Faculty Research Booklet
Content
Research Activities
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
A C A D E M I C S • R E S E A R C H • PA R T N E R S H I P S
UCF
www.creol.ucf.edu
2009
CREATING THE FUTURE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS AT UCF CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS
UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INTRODUCTION......................................................................... RESEARCH AT CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS AND PHOTONICS.............................................. CREOL FACULTY/TEAM CONTACT INFORMATION................................................................................ SUMMARY OF CREOL RESEARCH LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES................................................ CREOL BUILDING MAP............................................................................................................................. 1 2 3 4 38
FACULTY – RESEARCH SUMMARIES Dr. Ayman Abouraddy.................................................................................................................................. 10 Dr. Michael Bass......................................................................................................................................... 10 Dr. Glenn D. Boreman................................................................................................................................. 11 Dr. Demetrios Christodoulides.................................................................................................................... 11 Dr. Peter J. Delfyett..................................................................................................................................... 12 Dr. Dennis Deppe........................................................................................................................................ 12 Dr. Aristide Dogariu..................................................................................................................................... 13 Dr. Sasan Fathpour..................................................................................................................................... 13 Dr. Leonid B. Glebov................................................................................................................................... 14 Dr. David J. Hagan...................................................................................................................................... 14 Dr. James E. Harvey.................................................................................................................................... 15 Dr. Aravinda Kar.......................................................................................................................................... 15 Dr. Pieter Kik............................................................................................................................................... 16 Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler............................................................................................................................... 16 Dr. Guifang Li.............................................................................................................................................. 17 Dr. Patrick L. LiKamWa............................................................................................................................... 17 Dr. M. G. “Jim” Moharam............................................................................................................................. 18 Dr. Martin C. Richardson............................................................................................................................. 18 Dr. Nabeel A. Riza....................................................................................................................................... 19 Dr. Bahaa Saleh.......................................................................................................................................... 19 Dr. Winston Schoenfeld.............................................................................................................................. 20 Dr. Axel Schülzgen...................................................................................................................................... 20 Dr. William Silfvast....................................................................................................................................... 21 Dr. M.J. Soileau........................................................................................................................................... 21 Dr. George I. Stegeman.............................................................................................................................. 22 Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland.............................................................................................................................. 22 Dr. Shin-Tson Wu........................................................................................................................................ 23 Dr. Boris Y. Zeldovich.................................................................................................................................. 23 JOINT AND COURTESY APPOINTMENT FACULTY – RESEARCH SUMMARIES Dr. Larry C. Andrews................................................................................................................................... 26 Dr. Kevin D. Belfield.................................................................................................................................... 26 Dr. Louis Chow............................................................................................................................................ 27 Dr. Alfred Ducharme.................................................................................................................................... 27 Dr. Andre Gesquiere.................................................................................................................................... 28 Dr. Florencio Eloy Hernandez..................................................................................................................... 28 Dr. David Kaup............................................................................................................................................ 29 Dr. Michael Leuenberger............................................................................................................................. 29 Dr. Robert E. Peale..................................................................................................................................... 30 Dr. Ronald L. Phillips................................................................................................................................... 30 Dr. Kathleen A. Richardson........................................................................................................................ 31 Dr. Jannick Rolland..................................................................................................................................... 31 Dr. Mubarak A. Shah................................................................................................................................... 32 Dr. Alfons Schulte....................................................................................................................................... 32 Dr. Arthur Weeks......................................................................................................................................... 33 Dr. Cynthia Young....................................................................................................................................... 33 ADDITIONAL TEAM CONTACTS – THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS Dr. James Pearson...................................................................................................................................... 36 Dr. Martin Stickley........................................................................................................................................ 36 Mr. Mark Wagenhauser............................................................................................................................... 37 Ms. Rachel Franzetta.................................................................................................................................. 37 Ms. Denise Whiteside................................................................................................................................... 37
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
The University of Central Florida is one of the most dynamic universities in the country. Offering 223 degree programs, it has become an academic and research leader in numerous fields, including optics and photonics, modeling and simulation, engineering and computer science, business administration, education, science, hospitality management and digital media. UCF’s 1,415-acre main campus provides modern facilities, including a new events arena and a football stadium. The University now has 12 colleges, including the newly established College of Medicine and College of Graduate Studies. In addition, UCF has 10 nationally and internationally recognized research institutes, including CREOL, devoted to research and development. More than 50,000 students attend classes on UCF’s main campus and its 11 regional campuses located throughout Central Florida, making UCF the 6th largest university in the US in total enrollment. UCF recently granted its 171,659th degree in its 39th year of offering classes. With its strong emphasis on leading-edge research as an integral part of education, UCF receives over $120M annually from federal, state and industry partners. With a commitment to mutually beneficial partnerships, including innovative policies on intellectual policy and technology transfer, in 2008 the University of Central Florida joined prestigious research universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the top 10 of the 2008 “Patent Scorecard,” which ranks technology innovations gained from patents. In fact, UCF jumped from 21st to eighth to surpass Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin in the top 10. No other top 10 university realized a greater increase in ranking. The “Patent Scorecard” determines the strength of a university’s patents as measured by how frequently they are cited in subsequent patents. The rankings were published in the September 2008 issue of Intellectual Property Today. UCF also ranked third in the industry impact category, which measures the role a university’s patents play in serving as a foundation for other patents and technologies. The ranking signals Central Florida’s emergence as a key intellectual capital contributor in the US and major component of the Florida High-Tech Corridor and as the new hub for high-tech innovation in the 21st century. More information on UCF and its programs is available on the UCF website at www.ucf.edu. Other useful websites include the following: • • • • UCF Office of Research and Commercialization: www.research.ucf.edu UCF’s award-winning Incubation Program, now with 6 sites including a Photonics Incubator in the CREOL building: www.incubator.ucf.edu/Locations/index.html Listing and links to UCF Research Institutes and Centers: www.research.ucf.edu/Centers Main campus map and directions to the campus: http://campusmap.ucf.edu/flash/index.php
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RESEARCH AT CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS
Formed in 1986 as the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is internationally recognized as one of the top academic and research programs in optics and photonics in the nation. The College is the first program in optics and photonics to have achieved the status of a full College, headed by a Dean. As a graduate college for optical science and engineering education and research, the mission of the College is to: • • • Provide the highest quality education in optical science and engineering Conduct scholarly fundamental and applied research Aid in the development of technology-based industries throughout Florida and the nation.
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Dr. David J. Hagan Assoc. Dean, Academic Programs [email protected] (407) 823-6817
CREOL
The College of Optics & Photonics
The College offers interdisciplinary graduate programs leading to MS and Ph.D. degrees in Optics. CREOL, the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE), and the Townes Laser Institute, are research centers within the College. Through these research centers, the College fulfills its mandate to be an international center of excellence in optics and lasers, in both research and education, and to act as an intellectual, scientific and technical resource to the laser, optics, and photonics industries. The College has grown rapidly and now has 40 faculty members and faculty with joint appointments, 69 research scientists and 146 graduate students with research activities covering all aspects of optics, photonics, and lasers. Research expenditures are ~$20M annually, with ~25% of the funding coming from industrial partners, illustrating the effectiveness of the commitment to partnerships that is a foundational value of the College. The research activities of the College faculty span the spectrum from basic science to prototype development, and the faculty vigorously pursue joint research projects with industry, academia, and government laboratories. The main facilities of the College are housed in a state-of-the-art 104,000 ft2 building dedicated to optics and photonics research and education. A portion of the building functions as the UCF Photonics Incubator, an extension of the award-winning UCF Incubation Program. The College faculty collaborate closely with other UCF research units, including the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC), the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC), the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST), the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), and the UCF College of Medicine. Several College faculty hold joint appointments in these and other UCF departments, which facilitates access to the outstanding facilities in these units and encourages interdisciplinary research. This booklet contains summary information on the research interests of the College faculty along with their contact coordinates and a brief description of the laboratories and research facilities utilized by College researchers and their partners. Additional information is available from the faculty members and from the College’s website: http://www.creol.ucf.edu/ For further information, contact: Dr. Bahaa Saleh Dean and Director [email protected] (407) 882-3326 Dr. James E. Pearson Director, Research & Admin. [email protected] (678) 455-3459
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CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS CONTACT INFORMATION
FACULTY
Dr. Ayman F. Abouraddy Dr. Michael Bass Dr. Glenn D. Boreman Dr. Demetrios Christodoulides Dr. Peter J. Delfyett Dr. Dennis Deppe Dr. Aristide Dogariu Dr. Sasan Fathpour Dr. Leonid B. Glebov Dr. David J. Hagan Dr. James E. Harvey Dr. Aravinda Kar Dr. Pieter Kik Dr. Stephen Kuebler Dr. Guifang Li Dr. Patrick L. LiKamWa Dr. M. G. “Jim” Moharam Dr. Martin C. Richardson Dr. Nabeel A. Riza Dr. Bahaa Saleh Dr. Winston Schoenfeld Dr. Axel Schülzgen Dr. William Silfvast Dr. M.J. Soileau Dr. George I. Stegeman Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland Dr. Shin-Tson Wu Dr. Boris Y. Zeldovich CREOL A116 CREOL 160 CREOL A110 CREOL 210 CREOL 272 CREOL 172 CREOL 116 CREOL A212 CREOL 285 CREOL 208 CREOL 122 CREOL 284 CREOL 270 CH 221 CREOL 278 CREOL 224 CREOL 221 CREOL 126 CREOL 290 CREOL 206 CREOL 232 CREOL A107 CREOL 129 MH 243 CREOL 215 CREOL 271 CREOL 280 CREOL 234 407-823-6809 407-823-6977 407-823-6815 407-882-0074 407-823-6812 407-823-6870 407-823-6839 407-823-6961 407-823-6983 407-823-6817 407-823-6818 407-823-6921 407-823-4622 407-823-3720 407-823-6811 407-823-6816 407-823-6833 407-823-6819 407-823-6829 407-882-3326 407-823-6898 (DEAN) 407-823-1746 407-823-6855 407-823-5538 407-823-6915 407-823-6835 407-823-4763 407-823-6831 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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FACULTY JOINT & COURTESY APPOINTMENTS
Dr. Larry C. Andrews Dr. Kevin D. Belfield Dr. Kurt Busch Dr. Bruce Chai Dr. Louis Chow Dr. Alfred Ducharme Dr. Andre Gesquiere Dr. Steve Guch Dr. Florencio E. Hernandez Dr. Hans Jenssen Dr. Eric Johnson Dr. David Kaup Dr. Michael Leuenberger Dr. Robert E. Peale Dr. Ronald L. Phillips Dr. Kathleen A. Richardson Dr. Jannick Rolland Dr. Alfons Schulte Dr. Mubarak A. Shah Dr. Craig W. Siders Dr. Arthur Weeks Dr. Emil Wolf Dr. Cynthia Young 125 Math & Physics 222 Chemistry Bldg Univ. of Karlsruhe Crystal Photonics 219 Engineering Bldg 118 Engineering Bldg Nanoscience Tech.Ctr. Mount Dora, FL 224 Chemistry Bldg AC Materials UNC Charlotte 202C Math & Physics 12424 Research Pkwy 404 Math & Physics Florida Space Inst. Clemson University Univ. of Rochester 427 Math & Physics 238 Comp. Science Lawrence Livermore 453 Engineering Univ of Rochester Math & Physics 231G 407-823-2418 407-823-1028 49-721-608-6054 407-328-9111 x15 407-823-3666 407-823-0770 407-882-2842 352-735-4259 407-823-0843 727-937-4135 704- 687-8123 407-823-2795 407-882-2846 407-823-5208 407-685-5599 864-656-0549 585-273-4040 407-823-5196 407-823-5077 321-277-7092 407-823-0767 585-275-4397 407-823-5987 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
ADDITIONAL TEAM CONTACTS
Dr. James Pearson Dr. Martin Stickley Mr. Mark Wagenhauser Ms. Rachel Franzetta Ms. Denise Whiteside CREOL 207 CREOL A120 CREOL 109 CREOL 209 CREOL 205 407-451-2199 407-823-6803 407-823-6878 407-823-6986 407-823-6834 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH FACILITIES
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics FPCE and Townes Laser Institute
The research activities of CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics faculty span the spectrum from basic science and physics of optics, photonics, and related phenomena, to prototype development and demonstration of feasibility in applications. The faculty vigorously pursue joint research projects with industry, academia, and government laboratories. The main facilities of the College are housed in a state-of-the-art 104,000 sq. ft. building dedicated to optics and photonics research and education. A sampling of laboratories in this facility is as follows:
• Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) The FPCE was established with a $10 million grant from the State of Florida to create a new center of excellence within The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. The focus of the initial FPCE research and education work is on the technologies of nanophotonics, biophotonics, advanced imaging and 3D displays, and ultra-high bandwidth communications. • Townes Laser Institute (TLI) The TLI was established as a new initiative within the FPCE in 2007 with a $4.5M grant from the State of Florida plus matching funds from UCF for 5 faculty positions and $3M in start-up and infrastructure funds. The primary goal of the TLI is to make UCF the premier institution in advanced laser technology in the United States by providing needed faculty and facilities in laser science and the next generation of laser technologies for medicine, advanced manufacturing tools and defense. The TLI formally got underway in May 2007, when it was dedicated as the Townes Laser Institute, recognizing the inventor of the laser and the maser, Dr Charles Hard Townes, 1964 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Dr. Martin Richardson is the Principal Investigator. • Northrop Grumman EUV Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on X-Ray and EUV optics and sources, X-Ray microscopy, laser-aided material processing, and laser-generated plasmas. Also referred to as the “Laser Plasma Laboratory”, the Laboratory is led by Dr. Martin Richardson. Further information on the work in this lab is available at http://lpl/default. asp?page=research.htm. • Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory, conducting interdisciplinary basic and applied research in novel optical instrumentation for 3D imaging and visualization with an emphasis on head-worn displays that enable mobile applications, physics-based modeling, image analysis, and assessment methodology. Applications include medical research and augmented reality. Led by Dr. Jannick Rolland Director ([email protected], 585-273-4040 ), and co-directed by Dr. Anand Santhanam, Associate Director ([email protected], 407/823-5288), of the UCF-ODALab ([email protected], 407/8235288). Further information on the work in this lab is available at http://www.odalab-spectrum.org • Infrared Systems Laboratory, conducting research on infrared detector and focal-plane analysis, optics of random media, infrared scene projection, and transfer-function techniques. Led by Dr. Glenn Boreman, further information on the work in this lab is available via links from http://ir.optics.ucf.edu/.
