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The work in thesis aims at developing an efficient unidirectional Time-Domain technique for modeling the propagation of short and ultra short pulsed optical beams in devices containing dispersive material. The non-paraxial Time-Domain Beam Propagation Method (TD-BPM) has been de…

In this dissertation, I use artworks created by Odilon Redon, Edvard Munch, and Loie Fuller between 1888 and 1905 to address how artists of the Symbolist movement incorporated imagery inspired by the microscope, telescope, and other specialized optical instruments into their wor…