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2019-20 Student of the year: Fan Wu

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…

Dr. David Hagan Named Interim Dean as Dean Saleh Shifts Roles

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…

UCF researchers develop new camera to detect invasive pythons

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…

Professor Kathleen Richardson receives 2020 SPIE Educator award

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. 

Learning-Based Optical Fiber Cell Imaging

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…

LPL exhibits at 2019 APS Plasma Science Expo in Fort Lauderdale

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…

Non-diffracting broadband incoherent space–time fields

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…

2019 IEEE Orlando Section Outstanding Graduate Student Award

October 14, 2019
Fangwang “Grace” Gou received the Outstanding graduate student award and scholarship, and Yuge “Esther” Huang received the Outstanding graduate student scholarship. Both these students are members of Dr. Shin-Tson Wu‘s LCD group. The Outstanding Graduate Student Award is to recognize a Graduate Student member of IEEE Orlando Section who has distinguished herself or himself during…

Mike McKee wins 2019 Gabor Award

October 3, 2019
Mike McKee is the recipient of the 2019  Gabor Award. This award, which is sponsored by The GABOR Agency, was established to recognize and reward the outstanding job performance of a selected Administrative & Professional (A&P) employee.  Mike was honored yesterday at the Annual Employee Awards Program.

LPL Senior Graduate Student Justin Cook wins $1000 Optical Materials Award

September 12, 2019
The most outstanding student project North American Summer School on Photonic Materials, directed by Kathleen Richardson and Younes Messeddeq at COPL in the University of Laval. Six UCF-affiliated student participated amongst a total of some 80 student from around the world.