February 5, 2020
CREOL graduate students Zheyuan Zhu, Weiyu Chen and undergraduate students Jairo Serrano have been invited as volunteer judges for the annual Seminole County Regional Science, Math and Engineering Fair (SCRSMEF). SCRSMEF is an annual showcase of STEM projects conducted by middle and high school students in Seminole County. CREOL students have continuously volunteered as judges…
February 3, 2020
SPIE and the University of Central Florida Announce $650,000 Scholarship Fund The SPIE-Glebov UCF graduate student scholarship is part of a $2.5 million SPIE education funding initiative for optics and photonics SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, announced the establishment of the SPIE-Glebov Family Optics and Photonics Graduate Scholarship Fund for the University…
February 3, 2020
After a series of presentations and review panels, Tao Zhan from Dr. Shin-Tson Wu‘s LCD research group won first place in the SPIE AR VR XR optical design challenge and received a $5000 scholarship. The challenge provides a unique opportunity for students to demonstrate their design and creativity to top AR, VR companies. Last year,…
January 30, 2020
Guifang Li OSA Publishing is pleased to welcome Guifang Li as the new editor-in-chief of Advances in Optics and Photonics (AOP). Li is a professor of optics, electrical & computer engineering and physics at the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research and Education in Optics and Lasers (CREOL), U.S.A. His research interests include optical communication and…
January 29, 2020
The CREOL Student of the Year Award is a program to recognize the outstanding academic, scientific and professional achievements of graduate students in CREOL. Fan Wu Optical thermodynamic theory of nonlinear highly multimoded systems The complex nonlinear behaviors of heavily multimode lightwave structures have been recently the focus of considerable attention. The convoluted spatial-temporal interaction…
January 22, 2020
Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. Fall 2019 graduates.
January 2, 2020
From the Provost News Room: I am pleased to share that Dr. David Hagan, Pegasus Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs, will serve as interim dean of the College of Optics and Photonics starting Monday, December 23, as Dean Bahaa E. A. Saleh moves to the faculty. In May, Dr. Saleh announced he would…
November 21, 2019
Professor Ronald Driggers‘ python camera is featured on WKMG-TV News 6’s website. A team of researchers at the University of Central Florida is developing a new camera to find invasive pythons lurking in Florida’s natural habitats. more…
November 19, 2019
Professor Kathleen Richardson has been awarded the 2020 Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award. The SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Educator Award is presented in recognition of outstanding contributions to optics education by an SPIE instructor or an educator in the field.
November 19, 2019
A paper titled “Deep-learning cell imaging through Anderson localizing optical fiber” by a CREOL team including Professors Amezcua, Pang, and Schülzgen has been featured in a SPIE news article titled “Learning-Based Optical Fiber Cell Imaging“ A team of researchers has developed a new fiber-optic imaging system enabled by integrating image processing based on a deep…
November 4, 2019
LPL volunteered at the 2019 Plasma Science Expo hosted by the APS Division of Plasma Physics. The event took place over the course of two days, during which 746 high school and middle school students and teachers were bused in to experience the many interactive exhibits. Alongside displays from the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Princeton…
October 28, 2019
A paper titled “Non-diffracting broadband incoherent space–time fields” by Murat Yessenov et al from Dr. Ayman Abouraddy‘s research group was highlighted in Nature Physics Research Highlights. Bright and dark diffraction-free incoherent ST fields Unlike most light, propagation-invariant beams neither diffract nor disperse when they pass through a medium, allowing them to sustain their focal width…