Biography

EDUCATION 2011 (Sept) – 2013 (Nov): Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)  PhD. Physics (Optics and Lasers) Title of Thesis: Encoded High Diffraction Efficiency Phase Holograms for Security Applications 2007 (Sept) – 2009 (July): Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)  MSc. Physics (Optics and Lasers) Title of Thesis: Experimental Design for Producing Holograms. 2003 (Apr) – 2007 (Feb): Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (JKUAT)  BSc Control and Instrumentation Title of research: Motor speed control system in an ion charge analyzer. 1998 (Jan) – 2001 (Nov): Mbale Boys’ High School.  Kenya certificate of secondary education (KCSE) 1990 (Feb) – 1997 (Nov): Kakamega Township Primary School, Kakamega.  Kenya certificate of primary education (KCPE)

Research Intrest

Optics and Lasers, Holography, Instrumentation and Control.

List of Publications
C. Fundi Ominde, G. Kihara Rurimo, S. Maina Njoroge, G. Nyauma Nyakoe, P. Mwangi Karimi, D. Mwenda Kinyua, Fringe Analysis and Coding of Holographically Reconstructed Objects for Security Applications, International Journal of Optics and Applications, 2013, 3(5):103-110.
C. Fundi Ominde, S. Maina Njoroge, G. Kihara Rurimo, P. Mwangi Karimi, D. Mwenda Kinyua, G. Nyauma Nyakoe, Optimal Conditions for High Diffraction Efficiency Phase Holograms, International Journal of Optics and Applications, 2013, 3(4):53-58.
Johnston Kalwe, Martin Neugebauer, Calvine Ominde, Gerd Leuchs, Geoffrey Rurimo, Peter Banzer, Exploiting Cellophane Birefringence to generate radially and Azimuthally polarized vector beams, European Journal of Physics, 2015, 36(2)