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• Ultrafast Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks and laser-induced materials modification. Led by Dr. Peter Delfyett, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://up.creol.ucf.edu/ • Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Matter Laboratory, is focused upon developing and using a broad spectrum of ultrashort (femtosecond to picosecond) tools to study matter on its natural scales. The lab is led by Dr. Martin Richardson. • Optical Design & Image Analysis Laboratory, conducting research on Optical Design and Image Analysis, Simulation and Modeling of Optical Systems, and characterization of optical phenomena. Led by Dr. James Harvey, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://imaging.creol.ucf.edu/. • Nanophotonics Systems Fabrication Laboratory, a 3,000 ft2 multi-user facility containing Class 100 and Class 1000 clean rooms and a Leica 5000+ e-beam lithography instrument capable of 10nm resolution. For information on the Leica instrument, visit http://sharepoint.creol.ucf.edu/ebeam/default.aspx These facilities are used for fabrication and study of nano-structured materials and nanophotonic integrated circuits. The Laboratory is designed and operated as a multi-user facility, with availability to companies and other outside users. Further information on the work in this lab is available by contacting Dr. Patrick LiKamWa, (407)823-6816, [email protected]. • Nonlinear Optics Laboratories, conducting research on a variety of nonlinear optical effects, materials, and devices including nonlinear interactions in waveguides, nonlinear signal processing, optical power limiting, and characterizing materials response at picosecond and nanosecond scales. Led by Drs. Eric Van Stryland and David Hagan, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://nlo.optics.ucf.edu/. • Laser Aided Materials Processing Laboratories, investigating understanding of the interaction of lasers with absorbing and non-absorbing materials, growth, solidification, and plasma effects; laser CVD; laser ablation, laser drilling, cutting, welding; developing process-monitoring and diagnostic techniques. Led by Drs Stephen Kuebler and Martin Richardson, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index.php?URL=faculty/kuebler and http://lpl/default. asp?page=research.htm. • Diffractive and Holographic Optics Laboratory, conducting rigorous analysis, design, and demonstration of diffractive and holographic optical elements, subwavelength grating structures and their applications, E-M theory of grating diffraction, holographic optical information processing and storage, volume holography. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/.http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/default.asp?programID=5 • Photonic Information Processing Systems Laboratory, exploring the principles of optics and information processing for solving important problems in system science relevant to academia, government, and industry. Led by Dr. Nabeel Riza, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://pips.optics.ucf.edu/. • Photonics & Display Laboratories, investigating liquid crystal displays, up-conversion processes in dielectric materials, all-optical 2- and 3-D displays, wearable displays for virtual and augmented reality. Led by Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Jannick Rolland, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/ and at http://odalab.creol.ucf.edu/pages/ research.php. • Laser System Development Laboratories, developing new solid-state lasers, external cavity semiconductor lasers and amplifiers, seeding lasers, laser-induced damage, far infrared semiconductor lasers, high-average-power solid state lasers, semiconductor and solid state volume Bragg lasers, high power laser beam combining, ultra-high-intensity femtosecond lasers, new solid state lasers and materials development (crystals & glasses). Activities in this area are led by Dr. Michael Bass, Dr. Martin Richardson, Dr. Peter Delfyett, and Dr. Leonid Glebov. Further information is available at http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/default. asp?programID=4 • Optical Glass Sciences & Photo-Induced Processing Laboratory, conducting studies of new materials for high-efficiency, robust holographic optical elements; high power laser beam combining, glass spectroscopy, refractometry and interferometry; photo-induced processes in glasses; technology of optical quality and high-purity glasses. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/ Further information on the research areas and the faculty involved in each of them is available on the CREOL website via links from http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/
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CREOL Faculty
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CREOL Faculty
Ayman Abouraddy
Contact
[email protected] (407)823-6809
Assistant Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Boston University, 2003
Michael Bass
Contact
Professor of Optics, Physics & ECE Professor Emeritus of Optics PhD, Physics; University of Michigan 1964
[email protected] 407-823-6977
Research
Multi-material Optical Fiber Devices Group: http://multiOFD.ucf.edu/ Optical fibers • Fabrication of multi-material micro-structured optical fibers • Hollow-core photonic band gap fibers • Optical, thermal, electric, and magnetic sensing using fibers • Fiber nonlinear optics and quantum optics • Two- and three-dimensional fiber sensor arrays • Biomedical applications of optical fibers Quantum optics and quantum information • Quantum entanglement • Optical generation of entangled states • Quantum-enhanced optical sensing and imaging
Research
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Bass Group: http://bass.optics.ucf.edu/ Display Technologies Up-Conversion Processes in Dielectric Materials All-Optical 2- and 3-Dimensional Displays Laser System Development Solid State Laser Design Models for High-Average-Power Solid State Lasers Pump Requirements, Performance Potentials and Limitations • Spray Cooling of Diode Laser Bars • Thermal Management of Diode Laser Array Pump Sources for Solid State Lasers
Other Experience
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Other Experience
• Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2005; Research Scientist 2005-2008, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Activities
• Program committee member for SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing (2009) • Referee for the Journal of the Optical Society B, Optics Letters, Optics Communications, Optics Ex press, Optical Engineering (SPIE), Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review A.
Senior Research Scientist, Raytheon 1966-73 Director, Center for Laser Studies, USC 1977-84 Chair, EE Electrophysics, USC 1984-87 Vice President for Research, UCF 1988-93 Consultantships - including: Los Alamos National Lab, Exxon Nuclear Corp., Naval Weapons Center, Aerospace Corp., Newport Corp.
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Associate Editor, Optics Express • Editor-in-Chief “Handbook of Optics, 2nd Ed” OSA • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA) • Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
• Boston University PUGF (Presidential University Graduate Fellowship), 1997
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Glenn D. Boreman
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6815
Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1984
Demetrios Christodoulides
Provost Distinguished Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1986
Contact
Research
[email protected] 407-822-0074
IR Group: http://ir.optics.ucf.edu/ • Infrared Sensors and Systems – Nano-lithography to extend RF concepts to IR band • Antenna-coupled IR Sensors • Multi-color/polarization IR FPAs • IR Frequency-Selective Surfaces • Tunable IR Signatures • Infrared Targets and Tags • IR Scene Projection • IR Target Projection • Passive and Active IR Tags • Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Technology • Subsurface Mine Detection/Imaging • Antenna-coupled Sensors • Scene Projection
Research
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Non-linear Waves Group Solitonic Gateless Computing Spatial Solitons and their Applications Incoherent Spatial Solitons and their Applications Application of Organic Materials to 3D Optical Circuitry Solitons and Localized Structures in Periodic Optically Nonlinear Systems • Bose-Einstein condensates • Optical spatial Shock Waves • All-Optical Polaron effects in Nonlinear Lattices
Professional Activities
Other Experience
• Visiting Scholar: Imperial College London; Federal Insti tute of Technology (ETH) Zürich; Defense Research Agency (FOI) Sweden; Universidad Complutense Madrid • Consultant, Licensed Professional Engineer • Short Course Development
• Nonlinear Optics Committee IEEE LEOS 2003 • Committee on Photorefractives: CLEO/IQEC 2004 • Program Chair, Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, 2004 (Toronto) • General Chair, Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, 2005
Honors & Awards
Professional Activities
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• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS)
Editor-in-Chief, Applied Optics Co-author of Infrared Detectors & Systems Author of Basic Electro-Optics for EEs Author of Modulation Transfer Function in Optical and Electro-Optical Systems Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, SPIE Fellow, Military Sensing Symposium Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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Honors & Awards
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CREOL Faculty
Peter J. Delfyett
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6812
Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York, 1988
Dennis Deppe
Contact
[email protected] (407)823-6870
FPCE Eminent Scholar Chair of Nanophotonics Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1988
Research
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http://up.creol.ucf.edu/ Fundamental Ultrafast Laser Physics Ultrafast Pulse Semiconductor Lasers Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs Optoelectronic Device Development Quantum Dot Based Semiconductor Devices for Optical Networks High Data Rate Photonic Networks & Systems Optical Clock Distribution, Synchronization, & Recovery Photonic ADC’s and DAC’s DWDM, OTDM and OCDMA Links
Research
NanoPhotonics http://www.optics.ucf.edu/Research/ DirectoryGroup.aspx?GrpID=327 • Semiconductor devices, epitaxial crystal growth, nano-structures, nanophotonics
Other Experience
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Chief Techn. Officer, Nanosource, Inc., 2003-2005 President, Nanosource, Inc., 2001-2003 ECE Department, UT Austin, 1990-2005 Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1988-1990
Other Experience
• Orlando Science Center – Presidential Science Advisory Committee • Research Partnerships: Alcatel- Lucent Technologies Harris Corporation, Raydiance, Inc., Telcordia
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
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President, National Society of Black Physicists OSA – Chair, Public Policy Commitee NAS – Cmte. on Atomic Molecular Optical Science NAE – NIST EEL Review Committee General Chair, CLEO 2006 and LEOS 2005 General Chair, OSA’s Ultrafast Optoelectronics Meeting ‘03-’05 Editor-in-chief, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics • Asso. Editor, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• Guest Editor, IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 1999 • Assoc Editor, IEEE Photonics Letters, 1999-2002 • Technical Program Committees, IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, SPIE Photonics West, IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meeting • 1998 IEEE Semiconductor Laser Workshop Chair • 1997 SPIE Conference Chair on VCSELs • IEEE/LEOS Chair of the Semiconductor Laser Technical Committee, 1999-2002
Honors & Awards
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Honors & Awards
• Fellow, OSA and IEEE LEOS • UCF Pegasus Professor, 2001 • NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers • Black Engineer of the Year, 2000
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IEEE LEOS Engineering Achievement Award, 2003 IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award, 2001-2002 IEEE Fellow, 2000 OSA Fellow, 2000 OSA Nicholas Holonyak Award, 1999 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991 ONR Young Inveestigator Award, 1991 Shell Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1987
CREOL Faculty
Aristide Dogariu
Contact
Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., Engineering; Hokkaido University, Japan 1994 MS, Physics; University of Bucharest, Romania, 1983 Phone: (407) 823-6839 FAX: (407) 823-6880 e-mail: [email protected] http://random.creol.ucf.edu
Sasan Fathpour
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6961
Assistant Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering; University of Michigan, 2005
Research
Research
• Optical physics, waves propagation and scattering, electromagnetism • Optical sensing • Condensed matter and random media characterization • Near field optics • Optical systems analysis, modeling, and design
Other Experience
• Program Chair, “Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging”, OSA, 2009 • General Chair, Topical Meeting “Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging”, OSA, 2007. • Chair biosensing committee, “Topical meeting Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications” OSA 2006. • Chair of Topical Meeting “Photon Correlation and Scattering 2004”, OSA, 2004.
• Energy efficiency in integrated optics Reported two-photon photovoltaic effect in silicon, the first demonstration in any material • Nonlinear optical effects in silicon photonics • Electronic tuning of silicon’s optical properties • Nitride LEDs and lasers for display applications • Demonstrated the highest modulation bandwidth of 25 GHz in self-assembled quantum dot lasers • Demonstrated temperature-invariant operation in any semiconductor laser for the first time • InGaMnAs spintronic light sources and materials • Nitride Heterojunction bipolar transistors
Other Experience
• Senior Member Research Staff, Ostendo Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, 2008 • Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, 2007 • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, 2005-07
Professional Activities
• Division Editor, Applied Optics – Optical Technology • Member OSA Board of Editors • Editorial board: Journal of Holography and Speckle
Professional Activities
• Member, OSA • Member, IEEE-LEOS
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow of American Physical Society • Fellow of Optical Society of America • Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Professorship
• UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research • Featured in the 62nd Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America • International Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000
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CREOL Faculty
Leonid B. Glebov
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6983
Research Professor Ph.D. Physics; State Optical Institute, Leningrad, 1976
David J. Hagan
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics; Associate Dean for Academic Programs Ph.D., Physics; Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-6817
Research
Photo-Induced Processing Lab: http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/ • Optical properties of glasses, photosensitive glasses for hologram recording, nonlinear phenomena including laser-induced damage, holographic optical elements, high power laser systems.
Research
Nonlinear Optics Lab: http://nlo.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics • Develop Ultrasensitive Techniques for Measuring Optical Nonlinearities • Identify Candidate NLO Materials and Thin Films • Developing Tandem and Other Optical Limiting Techniques • Higher Performance Optical Limiters for Sensor Protection • Understanding / Characterizing Materials Response at Picoseconds and Nanoseconds
Other Experience
• Founder, Vice President and CTO of OptiGrate Corporation
Professional Activities
• Member of SPIE, Optical Society of America, American Ceramic Society, Directed Energy Professional Society.
Other Experience
Honors & Awards
• Denis Gabor Award in Holography • Fellow OSA and AmCerSoc
• Member, Center for Occupation Research and Develop ment (CORD) National Photonics Education Working Group. • NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Optics & Lasers. • NSF-funded Greater Orlando GK-12 Partnership
Professional Activities
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Chair, OSA special Publishing Activities Committee OSA Publications Council Principal Editor, MRS Journal of Materials Research Co-chair for NLO, Quantum Electronics Div., OSA Science and Engineering Council
Honors & Awards
• UCF Research Incentive Award • Two UCF Teaching Incentive Awards
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CREOL Faculty
James E. Harvey
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6818
Associate Professor of Optics Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1976
Aravinda Kar
Contact
Professor of Optics & MMAE Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-6921
Research
Imaging Lab: http://imaging.creol.ucf.edu/ Optical Design and Image Analysis Laboratory • Optical Design and Image Analysis of Advanced Optical Systems • Simulation and Modeling of Systems Performance for Unconventional Optical Systems • Image Degradation due to Scattering Effects (Optical Fabrication Errors) • Sparse, Optical Array Configurations • X-Ray/EUV Imaging Systems (Including Multilayers) • Experimental Characterization of Various Optical Phenomena, Materials & Fabrication Processes
Research
Laser Advanced Materials Processing Group • Ultrahigh Temperature Optical Sensing • Novel Erosion Resistant Coating For High Temperature Composites • Nanoscopic Optical Sensors • Laser-Doped Nanostructuring in SiC for Deep Green Light Emitting Diodes • Laser Drilling 170-Micron Diameter Holes • Fabrication of long nanowires for integrated nanode vice fabrication.
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Senior Scientist, Perkin-Elmer Corp. in NASA astronomy programs including the AXAF and FUSE projects.
Professional Activities
• Member, OSA • Board of Directors, SPIE • Designed the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) for the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s current geostationary operational environmental satellite system (GOES).
• Assoc. Director, Univ. of Illinois Center for Laser aided Materials Processing (CLAMP), 1992-94 • Research Partnerships with: Applicote Assoc; Laser Fare; Aerospace Manufacturing Research Center, Univ. of the West of England at Bristol, UK.; Lynntech, Inc.; MicroContinuum, Inc.
Professional Activities
• Memberships: American Society of Metals; Materials Research Society; LIA • Editorial Board Member: Journal of Laser Applications; and Science and Technology of Welding and Joining
Honors & Awards
• Fellow of SPIE, for contributions in areas of surface scatter phenomena and phased telescope arrays. • Three separate papers chosen for reprint in SPIE’s Milestone Series. (on Scalar Diffraction Theory; Adaptive Optics; and Surface Scatter Phenomena)
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Steven M. Kuebler
Contact
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics D. Phil., Chemistry; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1998 [email protected] 407-823-3720
Pieter Kik
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam, 2000 [email protected] 407-823-4622
Research
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Research
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Nanophotonic Materials Group: www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index.php?URL=faculty/kuebler Laser-aided materials processing 3D nano- and microfabrication Fabrication of nanophotonic structures and devices Nonlinear optical materials
http://kik.creol.ucf.edu/ Nanophotonics and Near-field optics Near-field scanning optical microscopy Nanostructured optical waveguides Nanolithography Tunable Plasmon Optical nanosensors for Biochemical detection • Numerical modeling of nanophotonic integrated circuits
Other Experience
• Asst. Staff Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arizona, 2001-2003 • Post-Doctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology, 1998-99
Other Experience
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology, 2001-2003
Professional Activities
• Member, Materials Research Society; American Chemical Society; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Member of the Materials Research Society • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA) • Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
• Marshall Scholar, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK, 1991 • Perry Medal, Tulane University, 1991 • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1993
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Guifang Li
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6811
FPCE Professor of Optics, Physics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of Wisconsin -Madison 1991
Patrick L. LikamWa
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6816
Associate Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of Sheffield, UK, 1987
Research
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Optical Fiber Communications Group http://ofc.optics.ucf.edu/ Self-Pulsing Gain-Coupled DFB Lasers Ultrafast All-Optical Clock Recovery Optical 3R Regeneration Optical Generation of MMW Signals MMW Fiber-Optic Links All-Optical Subcarrier Links and Networks Fiber-Optic Transmission Free-Space Optical Communication Coherent Optical Communication Optical Networking
Research
Multiple Quantum Wells: http://mqw.creol.ucf.edu/patrick/likamwa.html • Optoelectronics • Develop Integrated Optics Devices with Gain Using Resonant, Multiple Quantum Well Structures • Novel semiconductor nanostructures for advanced optoelectronics • Implement Monolithic All-Optical Switching Circuits • Multi-platform integration using multilayer dielectric films for integrated optics and MEMs with semiconductor optoelectronics
Other Experience
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• Co-Founder, Optium Corporation
Other Experience
Professional Activities
Fellow, OSA and SPIE Associate Editor, Optical Networks(2000-2005) IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer (2004-8) Associate Editor, Optics Express (2007- present) Associate Editor, Photonics Technology Letters (2007-present)
• Consulting advisor for NEOS Technologies (1998) • Consultant for Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (1996) • Co-Founder, Optium Corporation(2000)
Professional Activities
Honors & Awards
• Gleason Endowed Chair in Photonics, Rochester Institute of Technology • NSF CAREER Award • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award • UCF TIP Award 2003-4 • UCF RIA Award 2005-6
• Session chair OSA (1995), CLEO (1996), NFOEC, 2003 • Program Committee member for ILS (1997), SPIE Aerosense (1999), CLEO (2005) • Proposal Reviewer (ARO, NSF)
Honors & Awards
• IEEE/LEOS Orlando Chapter Engineer of the Year (1993) • UCF Teacher Incentive Program (1999) • Senior Member IEEE/LEOS
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CREOL Faculty
M.G. “Jim” Moharam
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6833
Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of British Columbia, 1978
Martin C. Richardson
Contact
Northrop Grumman Professor of X-ray Photonics Professor of Optics, Physics and ECE Principal Investigator, Townes Laser Institute Ph.D., Physics; London University, 1967 [email protected] 407-823-6819
Research
Moharam Group: http://moharam.creol.ucf.edu/ • Numerical modeling techniques for the analysis, characterization and design of photonic crystal devices. • Design and Fabrication of Subwavelength Structures • Antireflective Coatings for novel IR materials • USP Laser Applications to Biological Tissues Extreme Semiconductor Based Chirp Pulse Amplification Technology
Research
Professional Activities
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Topical Editor, JOSA-A – Diffraction and Gratings Program Committee SPIE Europe 2004 Session Chair SPIE Europe 2004 Session Chair Diffractive Optics 2003, Oxford, UK
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member IEEE
Laser Plasma Laboratory: http://lpl.creol.ucf.edu/ • Laser System Development • Femtosecond oscillator development • New solid state lasers, materials, pump technology • Solid-state laser systems development • Tunable, High Average Power Cr:LiSrAlF6 Tripled to 290nm - Remote Sensing of CB Agents • Ultra-High-Intensity Femtosecond Pulses • Femtosecond Laser-Aided Materials Processing • Laser-Induced-Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) • LIBS Research and System Development • X-Ray Science and Technology • Biological X-ray Microscopy - Imaging of Invivo Biological Specimens • Physics of Laser Plasmas - EUV Lithography • Plasma & radiation modeling -X-ray sources • Ultra-fast X-ray production; interaction with matter, diffraction studies • X-ray and EUV optics • X-ray Source Development • Laser plasma EUV sources for lithography
Other Experience
• Consultant, Los Alamos National Labs, 1987-90
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE; APS; Program Committee: LEOS • 2003; Directed Energy Consortium (UCF rep.) • Member, Expert Review Panel – Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations, Canadian Govt.
