{"id":164,"date":"2025-06-18T21:08:41","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:08:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/?page_id=164"},"modified":"2025-06-18T21:15:12","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:15:12","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"164\" class=\"elementor elementor-164\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-92bfe80 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"92bfe80\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b9e5204\" 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target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">University of Central Florida<\/a><\/span><span class=\"style22\">\u00a0in 2008.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style16\">Funded by DARPA, NSF, ONR, NASA, DOE, as well as private companies like Harris Corporation, the lab&#8217;s research philosophy is to conduct\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style20\">\u00a0groundbreaking research on ultracompact integrated photonic device physics and circuit design, nanofabrication and characterization, as emerging solutions for a variety of engineering applications, such as data- and tele-communication, microwave engineering and nonlinear and quantum information systems in the visible to the mid-infrared wavelengths and on materials ranging from silicon and III-V compound semiconductors, to nonlinear dielectrics and glasses.<\/span><\/p><p class=\"style3\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style3\"><span class=\"style22\">The lab envisions two core missions:<\/span><\/p><p class=\"style3\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style21\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style21\">(a) Addressing critical problems faced by the photonics industry today through innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in integrated devices and circuits on semiconductors, dielectrics, glasses, etc.<\/p><p class=\"style21\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style21\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style21\">(b) Educating a new generation of creative and highly-skilled photonic device scientists and engineers, who will be the driving force for technological innovation in industry and academia.<\/p><p class=\"style21\">\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"style3\"><span class=\"style20\">A wide variety of funded\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"style20\">research projects<\/span><span class=\"style8\"><span class=\"style20\">\u00a0in integrated photonics are currently underway. For more information, feel free to contact us.<\/span><\/span><\/p><p class=\"style14\"><strong>Contact Info:<\/strong><\/p><p class=\"style14\"><strong>Sasan Fathpour<\/strong>,<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Professor<br \/>CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics<br \/>University of Central Florida<br \/>4304 Scorpius St.<br \/>Orlando, FL 32816-2700<br \/><br \/>Phone: (407) 823-6961<br \/>Fax: (407) 823-6880<br \/>Email: fathpour@creol.ucf.edu<br \/><br \/>Location: CREOL (Bldg. 53)<\/p><p class=\"style14\"><br \/><a class=\"style9\" href=\"http:\/\/www.creol.ucf.edu\/ContactUs\/Directions.aspx\">Maps and Directions<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-50 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b2f18eb\" data-id=\"b2f18eb\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82e4101 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"82e4101\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"583\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2025\/06\/about.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-image-166\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2025\/06\/about.jpg 583w, https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/80\/2025\/06\/about-222x300.jpg 222w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Integrated Photonic Emerging Solutions\u00a0(IPES) laboratory was established at\u00a0CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics\u00a0of the\u00a0University of Central Florida\u00a0in 2008.\u00a0Funded by DARPA, NSF, ONR, NASA, DOE, as well as private companies like Harris Corporation, the lab&#8217;s research philosophy is to conduct\u00a0\u00a0groundbreaking research on ultracompact integrated photonic device physics and circuit design, nanofabrication and characterization, as emerging [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-fullscreen.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-164","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/164\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/ipes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}