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
Kwadwo Opong-Mensah
Optics Ph.D.
Steven Silverio
Optics Ph.D.
Undergraduate Research Assistants
There are currently no people listed for this position.
Publications
Smith-Dryden, S (Smith-Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Nyaupane, P (Nyaupane, Parashu) [1] ; Spitz, O (Spitz, Oliver) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] , [2] ; Braiman, Y (Braiman, Yehuda) [1] , [2] "Phase-locking and brightness enhancement of a broad-area blue laser diode array" Optics Letters, Volume: 50, Issue: 21, Page: 6774-6777 2025
Klein, AB (Klein, Andrew B.) [1] ; Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Silverio, S (Silverio, Steven) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Pang, S (Pang, Shuo) [1] "Extended Kalman filter demonstrated with a reconfigurable analog photonic neural network" Optics Express, Volume: 33, Issue: 18, Page: 37334-37342 2025
Milbocker, L (Milbocker, Luke) [1] ; Desai, D (Desai, Dhruvkumar) [2] ; Shu, H (Shu, Hong) [3] ; Cristobal, E (Cristobal, Enrique) [3] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [2] ; Lyakh, A (Lyakh, Arkadiy) [4] , [5] , [6]
"Design of High Brightness Tree-Array Quantum Cascade Lasers With Broad Area Ridge Waveguides and Multimode Interference Couplers"
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, Volume: 31 Issue: 2
Article Number 1200307 2025
Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Sarma, R (Sarma, Raktim) [2] ; Smith-Dryden, S (Smith-Dryden, Seth) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Pang, SS (Pang, Shuo S.) [1] "Mode-multiplexed photonic integrated vector dot-product core from inverse design
" Photonics Research, Volume: 12, Issue: 10, Page: 2279-2287, Year: 2024 2024
Sobhanan, A (Sobhanan, Aneesh) [1] ; Fardoost, A (Fardoost, Alireza) [1] ; Desai, D (Desai, Dhruvkumar) [1] ; Vanani, FG (Vanani, Fatemeh Ghaedi) [1] ; Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Pang, SS (Pang, Shuo S.) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] "Photonic floating point multiplication using cascaded SSB-SC modulation
" Optics Express, Volume: 32, Issue: 22, Page: 39177-39191, Year: 2024 2024
Klein, AB (Klein, Andrew B.) [1] ; Zhu, ZY (Zhu, Zheyuan) [1] ; Li, GF (Li, Guifang) [1] ; Pang, S (Pang, Shuo) [1] "Floating-point photonic iterative solver demonstrated for Newton-Raphson method" Applied Physics Letters, Volume: 125, Issue: 12, Year: 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
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
Alumni
PhD
Fatemeh Ghaedi Vanani, PhD, Summer 2024
Alireza Fardoost, PhD, Summer 2023
Rachel Sampson, PhD, Spring 2023
Yuanhang Zhang, PhD, Fall 2022
Shengli Fan, PhD, Fall 2020
Ning Wang, PhD, Fall 2020
Huiyuan Liu, PhD, Fall 2019
Bin Huang, PhD, Fall 2017
Cen Xia, PhD, Summer 2015
Neng Bai, PhD, Summer 2013
Likai Zhu, PhD, Fall 2011
Xiaoxu Li, PhD, Fall 2009
Gilad Goldfarb, PhD, Fall 2008
Kevin A. Croussore, PhD, Fall 2007
Inwoong Kim, PhD, Spring 2006
Mohammed Al-Mumin, PhD, Spring 2001
Weiming Mao, PhD, Spring 2001
MS
Andrew Howe, MS, Fall 2023
Ning Wang, MS, Summer 2020
Alireza Fardoost, MS, Fall 2019
Samuel Nunez, MS, Fall 2019
Rachel Sampson, MS, Fall 2019
Yuanhang Zhang, MS, Spring 2019
Christian Carboni, MS, Spring 2016
Gregor Matz, MS, Fall 2014
Bin Huang, MS, Summer 2013
Neng Bai, MS, Spring 2013
Cen Xia, MS, Summer 2012
Erdem Erden, MS, Fall 2011
Gregory Eskridge, MS, Fall 2009
Likai Zhu, MS, Fall 2009
Andreas Schmidt, MS, Fall 2008
Ivan Carlos Vivanco, MS, Summer 2007
Gilad Goldfarb, MS, Fall 2005
Wie Yuan, MS, Spring 2001
Corey LaPine, MS, Spring 2000
Julio C. Martinez, MS, Spring 1999