Honors & Awards
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• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member, IEEE
CREOL Faculty
Nabeel A. Riza
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6829
Professor of Optics and Electrical Engineering Ph.D., EE; CALTech (California Institute of Technology), 1989
Bahaa Saleh
Contact
Dean and Director: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics; Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering; Johns Hopkins University, 1971 [email protected] 407-882-3326
Research
• • • • • •
Photonic Information Processing Systems Lab http://pips. optics.ucf.edu/ Photonic control systems for phased arrays Liquid crystal devices Acousto-optic signal processing Optical communications Photonic switching Interferometry
Research
• Quantum optics (photons entanglement and applications in information processing and sensing and imaging) • Nonlinear optics (parametric interactions in photonic microstructures) • Coherence and statistical optics (propagation in random media, noise in optical devices and systems)
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Lead Scientist, General Electric, 1989-95
Professional Activities
• Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University (1994-2007) • Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990-1994)
• Senior Member, IEEE • Vice-Pres, Memberships, IEEE LEOS 2002-2005 • Chair, IEEE LEOS Orlando Chapter and advisor LEOS UCF Student Chapter 1996-2001 • Editor, SPIE Milestone Series Volume on Photonic Control Systems for Phased Array Antennas • Co-Editor, SPIE Milestone Series Volume on Analog Fiber-Optic Links • Expert panel member for organizations including: DARPA, OIDA, NIST, ONR, and NSF, nih, and Netherlands research Organization (NWO)
Professional Activities
• Editor of Journal of Optical Society of America A, 1991-1997. • Founding Editor, Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2008– • Author of Photoelectron Statistics, Springer-Verlag, 1978 • Co-author of Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley, 2nd ed, 2007
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• 2001 International ICO Prize & 2001 Ernst Abbe Medal: Carl Zeiss Foundation, Germany • Fellow, OSA and SPIE • Laser Focus World Technical Writings Commendation Award 2004 • IIT Alumni Assoc. Academic Achievement Award, 1984 • SPIE Student Award,1988 • GE Gold Patent Medal, 1995 • GE-CRD New Start Award for Innovative Research, 1990
• Optical Society of America Distinguised Service Award • 2006 Kuwait Prize for contributions to basic science (optical science). • 2004 International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 2004 BACUS Prize for contributions to photo mask technology. • 1999 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller Award • Fellow IEEE, 1991 • Fellow Optical Society of America, 1982 • Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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CREOL Faculty
Winston V. Schoenfeld
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Materials Science; University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000 [email protected] 407-823-6898
Axel Schülzgen
Contact
Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 1992 [email protected] 407-823-1746
Research
Nano Photonic Device Group: http://npdg.creol.ucf.edu/ • MBE growth of MgCdZnO com¬pounds • MgCdZnO LEDs and Detectors for UV/Visible • Binary cubic oxide semiconductors for solar blind detectors • Quantum teleportation and networks using entanglement of single photons and electron spins in quantum dot systems • Opto-spintronic quantum dot devices • Comprehensive modeling of nanowire emitters (optical and electrical) • Solid state neutron detection and imaging • Smart LED backlighting architectures for AMLCD dis plays in military craft • Radiation effects in quantum dot lasers
Research
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Fiber Optics Lab: http://fol.creol.ucf.edu/ Fiber Laser Devices Fiber Optic Sensors Linear and Nonlinear Light Propagation in Fiber Nanostructured and Functionalized Fiber Design and Fabrication of Specialty Optical Fiber Advanced Optical Materials
Other Experience
• College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1996-2009 • Department of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1995 • Department of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 1991-1995
Other Experience
• President/CEO, Medical Lighting Solutions, 2003-2004 • Device Manager, Uniroyal Optoelectronics, 2000-2003
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
• Principal Editor, Journal of Materials Research • Chair, Florida Chapter of AVS (FL-AVS) • Co-Chair, MOEMS/MEMS Conference – Photonics West • Member: SPIE, MRS, and AVS
• Associate Editor, Applied Optics - Ultrafast lasers and Optics • Member, Optical Society of America • Member, Materials Research Society • Member, German Physical Society
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• UCF Presidential Award – 2006 • Rhines-Tarr Award, University of Florida – 1995
• Habilitation Fellowship, German Research Foundation, 1993 • Carl-Ramsauer-Award, AEG Corporation, 1992 • Heinrich-Gustav-Magnus-Award, Humboldt-University Berlin, 1988
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CREOL Faculty
William Silfvast
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6855
Emeritus Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; University of Utah, 1965
M.J. Soileau
Contact
UCF Vice President for Research & Commercialization and Professor of Optics, ECE and Physics Ph.D., Quantum Electronics; Univ. of Southern California, 1979 [email protected] 407-823-5538
Research
• X-Ray Science and Technology • EUV Lithography and Microscopy • X-ray Theory - X-ray Lasers
Research
Other Experience
• Nonlinear optical properties of materials • Laser-induced damage
• Chair, UCF Dept. of Physics, 1994-1997 • Distinguished Member Technical Staff, ATT-Bell Labs, 1994-1997
Other Experience
Professional Activities
• • • •
Co-Chair CLEO, 1983 Board of Directors, OSA 1986-1992 Program Committee Member, LEOS 1994-2000 Author, Textbook: “Laser Fundamentals,” Cambridge University Press
• Captain, US Air Force, Air Force Weapons Lab Laser Div., 1971 • Physicist, Naval Weapons Center Physics Div, China Lake, CA 1973-1980 • Professor of Physics, North Texas State University, 1980-87 • Director, School of Optics/CREOL, 1987-1999 • Chair of the Board, Orlando Science Center, 2002 • Governing Board, Metro Orlando EDC
Honors & Awards
• • • • •
Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, IEEE Guggenheim Fellow, Stanford University Distinguished Member Technical Staff, ATT-Bell Labs, 1983 • NATO Postdoctoral Fellow • Researcher of the Year, University of Central Florida 2000
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE, OSA, IEEE LEOS, LIA, ASEE, • President, SPIE, 1997 • International Advisory Committee on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2001 • Co-Chair, OSA/SPIE Joint Task Force, 1998-99
Honors & Awards
• • • • • • • •
Director’s Award, SPIE 1999 Fellow, OSA Fellow, IEEE Fellow, SPIE Senior Member, Laser Institute of America Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences Outstanding Engineer Award –State of Florida,’94 Air Force Commendation Medal, 1969
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CREOL Faculty
George I. Stegeman
Contact
Cobb Family Eminent Scholar Chair and Emeritus Professor of Optics, Physics & ECE Ph.D., Physics; University of Toronto 1969 [email protected] 407-823-6915
Eric W. Van Stryland
Contact
Director: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics Professor of Optics and Fellow of the IEEE LEOS Ph.D., Physics; Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1976 [email protected] 407-823-6835
Research
Soliton Group: http://soliton.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics • Develop New Applications of NLO Effects • Investigate Nonlinear Interactions in Waveguides • New materials for Raman Gain • Novel spatial solitons • Discrete optics, linear and nonlinear, solitons • Light at the discrete-continuous medium interface
Research
Other Experience
• Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto • Collaborative Research: OFS Fitel, LLC • Co-PI for European Commission research program on ‘Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing in Engineered Quadratic Nonlinear Waveguides” NSF funded 2001-2004
Nonlinear Optics Lab: http://nlo.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics (NLO) • Develop NLO Spectroscopic Techniques • Develop Ultrasensitive Techniques for Measuring Material Nonlinearities • Identify Candidate NLO Materials and Thin Films • Develop NLO Devices • Characterize NLO Response from Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds • Model and Understand NLO Material
Other Experience
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Professional Activities
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Member, IEEE Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the OSA B Board of Editors, OSA Ives Medal Award committee, OSA 2004 Proposal Reviewer: NSF, DoD, NSERC
Director, School of Optics/CREOL, 1999-2004 Honorary Prof., University of Saint Andrews Visiting Prof. of Physics, Heriot-Watt Univ., 1985 Chairman, Center for Applied Quantum Electronics, U. of North Texas, 1983-86 Member, OSA, IEEE-LEOS, APS, SPIE, MRS Board of Directors, OSA 1998-2001 Co-Chair, OSA Science and Engineering Council Topical Editor, Optics Letters, 1994-98 Senior Member LIA, Board of Governors 1991-93
Professional Activities
• • • • •
Honors & Awards
Cobb Family Chair in Optical Sciences and Engineering Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, American Physical Society Hertzberg Medal for Achievement in Physics R. Woods Prize of the Optical Society of America Researcher of the Year at UCF Twice selected Teacher of the Year by students
Honors & Awards
• • • • •
OSA -President, (2006); Vice President (2004) The Pegasus Award, UCF 2003 Fellow, OSA, SPIE, and IEEE/LEOS Researcher of the Year, UCF 1990 Co-Winner R&D 100 Award, 2001
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CREOL Faculty
Shin-Tson Wu
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-4763
PREP Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; University of Southern California, 1981
Boris Y. Zeldovich
Contact
Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 1969 D. Sc., Optics, Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, 1980 [email protected] 407-823-6831
Research
Liquid Crystal Displays Lab: http://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/ • Investigation of nanoscale LC devices for bio-inspired optics and optometry. • Properties of bacteriorhodopsin and new applications for optical switching, information processing, optical information storage, and adaptive optics. • Dynamic foveated imaging to mimic human vision. • Broadband optical phased arrays for laser beam steer ing and free-space communications • Fast-response and large dynamic range variable optical attenuator for telecom applications • UV stable, high birefringence (Δn>0.4) and low viscos ity liquid crystals for laser beam steering, telecom and display applications • High birefringence & low viscosity dual-freq. LCs • High performance liquid crystals for display applications • Development of new transflective displays with high light efficiency. • New wide viewing angle devices possessing fast re sponse and weak color dispersion for LCD TVs. • Optimization of liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) panel designs for projection displays
Research
Zeldovich Group • Physical Optics and Propagation • Wave Propagation in Multimode Optical Waveguides and Irregularly Inhomogeneous Media • Beam clean-up and combining via nonlinear-optical processes. • Nonlinear Optics, including Liquid Crystals
Other Experience
• Vice President, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. Winter Park, FL • Head of Joint Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, Electro physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Chelyabinsk Technical University, Russia 19871994 • Principal Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow 1981-87 • Lecturer on Nonlinear & Statistical Optics, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology 1969-1987
Other Experience
• Senior Research Scientist, Hughes Research Laboratories 1983-2001
Professional Activities
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• • • •
• Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Display Technology Fellow: IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Prize Hughes Team Achievement Award
• Editorial Board Member, Optics communications; Pure & Applied Optics; Optical and Quantum Electronics; International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials • Topical Editor, Journal of Optical Society of America B
Honors & Awards
• • • •
Max Born Award, OSA 1997 Fellow, OSA Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences USSR State Prize for the discovery of optical phase conjugation, 1983
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CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Creating the Future of Optics and Photonics
CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Larry C. Andrews
Contact
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, UCF ECE & Optics 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics and Photonics Ph.D., Engineering (Applied Mathematics, Mechanics); Michigan State University, 1970 [email protected] 407-823-2418
Kevin D. Belfield
Contact
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry 2º Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph. D. Chemistry, Syracuse University [email protected] (407) 823-1028
Research
• • • • •
Research
• • • • •
Propagation of laser beams through random media Multiple Aperture Coherent Array Systems Photon Spacecraft Laser communications and laser radar Study of Wavelengths for Multi-Spectral Imaging LR
Other Experience
Multiphoton absorbing photonic materials 3D optical data storage and optical switching Probes for multiphoton fluorescence bioimaging Linear and nonlinear photophysics and photochemistry Functional polymeric materials, nanocomposites and nanoparticles • Alternative energy using organic and biomaterials
• Mathematician, Antisubmarine Warfare Operation, Magnavox Co. 1969-72 • Technical Consultant: Lincoln Laboratory; Lockheed Martin Information Systems; Hughes Research Labs; ARGO Systems; Martin-Marietta Corp; NTEC, Human Factors Lab; • Project Consultant, PM TRADE, US Army • Mathematical Modeling Consultant, Army Research Laboratory – White Sands, NM, 1991-96
Other Experience
Professional Activities
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1990-92 • Fellow, Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1991-92 • Senior Research Scientist, Ciba-Geigy, 1988-89 • Associate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, 1996-98 • U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Faculty Fellow, 1997-98
• Member, OSA; SPIE • Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering • Author, Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 2004 • Co-Author, Laser Beam Propagation Through Random Media, SPIE Optical Eng. Press, 1998
Professional Activities
• Chair, Orlando Section of the American Chemical Society, 2009 • Member, ACS, OSA, SPIE, AAAS, CRC
Honors & Awards
• • • •
Fellow, SPIE UCF Teaching Excellence Award 1996-97;2002-03 UCF Professorial Excellence Award 1996-97 Researcher of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences, UCF 1984 • Member, Eta Kappa Nu; Member, Pi Mu Epsilon
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CREOL Faculty Joint & Courtesy
Professor, UCF Mechanical Engineering 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., ME; University of California, Berkeley, 1978 A.B., Physics; University of California, Berkeley, 1972
Louis Chow
Contact
Alfred Ducharme
Contact
Assistant Professor. UCF Engineering Technology Courtesy Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., EE; University of Central Florida, 1994 [email protected] 407-823-0770
[email protected] 407-823-3666
Research
• Heat Transfer Issues in Electro-Optics, Computing and Power Systems • Thermal Control in Aircraft and Spacecraft • Spray Cooling and Thin-Film Evaporation • Thermal Management of Laser Diode Arrays • Miniature Refrigerator • Miniature Cryocooler
Research
• • • •
Applied photonics Infrared Systems Image systems testing Solid-State Lighting
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, UCF, 2003-2004 • Chair, MMAE, UCF, 1995-2000 • Visiting Scientist, AFRL, Dayton 2001-02, 1991-92, 1986-87 • Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA, Houston, 1985 • Senior Engineer, Bechtel Power Corp, SF, 1980
• R&D Manager, Color Kinetics, 1999-2001 • Manager - New Product Development, Visidyne 1996-1999 • Principle Research Scientist, PSI, 1995-1996
Professional Activities
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Coordinator, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology Photonics Program • Executive Director, Florida Photonics Cluster
• Committee on Aerospace Heat Transfer, ASME • Editor, Experimental Heat Transfer • Fellow, ASME • Associate Fellow, AIAA • ASME Best Paper Award, 2001
Honors & Awards
• 1995 SPIE Kingslake Medal
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CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Andre Gesquiere
Contact
Assistant Professor, Nanoscience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry Ph.D. Chemistry; University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2001 [email protected] 407-882-2842
Florencio Eloy Hernandez
Contact
Assistant Professor, UCF Chemistry and Optics 2o Joint Appointment-College of Optics & Photonics D. Sc., Universidad Central de Venezuela & Unversité Franche-Comté,1996 [email protected] 407-823-0843
Research
• Nanoscale Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Energy Conversion • Nanobiology: imaging and biophysical studies • Nanoscience, nanotechnology, the physical chemistry of organic materials, optical and electronic processes in materials for energy conversion, supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly of functional organic materials, scanning probe microscopy, biophysics, and biophotonics.
