
Propagation of "exotic" laser beams in conditions of atmospheric
turbulence and thermal blooming effects
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5552 (2004) -
Bandwidth estimation for adaptive optical systems based on stochastic
parallel gradient descent optimization
Proceedings of SPIE, Volume 5553 (2004)
Recent papers published as co-author
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Compensation of distant phase-distorting layers. II. Extended field-of-view adaptive receiver system
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A, Volume 21 (2004)
