December 19, 2016
At the invitation of the Chemical and Materials Engineering Department of the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Professor Richardson gave the Andrew Main Lecture on October 27th 2016, as part of the D.B. Robinson Distinguished Speaker Series. His lecture, entitled, “New paradigms in laser-based remote sensing”, reviewed new optical approaches to remote sensing, particularly of…
July 26, 2016
On July 4th the Russian Academy of Sciences held a special Symposium in Moscow to celebrate the 100th Birthday of Alexandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov (July 11, 1916), who shared the 1964 Physics Nobel Prize with Charles Townes and Nikolai Basov for the invention of the concept of the laser. Prokhorov passed away in 2002 at the…
April 11, 2016
Undergraduate student Jasmine Thompson, an undergraduate Optics student working as an Undergraduate Research Assistant in the Laser Plasma Laboratory, won third place in the Showcase of Undergraduate Research Excellence, April 7, 2016, as part of UCF Student Research Week with her poster presentation entitled “Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy of sub-nanoliter droplets”. There were over 300 participants. Posted…
January 21, 2016
Cheonha Jeon wins the CREOL Student of the Year Competition with his talk “Fundamental Studies of Ultrashort Laser Pulse Interaction with Aerosols.” Other finalists were Anthony Klee: “Broadband, Widely-Spaced Optical Frequency Combs from Semiconductor Mode-Locked Lasers”; Amy Van Newkirk: “Sensing with Specialty Optical Fibers”; and Zahoora Sanjabi: “Advanced High Power Fiber Lasers and Devices” See Student of the…