December 23, 2015
University Trustee Chair and Pegasus Professor, Martin Richardson, professor of Optics, Physics and ECE, has just been elected to the rank of Fellow in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society. For this award, he is cited, “for distinguished contributions to the development of high power pulsed lasers,…
October 20, 2015
Graduate Students Joshua Bradford and Alex Sincore, both in Dr. Martin Richardson’s Laser Plasma Laboratory research group, receive DEPS scholarships. Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) is the premier organization for the exchange of information on the development and application of directed energy (DE), which includes both high energy lasers (HEL) and high power microwaves (HPM). …
September 18, 2015
A 5 year high-power fiber laser development program worth $5,870,793 has just been awarded to UCF by the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) in Washington. Richardson was in Washington DC at the time of the award, serving as a senior science advisor to the State Department under a Jefferson Science Fellowship…
July 17, 2015
Senior LPL graduate student CheonHa Jeon publishes IOP Lab Note titled “Laser interaction with droplets: Understanding the propagation of femtosecond laser filaments through fogs and clouds.” Posted Friday, July 17, 2015 Simulated shockwave expansion superimposed on experimental time-resolved shadowgraphic images of a filament interacting with a water droplet. The time delay between the filament and the…
May 26, 2015
The May 2015 issue of the American Physical Society’s Capitol Hill Quarterly titled “Physicists Use Scientific Skills to Improve World Through Jefferson Science Fellowships” features Professor Martin Richardson‘s contribution as science and engineering adviser to the Jefferson Science Fellows program run by the National Academy of Sciences and sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency…
March 2, 2015
Representing UCF, CREOL and the Townes Laser Institute, director Martin Richardson and his wife, Kathleen attended a Memorial Service for Charles Townes at the First Congregational Church of Berkeley, United Church of Christ, on February 28th, to celebrate the life and achievements of Charles Townes, after whom our Townes Laser Institute is named. Dr Townes…
January 28, 2015
Charles Townes, the inventor of the concept of the laser, after whom the Townes Laser Institute is named, died yesterday (January 27, 2015) at the age of 99. He recently was failing in health and died on the way to the hospital. We will all remember his last visit to UCF in 2012 for CREOL’s…