January 14, 2019
Boris Zeldovich, Emeritus Professor of Optics and Photonics, and Physics, passed away on Sunday, December 16, at the age of 74. He joined the UCF faculty in 1994 and made outstanding contributions in research and education in optics and photonics and has been a great asset to the College for more than two decades. He made…
January 3, 2019
From UCF Today: The applications for this technology could include anticounterfeiting security or military tactics. See Fox 35 TV News report. What is real is not always as it appears. UCF researchers have found a way to hide information on materials and only make it visible to a person using the right tech. “We found we…
December 31, 2018
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…
December 5, 2018
Professor ST Wu has received an Honorary Professorship from the National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. The award was presented at a ceremony on November 29, 2018, and Dr. Wu delivered a speech for this special occasion.
November 8, 2018
Professor Axel Schülzgen has been elected Fellow of the Optical Society (OSA). Dr. Schülzgen is being recognized for fundamental contributions to fiber optics, high power and single frequency fiber lasers, fiber optic sensing technologies and very high bit rate transport of communication signals through optical fibers.
October 11, 2018
Professor Aristide Dogariu‘s research featured in UCF Today: “New Understanding of Light Allows Researchers to See Around Corners“ Covert sensing of objects around a corner may soon become a reality. Aristide Dogariu, a University of Central Florida Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics, and his colleagues published a paper in Nature Communications this month demonstrating how to passively…
October 5, 2018
A paper titled “Deep Learning Imaging through Fully-Flexible Glass-Air Disordered Fiber” by Professors Amezcua, Pang, and Schülzgen is featured in Physics World. We demonstrate a fully flexible, artifact-free, and lensless fiber-based imaging system. For the first time, this system combines image reconstruction by a trained deep neural network with low-loss image transmission through disordered glass-air Anderson localized optical fiber. We…
October 3, 2018
Two CREOL students Hao Chen and Juan Rachel He, from Dr. Shin-Tson Wu‘s LCD group, were interviewed and their research work on quantum dots for medical applications was published in the September – October issue of Information Display Magazine. Photomedical researchers have been in search of low-cost, effective illumination devices with form factors that could facilitate widespread clinical applications of photodynamic therapy…
September 28, 2018
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,…
September 18, 2018
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…
September 17, 2018
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…
September 7, 2018
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…