Biography
Dr. Kathleen Richardson is currently Pegasus Professor of Optics and Materials Science and Engineering at CREOL/College of Optics and Photonics at the University of Central FL, where she runs the Glass Processing and Characterization Laboratory (GPCL). In 2018, she was appointed a Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) professor for her ongoing commitments to education and research supporting industry. Prof. Richardson and her research team carry out synthesis and characterization of novel glass and glass ceramic materials for optical applications, examining the role of structure/property relationships on resulting optical function and performance in bulk, planar and fiber optical materials. Dr. Richardson’s group has extensive industrial and government supported research developing novel materials for gradient refractive index (GRIN) optics, precision molded optics, evaluation of complex multi-material interactions in next-generation integrated opto-electronic chip design, and in optical nano-composites for advanced chem-bio and detection applications. Prof. Richardson’s group is a leading source of global expertise in the design, fabrication and characterization of next generation materials for use in infrared components and systems based on diverse optical applications. She has authored more than 250 peer-reviewed publications, numerous proceedings and book chapters, has a broad portfolio of IP related to these advances, and has organized and chaired multiple domestic and international meetings within her discipline.
In 2016, Dr. Richardson was appointed as Curator to the Board of Trustees for the Ernst Abbe Fund, Deutsches Stiftung, GERMANY, and was elected as an Academician of the World Academy of Ceramics. Prof. Richardson has an extensive record of prior service, previously serving on the Board of Directors of the Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) and the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), as an external advisory/scientific board member for the Savannah River National Laboratory (US Dept. of Energy), Virginia Tech’s Materials Science and Engineering Department, the NSF-ERC on Mid-Infrared Technologies for Health and the Environment (MIRTHE) at Princeton University and as part of the Australian Research Council’s Centre of Excellence for Ultrahigh-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), in Sydney Australia.
Dr. Richardson is Past-President of the American Ceramic Society (ACerS), a past-Chair of ACerS’ Glass and Optical Materials Division (GOMD) and a past-President of the National Institute of Ceramic Engineers (NICE). She presently serves on the Coordinating Technical Committee (CTC) and Advisory Committee (AC) of the International Commission on Glass (ICG).
Professor Richardson is a recognized world leader in infrared glass research and education, and because of these efforts, currently holds the rank of Fellow, in the American Ceramic Society, the Society of Glass Technology (UK), SPIE and the Optical Society of America (OSA). Since 2006, she has served as a member of the Board of Trustees at Alfred University.
Awards & Honors
- European Ceramic Society Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- American Ceramic Society (ACerS) Fellow
- Society of Glass Technology Fellow
- 2020 SPIE Maria J. Yzuel Outstanding Educator Award
- 2020 The American Ceramic Society’s Greaves-Walker Award
- 2019 The Arthur L. Friedberg Award and Lecture
- 2019 Alfred R. Cooper Lecturer Award
- 2018 Pegasus Professor Award
- 2017 Sir Richard Brooks International Award, European Ceramic Society
- 2017 George W. Morey Award, American Ceramic Society
- 2017 IDeX Visiting Scholar, Université Bordeaux (FRANCE)
- 2017 Malcolm G. McClaren Distinguished Lecturer Award Rutgers University Department of Materials Science
