May 8, 2019
Ph.D. Graduates Nicholas Nye Optics Demetrios Christodoulides M.S. Optics graduates Daniel McGill Eric Calkins Hee Cheon Lee Chih-Hao Li Tarj Shah Mamta Singh B.S. graduates Sandy Cline Hunter Cohen Derek Daniels David Guacaneme Nicholas Kosan Latifah Maasarani Duc-Quy Nguyen Hannah Pierson Austin Singh
May 6, 2019
M. J. Soileau’s guest editorial tells the story of how the College of Optics and Photonics (CREOL) at the University of Central Florida quickly grew from its inception to become one of the premier programs in optics and lasers. Also, in the same issue, a paper titled “Multioctave supercontinuum from visible to mid-infrared and bend…
April 16, 2019
From UCF Today: “Healthy-living App Takes Top Prize at UCF’s 2019 Joust New Venture Competition“ Senior Rafaela Frota developed the idea for Wawwe, Inc. (We Are What We Eat) when she was 14. Now she’s achieved major praise for her nutrition-assistance app . Senior photonic science and engineering major Rafaela Frota’s win at the Joust…
April 11, 2019
A video article by Dr. Kyu Young Han‘s group published in JoVE (a video journal for biology and bioengineering). A Guide to Build a Highly Inclined Swept Tile Microscope for Extended Field-of-view Single-molecule Imaging
March 28, 2019
Graduate Student Qitian Ru has won the UCF 3MT Competition and walked away with a $1000 prize. He will continue competing on a national level. There were ten finalists and they were judged on the ability to effectively convey the essence and importance of their research in an engaging way to a non-specialist audience in just three minutes,…
March 28, 2019
From UCF Today: UCF Professor Emeritus Elected to the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame Michael Bass is the fifth UCF professor to receive the distinction, and his selection marks the fourth consecutive year that a UCF faculty member has been recognized. UCF professor emeritus Michael Bass has been selected for induction into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. The…
March 21, 2019
A paper “Optical space time wave packets” by H. Esat Kondakci and Professor Ayman Abouraddy has been published in Nature Communications. Controlling the group velocity of an optical pulse typically requires traversing a material or structure whose dispersion is judiciously crafted. Alternatively, the group velocity can be modified in free space by spatially structuring the beam…
March 18, 2019
A paper “Towards an all-fiber system for detection and monitoring of ammonia” by Professor Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa and Md. Selim Habib et al was selected for the outstanding paper award at SPIE Photonics West 2019. Detection of ammonia based on an all-fiber configuration is reported. The system consists of a hollowcore photonic-bandgap (HC-PBG) fiber with 20μm core diameter and…
March 6, 2019
A paper titled “Supersymmetric laser arrays” published in Science by Professors Mercedeh Khajavikhan and Demetrios Christodoulides has been featured in two news articles: “Supersymmetry boosts beam quality of laser arrays” in Physics World “Single-mode lasing by selective mode pairing” in Science “UCF Researchers Develop First Supersymmetric Laser Array” in UCF Today. Stability through symmetry A…
January 23, 2019
Jose Rafael Guzman-Sepulveda Optical monitoring of blood coagulability during cardiovascular surgery via coherence-gated DLS Light scattering-based approaches have proved robust for monitoring the structural dynamics of complex media thanks to their capability to retrieve collective dynamic information through the intensity fluctuations of the light scattered. In my talk I will address the specific features of…
January 14, 2019
Professor Sasan Fathpour‘s invited paper “Heterogeneous Nonlinear Integrated Photonics” is featured on the cover of the December 2018 issue of IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics. Integrated photonics has been pursued on a large variety of materials and platforms over more than half a century. In recent decades, silicon has emerged as the preferred optical and substrate…
January 14, 2019
Ph.D. Graduates William HayengaOpticsMercedeh Khajavikhan Yun-Han Lee Optics Shin-Tson Wu Alex SincoreOpticsMartin Richardson Melissa BeasonElectrical EngineeringMartin Richardson Nathan BodnarElectrical EngineeringMartin Richardson Xuan ChenMaterials ScienceRomain Gaume Thamer TabbakhElectrical EngineeringPatrick LiKamWa Rashi SharmaChemistryStephen Kuebler M.S. Optics Graduates Kamal Abdelsalam Jason Leshin Zhao Ma Dong Jin Jin Tracy Sjaardema B.S. Graduates Caleb StephanJared CozartKevin GajKyle MerrittMenashe MordachaiSamuel Nunez