Research
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index php?URL=hernandez • Physical Chemistry, Nonlinear Optics, Nanotechnology & Material Characterization • Structure-Property Relationships for New Nonlinear Optical Materials with High Photon Absorption CrossSections • Functionalized Metal Nanostructures to Enhance High Order Nonlinear Absorption Processes in Fluoro phores Via SPR • Radiative Decay Engineering on New Hybrid Systems • Development of new highly selective and sensitive biological and chemical sensing systems using metal nanoparticles. • Applying Liquid Crystal’s Optical Properties in Design ing New Optical Devices (Polara )
Other Experience
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology (06/2002 – 07/2005), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas • Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (01/200206/2002), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands • Outreach program of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology
Other Experience
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Visiting Research Scientist, School of Optics/CREOL, 1998-2002 • Postdoctoral Research Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), 1997-99
• Associate Editor, Optics Express • Editor-in-Chief “Handbook of Optics, 2nd Ed” OSA • Fellowship from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (1999-2001) • Fellowship from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (1997-1999)
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Member, OSA ; IEEE; ACS • Member, Societe Francaise D’Optique Member • 2004-American Chemical Society (Orlando Section) Outstanding Chemist Award • 2001-Excellence in Technical Communications Award, Laser Focus World 2001 • 1992-CONICIT-BID Fellowship for Ph.D. in science
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CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Provost Distinguished Research Professor, UCF Department of Mathematics Joint Apppointment - Institute for Simulation & Training 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Physics, Mathematics; University of Maryland, 1967
David Kaup
Michael Leuenberger
Assistant Professor, UCF Physics NanoScience Technology Center Joint Appointment in Optics Ph.D., Theoretical Physics; University of Basel, Switzerland 2002
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-2795
Contact
Research
• • • • • • •
http://math.ucf.edu/~kaup/ Nonlinear Waves and Modeling Soliton Theory Nonlinear Optics Relativistic Non-neutral Plasmas Ionospheric Plasmas Math. Modeling of Group Behavior Modeling with Variational Approximations
[email protected] NanoScience Tech Center 2424 Research Parkway, Suite 428 Orlando, FL 32826 407-882-2846
Research
Other Experience
• Joint Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, Clarkson Univ. 1967-2001 • Consultant, Geo-Radar Technology, Inc. 1992-98 • Consultant, Varian Beverly 1985-1993
• Quantum information: quantum computing, quantum teleportation, and quantum error correction • Quantum mechanics: quantum entanglement and measurement theory • Quantum electrodynamics • Spintronics and opto-spintronics • Nonlinear optical phenomena • Semiconductor physics: quantum dots and quantum wells • Molecular magnets • Quantum many-body physics
Professional Activities
Other Experience
• Member, APS; OSA; AMS; IEEE; SIAM • Conference Chair, SIAM/SIAG “Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures”, Orlando 2004 • Member Scientific Committee for “Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics”, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2004
• Post-Doctoral Research with Michael E. Flatte at the University of Iowa from 2002 to 2004 • Post-Doctoral Research with Lu J. Sham at the University of California San Diego from 2004 to 2005
Professional Activities
• Member, American Physical Society
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CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Robert E. Peale
Contact
Professor, UCF Physics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Physics; Cornell University 1990 [email protected] 407-823-5208
Ronald L. Phillips
Contact
Emeritus UCF Professor of ECE, Mathematics & Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Engineering; Arizona State University 1971 [email protected] 321-452-9834
Research
• • • •
http://phy.physics.ucf.edu/~rep/ Defects In Semiconductors Spectroscopic And Optical Instrumentation Rare-Earth Activated Optical Materials Far-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers Gain , Power, and duty enhancement for the Far-infrared p-GE Laser by Neutron Transmutation Doping • Terahertz Devices: Tunable and Mode-locked p-GE Terahertz Laser • Nuclear Waste Remediation
Research
• • • • • •
http://fsi.ucf.edu/research.html Optical Wave Propagation Through Random Media Laser Beam Propagation Through Atmospheric Turbulence Random Field Theory Detection Theory and Math Modeling Space Communication Systems Laser Communications to a Space Satellite
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Founder, President and CEO, Zaubertek, Inc. • Graduate Coordinator, UCF Physics Dept. 2000-
• Visiting Scholar Faculty, ECE University of California, San Diego 1987-88 • Founding Director for Engineering, CREOL, UCF, 1984-87 • NATO Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, 1977
Professional Activities
• Member, APS; OSA; American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science • Conference Session Chair, SPIE Photonics West, Terahertz spectroscopy and applications, “Direct Detectors of THz radiation,” 1998. • Conference Session Chair, OSA Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Their Applications, “Quantum Cascade and Interband IR Lasers,” 1999. • Session Chair, Gordon Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, “THz spectroscopy,” 2000.
Professional Activities
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Member, IEEE Member, SPIE Member, AIAA Member, OSA President of Florida Section, OSA 1974-75 National Board of Directors, Eta Kappa Nu, 1976-78
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Research Incentive Award, UCF 2002 • NASA/AESS Summer Faculty Fellowship, awarded three times.
• Fellow, SPIE • Researcher of the Year, UCF, 1985 • Outstanding Contributions to Science Medal, American Society of Engineering Education SE Section, 1983 • Professional Excellence Award, UCF 1997 • Faculty Leadership Award, UCF 1997 • Eta Kappa Nu; Phi Kappa Phi Tau Beta Pi
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Joint & Courtesy
Kathleen A. Richardson
Director and Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University Courtesy Appointment, Associate Professor of Optics; UCF College of Optics and Photonics Ph.D., Ceramics, Alfred University, 1992
Jannick Rolland
Professor of Optics and Biomedical Engineering Associate Director R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering, University of Rochester M.S. Diplome Ingenieur SupOptique, France, 1984 Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1990
Contact
[email protected] 864-656-0549
Contact
[email protected] 585-273-4040
Research
Glass Processing and Characterization • Development of new non-oxide glasses for use in integrated optical systems • Computer-automated fabrication of IR optics: Processing and manufacturing issues • Chemo-mechanical planarization of semiconductor materials and photo-induced crystallization processes in glasses for holographic storage, & other apps.
Research
Optical Diagnostics and Applications Lab: http://www.odalab-spectrum.org • Biomedical Optics and 3D Imaging • Optical Coherence Imaging • Image Quality Assessment • Shape Extraction • Curvature Sensor • Free-Form Optics • Aberration theory • Nodal Aberration Theory • Alignment of Optical Systems • Design of Free-form Optics • Virtual Environment and 3D Visualization • Optics Technology for Head-worn Displays • Perception Quantification • Augmented Reality
Other Experience
• Associate Professor of Optics, Chemistry, MMAE, & AMPAC; UCF, 1998-2004 • Manager, R&D Materials, R&D Technology Groups, Schott North America Regional R&D, 2002-03 • Co-PI, NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU) • Coordinator, International US/France REU Program at UCF College of Optics and Photonics, 2004
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
• • • • • • • • • • • • •
• Chair-elect, Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD) of the American Ceramic Society (2004) • Chair, Society of Glass Technology, North America • Program Chair, XIV International Symposium on Non-• • Oxide Glasses. 2004 • Advisory Committees: Society of Glass Technology; 1st International Workshop on Glass and the Photonics Revolution, 2002; XIII International Symposium on Non-Oxide Glasses 2002
Guest Editor, Special Issue of JDT 2008 Associate Editor, Optical Engineering 1999-2004 Associate Editor, Journal of Presence (MIT Press) Program Chair ISMAR ‘04 Program Chair of OFT 2008-2010 Conference Chair ISMAR 2009 Fellow of the SPIE since 2008 Senior Member of IEEE since 2008 Fellow, Optical Society of America since 2004 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award UCF 2004 Distinguished Researcher of the Year 2001 NIH First-Award 1997 ONR Young Investigator Award, 1995-1999
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
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Fellow, Society of Glass Technology, UK Research Incentive Award, UCF 2001 Co-recipient IR-100 Award: 1989 Million Dollar Club (Funding/Yr.), UCF 2000
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Mubarak A. Shah
Contact
Professor, UCF Computer Science Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Computer Science; Wayne State Univ., 1986 [email protected] 407-823-5077
Alfons Schulte
Contact
Professor, UCF Physics & Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Dr. rer. Nat. (Summa Cum Laude) Condensed Matter Physics, Technical University of Munich, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-5196
Research
• • • • • • • • •
http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~vision/ Visual Tracking Night Time Surveillance Human Detection and Tracking Algorithms Contour Based Object Tracking Video Understanding\ Video Registration Video Categorization and Segmentation Video Synthesis Active Contours and Shape from Shading
Research
• • • •
http://www.physics.ucf.edu/faculty_schulte.php Protein Dynamics Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy & Instrumentation Raman and Micro-spectroscopy of Novel Materials Materials Physics, particularly Glasses
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Video Technology Research Staff, Harris Corp. Information Systems Div. 1998-99
• Professor, Dept of Physics, Technical University of Munich, 2001-2002 • Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Illinois- Urbana; Los Alamos National Lab; 1997-98 • Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose 1989-90
Professional Activities
• Project Director, NSF- funded REU Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision 1987-2005 • Director, Computer Vision Lab, UCF • Series Editor, Video Computing, International book Series, Kluwer 2000• Editor-in-Chief, Machine Vision & Applications • Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Professional Activities
• • • • •
Member, American Physical Society Member, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Member, Biophysical Society Member, Society for Applied Spectroscopy Member, OSA
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, IEEE • UCF Research Incentive Award, 2003 • IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997-2000 • Engineering Achievement Award, Harris Corporation Information Systems Div., 1999 • Outstanding Engineering Educator, IEEE 1997 • UCF TIP Award, 1996, 2003
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• UCF Research Incentive Award, 2003 • IBM World Trade Fellowship, 1989-90 • Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Arthur Weeks
Contact
Associate Professor, UCF ECE and Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D. EE, Univ. of Central Florida, 1987 [email protected] 407-823-0767, -5762
Cynthia Young
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-5987
Associate Professor of Mathematics Ph.D., Applied Mathematics; University of Washington, 1996
Research
• • • • • •
Research
http://people.cecs.ucf.edu/weeks/ Biomedical Sensors Patient Monitoring Tele Healthcare Color and Adaptive Image Processing Nonlinear Digital Filters Wireless Computing
Mathematical Modeling of Laser Propagation through Random Media • Developing Analytical Models for Scintillation of Propagating Gaussian Beams • Developing Atmospheric Spectra for the Marine Environment • Laser Communications Systems • Laser Radar Target Identification Systems
Other Experience
• Vice President of Corporate Technology, Invivo Research Inc, Orlando, FL • Vsiting Research Professor, Royal Signal and Radar Establishment, Malvern, England 1987-88 • Senior Engineer, Martin Marietta Aerospace Orlando, FL 1983-86
Other Experience
• Graduate Intern, Kennedy Space Center (1994 and 1995) • Boeing Space and Defense, Summer Faculty Fellow (1997) • Naval Research Laboratory Sabbatical (2005)
Professional Activities
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Consulting: Engineering Technologies, Inc. Navel Air Training System Center, Orlando FL Imath Inc. National Consortium for Technology in Business Chair, Electronic Imaging Working Grp., SPIE Editor, Tutorial Text Series, SPIE, 1998-2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Electronic Imaging: Color Image Processing, SPIE PRESS, 1995-2001
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE • Chair, Atmospheric Propagation (2002 – 2007) • Association of Women Mathematicians
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, SPIE 2007 • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2001)
• TAU BETA PI • ETA KAPPA NU • Nomination, IEEE : Outstanding Engineer of the Year, 1996-97 • Teaching Incentive Award, UCF 1995-96
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Additional Contacts
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Additional Team Contacts
James Pearson
Contact
Director, Research & Administration Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research & Commercialization (ORC) PhD, EE & Physics; California Institute of Technology; 1972 [email protected] office: (678) 455-3459 cell: (407) 451-2199
C. Martin Stickley
Contact
Special Assist. to the VP for Research & Commercialization BSEE, U of Cincinnati, 1957; MSEE, MIT, 1958; PhD EE, Northeastern University, 1964 [email protected] (407) 252-6920
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with corporations and other organizations, including developing and managing the Industrial Affiliates program of The College of Optics and Photonics • Develop and oversee fund-raising activities for The College of Optics and Photonics • Assist with marketing and public relations activities for The College of Optics and Photonics • Manage selected projects for ORC and The College of Optics and Photonics as assigned • Serve as Executive Director for the Florida Photonics Cluster
• Provide guidance to faculty in program and proposal development, especially to agencies of the Department of Defense (e.g. DARPA, ONR)
Other Experience
Professional Activities
• SPIE: Fellows Committee, 2004-2007; Secretary and member of the Board of Directors, 1989, 1993; Executive Director, 1993-1999 • Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives: President, 2001-2002; Board of Directors, 1995-2003 • Florida High Technology and Industry Council, ElectroOptics and Lightwave Subcommittee; Chairman, 19861991 • American Association of Engineering Societies, Board of Directors, 1995-1999. Finance committee; membership committee • Coalition for Photonics and Optics, Secretary, 1996–1999 • Florida Photonics Cluster, Executive Director, 2006-2008
• Two tours at DARPA.. Created and led national efforts on: triggering of nuclear isomers, low energy nuclear reactions, micro-antenna arrays for IR sensing, super high efficiency laser diode arrays, architectural approaches for all-diode high power lasers, 2.8 Å x-ray traveling wave lasers , new solid state laser materials, high transmittance IR optical materials for high power laser windows, and codes for designing and producing silicon ICs with high yield. • First Associate Director of CREOL for Industrial and Government Partnerships; led multi-faculty program to develop phased arrays of coherent sources to overcome laser speckle in lidar systems • Obtained Congressional authorization of the NOVA laser at LLNL as the 1st Director of the Office of Laser Fusion in the US Dept of Energy • Built the first laser in the US Air Force as a 1st Lt (1960) and first identified thermal distortion as cause for high beam divergence in solid state lasers and demonstrated how to correct it
Professional Activities
Honors & Awards
• Fellow & Life Member, SPIE • Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member, IEEE
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• Program committee for multiple IEEE/LEOS and CLEO meetings (1968-1995); Co-Chair, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (1971), IEEE/LEOS VP for Membership in North America (1995), Session Organizer for Directed Energy Prof Society (2007)
Honors & Awards
• Life Fellow, IEEE; Fellow, OSA; Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Meritorious Civilian Service Award; OSD Award for Exceptional Public Service Award at DARPA
CREOL Additional Team Contacts
Mark Wagenhauser
Business Manager
Rachel Franzetta
Senior Admissions Specialist
Contact
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6878
[email protected] 407-823-6986
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Financial Operations; Facilities Management; Management of Administrative Staff
Coordination of Admissions and Academic Program Services
Denise Whiteside
Assistant to the Dean [email protected] 407-823-6834
Contact
Responsibilities
Assistant to the Dean and administrator of The Industrial Affiliates program
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UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA INTRODUCTION......................................................................... RESEARCH AT CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS AND PHOTONICS.............................................. CREOL FACULTY/TEAM CONTACT INFORMATION................................................................................ SUMMARY OF CREOL RESEARCH LABORATORIES AND FACILITIES................................................ CREOL BUILDING MAP............................................................................................................................. 1 2 3 4 38
FACULTY – RESEARCH SUMMARIES Dr. Ayman Abouraddy.................................................................................................................................. 10 Dr. Michael Bass......................................................................................................................................... 10 Dr. Glenn D. Boreman................................................................................................................................. 11 Dr. Demetrios Christodoulides.................................................................................................................... 11 Dr. Peter J. Delfyett..................................................................................................................................... 12 Dr. Dennis Deppe........................................................................................................................................ 12 Dr. Aristide Dogariu..................................................................................................................................... 13 Dr. Sasan Fathpour..................................................................................................................................... 13 Dr. Leonid B. Glebov................................................................................................................................... 14 Dr. David J. Hagan...................................................................................................................................... 14 Dr. James E. Harvey.................................................................................................................................... 15 Dr. Aravinda Kar.......................................................................................................................................... 15 Dr. Pieter Kik............................................................................................................................................... 16 Dr. Stephen M. Kuebler............................................................................................................................... 16 Dr. Guifang Li.............................................................................................................................................. 17 Dr. Patrick L. LiKamWa............................................................................................................................... 17 Dr. M. G. “Jim” Moharam............................................................................................................................. 18 Dr. Martin C. Richardson............................................................................................................................. 18 Dr. Nabeel A. Riza....................................................................................................................................... 19 Dr. Bahaa Saleh.......................................................................................................................................... 19 Dr. Winston Schoenfeld.............................................................................................................................. 20 Dr. Axel Schülzgen...................................................................................................................................... 20 Dr. William Silfvast....................................................................................................................................... 21 Dr. M.J. Soileau........................................................................................................................................... 21 Dr. George I. Stegeman.............................................................................................................................. 22 Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland.............................................................................................................................. 22 Dr. Shin-Tson Wu........................................................................................................................................ 23 Dr. Boris Y. Zeldovich.................................................................................................................................. 23 JOINT AND COURTESY APPOINTMENT FACULTY – RESEARCH SUMMARIES Dr. Larry C. Andrews................................................................................................................................... 26 Dr. Kevin D. Belfield.................................................................................................................................... 26 Dr. Louis Chow............................................................................................................................................ 27 Dr. Alfred Ducharme.................................................................................................................................... 27 Dr. Andre Gesquiere.................................................................................................................................... 28 Dr. Florencio Eloy Hernandez..................................................................................................................... 28 Dr. David Kaup............................................................................................................................................ 29 Dr. Michael Leuenberger............................................................................................................................. 29 Dr. Robert E. Peale..................................................................................................................................... 30 Dr. Ronald L. Phillips................................................................................................................................... 30 Dr. Kathleen A. Richardson........................................................................................................................ 31 Dr. Jannick Rolland..................................................................................................................................... 31 Dr. Mubarak A. Shah................................................................................................................................... 32 Dr. Alfons Schulte....................................................................................................................................... 32 Dr. Arthur Weeks......................................................................................................................................... 33 Dr. Cynthia Young....................................................................................................................................... 33 ADDITIONAL TEAM CONTACTS – THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS Dr. James Pearson...................................................................................................................................... 36 Dr. Martin Stickley........................................................................................................................................ 36 Mr. Mark Wagenhauser............................................................................................................................... 37 Ms. Rachel Franzetta.................................................................................................................................. 37 Ms. Denise Whiteside................................................................................................................................... 37
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA
The University of Central Florida is one of the most dynamic universities in the country. Offering 223 degree programs, it has become an academic and research leader in numerous fields, including optics and photonics, modeling and simulation, engineering and computer science, business administration, education, science, hospitality management and digital media. UCF’s 1,415-acre main campus provides modern facilities, including a new events arena and a football stadium. The University now has 12 colleges, including the newly established College of Medicine and College of Graduate Studies. In addition, UCF has 10 nationally and internationally recognized research institutes, including CREOL, devoted to research and development. More than 50,000 students attend classes on UCF’s main campus and its 11 regional campuses located throughout Central Florida, making UCF the 6th largest university in the US in total enrollment. UCF recently granted its 171,659th degree in its 39th year of offering classes. With its strong emphasis on leading-edge research as an integral part of education, UCF receives over $120M annually from federal, state and industry partners. With a commitment to mutually beneficial partnerships, including innovative policies on intellectual policy and technology transfer, in 2008 the University of Central Florida joined prestigious research universities such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University in the top 10 of the 2008 “Patent Scorecard,” which ranks technology innovations gained from patents. In fact, UCF jumped from 21st to eighth to surpass Harvard University and the University of Wisconsin in the top 10. No other top 10 university realized a greater increase in ranking. The “Patent Scorecard” determines the strength of a university’s patents as measured by how frequently they are cited in subsequent patents. The rankings were published in the September 2008 issue of Intellectual Property Today. UCF also ranked third in the industry impact category, which measures the role a university’s patents play in serving as a foundation for other patents and technologies. The ranking signals Central Florida’s emergence as a key intellectual capital contributor in the US and major component of the Florida High-Tech Corridor and as the new hub for high-tech innovation in the 21st century. More information on UCF and its programs is available on the UCF website at www.ucf.edu. Other useful websites include the following: • • • • UCF Office of Research and Commercialization: www.research.ucf.edu UCF’s award-winning Incubation Program, now with 6 sites including a Photonics Incubator in the CREOL building: www.incubator.ucf.edu/Locations/index.html Listing and links to UCF Research Institutes and Centers: www.research.ucf.edu/Centers Main campus map and directions to the campus: http://campusmap.ucf.edu/flash/index.php
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RESEARCH AT CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS
Formed in 1986 as the Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), CREOL, The College of Optics & Photonics at the University of Central Florida (UCF) is internationally recognized as one of the top academic and research programs in optics and photonics in the nation. The College is the first program in optics and photonics to have achieved the status of a full College, headed by a Dean. As a graduate college for optical science and engineering education and research, the mission of the College is to: • • • Provide the highest quality education in optical science and engineering Conduct scholarly fundamental and applied research Aid in the development of technology-based industries throughout Florida and the nation.
