Robert D. Guenther

Robert D. Guenther received his undergraduate degree from Baylor University and his graduate degrees in physics from University of Missouri. He has had research experience in condensed matter and optical physics. For nine years, he was active in research management as a Senior Executive in the Army, responsible for the Physics Research sponsored by the Army. In that role, he managed a program of about $ 20 million per year involving about 100 individual projects. He also served as a Senior Advisor to the Army on a variety of issues such as electric gun technology, high-energy lasers, and automatic target recognition. From June 1997 through May 1999, he held the position of Interim Director of the Duke Free Electron Laser Laboratory. Dr. Guenther has established a new undergraduate education program at Duke in cooperation with an industry entitled Applied Science which began in the Fall of 2000. Dr. Guenther now supports new initiatives in Fitzpatrick Institute at Duke University and conducts imaging research in the DISP.

Biography Updated on 6 September 2007

Personal Home Page

http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Physics/guenther

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. A pyroelectric infrared biometric system for real-time walker recognition by use of a maximum likelihood principal components estimation (MLPCE) method
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 6, p. 3271, 2007
  2. Longwave infrared (LWIR) coded aperture dispersive spectrometer
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 9, p. 5742, 2007
  3. Path-dependent human identification using a pyroelectric infrared sensor and fresnel lens arrays
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 2, p. 609, 2006
  4. Human Tracking With Wireless Distributed Pyroelectric Sensors
    IEEE Sensors Journal, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1683–1696, 2006
  5. Human-tracking systems using pyroelectric infrared detectors
    Optical Engineering, vol. 45, no. 10, p. 106401, 2006
  6. Lightweight biometric detection system for human classification using pyroelectric infrared detectors
    Applied Optics, vol. 45, no. 13, p. 3031, 2006
  7. Real-time human identification using a pyroelectric infrared detector array and hidden Markov models
    Optics Express, vol. 14, no. 15, p. 6643, 2006
  8. Fiber-optic localization by geometric space coding with a two-dimensional gray code
    Applied Optics, vol. 44, no. 20, p. 4306, 2005
  9. Special Issue: Optics in 2005 Introduction
    Optics and Photonics News, vol. 16, no. 12, p. 14, 2005
  10. Inconsistencies Between Actual and Estimated Blood Alcohol Concentrations in a Field Study of College Students: Do Students Really Know How Much They Drink?
    Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research, vol. 29, no. 9, pp. 1672–1676, 2005
  11. The Bushman Trickster: Protagonist, Divinity, and Agent of Creativity
    Marvels & Tales, vol. 16, no. 1, pp. 13–28, 2002
  12. Spectral purity and sources of noise in femtosecond-demodulation terahertz sources driven by Ti:sapphire mode-locked lasers
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 595–605, 2001
  13. Direct observation of orientation limit in a fast photorefractive polymer composite
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 74, no. 16, p. 2253, 1999
  14. Aided and automatic target recognition based upon sensory inputs from image forming systems
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 1004–1019, 1997
  15. Generation of picosecond pulses at millimeter wavelengths
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 67, no. 10, p. 1483, 1995
  16. Optical transducer for reception of ultrasonic waves
    The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 93, no. 2, p. 1182, 1993
  17. Interference and Fresnel diffraction
    IEEE Transactions on Education, vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 126–132, 1992
  18. Theory of millimeter wave nonlinearities in semiconductor superlattices
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 56, no. 8, p. 773, 1990
  19. Submillimeter wave detector workshop
    International Journal of Infrared and Millimeter Waves, vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 1091–1109, 1986
  20. Microwave generation from picosecond demodulation sources
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 47, no. 8, p. 894, 1985
  21. Tunable lasers--An overview
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 18, no. 8, pp. 1179–1185, 1982
  22. Coherent optical processing: Another approach
    IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 1348–1362, 1979
  23. Positive gain measurements on the 3350-A° continuum band of Hg2
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 28, no. 7, p. 393, 1976
  24. Origin of the 4400A°and 5300A°bands of Hg2
    Chemical Physics Letters, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 258–260, 1975
  25. Capacitively and Inductively Foreshortened Cavities for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
    Review of Scientific Instruments, vol. 42, no. 4, p. 431, 1971