![Peter J. Delfyett](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Peter-J-Delfyett.jpg)
Dr. Peter J. Delfyett
Director, Townes Laser Institute; University Trustee Chair, Pegasus Professor of Optics & Photonics, ECE & Physics;
Email: delfyett@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6812
Office: CREOL A231
Ultrafast Photonics
Conducting research on ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks and laserinduced materials modification.
![Axel Schülzgen](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Axel-Schülzgen.jpg)
Dr. Axel Schülzgen
Professor of Optics
Fiber Optics Lab
Email: axel@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-1746
Office: CREOL A107
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/fiber_optics.jpg)
Fiber Optics Laboratory
Research in fiber fabrication technology, nano-structured fibers, nonlinear fiber materials, fiber lasers, and fiber sensing applications.
![Zenghu Chang](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Zenghu-Chang.jpg)
Dr. Zenghu Chang
Professor of Physics & Optics
Email: zechang@mail.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-4442
Office: CREOL 413
Florida Attosecond Science & Technology
Generation of attosecond (10-18 s) and zeptosecond (10-21 s) x-ray pulses. The Double Optical Gating method is refined to generate shorter and stronger single isolated attosecond pulses with both few-cycle and multicycle lasers.
![Aravinda Kar](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Aravinda-Kar.jpg)
Dr. Aravinda Kar
Professor of Optics, MMAE, ECE & Physics
Email: akar@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6921
Office: CREOL 284
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/karLab.jpg)
Laser Advanced Materials Processing
Engaged in novel manufacturing technology; new materials synthesis including optical, electronic and magnetic materials for a variety of applications such as sensors, detectors and medical devices; and process physics modeling.
![Martin C. Richardson](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Martin-C-Richardson.jpg)
Dr. Martin Richardson
Founding Director of the Townes Laser Institute, Pegasus Professor, University Trustee Chair, Northrop Grumman Professor, Prof of Optics & Photonics, Physics and Electrical & Computer Engineering
Email: mcr@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6819
Office: CREOL 126
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/lpl.jpg)
Laser Plasma Laboratory
Conducting research on X-ray and EUV optics and sources, X-ray microscopy, laser-aided material processing, and laser generated plasmas.
![Ayman Abouraddy](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/10/Ayman-Abouraddy.jpg)
Dr. Ayman Abouraddy
Professor of Optics & Photonics
Email: raddy@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6809
Office: CREOL A116
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/optical_fiber_device.jpg)
Multi-material Optical Fiber Devices
Research on novel optical fiber structures, nanophotonics, fiber-based optoelectronic devices, optical imaging using large-scale three-dimensional arrays constructed from photosensitive fibers, and mid-infrared fiber nonlinear optics.
![Eric W. Van Stryland](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Eric-W-Van-Stryland-e1566852190494.jpg)
Dr. Eric W. Van Stryland
Emeritus Dean and Professor of Optics & Photonics
Email: ewvs@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-222-1389
Office: CREOL 271
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/vanStrylandLab.jpg)
Nonlinear Optics
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.
![Romain Gaume](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Romain-Gaume.jpg)
Dr. Romain Gaume
Associate Professor of Optics & Photonics, NanoScience Technology Center
Email: gaume@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5683
Office: CREOL 172
![OML_OpenHouse_1 OML_OpenHouse_1](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/elementor/thumbs/OML_OpenHouse_1-qo9hqylyzw4lzgnrhnjozktbru1rgdxkx0a5r8l59s.jpg)
Optical Ceramic
Focusing on the development of transparent polycrystalline materials offering novel functionalities for laser physics, defense, sensing, nuclear surveillance and medical applications.
![Leonid B. Glebov](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Leonid-B-Glebov.jpg)
Dr. Leonid B. Glebov
Research Professor of Optics & Photonics
Email: lbglebov@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6983
Office: CREOL 285
![](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/05/glebov_group.jpg)
Photoinduced Processing
Conducting rigorous analysis, design, and demonstration of diffractive and holographic optical elements, subwavelength grating structures and their applications, E-M theory of grating diffraction, holographic optical information processing and storage, volume holography.
![Rodrigo Amezcua Correa](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Rodrigo-Amezcua-Correa.jpg)
Dr. Rodrigo Amezcua Correa
Assistant Research Professor
Email: rodrigo.amezcuacorrea @creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6853
Office: CREOL A118
![Matthieu Baudelet](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Matthieu-Baudelet.jpg)
Dr. Matthieu Baudelet
Assistant Research Professor
Email: baudelet@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6910
Office: Partnership I, Office 316B
![Larry C. Andrews](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Larry-C-Andrews.jpg)
Dr. Lawrence Andrews
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
Email: larry.andrews@ucf.edu
Office: 125 Math & Physics
![Ronald L. Phillips](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Ronald-L-Phillips.jpg)
Dr. Ronald Philips
Emeritus Professor of ECE and Mathematics
Email: Ronald.Phillips@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-579-5893
Office: TISTEF Site, KSC
![Kathleen A. Richardson](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Kathleen-A-Richardson.jpg)
Dr. Kathleen A. Richardson
Pegasus Professor of Optics & Photonics, Materials Science and Engineering
Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Professor
Email: kcr@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6815
Office: CREOL A110
![William Silfvast](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/William-Silfvast.jpg)
Dr. William Silfvast
Emeritus Professor of Optics
Email: silfvast@creol.ucf.edu
![M.J. Soileau](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/MJ-Soileau.jpg)
Dr. M.J. Soileau
University Distinguished Professor of Optics & Photonics, ECE & Physics
Email: MJ@ucf.edu
Phone: 407-443-3808
Office: CREOL A219
![Konstantin L. Vodopyanov](https://creol.ucf.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2018/11/Konstantin-L-Vodopyanov.jpg)
Dr. Konstantin L. Vodopyanov
21st Century Scholar Chair, Professor of Optics & Photonics, and Physics
Email: vodopyanov@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6818
Office: CREOL A113