Recent Publications

 

2005

  1. Kevin D. Belfield, Claudia C. Corredor, Alma R. Morales, Sheng Yao, Marie A. Dessources, and Florencio E. Hernandez, “Photophysical and photochemical properties of a new class of photosensitizers for photodynamic therapy”, J. Fluorescence (Accepted) 2005
  2. Kevin D. Belfield, Mykhailo V. Bondar, I. Cohanoschi, Florencio E. Hernandez, Oleksiy D. Kachkovsky, Olga V. Przhonska, Sheng Yao, “ Excited-state absorption and anisotropy properties of two-photon absorbing fluorene derivatives”, Appl. Opt. (Accepted) 2005
  3. K. D. Belfield, M.Bondar, F. E. Hernandez, , O. Przkonska, Sheng Yao, “Two-photon absorption of a supramolecular psuedoisocyanine-J-aggregate assembly”, Chemical Physics (Accepted) 2005
  4. Ion Cohanoschi, Florencio E. Hernández, “Surface Plasmon Enhancement of Two- and Three-Photon Absorption of Hoechst 33258 dye in Activated Gold Colloid Solution”, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 14504 (2005)
  5. Carlos Zapata-Rodriguez, Florencio E. Hernández,  “Focal Squeeze in Axicons”, Opt. Comm. (in press) 2005
  6. Ion Cohanoschi, Kevin D. Belfield, Florencio E. Hernández, “Three-Photon Absorption Enhancement in Symmetrical Charge Transfer Pull-Pull Fluorene Derivatives”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 406, 462-466 (2005)
  7. Florencio E. Hernández, Shenjiang Yu, Marisol García, Andrés D. Campiglia, “Fluorescence lifetime Enhancement of Organic Chromophores Attached to Gold Nanoparticle”, J. Phys. Chem. B 109, 9499-9504 (2005)

2004

  1. K.D. Belfield, M.V. Bondar, F.E. Hernandez, A.R. Morales, O.V. Przhonska, and K.J. Schafer, “Nonlinear transmission and Excited-state absorption in fluorene derivatives”, Appl. Opt. 43, 6339-6343 (2004)
  2. Florencio E. Hernández, Kevin D. Belfield, Ion Cohanoschi, Mihaela Balu and Katherine. J. Schafer,” Three and Four-Photon Absorption of a Multiphoton Absorbing Fluorescent Probe”, Appl. Opt. 43, 5394-5398 (2004)
  3. Kevin D. Belfield, Florencio E. Hernandez, Ion Cohanoschi, Mykhailo V. Bondar, Eric W. Van Stryland, Two-photons and Beyond: 2, 3, and 4 Photon Absorption in Conjugated Fluorenes, Polymeric Materials: Science and Engineering 91, 346-347 (2004)
  4. Florencio E. Hernandez, Kevin D. Belfield, Ion Cohanoschi, “Symmetrical charge transfer enhancement in three-photon absorbers Fluorene Derivatives”, Chem. Phys. Lett. 391, 22-26 (2004)

2002

  1. Shensky, W., III; Cohanoschi, I.; Hernandez, F. E.; Van Stryland, E. W.; Hagan, D. J.  “Carbon-black suspension based broadband optical limiter”, Trends in Optics and Photonics 79 (Nonlinear Optics), 266-268.  (2002)
  2. Kevin D. Belfield, Yong Liu, Raluca A. Negres, Meigong Fan, Guilan Pan, David J. Hagan, and F. E. Hernandez, “Two-Photon photochromism of an organic material for holographic recording”, Chemistry of Materials 14, 3663 (2002)

2001

  1. F. E. Hernández, W. Shensky III, Ion Cohanoschi, D. J. Hagan and E. W. Van Stryland, “Viscosity Dependence of Optical Limiting in Carbon Black Suspensions”, Applied Optics 41, 1103 (2001)
  2. F. E. Hernández, S. Yang, D. Hagan, and E. W. Van Stryland, “Wavelength independent “Babinet Compensator Optical Limiter” (BCOL)”, LCMC 358, 301 (2001)
  3. F. E. Hernández, W. Shensky III, Ion Cohanoschi, D. J. Hagan and E. W. Van Stryland, “India Ink / CS2 Used as a Broadband Laser Safety Device”, Laser Focus World 37, 125 (2001). (Invited paper).

2000

  1. Kevin D. Belfield, David J. Hagan, Yong Liu, Raluca A. Negres, and Meigong Fan, F. E. Hernandez, “Two-Photon photochromism of a photorefractive organic material for holographic recording”, Proc. SPIE - Int. Soc. Opt. Eng., 4104 (2000)
  2. M. E. Zoghbi, P. Bolaños, C. Villalba-Galea, A. Marcano, F. E. Hernández, M. Fill, and A. L. Escobar, "Spatial Ca2+ Distribution in Contracting Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle Cells", Biophys J. 78, 164-173 (2000)
  3. F. E. Hernández, S. Yang, E. W. Van Stryland, and D. J. Hagan, “ High dynamic range cascaded-focus optical limiter”, Opt. Lett. 25, 1180 (2000). (Highlights, Laser Focus World 36, 11 (2000))

 

Patents

  1. F. E. Hernández, and D. Hagan, “Continuously-variable wavelength-independent polarization rotator (CVWI-PR)”, Patented (US-6,476,966 B1) (2002)