Townes Laser Institute: People & Programs

Email: axel@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-1746
Office: CREOL A107

Fiber Optics Laboratory
Research in fiber fabrication technology, nano-structured fibers, nonlinear fiber materials, fiber lasers, and fiber sensing applications.

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.

Email: akar@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6921
Office: CREOL 284

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.

Email: mcr@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6819
Office: CREOL 126

Laser Plasma Laboratory
Conducting research on X-ray and EUV optics and sources, X-ray microscopy, laser-aided material processing, and laser generated plasmas.

Email: raddy@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6809
Office: CREOL A116

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.

Email: ewvs@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-222-1389
Office: CREOL 271

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.

Email: gaume@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-5683
Office: CREOL 172

Optical Ceramic
Focusing on the development of transparent polycrystalline materials offering novel functionalities for laser physics, defense, sensing, nuclear surveillance and medical applications.

Email: lbglebov@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6983
Office: CREOL 285

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.

Email: delfyett@creol.ucf.edu
Phone: 407-823-6812
Office: CREOL 272

Ultrafast Photonics
Conducting research on ultrafast high power optical pulses from semiconductor diode lasers, for applications in applied photonic networks and laserinduced materials modification.