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Franklyn J. Quinlan ’05MS ’08PhD was honored as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year during CREOL’s annual Industrial Affiliates Symposium. He is the leader of the Precision Photonic Synthesis Group in the Time & Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

University of Central Florida researcher Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, has drawn inspiration from butterflies to create the first environmentally friendly, large-scale and multicolor alternative to pigment-based colorants, which can contribute to energy-saving efforts and help reduce global warming. The development was published today in Science Advances as a featured article.…

Chinmay Shirpurkar, CREOL’s Student of the Year, shared his journey on what led to the award-winning moment. “It’s really cool to get in on this now before photonics becomes the next big thing,” Shirpurkar said. The optics and photonics doctoral candidate won CREOL’s 2022-2023 Student of the Year title on Feb. 8 after the college’s panel narrowed down three finalists to one.

Eric Van Stryland was honored with the 2023 Willis E. Lamb Award for Science and Quantum Optics for his pioneering contributions to quantum and nonlinear optics. Van Stryland is emeritus dean and professor of CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at UCF. “I am extremely honored that the work on nonlinear optics performed by…

Doctoral student, Matthew Cooper, was awarded the D.J. Lovell Scholarship, the largest and most prestigious scholarship from SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics.

George McDonald, a junior pursuing a bachelor’s degree in photonic science and engineering, was featured in the latest issue of LIA Today published by the Laser Institute of America. The article below was reprinted with permission. The original article can be found on page 15 at this link.

Debashis Chanda, a professor in UCF’s NanoScience Technology Center, recently received Samsung’s International Global Research Outreach Award for the year 2022 in the Future Camera and Sensor category. This is the first such award to UCF. The Samsung Global Research Outreach program is designed to foster international technological innovation. The award from the multinational electronics…

A research paper by CREOL and Florida Photonics Center of Excellence professor Ayman Abouraddy and research assistant Layton Hall ’22MS has been published in the peer-reviewed scientific journal, Nature Physics.

UCF has long been a supplier of talent and partner in research for the U.S. military branches, as well as a supporter of local veterans.

The award funds research to accurately visualize space debris, which is crucial to avoiding catastrophic collisions and mission-ending damage.

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U.S. News & World Report’s latest global university rankings recognize UCF’s optics program among the best worldwide, acknowledging CREOL’s excellence in research and innovation.