- 2017 Excellence in Research Award
- 2016 OSA 100th anniversary Global Women of Light panelist
- 2016 Advisory Board member, Savannah River National Laboratory
- 2016 External Advisor, EUCerMat program (EU)
- 2016 Curator, Ernst Abbe Foundation (Germany)
- 2016 Nominee, Air Force Science Advisory Board
- 2015 Academician, World Academy of Ceramics
- 2013 Indian Ceramic Society I.D. Varshnei Award
- 2009 Award for Faculty Excellence, Clemson University Board of Trustees (2005, 2007, 2009)
- 2009 Outstanding Educator Award, American Ceramic Society, Ceramic Education Council (CEC)
- 2009 Member, Tau Beta Pi Honor Society
- 2008 Samuel R. Scholes Lecture and Award, Alfred University, Kazuo Inamori School of Engineering
- 2008 Featured lecturer, SPIE Women in Optics Lecture, SPIE Photonics West meeting, San Jose CA
- 2006 Featured Scientist, in Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE), “Women in Optics”
- 2003 Society of Glass Technology (SGT), United Kingdom, Fellow
Research Group
Infrared optical glass and glass ceramics, photosensitive infrared materials, integrated MIR Planar sensors, optics manufacturing science, mid-infrared optical metrology, precision glass molding (PGM), graded index optical materials.Faculty
Scientists
Students
Publications
Y.F. Zhang, C. Fowler, J.H. Liang, B. Azhar, M.Y. Shalaginov, S. Deckoff-Jones, S.S. An, J.F.B. Chou, C.M. Roberts, V. Liberman, M.K. Kang, C. Ríos, K.A. Richardson, C. Rivero-Baleine, T. Gu, H.L. Zhang and J.J. Hu "Electrically Reconfigurable Nonvolatile Metasurface Using Low-Loss Optical Phase Change Material" Nature Nanotechnology, 16(6), pp. 661+ (2021)
Carlos Ríos, Qingyang Du, Yifei Zhang, Cosmin-Constantin Popescu, Mikhail Y. Shalaginov, Paul Miller, Christopher Roberts, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Tian Gu, Steven A. Vitale, Juejun Hu "Ultra-compact nonvolatile photonics based on electrically reprogrammable transparent phase change materials" arxiv.org 2105.06010.pdf (2021)
Thomas J. Loretz, Richard A. Loretz and Kathleen A. Richardson, "A Quantitative Method for Improved Determination of the Low Viscosity Limit in Glasses " submitted, J. Appl. Physics (2021)
Yifei Zhang, Qihang Zhang, Carlos Rios, Mikhail Shalaginov, Jeffrey Chou, Christopher Roberts, Paul Miller, Paul Robinson, Vladimir Liberman, Steven Vitale, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen Richardson, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu, "Transient tap couplers for wafer-level photonic testing based on optical phase change materials" in press, ACS Nano (2021) (2021)
M. Chazot, C. Arias, M. Kang, C. Blanco, A. Kostogiannes, J. Cook, A. Yadav, V. Rodriguez, F. Adamietz, D. Verreault, S. Danto, T. Loretz, A. Seddon, D. Furniss, K. Schepler, M.C. Richardson and K.A. Richardson "Investigation of ZnSe stability and dissolution behavior in As-S-Se chalcogenide glasses" Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, 555, A. 120619 (2021)
Q.Y. Du, Z. Li, C.P. Wang, J.H. Zou, T.J. Du, K.A. Richardson, Z.P. Cai, J.J. Hu and Z.Q. Luo "Externally pumped photonic chip-based ultrafast Raman soliton source" Laser & Photonics Review, 15(2) (2021)
F.Y. Yue, R. Piccoli, M.Y. Shalaginov, T. Gu, K.A. Richardson, R. Morandotti, J.J. Hu and L. Razzari "Nonlinear Mid-infrared Metasurface based on a Phase-Change Material " Laser & Photonics Reviews, 15(3), A. 2000373 (2021)
M.Y. Shalaginov, S. An, Y.F. Zhang, F. Yang, P. Su, V. Liberman, J.B. Chou, C.M. Roberts, M. Kang, C. Rios, Q.Y. Du, C. Fowler, A. Agarwal, K.A. Richardson, C. Rivero-Baleine, H.L. Zhang, J.J Hu and T. Gu "Reconfigurable all-dielectric metalens with diffraction limited performance" Nature Communications, 12(1), A. 1225 (2021)
