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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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…