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The first place winning group of the April 18 CREOL Spring 2023 Senior Design Project Showcase Competition stand together with their certificates in recognition of their efforts. Senior computer engineering major Franklin Ivey (far left), senior photonics science engineering major Ethan Teodosio (middle left), and group mates were behind their Distance-Monitored Inkless Laser Engraver project…

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central Florida, plans to add more faculty members over the next two years to fuel the growth needed to keep up with global industry demand.

Dr. Andrea Blanco-Redondo has been hired as the Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Endowed Professor of Optics and Photonics for CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at UCF.

CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics at UCF has hired Dr. Darren Hudson as an Associate Professor of Optics and Photonics.

Yannanqi (Nancy) Li was featured in the January/February 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. When were you first introduced to photonics/electro-optics?At the end of my third year of undergraduate, I joined Prof.…

Order of Pegasus is the most prestigious and significant award a student can attain at the University of Central Florida. Students selected for this honor represent the most dedicated, passionate, and highest-achieving Knights.

For the fourth year in a row, a professor from CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics is recognized with UCF’s Excellence in Research award.

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.