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Dr. David J. Hagan Assoc. Dean, Academic Programs [email protected] (407) 823-6817
CREOL
The College of Optics & Photonics
The College offers interdisciplinary graduate programs leading to MS and Ph.D. degrees in Optics. CREOL, the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE), and the Townes Laser Institute, are research centers within the College. Through these research centers, the College fulfills its mandate to be an international center of excellence in optics and lasers, in both research and education, and to act as an intellectual, scientific and technical resource to the laser, optics, and photonics industries. The College has grown rapidly and now has 40 faculty members and faculty with joint appointments, 69 research scientists and 146 graduate students with research activities covering all aspects of optics, photonics, and lasers. Research expenditures are ~$20M annually, with ~25% of the funding coming from industrial partners, illustrating the effectiveness of the commitment to partnerships that is a foundational value of the College. The research activities of the College faculty span the spectrum from basic science to prototype development, and the faculty vigorously pursue joint research projects with industry, academia, and government laboratories. The main facilities of the College are housed in a state-of-the-art 104,000 ft2 building dedicated to optics and photonics research and education. A portion of the building functions as the UCF Photonics Incubator, an extension of the award-winning UCF Incubation Program. The College faculty collaborate closely with other UCF research units, including the NanoScience Technology Center (NSTC), the Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, the Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC), the Institute for Simulation and Training (IST), the Florida Solar Energy Center (FSEC), and the UCF College of Medicine. Several College faculty hold joint appointments in these and other UCF departments, which facilitates access to the outstanding facilities in these units and encourages interdisciplinary research. This booklet contains summary information on the research interests of the College faculty along with their contact coordinates and a brief description of the laboratories and research facilities utilized by College researchers and their partners. Additional information is available from the faculty members and from the College’s website: http://www.creol.ucf.edu/ For further information, contact: Dr. Bahaa Saleh Dean and Director [email protected] (407) 882-3326 Dr. James E. Pearson Director, Research & Admin. [email protected] (678) 455-3459
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CREOL, THE COLLEGE OF OPTICS & PHOTONICS CONTACT INFORMATION
FACULTY
Dr. Ayman F. Abouraddy Dr. Michael Bass Dr. Glenn D. Boreman Dr. Demetrios Christodoulides Dr. Peter J. Delfyett Dr. Dennis Deppe Dr. Aristide Dogariu Dr. Sasan Fathpour Dr. Leonid B. Glebov Dr. David J. Hagan Dr. James E. Harvey Dr. Aravinda Kar Dr. Pieter Kik Dr. Stephen Kuebler Dr. Guifang Li Dr. Patrick L. LiKamWa Dr. M. G. “Jim” Moharam Dr. Martin C. Richardson Dr. Nabeel A. Riza Dr. Bahaa Saleh Dr. Winston Schoenfeld Dr. Axel Schülzgen Dr. William Silfvast Dr. M.J. Soileau Dr. George I. Stegeman Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland Dr. Shin-Tson Wu Dr. Boris Y. Zeldovich CREOL A116 CREOL 160 CREOL A110 CREOL 210 CREOL 272 CREOL 172 CREOL 116 CREOL A212 CREOL 285 CREOL 208 CREOL 122 CREOL 284 CREOL 270 CH 221 CREOL 278 CREOL 224 CREOL 221 CREOL 126 CREOL 290 CREOL 206 CREOL 232 CREOL A107 CREOL 129 MH 243 CREOL 215 CREOL 271 CREOL 280 CREOL 234 407-823-6809 407-823-6977 407-823-6815 407-882-0074 407-823-6812 407-823-6870 407-823-6839 407-823-6961 407-823-6983 407-823-6817 407-823-6818 407-823-6921 407-823-4622 407-823-3720 407-823-6811 407-823-6816 407-823-6833 407-823-6819 407-823-6829 407-882-3326 407-823-6898 (DEAN) 407-823-1746 407-823-6855 407-823-5538 407-823-6915 407-823-6835 407-823-4763 407-823-6831 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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FACULTY JOINT & COURTESY APPOINTMENTS
Dr. Larry C. Andrews Dr. Kevin D. Belfield Dr. Kurt Busch Dr. Bruce Chai Dr. Louis Chow Dr. Alfred Ducharme Dr. Andre Gesquiere Dr. Steve Guch Dr. Florencio E. Hernandez Dr. Hans Jenssen Dr. Eric Johnson Dr. David Kaup Dr. Michael Leuenberger Dr. Robert E. Peale Dr. Ronald L. Phillips Dr. Kathleen A. Richardson Dr. Jannick Rolland Dr. Alfons Schulte Dr. Mubarak A. Shah Dr. Craig W. Siders Dr. Arthur Weeks Dr. Emil Wolf Dr. Cynthia Young 125 Math & Physics 222 Chemistry Bldg Univ. of Karlsruhe Crystal Photonics 219 Engineering Bldg 118 Engineering Bldg Nanoscience Tech.Ctr. Mount Dora, FL 224 Chemistry Bldg AC Materials UNC Charlotte 202C Math & Physics 12424 Research Pkwy 404 Math & Physics Florida Space Inst. Clemson University Univ. of Rochester 427 Math & Physics 238 Comp. Science Lawrence Livermore 453 Engineering Univ of Rochester Math & Physics 231G 407-823-2418 407-823-1028 49-721-608-6054 407-328-9111 x15 407-823-3666 407-823-0770 407-882-2842 352-735-4259 407-823-0843 727-937-4135 704- 687-8123 407-823-2795 407-882-2846 407-823-5208 407-685-5599 864-656-0549 585-273-4040 407-823-5196 407-823-5077 321-277-7092 407-823-0767 585-275-4397 407-823-5987 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
ADDITIONAL TEAM CONTACTS
Dr. James Pearson Dr. Martin Stickley Mr. Mark Wagenhauser Ms. Rachel Franzetta Ms. Denise Whiteside CREOL 207 CREOL A120 CREOL 109 CREOL 209 CREOL 205 407-451-2199 407-823-6803 407-823-6878 407-823-6986 407-823-6834 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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LABORATORIES AND RESEARCH FACILITIES
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics FPCE and Townes Laser Institute
The research activities of CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics faculty span the spectrum from basic science and physics of optics, photonics, and related phenomena, to prototype development and demonstration of feasibility in applications. The faculty vigorously pursue joint research projects with industry, academia, and government laboratories. The main facilities of the College are housed in a state-of-the-art 104,000 sq. ft. building dedicated to optics and photonics research and education. A sampling of laboratories in this facility is as follows:
• Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) The FPCE was established with a $10 million grant from the State of Florida to create a new center of excellence within The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida. The focus of the initial FPCE research and education work is on the technologies of nanophotonics, biophotonics, advanced imaging and 3D displays, and ultra-high bandwidth communications. • Townes Laser Institute (TLI) The TLI was established as a new initiative within the FPCE in 2007 with a $4.5M grant from the State of Florida plus matching funds from UCF for 5 faculty positions and $3M in start-up and infrastructure funds. The primary goal of the TLI is to make UCF the premier institution in advanced laser technology in the United States by providing needed faculty and facilities in laser science and the next generation of laser technologies for medicine, advanced manufacturing tools and defense. The TLI formally got underway in May 2007, when it was dedicated as the Townes Laser Institute, recognizing the inventor of the laser and the maser, Dr Charles Hard Townes, 1964 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Dr. Martin Richardson is the Principal Investigator. • Northrop Grumman EUV Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on X-Ray and EUV optics and sources, X-Ray microscopy, laser-aided material processing, and laser-generated plasmas. Also referred to as the “Laser Plasma Laboratory”, the Laboratory is led by Dr. Martin Richardson. Further information on the work in this lab is available at http://lpl/default. asp?page=research.htm. • Optical Diagnostics and Applications Laboratory, conducting interdisciplinary basic and applied research in novel optical instrumentation for 3D imaging and visualization with an emphasis on head-worn displays that enable mobile applications, physics-based modeling, image analysis, and assessment methodology. Applications include medical research and augmented reality. Led by Dr. Jannick Rolland Director ([email protected], 585-273-4040 ), and co-directed by Dr. Anand Santhanam, Associate Director ([email protected], 407/823-5288), of the UCF-ODALab ([email protected], 407/8235288). Further information on the work in this lab is available at http://www.odalab-spectrum.org • Infrared Systems Laboratory, conducting research on infrared detector and focal-plane analysis, optics of random media, infrared scene projection, and transfer-function techniques. Led by Dr. Glenn Boreman, further information on the work in this lab is available via links from http://ir.optics.ucf.edu/.
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• Ultrafast Photonics Laboratory, conducting research on ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks and laser-induced materials modification. Led by Dr. Peter Delfyett, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://up.creol.ucf.edu/ • Ultrafast Structural Dynamics of Matter Laboratory, is focused upon developing and using a broad spectrum of ultrashort (femtosecond to picosecond) tools to study matter on its natural scales. The lab is led by Dr. Martin Richardson. • Optical Design & Image Analysis Laboratory, conducting research on Optical Design and Image Analysis, Simulation and Modeling of Optical Systems, and characterization of optical phenomena. Led by Dr. James Harvey, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://imaging.creol.ucf.edu/. • Nanophotonics Systems Fabrication Laboratory, a 3,000 ft2 multi-user facility containing Class 100 and Class 1000 clean rooms and a Leica 5000+ e-beam lithography instrument capable of 10nm resolution. For information on the Leica instrument, visit http://sharepoint.creol.ucf.edu/ebeam/default.aspx These facilities are used for fabrication and study of nano-structured materials and nanophotonic integrated circuits. The Laboratory is designed and operated as a multi-user facility, with availability to companies and other outside users. Further information on the work in this lab is available by contacting Dr. Patrick LiKamWa, (407)823-6816, [email protected]. • Nonlinear Optics Laboratories, conducting research on a variety of nonlinear optical effects, materials, and devices including nonlinear interactions in waveguides, nonlinear signal processing, optical power limiting, and characterizing materials response at picosecond and nanosecond scales. Led by Drs. Eric Van Stryland and David Hagan, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://nlo.optics.ucf.edu/. • Laser Aided Materials Processing Laboratories, investigating understanding of the interaction of lasers with absorbing and non-absorbing materials, growth, solidification, and plasma effects; laser CVD; laser ablation, laser drilling, cutting, welding; developing process-monitoring and diagnostic techniques. Led by Drs Stephen Kuebler and Martin Richardson, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index.php?URL=faculty/kuebler and http://lpl/default. asp?page=research.htm. • Diffractive and Holographic Optics Laboratory, conducting rigorous analysis, design, and demonstration of diffractive and holographic optical elements, subwavelength grating structures and their applications, E-M theory of grating diffraction, holographic optical information processing and storage, volume holography. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/.http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/default.asp?programID=5 • Photonic Information Processing Systems Laboratory, exploring the principles of optics and information processing for solving important problems in system science relevant to academia, government, and industry. Led by Dr. Nabeel Riza, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://pips.optics.ucf.edu/. • Photonics & Display Laboratories, investigating liquid crystal displays, up-conversion processes in dielectric materials, all-optical 2- and 3-D displays, wearable displays for virtual and augmented reality. Led by Dr. Shin-Tson Wu and Dr. Jannick Rolland, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/ and at http://odalab.creol.ucf.edu/pages/ research.php. • Laser System Development Laboratories, developing new solid-state lasers, external cavity semiconductor lasers and amplifiers, seeding lasers, laser-induced damage, far infrared semiconductor lasers, high-average-power solid state lasers, semiconductor and solid state volume Bragg lasers, high power laser beam combining, ultra-high-intensity femtosecond lasers, new solid state lasers and materials development (crystals & glasses). Activities in this area are led by Dr. Michael Bass, Dr. Martin Richardson, Dr. Peter Delfyett, and Dr. Leonid Glebov. Further information is available at http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/default. asp?programID=4 • Optical Glass Sciences & Photo-Induced Processing Laboratory, conducting studies of new materials for high-efficiency, robust holographic optical elements; high power laser beam combining, glass spectroscopy, refractometry and interferometry; photo-induced processes in glasses; technology of optical quality and high-purity glasses. Led by Dr. Leonid Glebov, further information on the work in this lab is available at http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/ Further information on the research areas and the faculty involved in each of them is available on the CREOL website via links from http://www.creol.ucf.edu/research/
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CREOL Faculty
Creating the Future of Optics and Photonics
CREOL Faculty
Ayman Abouraddy
Contact
[email protected] (407)823-6809
Assistant Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Boston University, 2003
Michael Bass
Contact
Professor of Optics, Physics & ECE Professor Emeritus of Optics PhD, Physics; University of Michigan 1964
[email protected] 407-823-6977
Research
Multi-material Optical Fiber Devices Group: http://multiOFD.ucf.edu/ Optical fibers • Fabrication of multi-material micro-structured optical fibers • Hollow-core photonic band gap fibers • Optical, thermal, electric, and magnetic sensing using fibers • Fiber nonlinear optics and quantum optics • Two- and three-dimensional fiber sensor arrays • Biomedical applications of optical fibers Quantum optics and quantum information • Quantum entanglement • Optical generation of entangled states • Quantum-enhanced optical sensing and imaging
Research
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Bass Group: http://bass.optics.ucf.edu/ Display Technologies Up-Conversion Processes in Dielectric Materials All-Optical 2- and 3-Dimensional Displays Laser System Development Solid State Laser Design Models for High-Average-Power Solid State Lasers Pump Requirements, Performance Potentials and Limitations • Spray Cooling of Diode Laser Bars • Thermal Management of Diode Laser Array Pump Sources for Solid State Lasers
Other Experience
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Other Experience
• Postdoctoral Fellow 2003-2005; Research Scientist 2005-2008, Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Professional Activities
• Program committee member for SPIE Defense, Security + Sensing (2009) • Referee for the Journal of the Optical Society B, Optics Letters, Optics Communications, Optics Ex press, Optical Engineering (SPIE), Physical Review Letters, and Physical Review A.
