Research Highlights – CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

UCF-developed Real-time Blood Monitor Saves Doctors Critical Time During Surgery

April 11, 2022

An innovative device developed by University of Central Florida and Orlando Health researchers can save doctors critical time during life-or-death operations, like heart surgery. Their

International Optics Leader Opens Application Lab in CREOL, Joins UCF Business Incubation Program

January 27, 2022

A unique new academic-industrial alliance between UCF and ficonTEC, a global leader in photonics manufacturing, is expected to bring a boost to the region and

Paper Evaluates Emerging Technologies For Advancing AR/VR

November 5, 2021

Proposals from CREOL Professor Shin-Tson Wu, Ph.D., to slim down and evolve augmented and virtual reality displays are the subject of a new feature in

3 UCF Graduate Students Awarded National Scholarships, More Than Any Other Institution in the Nation

October 4, 2021

BY ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA The Directed Energy Professional Society (DEPS) recently awarded three UCF graduate students scholarships worth up to $10,000 to continue their work

Delfyett to be Inducted into the National Academy of Engineering

September 30, 2021

When Peter Delfyett first fell in love with science during elementary school, he imagined he would grow up to be a paleontologist. Instead, the Pegasus

Distinguished Life Member Status Earns Professor Spot in American Ceramic Society Publication

August 25, 2021

The September edition of the American Ceramic Society’s (ACerS) Bulletin publication features Pegasus Professor Kathleen Richardson, Ph.D., one of three people recognized in 2021 as

UCF Awarded Its First Keck Foundation $1 Million Grant

August 18, 2021

By ROBERT WELLS One of the nation’s largest philanthropic organizations – the W. M. Keck Foundation – has awarded the University of Central Florida a

UCF Researchers Awarded SEED Funding to Investigate Nano and Digital Technologies

July 12, 2021

By ZENAIDA GONZALEZ KOTALA Five UCF researchers have been awarded more than $450,000 in SEED funding thanks to a new collaboration between the UCF Office

Florida Python Hunters May Have a New Tool Thanks to Optics Research at UCF

June 9, 2021

Special small, mobile cameras help detect more snakes and could lead to an automated python tracker.

UCF Researchers Earn Top Spots in Their Fields in New Ranking of Scientific Impact

December 16, 2020

Three University of Central Florida researchers are among the world’s top 25 scholars in their field, and 100 are in the top 2%, according to

Light Guiding by Artificial Gauge Fields

December 31, 2019

Gauge fields are a fundamental concept in physics, describing the basic interactions between charged particles. For example, electrons interact with each other through its gauge

Novel mid-infrared lasers for driving “water window” attosecond sources

December 31, 2019

The advent of femtosecond Ti:Sapphire lasers in the 1990s leads to the first demonstration for attosecond light in 2001. With commercially available lasers centered at