M. Kang, I. Martin, R. Sharma, C. Blanco, S. Antonov, T.J. Prosa, D.J. Larson, H. Francois-Saint-Cyr, and K.A. Richardson "Unveiling True 3-D Nanoscale Morphological Evolution in Chalcogenide Nanocomposites: a Roadmap for Advanced Infrared Functionality" Advanced Optical Materials, A. 2002092 (2021)
Carlos Ríos, Yifei Zhang, Mikhail Shalaginov, Skylar Deckoff-Jones, Haozhe Wang, Sensong An, Hualiang Zhang, Myungkoo Kang, Kathleen A. Richardson, Christopher Roberts, Jeffrey Chou, Vladimir Liberman, Steven Vitale, Jing Kong, Tian Gu, Juejun Hu "Multi-level Electro-thermal Switching of Optical Phase-Change Materials Using Graphene" Advanced Photonics Research vol 2 1 (2021)
S.S. An, B.W. Zheng, H. Tang, M.Y. Shalaginov, L. Zhou, H. Li, M.K. Kang, K.A. Richardson, T. Gu, J.J. Hu, C. Fowler and H.L. Zhang "Multifunctional Metasurface Design with a Generative Adversarial Network" Advanced Optical Materials, 9(5), A. 2001433 (2021)
C.M. Schwarz, S.M. Kuebler, C. Rivero-Baleine, B. Triplett, M. Kang, Q. Altemose, C. Blanco, K.A. Richardson, Q.Y. Du, S. Deckoff-Jones, J.J. Hu, Y. Zhang, Y. Pan and C. Ríos "Structurally and morphologically engineered chalcogenide materials for optical and photonic devices" Journal of Optical Microsystems, 1(1), A. 013502 (2021)
P.L. Marasco, C. Rivero-Baleine, G. Beadie, D. Moore, K.A. Richardson, M. Ponting and J.S. Sanghera "Special section guest editorial: advances in gradient index optics technology" Optical Engineering, 59(11), A. 112601 (2020)
S.S. An, B.W. Zheng, M.Y. Shalaginov, H. Tang, H. Li, L. Zhou, J. ding, A.M. Agarwal, C. Rivero-Baleine, M. Kang, K.A. Richardson, T. Gu, J.J. Hu, C. Fowler and H.L. Zhang "A deep learning modeling approach for metasurfaces with high degrees of freedom" Optics Express, 28(21), pp. 31932-31944 (selected as editors pick) (2020)
R. Alvarado, L. Karam, R. Dahmani, A. Lepicard, F. Calzavara, A. Piarristeguy, A. Pradel, T. Cardinal, F. Adamietz, E. Fargin, M. Chazot, K.A. Richardson, L. Vellutini, and M. Dussauze "Patterning of the surface electrical potential on chalcogenide glasses by a thermo-electrical imprinting process" Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2020)
A. Yadav, M. Kang, C. Goncales, C. Blanco, R. Sharma, and K.A. Richardson "Impact of raw material surface oxide removal on dual band infrared optical properties of As2Se3 chalcogenide glass" Optical Materials Express, 10(9), pp. 2274-2288 (2020)
L. Karam, F. Adamietz, D. Michau, C. Gonçalves, M. Kang, R. Sharma, G.S. Murugan, T. Cardinal, E. Fargin, V. Rodriguez, K.A. Richardson and M. Dussauze "Electrically micro-polarized amorphous sodo-niobate film competing with crystalline lithium niobate second-order optical response" Advanced Optical Materials, 8(13), A. 2000202 (2020)
L. Karam, F. Adamietz, V. Rodriguez, F. Bondu, A. Lepicard, T. Cardinal, E. Fargin, K.A. Richardson and M. Dussauze "The effect of the sodium content on the structure and the optical properties of thermally poled niobium borophosphate glasses" Journal of Applied Physics, 128(4), A. 043106 (2020)
K.A. Richardson, M. Kang, L. Sisken, A. Yadav, S. Novak, A. Lepicard, I. Martin, H. Francois-Saint-Cyr, C.M. Schwarz, T.S. Mayer, C. Rivero-Baleine, A.J. Yee, I. Mingareev "Advances in infrared gradient refractive index (GRIN) materials: a Review" Optical Engineering 59(11), 112602 (2020)
A. Durán, L Hu, K.A. Richardson "Editorial special issue - women in glass" International Journal of Applied Glass Science 11:383–384 (2020)
Alumni
PhD
Laura Sisken, Optics Ph.D., Fall 2017Antoine Lepicard, Materials Science Ph.D., Fall 2016
Clara Rivero Baleine, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2005
Cedric Lopez, Optics Ph.D., Spring 2004
Hugues Francois-Saint-Cyr, Materials Science Ph.D., Spring 2001
MS
Daniel McGill, Optics M.S., Spring 2019Andrew Buff, Materials Science M.S., Summer 2016