Senior Research Scientist, Raytheon 1966-73 Director, Center for Laser Studies, USC 1977-84 Chair, EE Electrophysics, USC 1984-87 Vice President for Research, UCF 1988-93 Consultantships - including: Los Alamos National Lab, Exxon Nuclear Corp., Naval Weapons Center, Aerospace Corp., Newport Corp.
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Associate Editor, Optics Express • Editor-in-Chief “Handbook of Optics, 2nd Ed” OSA • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA) • Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
• Boston University PUGF (Presidential University Graduate Fellowship), 1997
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Glenn D. Boreman
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6815
Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1984
Demetrios Christodoulides
Provost Distinguished Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, 1986
Contact
Research
[email protected] 407-822-0074
IR Group: http://ir.optics.ucf.edu/ • Infrared Sensors and Systems – Nano-lithography to extend RF concepts to IR band • Antenna-coupled IR Sensors • Multi-color/polarization IR FPAs • IR Frequency-Selective Surfaces • Tunable IR Signatures • Infrared Targets and Tags • IR Scene Projection • IR Target Projection • Passive and Active IR Tags • Millimeter-wave and Terahertz Technology • Subsurface Mine Detection/Imaging • Antenna-coupled Sensors • Scene Projection
Research
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Non-linear Waves Group Solitonic Gateless Computing Spatial Solitons and their Applications Incoherent Spatial Solitons and their Applications Application of Organic Materials to 3D Optical Circuitry Solitons and Localized Structures in Periodic Optically Nonlinear Systems • Bose-Einstein condensates • Optical spatial Shock Waves • All-Optical Polaron effects in Nonlinear Lattices
Professional Activities
Other Experience
• Visiting Scholar: Imperial College London; Federal Insti tute of Technology (ETH) Zürich; Defense Research Agency (FOI) Sweden; Universidad Complutense Madrid • Consultant, Licensed Professional Engineer • Short Course Development
• Nonlinear Optics Committee IEEE LEOS 2003 • Committee on Photorefractives: CLEO/IQEC 2004 • Program Chair, Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, 2004 (Toronto) • General Chair, Nonlinear Guided Waves and their Applications, 2005
Honors & Awards
Professional Activities
• • • •
• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Fellow, American Physical Society (APS)
Editor-in-Chief, Applied Optics Co-author of Infrared Detectors & Systems Author of Basic Electro-Optics for EEs Author of Modulation Transfer Function in Optical and Electro-Optical Systems Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, SPIE Fellow, Military Sensing Symposium Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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Honors & Awards
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CREOL Faculty
Peter J. Delfyett
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6812
Trustee Chair Professor of Optics, EE & Physics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, City University of New York, 1988
Dennis Deppe
Contact
[email protected] (407)823-6870
FPCE Eminent Scholar Chair of Nanophotonics Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1988
Research
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http://up.creol.ucf.edu/ Fundamental Ultrafast Laser Physics Ultrafast Pulse Semiconductor Lasers Stabilized Optical Frequency Combs Optoelectronic Device Development Quantum Dot Based Semiconductor Devices for Optical Networks High Data Rate Photonic Networks & Systems Optical Clock Distribution, Synchronization, & Recovery Photonic ADC’s and DAC’s DWDM, OTDM and OCDMA Links
Research
NanoPhotonics http://www.optics.ucf.edu/Research/ DirectoryGroup.aspx?GrpID=327 • Semiconductor devices, epitaxial crystal growth, nano-structures, nanophotonics
Other Experience
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Chief Techn. Officer, Nanosource, Inc., 2003-2005 President, Nanosource, Inc., 2001-2003 ECE Department, UT Austin, 1990-2005 Member of Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Laboratories, 1988-1990
Other Experience
• Orlando Science Center – Presidential Science Advisory Committee • Research Partnerships: Alcatel- Lucent Technologies Harris Corporation, Raydiance, Inc., Telcordia
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
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President, National Society of Black Physicists OSA – Chair, Public Policy Commitee NAS – Cmte. on Atomic Molecular Optical Science NAE – NIST EEL Review Committee General Chair, CLEO 2006 and LEOS 2005 General Chair, OSA’s Ultrafast Optoelectronics Meeting ‘03-’05 Editor-in-chief, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics • Asso. Editor, IEEE Photonics Technology Letters
• Guest Editor, IEEE J. Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 1999 • Assoc Editor, IEEE Photonics Letters, 1999-2002 • Technical Program Committees, IEEE LEOS Annual Meeting, SPIE Photonics West, IEEE LEOS Summer Topical Meeting • 1998 IEEE Semiconductor Laser Workshop Chair • 1997 SPIE Conference Chair on VCSELs • IEEE/LEOS Chair of the Semiconductor Laser Technical Committee, 1999-2002
Honors & Awards
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Honors & Awards
• Fellow, OSA and IEEE LEOS • UCF Pegasus Professor, 2001 • NSF Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers • Black Engineer of the Year, 2000
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IEEE LEOS Engineering Achievement Award, 2003 IEEE LEOS Distinguished Lecturer Award, 2001-2002 IEEE Fellow, 2000 OSA Fellow, 2000 OSA Nicholas Holonyak Award, 1999 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1991 ONR Young Inveestigator Award, 1991 Shell Graduate Fellowship, 1985-1987
CREOL Faculty
Aristide Dogariu
Contact
Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., Engineering; Hokkaido University, Japan 1994 MS, Physics; University of Bucharest, Romania, 1983 Phone: (407) 823-6839 FAX: (407) 823-6880 e-mail: [email protected] http://random.creol.ucf.edu
Sasan Fathpour
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6961
Assistant Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering; University of Michigan, 2005
Research
Research
• Optical physics, waves propagation and scattering, electromagnetism • Optical sensing • Condensed matter and random media characterization • Near field optics • Optical systems analysis, modeling, and design
Other Experience
• Program Chair, “Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging”, OSA, 2009 • General Chair, Topical Meeting “Computational Optical Sensing and Imaging”, OSA, 2007. • Chair biosensing committee, “Topical meeting Coherent Optical Technologies and Applications” OSA 2006. • Chair of Topical Meeting “Photon Correlation and Scattering 2004”, OSA, 2004.
• Energy efficiency in integrated optics Reported two-photon photovoltaic effect in silicon, the first demonstration in any material • Nonlinear optical effects in silicon photonics • Electronic tuning of silicon’s optical properties • Nitride LEDs and lasers for display applications • Demonstrated the highest modulation bandwidth of 25 GHz in self-assembled quantum dot lasers • Demonstrated temperature-invariant operation in any semiconductor laser for the first time • InGaMnAs spintronic light sources and materials • Nitride Heterojunction bipolar transistors
Other Experience
• Senior Member Research Staff, Ostendo Technologies, Carlsbad, CA, 2008 • Visiting Assistant Professor, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, 2007 • Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA, 2005-07
Professional Activities
• Division Editor, Applied Optics – Optical Technology • Member OSA Board of Editors • Editorial board: Journal of Holography and Speckle
Professional Activities
• Member, OSA • Member, IEEE-LEOS
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow of American Physical Society • Fellow of Optical Society of America • Florida Photonics Center of Excellence Professorship
• UCLA Chancellor’s Award for Postdoctoral Research • Featured in the 62nd Edition of Marquis Who’s Who in America • International Graduate Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2000
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CREOL Faculty
Leonid B. Glebov
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6983
Research Professor Ph.D. Physics; State Optical Institute, Leningrad, 1976
David J. Hagan
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics; Associate Dean for Academic Programs Ph.D., Physics; Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-6817
Research
Photo-Induced Processing Lab: http://ppl.creol.ucf.edu/ • Optical properties of glasses, photosensitive glasses for hologram recording, nonlinear phenomena including laser-induced damage, holographic optical elements, high power laser systems.
Research
Nonlinear Optics Lab: http://nlo.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics • Develop Ultrasensitive Techniques for Measuring Optical Nonlinearities • Identify Candidate NLO Materials and Thin Films • Developing Tandem and Other Optical Limiting Techniques • Higher Performance Optical Limiters for Sensor Protection • Understanding / Characterizing Materials Response at Picoseconds and Nanoseconds
Other Experience
• Founder, Vice President and CTO of OptiGrate Corporation
Professional Activities
• Member of SPIE, Optical Society of America, American Ceramic Society, Directed Energy Professional Society.
Other Experience
Honors & Awards
• Denis Gabor Award in Holography • Fellow OSA and AmCerSoc
• Member, Center for Occupation Research and Develop ment (CORD) National Photonics Education Working Group. • NSF funded Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in Optics & Lasers. • NSF-funded Greater Orlando GK-12 Partnership
Professional Activities
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Chair, OSA special Publishing Activities Committee OSA Publications Council Principal Editor, MRS Journal of Materials Research Co-chair for NLO, Quantum Electronics Div., OSA Science and Engineering Council
Honors & Awards
• UCF Research Incentive Award • Two UCF Teaching Incentive Awards
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CREOL Faculty
James E. Harvey
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6818
Associate Professor of Optics Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1976
Aravinda Kar
Contact
Professor of Optics & MMAE Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering; University of Illinois at Urbana, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-6921
Research
Imaging Lab: http://imaging.creol.ucf.edu/ Optical Design and Image Analysis Laboratory • Optical Design and Image Analysis of Advanced Optical Systems • Simulation and Modeling of Systems Performance for Unconventional Optical Systems • Image Degradation due to Scattering Effects (Optical Fabrication Errors) • Sparse, Optical Array Configurations • X-Ray/EUV Imaging Systems (Including Multilayers) • Experimental Characterization of Various Optical Phenomena, Materials & Fabrication Processes
Research
Laser Advanced Materials Processing Group • Ultrahigh Temperature Optical Sensing • Novel Erosion Resistant Coating For High Temperature Composites • Nanoscopic Optical Sensors • Laser-Doped Nanostructuring in SiC for Deep Green Light Emitting Diodes • Laser Drilling 170-Micron Diameter Holes • Fabrication of long nanowires for integrated nanode vice fabrication.
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Senior Scientist, Perkin-Elmer Corp. in NASA astronomy programs including the AXAF and FUSE projects.
Professional Activities
• Member, OSA • Board of Directors, SPIE • Designed the Solar X-Ray Imager (SXI) for the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s current geostationary operational environmental satellite system (GOES).
• Assoc. Director, Univ. of Illinois Center for Laser aided Materials Processing (CLAMP), 1992-94 • Research Partnerships with: Applicote Assoc; Laser Fare; Aerospace Manufacturing Research Center, Univ. of the West of England at Bristol, UK.; Lynntech, Inc.; MicroContinuum, Inc.
Professional Activities
• Memberships: American Society of Metals; Materials Research Society; LIA • Editorial Board Member: Journal of Laser Applications; and Science and Technology of Welding and Joining
Honors & Awards
• Fellow of SPIE, for contributions in areas of surface scatter phenomena and phased telescope arrays. • Three separate papers chosen for reprint in SPIE’s Milestone Series. (on Scalar Diffraction Theory; Adaptive Optics; and Surface Scatter Phenomena)
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Steven M. Kuebler
Contact
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics D. Phil., Chemistry; University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 1998 [email protected] 407-823-3720
Pieter Kik
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics (AMOLF), Amsterdam, 2000 [email protected] 407-823-4622
Research
• • • •
Research
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Nanophotonic Materials Group: www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index.php?URL=faculty/kuebler Laser-aided materials processing 3D nano- and microfabrication Fabrication of nanophotonic structures and devices Nonlinear optical materials
http://kik.creol.ucf.edu/ Nanophotonics and Near-field optics Near-field scanning optical microscopy Nanostructured optical waveguides Nanolithography Tunable Plasmon Optical nanosensors for Biochemical detection • Numerical modeling of nanophotonic integrated circuits
Other Experience
• Asst. Staff Scientist, Dept. of Chemistry, University of Arizona, 2001-2003 • Post-Doctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology, 1998-99
Other Experience
• Post-Doctoral Researcher, California Institute of Technology, 2001-2003
Professional Activities
• Member, Materials Research Society; American Chemical Society; Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Member of the Materials Research Society • Fellow, Optical Society of America (OSA) • Fellow, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Honors & Awards
• Marshall Scholar, The Association of Commonwealth Universities, UK, 1991 • Perry Medal, Tulane University, 1991 • NSF Graduate Fellowship, 1993
• Fellow, Laser Institute of America
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CREOL Faculty
Guifang Li
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6811
FPCE Professor of Optics, Physics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of Wisconsin -Madison 1991
Patrick L. LikamWa
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6816
Associate Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of Sheffield, UK, 1987
Research
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Optical Fiber Communications Group http://ofc.optics.ucf.edu/ Self-Pulsing Gain-Coupled DFB Lasers Ultrafast All-Optical Clock Recovery Optical 3R Regeneration Optical Generation of MMW Signals MMW Fiber-Optic Links All-Optical Subcarrier Links and Networks Fiber-Optic Transmission Free-Space Optical Communication Coherent Optical Communication Optical Networking
Research
Multiple Quantum Wells: http://mqw.creol.ucf.edu/patrick/likamwa.html • Optoelectronics • Develop Integrated Optics Devices with Gain Using Resonant, Multiple Quantum Well Structures • Novel semiconductor nanostructures for advanced optoelectronics • Implement Monolithic All-Optical Switching Circuits • Multi-platform integration using multilayer dielectric films for integrated optics and MEMs with semiconductor optoelectronics
Other Experience
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• Co-Founder, Optium Corporation
Other Experience
Professional Activities
Fellow, OSA and SPIE Associate Editor, Optical Networks(2000-2005) IEEE EDS Distinguished Lecturer (2004-8) Associate Editor, Optics Express (2007- present) Associate Editor, Photonics Technology Letters (2007-present)
• Consulting advisor for NEOS Technologies (1998) • Consultant for Imaging Diagnostic Systems, Inc. (1996) • Co-Founder, Optium Corporation(2000)
Professional Activities
Honors & Awards
• Gleason Endowed Chair in Photonics, Rochester Institute of Technology • NSF CAREER Award • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award • UCF TIP Award 2003-4 • UCF RIA Award 2005-6
• Session chair OSA (1995), CLEO (1996), NFOEC, 2003 • Program Committee member for ILS (1997), SPIE Aerosense (1999), CLEO (2005) • Proposal Reviewer (ARO, NSF)
Honors & Awards
• IEEE/LEOS Orlando Chapter Engineer of the Year (1993) • UCF Teacher Incentive Program (1999) • Senior Member IEEE/LEOS
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CREOL Faculty
M.G. “Jim” Moharam
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6833
Professor of Optics and ECE Ph.D., EE; University of British Columbia, 1978
Martin C. Richardson
Contact
Northrop Grumman Professor of X-ray Photonics Professor of Optics, Physics and ECE Principal Investigator, Townes Laser Institute Ph.D., Physics; London University, 1967 [email protected] 407-823-6819
Research
Moharam Group: http://moharam.creol.ucf.edu/ • Numerical modeling techniques for the analysis, characterization and design of photonic crystal devices. • Design and Fabrication of Subwavelength Structures • Antireflective Coatings for novel IR materials • USP Laser Applications to Biological Tissues Extreme Semiconductor Based Chirp Pulse Amplification Technology
Research
Professional Activities
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Topical Editor, JOSA-A – Diffraction and Gratings Program Committee SPIE Europe 2004 Session Chair SPIE Europe 2004 Session Chair Diffractive Optics 2003, Oxford, UK
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member IEEE
Laser Plasma Laboratory: http://lpl.creol.ucf.edu/ • Laser System Development • Femtosecond oscillator development • New solid state lasers, materials, pump technology • Solid-state laser systems development • Tunable, High Average Power Cr:LiSrAlF6 Tripled to 290nm - Remote Sensing of CB Agents • Ultra-High-Intensity Femtosecond Pulses • Femtosecond Laser-Aided Materials Processing • Laser-Induced-Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) • LIBS Research and System Development • X-Ray Science and Technology • Biological X-ray Microscopy - Imaging of Invivo Biological Specimens • Physics of Laser Plasmas - EUV Lithography • Plasma & radiation modeling -X-ray sources • Ultra-fast X-ray production; interaction with matter, diffraction studies • X-ray and EUV optics • X-ray Source Development • Laser plasma EUV sources for lithography
Other Experience
• Consultant, Los Alamos National Labs, 1987-90
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE; APS; Program Committee: LEOS • 2003; Directed Energy Consortium (UCF rep.) • Member, Expert Review Panel – Canadian Institute for Photonic Innovations, Canadian Govt.
