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elementor-element-8e7b0a5 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"8e7b0a5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">FEATURED<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2553b9c e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"2553b9c\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c847025 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"c847025\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/scientific-breakthroughs-are-often-rooted-ugcPost-7454839296936751104-U-X2?utm_source=share&#038;utm_medium=member_desktop&#038;rcm=ACoAAE0Wo_oBLFVgSFvswHPsK5z_RnWK6MxP9cE\">Award-Winning<br> \nResearch in Optical Materials<\/a><\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5cbdd76 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5cbdd76\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-cf37f87 elementor-widget__width-initial elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"cf37f87\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In a recent interview, Professor <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/person\/kathleen-a-richardson\/\">Kathleen Richardson<\/a><\/span> discusses the role of curiosity-driven research, 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>The <b>Laser &amp; Plasma Laboratory <\/b>is celebrating its 36th anniversary this year. In the two decades since its formation in 1990, just four years after the creation of CREOL, then called the Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers, LPL has grown to be a major laboratory within the constellation of optics, photonics and laser laboratories, and centers surrounding the College of Optics &amp; Photonics at UCF. LPL is a founding laboratory within the new Townes Laser Institute, established in 2007 as a State Center of Excellence in next-generation laser technologies and their applications.<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-46f0e960 elementor-widget__width-initial animated-slow elementor-invisible elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"46f0e960\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-settings=\"{&quot;motion_fx_motion_fx_scrolling&quot;:&quot;yes&quot;,&quot;_animation&quot;:&quot;fadeIn&quot;,&quot;_animation_delay&quot;:&quot;700&quot;,&quot;motion_fx_devices&quot;:[&quot;desktop&quot;,&quot;tablet&quot;,&quot;mobile&quot;]}\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Although LPL\u2019s scope of activities has progressively expanded over the years, its mission has remained the same. We strive for excellence in research and training in advanced laser technologies. Our primary products are the students we graduate with Masters and Doctoral degrees and the new science and technologies we create. We are organized into a number of research teams, laboratories and major facilities, and have established many formal and informal collaborations across the globe. These and other facets of our work are summarized on this website.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5755148 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"5755148\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4c971eb5 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"4c971eb5\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-24e59196 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"24e59196\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-306bac59 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"306bac59\" 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elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"4aad9730\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h2 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">The Townes Laser institute, dedicated to Charles Townes<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-198ce1bf e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"198ce1bf\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2eea7ea7 elementor-widget elementor-widget-button\" data-id=\"2eea7ea7\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"button.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"elementor-button elementor-button-link elementor-size-sm\" href=\"https:\/\/creol.ucf.edu\/townes-laser-institute\/\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-content-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"elementor-button-text\">VIEW 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For his thesis he studied the spectral characteristics of laser modes, investigated non-linear optical processes in dense plasmas and developed a new high power dual frequency laser.\u00a0<\/p><p>Although lasers were then still considered \u2018a solution looking for a problem\u2019, after the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize to Townes, Prokhorov and Basov for inventing the concept of the laser, many new laser research teams were being created worldwide. Richardson joined one of the first laser groups investigating laser and plasmas in the Division of Gerhardt Herzberg at the National Research Council Laboratories in Ottawa. 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