IA Symposium 2025 – CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

Tech Hubs in the Spotlight at 2025 CREOL Industrial Affiliates Symposium

CREOL hosted more than 230 attendees from around the world for the annual Industrial Affiliates Symposium. The Symposium brought together members of the CREOL Industrial Affiliates (IA) program in an intentional fusion of academia, industry, and government. Students and faculty also took advantage of the many networking opportunities the three-day program created. This year, the rise of tech hubs was the focus, as speakers discussed the future of photonic sensing, semiconductor manufacturing, and quantum device fabrication.

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2024 Symposium Agenda

Thursday, February 29

1:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Short Course – Beam Control for Laser Systems
Mark Spencer, Director, Joint Directed Energy Transition Office

Short Course – Introduction to Lasers
Peter Delfyett, CREOL, UCF

Research 1 Room 101AB

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Lab Tours CREOL Building

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm

Special Guest Lecture – Laser Communications in Space
Matthew Reichert, CACI
CREOL 102/103

6:30 pm

Industrial Affiliates Mixer
Island Wing Company – UCF

Friday, March 1

Location: UCF FAIRWINDS Alumni Center

8:30 am – 9:00 am

Continental Breakfast and Walk In Registration

Welcome to UCF Michael Johnson, UCF Provost

Welcome and Overview of CREOL David Hagan, Dean & Director

Session I - High Power Lasers

9:30 am – 11:00 am

Keynote Presentation: Overview of the Joint Directed Energy Transition Office
Mark Spencer, Director, Joint Directed Energy Transition Office

Laser Delivery in Hollow Core Fibers
Rodrigo Amezcua Correa, CREOL, UCF

Student Talk – Propagation of Ultrafast Laser Pulses
LaShae Smith

Break

Session II - Industry Focus

11:00 am – 2:00 pm

Industry Updates: Optica

Company Spotlights
KLA, LIA, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Industry Updates: SPIE

Group Photo/Poster Session/Lunch

Company Spotlights
Fibertek, Powerlight Technology, MegaWatt Laser

Session III - Lasers for Sensing and Communications

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Student of the Year Talk – Dual-Comb Molecular Spectroscopy from Mid-IR to THz
Dmitrii Konnov

Keynote Presentation: Laser-based Sensing: An Information Theoretic Perspective
Michael Wardlaw, US Navy

Coherently Combined Direct Diode Laser Systems
Guifang Li, CREOL, UCF

Student Talk – Low-noise Chip Scale Frequency Comb Lasers through Optical Injection Locking
Srinivas Varma Pericherla

3:30 pm – 4:30 pm

Awards and Closing Reception

Saturday, March 2

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