Alumni News

Franklyn J. Quinlan ’05MS ’08PhD was honored as Distinguished Alumnus of the Year during CREOL’s annual Industrial Affiliates Symposium. He is the leader of the Precision Photonic Synthesis Group in the Time & Frequency Division at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The dawn of the Information Age and the advent of high-speed internet coincided right around the time Carl Kutsche, Ph.D., ’98, enrolled in CREOL, the College of Optics and Photonics. “I was all about optical systems—self processing, information storage, 3D holography. You could feel the energy buzzing around the growth of this field,” said Kutsche,…