Biography
Guifang Li received his Ph.D. degree from The University of Wisconsin at Madison and is Professor of Optics and Electrical & Computer Engineering at UCF. He was the director of the NSF IGERT program in Optical Communications and Networking at UCF. He is the recipient of the NSF CAREER award and the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator award. Dr. Li is a Fellow of IEEE, the Optical Society of America, SPIE and the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Li is the Editor-in-Chief of Advances in Optics and Photonics.
His research interests include optical communication and networking, RF photonics and all-optical signal processing. He has collaborated widely with academic institutions and industry. He is the Founder of Optium, the first venture startup in UCF, which went public in 2006 (OPTM) and is now part of II-VI.
Awards
- IEEE Photonics Society Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- 2015 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
- 2014 IEEE IPS Distinguished Lecturer Award
- 2006 Presidential Major Research Equipment Award
Research Group
High-capacity optical communication through linear and nonlinear channels including free space and optical fiber using synergy of advanced optical and electronic techniques.
Research Scientists
Graduate Students
Publications
John A. B. Aziz, Seth Smith-Dryden, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Guifang Li "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting" John A. B. Aziz, Seth Smith-Dryden, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Guifang Li, "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting," Opt. Express 32, 20256-20267 (2024) (2024)
Aziz, JAB (Aziz, John A. B.) [1] ; -dryden, SS (Smith -Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Saleh, BEA (Saleh, Bahaa E. A.) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting" Optics Express 32(11) pp.20256-20267 (2024)
Shree R. Thapa, Seth Smith-Dryden, Zheyuan Zhu, Shuo S. Pang, and Guifang Li "Experimental Demonstration and Characterization of a Non-Mode Selective (De)Multiplexer Using Multi-Plane Light Converter (MPLC)" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10473042 (2024)
Zheyuan Zhu, Alireza Fardoost, Fatemeh Ghaedi Vanani, Andrew B. Klein, Guifang Li, Shuo S. Pang "Coherent General-Purpose Photonic Matrix Processor" ACS Photonics 2024, 11, 3, 1189–1196 (2024) (2024)
Klein, AB (Klein, Andrew b.) [1] ; Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Saiham, D (Saiham, Dewan) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Pang, SS (Pang, Shuo s.) [1] "Iterative eigensolver using fixed-point photonic primitive" Optics Letters 49(2) pp.194-197 (2024)
John A. B. Aziz, Seth Smith-Dryden, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, and Guifang Li "Three-dimensional tomographic reconstruction using Voronoi weighting" Opt. Express 32, 20256-20267 (May 2024) (2024)
Zheyuan Zhu, Andrew B. Klein, Guifang Li, and Sean Pang "Fixed-point iterative linear inverse solver with extended precision" Scientific Reports 13(1) (2023)
Ning Wang, He Wen, Juan Carlos Alvarado Zacarias, Jose Enrique Antonio-Lopez, Yuanhang Zhang, Daniel Cruz Delgado, Pierre Sillard, Axel Schülzgen, Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa and Guifang Li "Laser2: A two-domain photon-phonon laser" Sci. Adv.9, eadg7841(2023) (2023)
N. Wang, H. Wen, J. C. Alvarado Zacarias, J. E. Antonio-Lopez, Y. Zhang, D. Cruz Delgado, P. Sillard, A. Schülzgen, B. EA Saleh, R. Amezcua-Correa, G. Li "Laser2: A two-domain photon-phonon laser" SCIENCE ADVANCES 9, eadg7841 (2023)
Smith-Dryden, S (Smith-Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Fan, SL (Fan, Shengli) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Saleh, B (Saleh, Bahaa) [1] "Iterative optical diffraction tomography with embedded regularization" Optics Express, 31(1) pp.116-124 (2023)
Rachel Sampson, Huiyuan Liu, Guifang Li "Improving the sensitivity and bandwidth of time-of-flight scanning LIDAR using few-mode preamplified receivers" R. Sampson, H. Liu, G. Li, "Improving the sensitivity and bandwidth of time-of-flight scanning LIDAR using few-mode preamplified receivers," Opt. Eng. 61(12) 123106 (2022). (2022)
Vanani, FG (Vanani, Fatemeh Ghaedi) [1] ; Fardoost, A (Fardoost, Alireza) [1] ; Zhang, YH (Zhang, Yuanhang) [1] ; Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Wang, N (Wang, Ning) [1] ; Alvarado-Zacarias, JC (Alvarado-Zacarias, Juan Carlos) [1] ; Amezcua-Correa, R (Amezcua-Correa, Rodrigo) [1] ; Pang, S (Pang, Shuo) [1] ; Li, GF (LI, Guifang) [1] "Low-crosstalk mode-group demultiplexers based on Fabry-Perot thin-film filters" Optics Express, 30(22) pp. 39258-39268 (2022)
Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Eggleton, B (Eggleton, Ben) [2] ; Essiambre, RJ (Essiambre, Rene-Jean) [3] ; Dai, DX (Dai, Daoxin) [4] ; Su, YK (Su, Yikai) [5] "Guest Editorial Special Issue on ACP 2021" IEEE Photonics Technology Letters, 34(16), pp. 837-837 (2022)
Y.H. Zhang, N.K. Fontiane, M. Mazur, H.S. Chen, R. Roland, G.F. Li and A. Blanco-Redondo "Impulse Response Characterization of a Commercial Multimode Fiber Using Superconducting Nanowire Single-Photon Detectors" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(15), pp. 5107-5117 (2022)
Y.Y. Gao, D.W. Ge, L. Shen, Y.Q. He, Z.Y. Chen, G.F. Li and J.H. Li "Prototype of DSP-Free IM/DD MDM Transceiver for Datacenter Interconnection" Journal of Lightwave Technology, 40(5), pp. 1283-1295 (2022)
S. Smith-Dryden, S.L. Fan, B.E.A. Saleh and G.F. Li "Optical Diffraction Tomography by Use of Optimization and Phase-Based Fidelity Criterion" IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 27(4), A. 6800709 (2021)
S.L. Fan, S. Smith-Dryden, G.F. Li and B.E.A. Saleh "Optimization-based optical diffraction tomography using iODT initialization" Journal of the Optical Society of America A - Optics Image Science and Vision, 38(7), pp. 947-953 (2021)
Yikai Su, Yu He, Haoshuo Chen, Xiaoying Li, and Guifang Li "Perspective on mode-division multiplexing" Applied Physics Letters, 118, 200502 (2021) (2021)
Z. Zhu, J. Ulseth, G. Li, and S. Pang "Training of mixed-signal optical convolutional neural networks with reduced quantization levels" IEEE Access, 2169-3536 (2021) (2021) PDF
R. Sampson, H. Wen, B. Huang, R. Amezcua-Correa, Y. Bromberg, H. Cao and G.F. Li "High-Speed Random-Channel Cryptography in Multimode Fibers" https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9314050 (2021)
Alumni
PhD
Alireza Fardoost, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2023Rachel Sampson, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2023
Yuanhang Zhang, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2022
Shengli Fan, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020
Ning Wang, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2020
Huiyuan Liu, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2019
Bin Huang, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017
Cen Xia, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2015
Neng Bai, Optics Ph.D., Summer 2013
Likai Zhu, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2011
Xiaoxu Li, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2009
Gilad Goldfarb, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2008
Kevin A. Croussore, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2007
Inwoong Kim, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2006
Mohammed Al-Mumin, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2001
Weiming Mao, Electrical Engineering Ph.D., Spring 2001