Maria Luisa Calvo

Maria Luisa Calvo graduated in physics in 1969 from the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), Spain, and received the Ph.D. degree (with honours) in 1977. In 1972 she joined the Optics Department of UCM as an Assistant Professor, became an Associate Professor in 1981 and Chair of Optics in 1999. She has visited as a researcher the following institutions: Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in 1976; Institute of Optics, Paris, France, in 1968–1972; Bremen University, Germany, in 1983; School of Optometry, University of Berkeley, USA, in 1985–1986; School of Optometry, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA, in 1994 and 2000. Professor Calvo's main areas of interest are electromagnetic theory of optical waveguides, holography, optical information processing, and bio-optics. She is the author of more than one hundred scientific publications on the mentioned subjects. In 1993, she established the Interdisciplinary Group for Bio-Optics Research (GIBO-UCM), now Group for Optical Computing (GICO-UCM). She has been the President of the Image Technical Committee of the Spanish Optical Society (SEDO) (1992–1997). She was a Travelling Lecturer of the International Commission for Optics (ICO) in 1998, elected Vice-president at the ICO Bureau (1999–2002), and Secretary-General of ICO for the term in 2002–2005. She collaborates with the General Directorate for Research and Technology of the European Union in Brussels. She is a Fellow of OSA and a Member of SPIE and EOS.

Biography Updated on 31 March 2004

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Applications of gyrator transform for image processing
    Optics Communications, vol. 278, no. 2, pp. 279–284, 2007
  2. A novel wavelength dispersive device with a dispersive element based on staircase-like straight and parallel arrayed waveguides
    Optics Communications, vol. 270, no. 1, pp. 31–40, 2007
  3. Gyrator transform: properties and applications
    Optics Express, vol. 15, no. 5, p. 2190, 2007
  4. Optical system design for orthosymplectic transformations in phase space
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 23, no. 10, p. 2494, 2006
  5. A Volume Holographic Sol-Gel Material with Large Enhancement of Dynamic Range by Incorporation of High Refractive Index Species
    Advanced Materials, vol. 18, no. 15, pp. 2014–2017, 2006
  6. Fourier series analysis of fractal lenses: theory and experiments with a liquid-crystal display
    Applied Optics, vol. 45, no. 6, p. 1187, 2006
  7. Arrayed waveguide grating based on group-index modification
    Journal of Lightwave Technology, vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 1551–1557, 2006
  8. Experimental Detection of the Optical Pendellösung Effect
    Physical Review Letters, vol. 97, no. 8, 2006
  9. Fractional Transforms in Optical Information Processing
    EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2005, no. 10, pp. 1498–1519, 2005
  10. Diffraction by Cantor fractal zone plates
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 52, no. 18, pp. 2771–2783, 2005
  11. Neutron fibres and possible applications to NCT
    Applied Radiation and Isotopes, vol. 61, no. 5, pp. 841–844, 2004
  12. Focusing properties of fractal zone plates:?experimental implementation with a liquid-crystal display
    Optics Letters, vol. 29, no. 12, p. 1321, 2004
  13. Analysis of a novel stress-sensing technique based on light scattering by an array of birefringent optical waveguides
    Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. S370–S373, 2003
  14. Importance of the phase and amplitude in the fractional Fourier domain
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 20, no. 3, p. 533, 2003
  15. Light scattering by an array of birefringent optical waveguides: theoretical foundations
    Journal of the Optical Society of America B, vol. 20, no. 7, p. 1542, 2003
  16. Early Use of Corrective Lenses in Spanish Colonies of the Americas Including Parts of the Future United States: Reference to Viceroy Luis de Velasco (the Son)
    Optometry and Vision Science, vol. 80, no. 10, pp. 681–689, 2003
  17. Image reconstruction from amplitude-only and phase-only data in the fractional Fourier domain
    Optics and Spectroscopy, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 110–113, 2003
  18. Paraxial diffraction on structures generated by multiplicative iterative procedures
    Journal of Optics A: Pure and Applied Optics, vol. 5, no. 5, pp. S324–S328, 2003
  19. Fresnel diffraction by deterministic fractal gratings: An experimental study
    Optics and Spectroscopy, vol. 95, no. 1, pp. 131–133, 2003
  20. Power filtering of nth order in the fractional Fourier domain
    Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General, vol. 35, no. 36, pp. 7779–7785, 2002
  21. Perception of High-Contrast Blurred Edges
    Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 240–254, 2001
  22. A photopolymerizable glass with diffraction efficiency near 100% for holographic storage
    Applied Physics Letters, vol. 78, no. 11, p. 1490, 2001
  23. Fractionalization of the linear cyclic transforms
    Journal of the Optical Society of America A, vol. 17, no. 12, p. 2330, 2000
  24. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 33, no. 14, pp. 1666–1673, 2000
  25. Spatial pulse characterization in periodically segmented waveguides by using dynamic programming approach
    Optics Communications, vol. 169, no. 1-6, pp. 223–231, 1999
  26. Edge image quality assessment: a new formulation for degraded edge imaging
    Image and Vision Computing, vol. 16, no. 14, pp. 1003–1017, 1998
  27. Substrate mode hologram for optical interconnects
    Optics Communications, vol. 148, no. 1-3, pp. 18–22, 1998
  28. Transmission holocoupler with a gaussian wave front: Applications to a beam corrector
    Journal of Modern Optics, vol. 43, no. 6, pp. 1261–1279, 1996
  29. Approximate methods to determine the modulation transfer function of a hololens system: a comparative study
    Optical Engineering, vol. 34, no. 4, p. 1116, 1995
  30. Holographic coupler for GRIN lenses: Analysis of coupling conditions and phase profile of the coupled signal
    Fiber and Integrated Optics, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 301–317, 1993
  31. High efficiency off-axis holographic coupler
    Optics Communications, vol. 88, no. 1, pp. 22–26, 1992
  32. Point spread function and modulation transfer function of a photolens treated as a cascade linear system under the Fresnel regime: application to a Tessar lens
    Optical Engineering, vol. 29, no. 3, p. 263, 1990
  33. Holographic gratings in the transition regime
    Optics & Laser Technology, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 156–160, 1988
  34. Coupled wave analysis for a reflection dephased mixed hologram grating
    Optical and Quantum Electronics, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 213–217, 1986