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Alum Amy Van Newkirk has received an AFOSR young investigator award.  The objective of this program is to foster creative basic research in science and engineering, enhance early career development of outstanding young investigators, and increase opportunities for young investigators to recognize the Air Force mission and the related challenges in science and engineering. Posted Friday, September 28,…

Ph.D. student Yuge “Esther” Huang received a 2018 SID Metro Detroit Academic Award. She will receive the award at the Vehicle Display Conference in Detroit Michigan, and give an oral presentation. There were three awards: two for in-state Michigan students and one for worldwide out-of-state students. After fierce competition, Esther became the only out-state winner. According to Esther’s adviser, Dr. Shin-Tson…

A paper titled “Disorder-induced high-quality wavefront in an Anderson localizing optical fiber” by Behnam Abaie, Mostafa Peysokhan, Jian Zhao, Jose E. Antonio-Lopez, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa, Axel Schülzgen, and Arash Mafi is one of Optica’s top downloads for August 2018. High-quality coherent wavefronts are extremely useful in optical communications and lasers. Disorder is usually considered as a source of noise and deviation…

A paper titled “Self-healing of space-time light sheets” by H. Esat Kondakci and Ayman F. Abouraddy is one of Optics Letters top downloads for August 2018. Space-time (ST) wave packets are diffraction-free, dispersion-free pulsed beams whose propagation invariance stems from correlations introduced into their spatio-temporal spectra. We demonstrate here experimentally and computationally that ST light sheets exhibit self-healing properties upon traversing obstacles…

A paper titled “Ultralow Dispersion Multicomponent Thin-Film Chalcogenide Glass for Broadband Gradient-Index Optics” by Myungkoo Kang, Andrew M. Swisher, Alexej V. Pogrebnyakov, Liu Liu, Andrew Kirk, Stephen Aiken, Laura Sisken, Charmayne Lonergan, Justin Cook, Teodor Malendevych, Fedor Kompan, Ivan Divliansky, Leonid B. Glebov, Martin C. Richardson, Clara Rivero-Baleine, Carlo G. Pantano, Theresa S. Mayer, and Kathleen Richardson has been published in Advanced Materials. This paper benefited from a…

Undergraduate student Latifah Maasarani receives Astronaut Scholarship Foundation award. From UCF Today: Latifah Maasarani always dreamed of being an entrepreneur, but maintained for years she would never go to college. She was so sure that when her older sister graduated from UCF in 2011, she took her graduation cap, put it on and urged her mother to take a photo.…

Single-molecule fluorescence imaging visualizes biomolecules at high spatial and temporal resolution, but it is limitedly used for studying cell surfaces or small areas inside cells. Jialei Tang, a graduate student in Optical Nanoscopy lab led by Dr. Kyu Young Han overcame the current limitation of single-molecule imaging approaches, and demonstrated clear and large field-of-view 3D single-molecule microscopy capable…

Professor Mercedeh Khajavikhan, received a DARPA Young Faculty Award to investigate “Topological Phenomena in Active Photonic Platforms.” The objective of the DARPA Young Faculty Award (YFA) program is to identify and engage rising research stars in junior faculty positions at U.S. academic institutions and introduce them to Department of Defense needs as well as DARPA’s program development…

Two CREOL students, Justin Cook, and Patrick Roumayah have won $10,000 Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) scholarships. Justin Cook Patrick Roumayah The Directed Energy Professional Society board of scientific and engineering advisors and its executive director Mark Neice have announced the DEPS graduate scholarship awardees for the 2017-2018 academic year. Fourteen technical students from all applicants were awarded $10,000 partial scholarships…

An article “Thinking beyond conventional silicon photonics” by Professor Sasan Fathpourhas been published in the July issue of The Photonic IC (PIC) Magazine. A variety of silicon-based technologies have given rise to expansive opportunities for photonic integrated circuits. While silicon enabled many photonic product developments, there is no one-size-fits-all approach; hybrid modules and the benefits of…

Professor Kyu Young Han has published a paper “Measuring molecular mass with light” in Nature Photonics News and Views. “Interferometric analysis of the weak light scattered from proteins makes it possible to determine their mass.” read more…

The Dean’s List is compiled in recognition of scholastic honors to degree-seeking undergraduate students who earn a minimum 3.4 GPA, complete a minimum of 12 credit hours, earn no grade less than “C” (2.0) and no “I,” “U,” “N,” “NC,” or “WF” grades during a term. We congratulate these students who have achieved this high…