Honors & Awards
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• Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member, IEEE
CREOL Faculty
Nabeel A. Riza
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6829
Professor of Optics and Electrical Engineering Ph.D., EE; CALTech (California Institute of Technology), 1989
Bahaa Saleh
Contact
Dean and Director: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics; Professor of Optics Ph.D., Electrical Engineering; Johns Hopkins University, 1971 [email protected] 407-882-3326
Research
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Photonic Information Processing Systems Lab http://pips. optics.ucf.edu/ Photonic control systems for phased arrays Liquid crystal devices Acousto-optic signal processing Optical communications Photonic switching Interferometry
Research
• Quantum optics (photons entanglement and applications in information processing and sensing and imaging) • Nonlinear optics (parametric interactions in photonic microstructures) • Coherence and statistical optics (propagation in random media, noise in optical devices and systems)
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Lead Scientist, General Electric, 1989-95
Professional Activities
• Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Boston University (1994-2007) • Chair of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1990-1994)
• Senior Member, IEEE • Vice-Pres, Memberships, IEEE LEOS 2002-2005 • Chair, IEEE LEOS Orlando Chapter and advisor LEOS UCF Student Chapter 1996-2001 • Editor, SPIE Milestone Series Volume on Photonic Control Systems for Phased Array Antennas • Co-Editor, SPIE Milestone Series Volume on Analog Fiber-Optic Links • Expert panel member for organizations including: DARPA, OIDA, NIST, ONR, and NSF, nih, and Netherlands research Organization (NWO)
Professional Activities
• Editor of Journal of Optical Society of America A, 1991-1997. • Founding Editor, Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2008– • Author of Photoelectron Statistics, Springer-Verlag, 1978 • Co-author of Fundamentals of Photonics, Wiley, 2nd ed, 2007
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• 2001 International ICO Prize & 2001 Ernst Abbe Medal: Carl Zeiss Foundation, Germany • Fellow, OSA and SPIE • Laser Focus World Technical Writings Commendation Award 2004 • IIT Alumni Assoc. Academic Achievement Award, 1984 • SPIE Student Award,1988 • GE Gold Patent Medal, 1995 • GE-CRD New Start Award for Innovative Research, 1990
• Optical Society of America Distinguised Service Award • 2006 Kuwait Prize for contributions to basic science (optical science). • 2004 International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) 2004 BACUS Prize for contributions to photo mask technology. • 1999 Optical Society of America Esther Hoffman Beller Award • Fellow IEEE, 1991 • Fellow Optical Society of America, 1982 • Fellow John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
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CREOL Faculty
Winston V. Schoenfeld
Contact
Associate Professor of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Materials Science; University of California, Santa Barbara, 2000 [email protected] 407-823-6898
Axel Schülzgen
Contact
Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 1992 [email protected] 407-823-1746
Research
Nano Photonic Device Group: http://npdg.creol.ucf.edu/ • MBE growth of MgCdZnO com¬pounds • MgCdZnO LEDs and Detectors for UV/Visible • Binary cubic oxide semiconductors for solar blind detectors • Quantum teleportation and networks using entanglement of single photons and electron spins in quantum dot systems • Opto-spintronic quantum dot devices • Comprehensive modeling of nanowire emitters (optical and electrical) • Solid state neutron detection and imaging • Smart LED backlighting architectures for AMLCD dis plays in military craft • Radiation effects in quantum dot lasers
Research
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Fiber Optics Lab: http://fol.creol.ucf.edu/ Fiber Laser Devices Fiber Optic Sensors Linear and Nonlinear Light Propagation in Fiber Nanostructured and Functionalized Fiber Design and Fabrication of Specialty Optical Fiber Advanced Optical Materials
Other Experience
• College of Optical Sciences, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 1996-2009 • Department of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1995 • Department of Physics, Humboldt-University Berlin, Germany, 1991-1995
Other Experience
• President/CEO, Medical Lighting Solutions, 2003-2004 • Device Manager, Uniroyal Optoelectronics, 2000-2003
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
• Principal Editor, Journal of Materials Research • Chair, Florida Chapter of AVS (FL-AVS) • Co-Chair, MOEMS/MEMS Conference – Photonics West • Member: SPIE, MRS, and AVS
• Associate Editor, Applied Optics - Ultrafast lasers and Optics • Member, Optical Society of America • Member, Materials Research Society • Member, German Physical Society
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• UCF Presidential Award – 2006 • Rhines-Tarr Award, University of Florida – 1995
• Habilitation Fellowship, German Research Foundation, 1993 • Carl-Ramsauer-Award, AEG Corporation, 1992 • Heinrich-Gustav-Magnus-Award, Humboldt-University Berlin, 1988
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CREOL Faculty
William Silfvast
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6855
Emeritus Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; University of Utah, 1965
M.J. Soileau
Contact
UCF Vice President for Research & Commercialization and Professor of Optics, ECE and Physics Ph.D., Quantum Electronics; Univ. of Southern California, 1979 [email protected] 407-823-5538
Research
• X-Ray Science and Technology • EUV Lithography and Microscopy • X-ray Theory - X-ray Lasers
Research
Other Experience
• Nonlinear optical properties of materials • Laser-induced damage
• Chair, UCF Dept. of Physics, 1994-1997 • Distinguished Member Technical Staff, ATT-Bell Labs, 1994-1997
Other Experience
Professional Activities
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Co-Chair CLEO, 1983 Board of Directors, OSA 1986-1992 Program Committee Member, LEOS 1994-2000 Author, Textbook: “Laser Fundamentals,” Cambridge University Press
• Captain, US Air Force, Air Force Weapons Lab Laser Div., 1971 • Physicist, Naval Weapons Center Physics Div, China Lake, CA 1973-1980 • Professor of Physics, North Texas State University, 1980-87 • Director, School of Optics/CREOL, 1987-1999 • Chair of the Board, Orlando Science Center, 2002 • Governing Board, Metro Orlando EDC
Honors & Awards
• • • • •
Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, American Physical Society Fellow, IEEE Guggenheim Fellow, Stanford University Distinguished Member Technical Staff, ATT-Bell Labs, 1983 • NATO Postdoctoral Fellow • Researcher of the Year, University of Central Florida 2000
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE, OSA, IEEE LEOS, LIA, ASEE, • President, SPIE, 1997 • International Advisory Committee on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics, 2001 • Co-Chair, OSA/SPIE Joint Task Force, 1998-99
Honors & Awards
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Director’s Award, SPIE 1999 Fellow, OSA Fellow, IEEE Fellow, SPIE Senior Member, Laser Institute of America Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences Outstanding Engineer Award –State of Florida,’94 Air Force Commendation Medal, 1969
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CREOL Faculty
George I. Stegeman
Contact
Cobb Family Eminent Scholar Chair and Emeritus Professor of Optics, Physics & ECE Ph.D., Physics; University of Toronto 1969 [email protected] 407-823-6915
Eric W. Van Stryland
Contact
Director: CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics Professor of Optics and Fellow of the IEEE LEOS Ph.D., Physics; Optical Sciences, University of Arizona, 1976 [email protected] 407-823-6835
Research
Soliton Group: http://soliton.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics • Develop New Applications of NLO Effects • Investigate Nonlinear Interactions in Waveguides • New materials for Raman Gain • Novel spatial solitons • Discrete optics, linear and nonlinear, solitons • Light at the discrete-continuous medium interface
Research
Other Experience
• Distinguished Professor, University of Toronto • Collaborative Research: OFS Fitel, LLC • Co-PI for European Commission research program on ‘Ultrafast All-Optical Signal Processing in Engineered Quadratic Nonlinear Waveguides” NSF funded 2001-2004
Nonlinear Optics Lab: http://nlo.creol.ucf.edu/ Nonlinear Optics (NLO) • Develop NLO Spectroscopic Techniques • Develop Ultrasensitive Techniques for Measuring Material Nonlinearities • Identify Candidate NLO Materials and Thin Films • Develop NLO Devices • Characterize NLO Response from Femtoseconds to Nanoseconds • Model and Understand NLO Material
Other Experience
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Professional Activities
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Member, IEEE Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the OSA B Board of Editors, OSA Ives Medal Award committee, OSA 2004 Proposal Reviewer: NSF, DoD, NSERC
Director, School of Optics/CREOL, 1999-2004 Honorary Prof., University of Saint Andrews Visiting Prof. of Physics, Heriot-Watt Univ., 1985 Chairman, Center for Applied Quantum Electronics, U. of North Texas, 1983-86 Member, OSA, IEEE-LEOS, APS, SPIE, MRS Board of Directors, OSA 1998-2001 Co-Chair, OSA Science and Engineering Council Topical Editor, Optics Letters, 1994-98 Senior Member LIA, Board of Governors 1991-93
Professional Activities
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Honors & Awards
Cobb Family Chair in Optical Sciences and Engineering Fellow, Optical Society of America Fellow, American Physical Society Hertzberg Medal for Achievement in Physics R. Woods Prize of the Optical Society of America Researcher of the Year at UCF Twice selected Teacher of the Year by students
Honors & Awards
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OSA -President, (2006); Vice President (2004) The Pegasus Award, UCF 2003 Fellow, OSA, SPIE, and IEEE/LEOS Researcher of the Year, UCF 1990 Co-Winner R&D 100 Award, 2001
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Shin-Tson Wu
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-4763
PREP Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; University of Southern California, 1981
Boris Y. Zeldovich
Contact
Professor of Optics Ph.D., Physics; Institute of Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow, 1969 D. Sc., Optics, Lebedev Physics Institute, Moscow, 1980 [email protected] 407-823-6831
Research
Liquid Crystal Displays Lab: http://lcd.creol.ucf.edu/ • Investigation of nanoscale LC devices for bio-inspired optics and optometry. • Properties of bacteriorhodopsin and new applications for optical switching, information processing, optical information storage, and adaptive optics. • Dynamic foveated imaging to mimic human vision. • Broadband optical phased arrays for laser beam steer ing and free-space communications • Fast-response and large dynamic range variable optical attenuator for telecom applications • UV stable, high birefringence (Δn>0.4) and low viscos ity liquid crystals for laser beam steering, telecom and display applications • High birefringence & low viscosity dual-freq. LCs • High performance liquid crystals for display applications • Development of new transflective displays with high light efficiency. • New wide viewing angle devices possessing fast re sponse and weak color dispersion for LCD TVs. • Optimization of liquid-crystal-on-silicon (LCOS) panel designs for projection displays
Research
Zeldovich Group • Physical Optics and Propagation • Wave Propagation in Multimode Optical Waveguides and Irregularly Inhomogeneous Media • Beam clean-up and combining via nonlinear-optical processes. • Nonlinear Optics, including Liquid Crystals
Other Experience
• Vice President, Beam Engineering for Advanced Measurements Co. Winter Park, FL • Head of Joint Nonlinear Optics Laboratory, Electro physics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Chelyabinsk Technical University, Russia 19871994 • Principal Senior Scientific Researcher, Institute for Problems in Mechanics, Moscow 1981-87 • Lecturer on Nonlinear & Statistical Optics, Moscow Institute for Physics and Technology 1969-1987
Other Experience
• Senior Research Scientist, Hughes Research Laboratories 1983-2001
Professional Activities
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• • • •
• Editor-In-Chief, Journal of Display Technology Fellow: IEEE, OSA, SID, and SPIE 2008 SPIE G. G. Stokes Award 2008 SID Jan Rajchman Prize Hughes Team Achievement Award
• Editorial Board Member, Optics communications; Pure & Applied Optics; Optical and Quantum Electronics; International Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials • Topical Editor, Journal of Optical Society of America B
Honors & Awards
• • • •
Max Born Award, OSA 1997 Fellow, OSA Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences USSR State Prize for the discovery of optical phase conjugation, 1983
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Creating the Future of Optics and Photonics
CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Larry C. Andrews
Contact
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics, UCF ECE & Optics 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics and Photonics Ph.D., Engineering (Applied Mathematics, Mechanics); Michigan State University, 1970 [email protected] 407-823-2418
Kevin D. Belfield
Contact
Professor and Chair, Department of Chemistry 2º Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph. D. Chemistry, Syracuse University [email protected] (407) 823-1028
Research
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Research
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Propagation of laser beams through random media Multiple Aperture Coherent Array Systems Photon Spacecraft Laser communications and laser radar Study of Wavelengths for Multi-Spectral Imaging LR
Other Experience
Multiphoton absorbing photonic materials 3D optical data storage and optical switching Probes for multiphoton fluorescence bioimaging Linear and nonlinear photophysics and photochemistry Functional polymeric materials, nanocomposites and nanoparticles • Alternative energy using organic and biomaterials
• Mathematician, Antisubmarine Warfare Operation, Magnavox Co. 1969-72 • Technical Consultant: Lincoln Laboratory; Lockheed Martin Information Systems; Hughes Research Labs; ARGO Systems; Martin-Marietta Corp; NTEC, Human Factors Lab; • Project Consultant, PM TRADE, US Army • Mathematical Modeling Consultant, Army Research Laboratory – White Sands, NM, 1991-96
Other Experience
Professional Activities
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1990-92 • Fellow, Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 1991-92 • Senior Research Scientist, Ciba-Geigy, 1988-89 • Associate Professor, University of Detroit Mercy, 1996-98 • U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research Faculty Fellow, 1997-98
• Member, OSA; SPIE • Co-Editor, Encyclopedia of Optical Engineering • Author, Field Guide to Atmospheric Optics, SPIE Optical Engineering Press, 2004 • Co-Author, Laser Beam Propagation Through Random Media, SPIE Optical Eng. Press, 1998
Professional Activities
• Chair, Orlando Section of the American Chemical Society, 2009 • Member, ACS, OSA, SPIE, AAAS, CRC
Honors & Awards
• • • •
Fellow, SPIE UCF Teaching Excellence Award 1996-97;2002-03 UCF Professorial Excellence Award 1996-97 Researcher of the Year, College of Arts and Sciences, UCF 1984 • Member, Eta Kappa Nu; Member, Pi Mu Epsilon
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Professor, UCF Mechanical Engineering 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., ME; University of California, Berkeley, 1978 A.B., Physics; University of California, Berkeley, 1972
Louis Chow
Contact
Alfred Ducharme
Contact
Assistant Professor. UCF Engineering Technology Courtesy Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., EE; University of Central Florida, 1994 [email protected] 407-823-0770
[email protected] 407-823-3666
Research
• Heat Transfer Issues in Electro-Optics, Computing and Power Systems • Thermal Control in Aircraft and Spacecraft • Spray Cooling and Thin-Film Evaporation • Thermal Management of Laser Diode Arrays • Miniature Refrigerator • Miniature Cryocooler
Research
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Applied photonics Infrared Systems Image systems testing Solid-State Lighting
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Interim Dean, College of Engineering and Computer Science, UCF, 2003-2004 • Chair, MMAE, UCF, 1995-2000 • Visiting Scientist, AFRL, Dayton 2001-02, 1991-92, 1986-87 • Summer Faculty Fellow, NASA, Houston, 1985 • Senior Engineer, Bechtel Power Corp, SF, 1980
• R&D Manager, Color Kinetics, 1999-2001 • Manager - New Product Development, Visidyne 1996-1999 • Principle Research Scientist, PSI, 1995-1996
Professional Activities
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Coordinator, Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology Photonics Program • Executive Director, Florida Photonics Cluster
• Committee on Aerospace Heat Transfer, ASME • Editor, Experimental Heat Transfer • Fellow, ASME • Associate Fellow, AIAA • ASME Best Paper Award, 2001
Honors & Awards
• 1995 SPIE Kingslake Medal
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CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Andre Gesquiere
Contact
Assistant Professor, Nanoscience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry Ph.D. Chemistry; University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, December 2001 [email protected] 407-882-2842
Florencio Eloy Hernandez
Contact
Assistant Professor, UCF Chemistry and Optics 2o Joint Appointment-College of Optics & Photonics D. Sc., Universidad Central de Venezuela & Unversité Franche-Comté,1996 [email protected] 407-823-0843
Research
• Nanoscale Optoelectronic Materials and Devices for Energy Conversion • Nanobiology: imaging and biophysical studies • Nanoscience, nanotechnology, the physical chemistry of organic materials, optical and electronic processes in materials for energy conversion, supramolecular chemistry and self-assembly of functional organic materials, scanning probe microscopy, biophysics, and biophotonics.
