July 1, 2019
From UCF Today: UCF Honors 11 Faculty Members with Luminary Awards From space research to the arts and humanities, faculty members across all disciplines were recognized for being academic leaders in their fields and conducting work that has a significant impact on the world. Associate Professor Mercedeh Khajavikhan, College of Optics and Photonics. Khajavikhan’s work is…
June 20, 2019
From June 16th to the 21st, the Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers (COPL) at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada, hosted the first North American Summer School on Photonic Materials (NASSPM). The School was organized under the auspices of the International Commission on Glass (ICG), a not-for-profit society that promotes collaboration between experts in…
June 10, 2019
A paper “Light diffusing, down-converting perovskite-on-polymer microspheres” by Professors Shin-Tson Wu and Yajie Dong is featured on the cover of the Journal of Materials Chemistry C. Abstract: Remote downconverters such as phosphors or quantum dots that are physically separated from blue light-emitting diode (LED) chips can strongly enhance the luminescence efficiency of solid-state lighting (SSL)…
May 20, 2019
Professor Kyu Young Han’s work in a paper titled “Nuclear speckle fusion via long-range directional motion regulates speckle morphology after transcriptional inhibition” is featured on the cover of Journal of Cell Science. Abstract: Although the formation of RNA-protein bodies has been studied intensively, their mobility and how their number and size are regulated are still…
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…