Biography
M.J. Soileau received his PhD in Quantum Electronics from the University of Southern California. He is Emeritus Professor of Optics, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Physics at UCF and, for 17 years, served as the university’s Vice President for Research and Commercialization. His research interests include the nonlinear optical properties of materials and laser-induced damage. He is a Fellow of IEEE, the SPIE–The International Optical Engineering Society, and the Optical Society of America.
Awards & Honors
- American Association for the Advancement of Sciences Fellow
- IEEE Photonics Society Life Fellow
- Optical Society of America (OSA) Fellow
- International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) Fellow
- 2016 Foreign Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- 2016 Florida Inventors Hall of Fame
- 2013 National Academy of Inventors Fellow
- 2008 2008 SPIE Gold Medal Award
- 2007 OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award
Research Group
Conducting research on a variety of nonlinear optical effects, materials, and devices including nonlinear interactions in waveguides, nonlinear signal processing, optical power limiting, and characterizing materials response at picosecond and nanosecond scales.Faculty
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Publications
N. Mansour, M.J. Soileau, and Eric W. Van Stryland "Picosecond Damage in Y2O3 Stabilized Cubic Zirconia" in Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials, NBS special publication 727, 31 (1984). (2022) PDF
M.J. Soileau, William E. Williams, and Eric W. Van Stryland, "Self-Focusing in Damage Experiments Revisited" in Laser Induced Damage in Optical Materials, NBS special publication 727, 394-403 (1984). (2022) PDF
B.Y. Zhou, H. Cheng, M.J. Soileau and X.M. Yu "Generating bursts of femtosecond laser pulses with a tunable delay and envelope in a folded Michelson interferometer" Applied Optics, 60(20), pp. 5867-5872 (2021)
Y.J. Chai, X.M. Yu, H. Cheng, Z.H. Chang, L. Tetard, M. Bass and M.J. Soileau "Surface structure evolution and Raman response for multipulse, few-cycle, laser damaged ZnSe" Optics Express, 29(10), pp. 15023-15030 (2021) PDF
B. Zhou, A. Kar, M.J. Soileau and X.M. Yu "Invariance of the r2-ln(F) relationship and attainable precision in ultrafast laser ablation experiments" Optics Express, 29(4), pp. 5635-5643 (2021) PDF
Y.J. Chai, X. Yu, H. Cheng, A. Chew, Z. Chang, M. Bass and M.J. Soileau "Single-shot intense few-cycle pulse interaction with polycrystalline ZnSe" Optics Letters, 45(12), pp. 3216-3219 (2020) PDF
B.Y. Zhou, A. Rahaman, X.P. Du, H. Cheng, A. Kar, M.J. Soileau and X. Yu "Laser processing of dielectrics using spatiotemporally tuned ultrashort pulses" Journal of Laser Applications, 32, 022041:1-7 (2020) PDF
B.Y. Zhou, A. Kar, M.J. Soileau, and X. Yu "Reducing feature size in femtosecond laser ablation of fused silica by exciton-seeded photoionization" Optics Letters, 45(7), pp. 1994-1997 (2020)
M.J. Soileau "CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics: a historical perspective" Applied Optics, 58(13), pp. ED3-ED6 (2019)
A.A. Said, T. Xia, A. Dogariu, D.J. Hagan, M. J. Soileau, E. Van Stryland, and M. Mohebi "Measurement of Optical Damage Threshold in Fused Quartz" Applied Optics, 34, 3374-6 (1995) PDF
M. Sheik- bahae, A.A. Said, D.J. Hagan, M.J. Soileau, and E.W. Van Stryland "Nonlinear Refraction and Optical Limiting in “Thick” Media" Opt. Eng. 30, 1228-1235 (1991) PDF
Nastaran Mansour, Kamjou Mansour, E.W. Van Stryland, and M.J. Soileau "Diffusion of Color Centers Generated by Two-Photon-Absorption at 532nm in Cubic Zirconia" Journal of Applied Physics 67, 1475-1477 (1990) PDF
Nastaran Mansour, Kamjou Mansour, E.W. Van Stryland, and M.J. Soileau "Diffusion of Color Centers Generated by Two-Photon-Absorption at 532nm in Cubic Zirconia" Journal of Applied Physics 67, 1475-1477 (1990). (1989) PDF
M.J. Soileau, William E. Williams, Nastaran Mansour, and E.W. Van Stryland "Laser-Induced-Damage and the Role of Self-Focusing" Opt. Eng. 28, 1133-1144 (1989). (1989) PDF
E.W. Van Stryland, Y.Y. Wu, D.J. Hagan, M.J. Soileau, and Kamjou Mansour "Optical Limiting with Semiconductors" JOSA B5, 1980-89 (1988) PDF
Mehrdad Mohebi, M.J. Soileau, and E.W. Van Stryland "Resolution of Discrepancies in Measurements of n2 in CS2 at 10 µm" Opt. Lett. 13, 649 (1988) PDF
D.J. Hagan, E.W. Van Stryland, M.J. Soileau, and Y.Y. Wu "Self-Protecting Semiconductor Optical Limiters" Opt. Lett. 13, 315 (1988) PDF
Mehrdad Mohebi, M.J. Soileau, and E.W. Van Stryland "The Effect of Linear Absorption on Self-Focusing" Opt. Lett. 13, 758 (1988) PDF
M.J. Soileau, J. Tyminsky, N. Mansour, E. Canto, E.W. Van Stryland, S. Guha, E.J. Sharp, G.L. Wood, and J.L.W. Pohlmann "Nonlinear Optical Properties of Bi-Phenyl Compounds" accepted for publication in Mol. Cryst. Liq. Cryst. (1986)
Eric W. Van Stryland, Shekhar Guha, H. Vanherzeele, M.A. Woodall, M.J. Soileau, and Brian S. Wherrett "Verification of the Scaling Rule for Two-Photon Absorption in Semiconductors" Optica Acta 33, 381-386 (1986) PDF