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Optics & Photonics Research

CREOL faculty, scientists and students pioneer collaborative and multi-disciplinary research that enables impactful technologies for widespread and cross-cutting applications. Home to world-class research centers and cutting-edge facilities, CREOL is renowned as a global leader in optics and photonics. Research at the college is enriched by the high-tech industrial ecosystem in central Florida that provides synergistic partnership opportunities.

Research focus areas include:

  • Laser Science & Technology
  • Fiber Optics
  • Nonlinear & Quantum Optics
  • Integrated & Nano Photonics
  • Imaging & Display
  • Biophotonics

Laser Science & Technology

Once described as a “solution looking for a problem,” lasers have found themselves as a ubiquitous piece of technology found in a vast array of technologies. The ability to generate a single frequency beam of intense light with either a narrow spatial or temporal bandwidth has created new frontiers to be explored in every scientific field. Lasers have been one of the central technological developments responsible for revolutions in communications, defense, manufacturing, and medicine. Today, lasers are everywhere: from research laboratories to our personal vehicles; from Mars to the moons of Jupiter; from medical clinics to the places we shop, work, and live.

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Research Group Faculty Director
Laser Plasma Laboratory Martin Richardson
Mid-Infrared Combs Group Konstantin Vodopyanov
Laser-Advanced Manufacturing Aravinda Kar
Plasmonics & Applied Quantum Optics Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Glass Processing Lab Kathleen Richardson
Fiber Optics Axel Schulzgen
Ultrafast Laser Processing Xiaoming Yu
Optical Ceramics Romain Gaume
Photoinduced Processing Leonid Glebov
Nonlinear Optics David Hagan
Nonlinear Optics Eric Van Stryland
Microstructured Fibers and Devices Rodrigo Amezcua
Florida Attosecond Science & Technology Zenghu Chang
Ultrafast Photonics Peter Delfyett
Semiconductor Diode Lasers Yehuda Braiman

Fiber-Optics

Fiber optics allows us to transport and distribute optically encoded information over long distances with low losses as well as to collect and manipulate optical signals. Advances in optical fiber have revolutionized the fields of communication and information processing and continued research in materials science and optical engineering will aid in the development of next generation devices. In addition to telecommunication, modern fibers can be found as an integral component in many applications such as lighting and display hardware, lasers, and sensors.

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Research Group Faculty Director
Optical Fiber Communications Guifang Li
Fiber Optics Axel Schülzgen
Microstructured Fibers and Devices Rodrigo Amezcua-Correa
Multi-material Optical Fiber Devices Ayman Abouraddy
Nonlinear Waves Demetrios Christodoulides
Laser Plasma Laboratory Martin Richardson

Non-linear & Quantum Optics

Nonlinear optics deals with the behavior of intense light in media exhibiting nonlinear response to the applied optical field. It enables wavelength conversion and multiphoton absorption, and plays essential roles in optical telecommunication, nonlinear microscopy and spectroscopy, and attosecond science. Quantum optics is concerned with light-matter interaction phenomena requiring quantum-mechanical description. It includes processing of quantum information at the photon level, and supports applications ranging from ultrasensitive measurement and secure communication to computing.

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Research Group Faculty Director
Nonlinear Optics Eric Van Stryland
Nonlinear Optics David Hagan
Nanophotonics & Near-field Optics Pieter Kik
Nanophotonic Materials Group Stephen Kuebler
Optical Fiber Communications Group Guifang Li
Multiple Quantum Wells Patrick LiKamWa
Nonlinear Optics Group M.J. Soileau
Integrated Photonic Emerging Solutions Sasan Fathpour
Multi-material Optical Fiber Devices Ayman Abouraddy
Theoretical Attosecond Spectroscopies Luca Argenti
Nonlinear Waves Demetri Christodoulides
Mid-Infrared Combs Group Konstantin Vodopyanov
Semiconductor Diode Lasers Yehuda Braiman

Integrated & Nano Photonics

Optoelectronics enables the bi-directional conversion of energy between photons and electrons to generate, absorb and manipulate light within the context of electronic systems. Example devices include LEDs, semiconductor lasers, modulators, photodetectors, and solar cells. Integrated photonics combines such passive and active devices to make optics seamlessly integrated with electronics to revolutionize communication, information processing, sensing and imaging systems.

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Research Group Faculty Director
Plasmonics & Applied Quantum Optics Mercedeh Khajavikhan
Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics Pieter Kik
Nanophotonic Materials Stephen Kuebler
Multiple Quantum Wells Patrick LiKamWa
Knight Vision Lab Kyle Renshaw
Photonic Structures and Devices Jim Moharam
Glass Processing and Characterization Lab Kathleen Richardson
Nanophotonics Device Winston Schoenfeld
Liquid Crystal Displays Shin-Tson Wu
Integrated Photonic Emerging Solutions Sasan Fathpour
Photoinduced Processing Leonid Glebov

Imaging & Display

Optical sensing, imaging, and display involve the acquisition, manipulation, and presentation of optical information by use of optical irradiance, phase, coherence, polarization, luminescence, in one or more dimensions. The research in this area synergizes device development and signal processing. Optical sensing and imaging have unique advantages in biomedical imaging and industrial metrology, due to the non-invasive and high-specific nature of the visible light; display technologies, including solid-state lighting and liquid crystal display, play an major role in today’s advancement in consumer electronics and entertainment industry.

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Research Group Faculty Director
Liquid Crystal Displays Shin-Tson Wu
Optical Imaging System Laboratory Sean Pang
Knight Vision Lab Kyle Renshaw
Quantum Optics Bahaa Saleh
Nanophotonics Device Group Winston Schoenfeld
Mid-Infrared Combs Group Konstantin Vodopyanov
Optical Nanoscopy Kyu Younng Han
Photonics Diagnostics of Random Media Aristide Dogariu

Biophotonics

Biophotonics is a multidisciplinary research area where light-based methods are utilized to understand and manipulate biological processes. Research in this area involves development of novel techniques to diagnose and/or treat a variety of diseases. 

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Research Group Faculty Director
Photonics of Random Media Aristide Dogariu
Optical Imaging System Lab Sean Pang
Optical Nanoscopy Kyu Young Han

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