Research
http://www.cas.ucf.edu/chemistry/index php?URL=hernandez • Physical Chemistry, Nonlinear Optics, Nanotechnology & Material Characterization • Structure-Property Relationships for New Nonlinear Optical Materials with High Photon Absorption CrossSections • Functionalized Metal Nanostructures to Enhance High Order Nonlinear Absorption Processes in Fluoro phores Via SPR • Radiative Decay Engineering on New Hybrid Systems • Development of new highly selective and sensitive biological and chemical sensing systems using metal nanoparticles. • Applying Liquid Crystal’s Optical Properties in Design ing New Optical Devices (Polara )
Other Experience
• Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Chemistry and Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology (06/2002 – 07/2005), University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas • Postdoctoral Research Scientist at the Department of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry (01/200206/2002), Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands • Outreach program of the Center for Nano- and Molecular Science and Technology
Other Experience
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Visiting Research Scientist, School of Optics/CREOL, 1998-2002 • Postdoctoral Research Venezuelan Institute for Scientific Research (IVIC), 1997-99
• Associate Editor, Optics Express • Editor-in-Chief “Handbook of Optics, 2nd Ed” OSA • Fellowship from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (1999-2001) • Fellowship from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders (1997-1999)
Professional Activities Honors & Awards
• Member, OSA ; IEEE; ACS • Member, Societe Francaise D’Optique Member • 2004-American Chemical Society (Orlando Section) Outstanding Chemist Award • 2001-Excellence in Technical Communications Award, Laser Focus World 2001 • 1992-CONICIT-BID Fellowship for Ph.D. in science
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Provost Distinguished Research Professor, UCF Department of Mathematics Joint Apppointment - Institute for Simulation & Training 2o Joint Appointment - College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Physics, Mathematics; University of Maryland, 1967
David Kaup
Michael Leuenberger
Assistant Professor, UCF Physics NanoScience Technology Center Joint Appointment in Optics Ph.D., Theoretical Physics; University of Basel, Switzerland 2002
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-2795
Contact
Research
• • • • • • •
http://math.ucf.edu/~kaup/ Nonlinear Waves and Modeling Soliton Theory Nonlinear Optics Relativistic Non-neutral Plasmas Ionospheric Plasmas Math. Modeling of Group Behavior Modeling with Variational Approximations
[email protected] NanoScience Tech Center 2424 Research Parkway, Suite 428 Orlando, FL 32826 407-882-2846
Research
Other Experience
• Joint Professor of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, Clarkson Univ. 1967-2001 • Consultant, Geo-Radar Technology, Inc. 1992-98 • Consultant, Varian Beverly 1985-1993
• Quantum information: quantum computing, quantum teleportation, and quantum error correction • Quantum mechanics: quantum entanglement and measurement theory • Quantum electrodynamics • Spintronics and opto-spintronics • Nonlinear optical phenomena • Semiconductor physics: quantum dots and quantum wells • Molecular magnets • Quantum many-body physics
Professional Activities
Other Experience
• Member, APS; OSA; AMS; IEEE; SIAM • Conference Chair, SIAM/SIAG “Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures”, Orlando 2004 • Member Scientific Committee for “Frontiers of Nonlinear Physics”, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 2004
• Post-Doctoral Research with Michael E. Flatte at the University of Iowa from 2002 to 2004 • Post-Doctoral Research with Lu J. Sham at the University of California San Diego from 2004 to 2005
Professional Activities
• Member, American Physical Society
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Robert E. Peale
Contact
Professor, UCF Physics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Physics; Cornell University 1990 [email protected] 407-823-5208
Ronald L. Phillips
Contact
Emeritus UCF Professor of ECE, Mathematics & Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Engineering; Arizona State University 1971 [email protected] 321-452-9834
Research
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http://phy.physics.ucf.edu/~rep/ Defects In Semiconductors Spectroscopic And Optical Instrumentation Rare-Earth Activated Optical Materials Far-Infrared Semiconductor Lasers Gain , Power, and duty enhancement for the Far-infrared p-GE Laser by Neutron Transmutation Doping • Terahertz Devices: Tunable and Mode-locked p-GE Terahertz Laser • Nuclear Waste Remediation
Research
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http://fsi.ucf.edu/research.html Optical Wave Propagation Through Random Media Laser Beam Propagation Through Atmospheric Turbulence Random Field Theory Detection Theory and Math Modeling Space Communication Systems Laser Communications to a Space Satellite
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Founder, President and CEO, Zaubertek, Inc. • Graduate Coordinator, UCF Physics Dept. 2000-
• Visiting Scholar Faculty, ECE University of California, San Diego 1987-88 • Founding Director for Engineering, CREOL, UCF, 1984-87 • NATO Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow in Science, 1977
Professional Activities
• Member, APS; OSA; American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science • Conference Session Chair, SPIE Photonics West, Terahertz spectroscopy and applications, “Direct Detectors of THz radiation,” 1998. • Conference Session Chair, OSA Conference on Advanced Semiconductor Lasers and Their Applications, “Quantum Cascade and Interband IR Lasers,” 1999. • Session Chair, Gordon Conference on Vibrational Spectroscopy, “THz spectroscopy,” 2000.
Professional Activities
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Member, IEEE Member, SPIE Member, AIAA Member, OSA President of Florida Section, OSA 1974-75 National Board of Directors, Eta Kappa Nu, 1976-78
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Research Incentive Award, UCF 2002 • NASA/AESS Summer Faculty Fellowship, awarded three times.
• Fellow, SPIE • Researcher of the Year, UCF, 1985 • Outstanding Contributions to Science Medal, American Society of Engineering Education SE Section, 1983 • Professional Excellence Award, UCF 1997 • Faculty Leadership Award, UCF 1997 • Eta Kappa Nu; Phi Kappa Phi Tau Beta Pi
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Kathleen A. Richardson
Director and Professor, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University Courtesy Appointment, Associate Professor of Optics; UCF College of Optics and Photonics Ph.D., Ceramics, Alfred University, 1992
Jannick Rolland
Professor of Optics and Biomedical Engineering Associate Director R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering, University of Rochester M.S. Diplome Ingenieur SupOptique, France, 1984 Ph.D., Optical Sciences; University of Arizona, 1990
Contact
[email protected] 864-656-0549
Contact
[email protected] 585-273-4040
Research
Glass Processing and Characterization • Development of new non-oxide glasses for use in integrated optical systems • Computer-automated fabrication of IR optics: Processing and manufacturing issues • Chemo-mechanical planarization of semiconductor materials and photo-induced crystallization processes in glasses for holographic storage, & other apps.
Research
Optical Diagnostics and Applications Lab: http://www.odalab-spectrum.org • Biomedical Optics and 3D Imaging • Optical Coherence Imaging • Image Quality Assessment • Shape Extraction • Curvature Sensor • Free-Form Optics • Aberration theory • Nodal Aberration Theory • Alignment of Optical Systems • Design of Free-form Optics • Virtual Environment and 3D Visualization • Optics Technology for Head-worn Displays • Perception Quantification • Augmented Reality
Other Experience
• Associate Professor of Optics, Chemistry, MMAE, & AMPAC; UCF, 1998-2004 • Manager, R&D Materials, R&D Technology Groups, Schott North America Regional R&D, 2002-03 • Co-PI, NSF-funded Research Experience for Undergraduates Program (REU) • Coordinator, International US/France REU Program at UCF College of Optics and Photonics, 2004
Professional Activities
Professional Activities
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• Chair-elect, Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD) of the American Ceramic Society (2004) • Chair, Society of Glass Technology, North America • Program Chair, XIV International Symposium on Non-• • Oxide Glasses. 2004 • Advisory Committees: Society of Glass Technology; 1st International Workshop on Glass and the Photonics Revolution, 2002; XIII International Symposium on Non-Oxide Glasses 2002
Guest Editor, Special Issue of JDT 2008 Associate Editor, Optical Engineering 1999-2004 Associate Editor, Journal of Presence (MIT Press) Program Chair ISMAR ‘04 Program Chair of OFT 2008-2010 Conference Chair ISMAR 2009 Fellow of the SPIE since 2008 Senior Member of IEEE since 2008 Fellow, Optical Society of America since 2004 Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award UCF 2004 Distinguished Researcher of the Year 2001 NIH First-Award 1997 ONR Young Investigator Award, 1995-1999
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
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Fellow, Society of Glass Technology, UK Research Incentive Award, UCF 2001 Co-recipient IR-100 Award: 1989 Million Dollar Club (Funding/Yr.), UCF 2000
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Mubarak A. Shah
Contact
Professor, UCF Computer Science Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D., Computer Science; Wayne State Univ., 1986 [email protected] 407-823-5077
Alfons Schulte
Contact
Professor, UCF Physics & Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Dr. rer. Nat. (Summa Cum Laude) Condensed Matter Physics, Technical University of Munich, 1985 [email protected] 407-823-5196
Research
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http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~vision/ Visual Tracking Night Time Surveillance Human Detection and Tracking Algorithms Contour Based Object Tracking Video Understanding\ Video Registration Video Categorization and Segmentation Video Synthesis Active Contours and Shape from Shading
Research
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http://www.physics.ucf.edu/faculty_schulte.php Protein Dynamics Near-infrared Raman spectroscopy & Instrumentation Raman and Micro-spectroscopy of Novel Materials Materials Physics, particularly Glasses
Other Experience
Other Experience
• Video Technology Research Staff, Harris Corp. Information Systems Div. 1998-99
• Professor, Dept of Physics, Technical University of Munich, 2001-2002 • Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Illinois- Urbana; Los Alamos National Lab; 1997-98 • Visiting Scientist, IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose 1989-90
Professional Activities
• Project Director, NSF- funded REU Research Experience for Undergraduates in Computer Vision 1987-2005 • Director, Computer Vision Lab, UCF • Series Editor, Video Computing, International book Series, Kluwer 2000• Editor-in-Chief, Machine Vision & Applications • Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
Professional Activities
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Member, American Physical Society Member, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Member, Biophysical Society Member, Society for Applied Spectroscopy Member, OSA
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, IEEE • UCF Research Incentive Award, 2003 • IEEE Distinguished Visitors Program Speaker, 1997-2000 • Engineering Achievement Award, Harris Corporation Information Systems Div., 1999 • Outstanding Engineering Educator, IEEE 1997 • UCF TIP Award, 1996, 2003
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• UCF Research Incentive Award, 2003 • IBM World Trade Fellowship, 1989-90 • Who’s Who in Science and Engineering
CREOL Faculty
Joint & Courtesy
Arthur Weeks
Contact
Associate Professor, UCF ECE and Optics Joint Appointment in College of Optics & Photonics Ph.D. EE, Univ. of Central Florida, 1987 [email protected] 407-823-0767, -5762
Cynthia Young
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-5987
Associate Professor of Mathematics Ph.D., Applied Mathematics; University of Washington, 1996
Research
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Research
http://people.cecs.ucf.edu/weeks/ Biomedical Sensors Patient Monitoring Tele Healthcare Color and Adaptive Image Processing Nonlinear Digital Filters Wireless Computing
Mathematical Modeling of Laser Propagation through Random Media • Developing Analytical Models for Scintillation of Propagating Gaussian Beams • Developing Atmospheric Spectra for the Marine Environment • Laser Communications Systems • Laser Radar Target Identification Systems
Other Experience
• Vice President of Corporate Technology, Invivo Research Inc, Orlando, FL • Vsiting Research Professor, Royal Signal and Radar Establishment, Malvern, England 1987-88 • Senior Engineer, Martin Marietta Aerospace Orlando, FL 1983-86
Other Experience
• Graduate Intern, Kennedy Space Center (1994 and 1995) • Boeing Space and Defense, Summer Faculty Fellow (1997) • Naval Research Laboratory Sabbatical (2005)
Professional Activities
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Consulting: Engineering Technologies, Inc. Navel Air Training System Center, Orlando FL Imath Inc. National Consortium for Technology in Business Chair, Electronic Imaging Working Grp., SPIE Editor, Tutorial Text Series, SPIE, 1998-2005 Associate Editor, Journal of Electronic Imaging: Color Image Processing, SPIE PRESS, 1995-2001
Professional Activities
• Member, SPIE • Chair, Atmospheric Propagation (2002 – 2007) • Association of Women Mathematicians
Honors & Awards
Honors & Awards
• Fellow, SPIE 2007 • Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Award (2001)
• TAU BETA PI • ETA KAPPA NU • Nomination, IEEE : Outstanding Engineer of the Year, 1996-97 • Teaching Incentive Award, UCF 1995-96
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Additional Contacts
Creating the Future of Optics and Photonics
CREOL
Additional Team Contacts
James Pearson
Contact
Director, Research & Administration Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research & Commercialization (ORC) PhD, EE & Physics; California Institute of Technology; 1972 [email protected] office: (678) 455-3459 cell: (407) 451-2199
C. Martin Stickley
Contact
Special Assist. to the VP for Research & Commercialization BSEE, U of Cincinnati, 1957; MSEE, MIT, 1958; PhD EE, Northeastern University, 1964 [email protected] (407) 252-6920
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain effective relationships with corporations and other organizations, including developing and managing the Industrial Affiliates program of The College of Optics and Photonics • Develop and oversee fund-raising activities for The College of Optics and Photonics • Assist with marketing and public relations activities for The College of Optics and Photonics • Manage selected projects for ORC and The College of Optics and Photonics as assigned • Serve as Executive Director for the Florida Photonics Cluster
• Provide guidance to faculty in program and proposal development, especially to agencies of the Department of Defense (e.g. DARPA, ONR)
Other Experience
Professional Activities
• SPIE: Fellows Committee, 2004-2007; Secretary and member of the Board of Directors, 1989, 1993; Executive Director, 1993-1999 • Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives: President, 2001-2002; Board of Directors, 1995-2003 • Florida High Technology and Industry Council, ElectroOptics and Lightwave Subcommittee; Chairman, 19861991 • American Association of Engineering Societies, Board of Directors, 1995-1999. Finance committee; membership committee • Coalition for Photonics and Optics, Secretary, 1996–1999 • Florida Photonics Cluster, Executive Director, 2006-2008
• Two tours at DARPA.. Created and led national efforts on: triggering of nuclear isomers, low energy nuclear reactions, micro-antenna arrays for IR sensing, super high efficiency laser diode arrays, architectural approaches for all-diode high power lasers, 2.8 Å x-ray traveling wave lasers , new solid state laser materials, high transmittance IR optical materials for high power laser windows, and codes for designing and producing silicon ICs with high yield. • First Associate Director of CREOL for Industrial and Government Partnerships; led multi-faculty program to develop phased arrays of coherent sources to overcome laser speckle in lidar systems • Obtained Congressional authorization of the NOVA laser at LLNL as the 1st Director of the Office of Laser Fusion in the US Dept of Energy • Built the first laser in the US Air Force as a 1st Lt (1960) and first identified thermal distortion as cause for high beam divergence in solid state lasers and demonstrated how to correct it
Professional Activities
Honors & Awards
• Fellow & Life Member, SPIE • Fellow, Optical Society of America • Senior Member, IEEE
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• Program committee for multiple IEEE/LEOS and CLEO meetings (1968-1995); Co-Chair, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (1971), IEEE/LEOS VP for Membership in North America (1995), Session Organizer for Directed Energy Prof Society (2007)
Honors & Awards
• Life Fellow, IEEE; Fellow, OSA; Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Meritorious Civilian Service Award; OSD Award for Exceptional Public Service Award at DARPA
CREOL Additional Team Contacts
Mark Wagenhauser
Business Manager
Rachel Franzetta
Senior Admissions Specialist
Contact
Contact
[email protected] 407-823-6878
[email protected] 407-823-6986
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
Financial Operations; Facilities Management; Management of Administrative Staff
Coordination of Admissions and Academic Program Services
Denise Whiteside
Assistant to the Dean [email protected] 407-823-6834
Contact
Responsibilities
Assistant to the Dean and administrator of The Industrial Affiliates program
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