Vahan Senekerimyan
Postdoctoral Scholar
MC 136-93, 34 Moore
Phone: (626) 395-8870
Email: vahan@caltech.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

B.S., Applied Physics, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, 2001
PhD, Physical Chemistry, University of California Irvine, 2007

Research Overview

I am currently working on the development and applications of optical phase conjugation (OPC) in biological media. Being the dominant light interaction process, scattering prevents tissue from being transparent, and scattered light is generally regarded as poor for imaging purposes. This is due to deterioration of the incident light field, caused by disordered amplitude and phase modulation of its wavefront as it propagates through the turbid biological media. Turbidity suppression by optical phase conjugation (TSOPC) in tissues is a new biophotonic phenomenon. This effect allows turning the medium transparent and leads to the development of various biomedical applications, such as tissue density heterogeneity determination useful for abnormal tissue diagnosis, photodynamic therapy, etc.

 

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