Tristan J. Tayag
Texas Christian University
Department of Engineering
TCU Box 298640
Fort Worth, TX 76129
PH: (817) 257-7126
FAX: (817) 257-7704
T.Tayag@tcu.eduTristan Tayag has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Engineering at Texas Christian University since August 1997. He received his B.S.E.E. and M.S.E. degrees from the Johns Hopkins University in 1986 and 1987, respectively. Tristan spent a year and a half as an associate engineer at the Applied Physics Laboratory before earning the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Virginia in 1991. From 1991 to 1997, Tristan worked at the Army Research Laboratory where he served as team leader of the Integrated Optics Team.
Research Interests
- Interferometric Sensors
- Micro-electrooptical mechanical systems
- Talbot Effect waveguide structures
- Integrated Optical Devices
Teaching Interests
- Digital Signal Processing
- Signals and Systems
- Electromagnetics
- Electrical Circuits
Student Research Assistants
- Francisco A. Varela - Talbot effect devices for optical communications
- Sophie M. Penninck - Quasi-optical power dividers for microwave applications
- Craig T. Moore - Fiber optic interferometry for sensing applications
- Christopher A. Belk - Digital stabilization of a fiber optic interferometer
- Ezra N. Purdy - Interferometric characterization of MEMS structures
- Mendy L. Nelson - Digital demodulation of a fiber optic interferometer
- Brandon D. Pitt - Finite element analysis modeling of MEMS structures
Patents
"Method and system for stabilizing and demodulating an interferometer at quadrature", T.J. Tayag and C.A. Belk, U.S. Patent Application, submitted February 2001.
"Self-imaging waveguide devices for wavelength division multiplexing applications", T.J. Tayag and T.E. Batchman,U.S. Patent No. 5,862,288, issued 19 January 1999.
"Easily manufacturable optical self-imaging waveguide devices",T.J. Tayag,U.S. Patent No. 5,640,474, issued 17 June 1997.
Selected Publications
< All Faculty"Spatial power splitting and combining based on the Talbot effect", T.J. Tayag, M.B. Steer, J.F. Harvey, A.B. Yakovlev, and J. Davis, IEEE Microwave and Wireless Components Lett., accepted for publication (August 2001).
"Polarization separation/combination based on self-imaging", D.M. Mackie, T.J. Tayag and T.E. Batchman, Opt. Eng., Vol. 40, No. 10 (October 2001).
"An optical sensor for the characterization of microelectromechanical system structures", T.J. Tayag, E.N. Purdy, and E.S. Kolesar, invited presentation, IEEE MetroCON 2000, Arlington, TX (September 2000).
"The application of digital signal processing to stabilize an interferometer at quadrature", T.J. Tayag and C.A. Belk, in Proceed. of the 10th Internat. Conf. on Electronics, Communications, and Computers - CONIELECOMP 2000, vol. 10, pp. 75-78, Puebla, Mexico (February 2000).
"Talbot effect devices for optical communications", F.A. Varela and T.J. Tayag, in Proceed. of the Nat'l Conf. on Undergrad. Research - NCUR 98, vol. III, pp. 1019-1022, Salisbury, MD (July 1998).
"Experimental confirmation of phase relationships of multimode interference splitters using a shearing type near-field Sagnac interferometer",S.Kareenahalli, M. Dagenais, D. Stone, and T. Tayag, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol.9, no. 7, pp. 937-939 (July 1997).
"Army Research Laboratory Sponsorship of Senior Design Projects at West Point" , T. J. Tayag, A. H. Sayles, and P. M. Ryan, ASEE Spring Conf. in Engineering Education: Evolution and Revolution, West Point, NY (April 1997).
"Wavelength division multiplexing coupler based on Talbot self-imaging in planar optical waveguides" , D. Kuykendall, C. L. Reitsma, T. J. Tayag, D. M. Mackie, L. J. Harrison, G. W. Euliss, G. F. McLane, and R. P. Leavitt, Nat'l Conf. on Undergrad Research '97, Austin, TX (April 1997).
"Polarization characterization of self-imaging GaAs/AlGaAs waveguide beamsplitters using Mueller matrix imaging polarimetry" , M. H. Smith, E. A. Sornsin, T. J. Tayag, and R. A. Chipman, Photonics West - Optoelectronics '97, San Jose, CA (February 1997).
"An integrated optics beamsplitter with applications to communications", T. J. Tayag, D. M. Mackie, G. W. Euliss, and L. J. Harrison, ARL 1997 Sensors and Electron Devices Symposium, Adelphi, MD (January 1997).
"Talbot effect waveguide splitters for tactical wireless communications" , T. J. Tayag, D. M. Mackie, and G. W. Euliss, in Proceed. of the 20th Army Science Conference, vol. 1, pp. 227-231, Norfolk VA (June 1996).
"Modeling of self-imaging integrated optical power splitters" , D. M. Mackie and T. J. Tayag, in Proceed. of DoD Photonics '96, pp. 59-64, McLean, VA (March 1996).
"A time-integrating optical delay-line correlator with application to optical CDMA networks" , G. W. Euliss and T. J. Tayag, in Proceed. of DoD Photonics '96, pp. 1125-129, McLean, VA (March 1996).
"A manufacturable technique for implementing low-loss self-imaging waveguide beamsplitters", T. J. Tayag, D. M. Mackie, and G. W. Bryant, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 7, no. 8, pp. 896-898 (August 1995).
"A pixellated grating array using photoelectrochemical etching on a GaAs waveguide", E. J. Twyford, T. J. Tayag, N. M. Jokerst, and P. A. Kohl, IEEE Photon. Technol. Lett., vol. 7, no. 7, pp. 766-768 (July 1995).
"Integrated optical power splitters based on symmetric mode mixing" , D. M. Mackie, T. J. Tayag, and G. W. Bryant, in Photonic Systems for Antenna Applications Symposium V, ARPA, Arlington, VA (January 1995).
"A guide/antiguide structure for implementing self-imaging waveguide beamsplitters" , T. J. Tayag and G. W. Bryant, in Guided-Wave Optoelectronics: Device Characterization, Analysis, and Design, T. Tamir, G. Griffel, and H. L. Bertoni, eds., Plenum Press, New York, NY (1995).
"Fundamental design of integrated photonic systems for phased array antenna control", J. G. Wright, L. A. Coryell, W. H. Chang, R. A. Lux, and T. J. Tayag, in 43rd International Wire and Cable Symposium Proceedings, IWCS, Inc., Eatontown, NJ (November 1994).
"Athermalization of optical systems via diffractive optical elements", G. P. Behrmann, T. J. Tayag, D. W. Prather, and S. D. Sarama, in 19th Army Science Conference Proceedings, Department of the Army, Washington DC (1994).
"Diffractive optical elements for generating arbitrary line foci", D. W. Prather, J. N. Mait J. van der Gracht, and T. J. Tayag, in Conference on Binary Optics, NASA Conference Publication 3227 (1993).
"Integrated optical two-dimensional time-integrating correlator", T. J. Tayag, B. M. Sadler, and J. M. Pellegrino, in Optical Design for Photonics, OSA Technical Digest Series, vol. 9, Optical Society of America, Washington DC (1993).
"Photonics for Aerospace Sensing, J. Pellegrino, E. Adler, A. Filipov, L. Harrison, J. van der Gracht, D. Smith, T. Tayag, and E. Viveiros, in Optical Technologies for Aerospace Sensing, SPIE Critical Reviews of Optical Science and Technology Proceedings, vol. CR47, J. E. Pearson, ed. (1992).