Mon Sep 21
Alum Yi-Hsin Lin has been elected as an OSA Fellow at the September 2020 meeting. Yi-Hsin was PhD student in Professor Shin-Tson Wu‘s LCD research group from 2002 to 2006 and is currently a professor at National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan. Fellow citation: “For her pioneering contributions to electrically tunable liquid crystal lenses that led to widespread applications.” Prof. Yi-Hsin Lin received her…
Fri Sep 4
Graduate Student Jessica Pena attended the Siegman International School on Lasers remotely this summer and is invited to attend the 2021 school in 2021 to be held at the University of Warsaw. The Siegman International School is a week-long program that exposes students to in-depth learning of lasers and their applications from internationally recognized academic and industry leaders in the field.…
Mon Aug 31
Jessica Pena, a senior graduate student with the Laser Plasma Laboratory in the College of Optics & Photonics has been awarded a $5,000 Fellowship from the Directed Energy Professional Society for FY21. DEPS looks for students working in the DE (Directed Energy) fields of USPL (Ultra Short Pulse Lasers), HEL (High Energy Lasers) and HPM (High Power Microwave) systems. This could…
Tue Aug 25
Professor Shin-Tson Wu publishes the second edition of “Introduction to Flat Panel Displays“ Introduction to Flat Panel Displays describes the fundamental physics and materials of major flat panel display technologies including LED, OLED, LCD, PDP and FED and reflective displays. A reference for graduate students and new entrants to the display industry, the book currently covers the…
Tue Aug 25
Professor Konstantin Vodopyanov publishes a book titled “Laser-based Mid-infrared Sources and Applications“ Laser-based Mid-infrared Sources and Applications gives a comprehensive overview of the existing methods for generating coherent light in the important yet difficult-to-reach mid-infrared region of the spectrum (2–20 μm) and their applications. The book describes major approaches for mid-infrared light generation including ion-doped solid-state lasers,…
Fri Aug 21
University of Central Florida researchers are making the cutting-edge field of attosecond science more accessible to researchers from all disciplines. Their method to help open up the field is detailed in a new study published today in the journal Science Advances. An attosecond is one billionth of a billionth of a second, and the ability to…
Mon Aug 10
Ayman Abouraddy, a professor in UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. “The idea of this new award invokes a comparison to a not too dissimilar situation from ours today that arose in England in 1665,” Abouraddy says. “A plague…
Thu Aug 6
University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn’t follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels. The findings, which were published recently in Nature Photonics, could have huge implications for optical communication and laser technologies. “This new class of laser beams has unique properties that are not shared…
Mon Aug 3
A paper “A Monolithically Integrated Racetrack Colliding-Pulse Mode-Locked Laser With Pulse-Picking Modulator” by Professor Peter Delfyett‘s Ultrafast Photonics group, in colaboration with Infinera, made the front cover of IEEE JQE August Issue. This work presents a novel InP-based Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) that monolithically integrates a racetrack mode-locked laser with a pulse-picking modulator and an optical amplifier. In addition, monolithic…
Tue Jul 21
In a new article “Monolithic Chalcogenide Optical Nanocomposites Enable Infrared System Innovation: Gradient Refractive Index (GRIN) Optics” published in Advanced Optical Materials, a collaborative team, led by Professor Kathleen A. Richardson (corresponding author) and Dr. Myungkoo Kang (lead author) from the College of Optics and Photonics, reported a first-ever integrated approach to the design-processing-structure-property-performance relationship enabling cutting-edge manufacturing capabilities for…
Mon Jul 20
Professor Shin-Tson Wu’s paper “Liquid crystal display and organic light-emitting diode display: present status and future perspectives” has been selected as an outstanding paper in 2019 for Nature’s Light: Science & Applications. Recently, ‘Liquid crystal display (LCD) vs. organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display: who wins?’ has become a topic of heated debate. In this review, we perform a…
Thu Jul 16
In a new paper “Mini-LED, Micro-LED and OLED displays: present status and future perspectives” published in Light: Science & Application, a team of scientists, led by Professor Shin-Tson Wu from the College of Optics and Photonics, conducted a comprehensive analysis of the performance of emerging display technologies used in smartphones, tablets, desktop monitors, TVs and more. The article…
Wed Jul 15
AUniversity of Central Florida researcher has received a $2.5 million U.S. Department of Defense grant to continue his research to conceal and manipulate the energy that materials emit. The work has implications in creating nighttime camouflage that conceals objects from infrared vision, as well as in methods for anticounterfeiting, tagging and energy management. “Any material…
Tue Jul 7
Professor Miguel Bandres et al has published a paper “Observation of branched flow of light” in Nature. “When waves propagate through a weak disordered potential with correlation length larger than the wavelength, they form channels (branches) of enhanced intensity that keep dividing as the waves propagate. This fundamental wave phenomenon is known as branched flow. It was first…
Mon Jul 6
The University of Central Florida has launched 11 new graduate programs in direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The programs, which begin in the Fall 2020 semester, offer candidates a short series of courses that were specifically woven together to provide useful tools when facing COVID-19 related-challenges. The certificates, tracks and special topics courses cover…
Thu Jun 11
Professor Peter Delfyett has been chosen as the recipient of the IEEE Photonics Society William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award for 2020. The William Streifer Scientific Achievement Award was established to recognize an exceptional single scientific contribution which has had a significant impact in the field of lasers and electro-optics in the past ten years. He has been chosen…
Thu Jun 4
UCF researchers have created new technology to display color that uses nanoscale structures inspired by butterflies and other animals. Taking inspiration from nature’s nanotech that creates the stunning color of butterfly wings, a University of Central Florida researcher is creating technology to make extremely low-power, ultra-high-definition displays and screens that are easier on the eyes.…
Thu May 21
Today, SPIE, the international society of optics and photonics, announced a $125,000 matching gift to UCF. The $125,000 in funding from SPIE is a match to a gift from UCF Professor M.J. Soileau and his wife, Cheryl. Combined, the gifts will create the Soileau Family-SPIE Optics and Photonics Undergraduate Scholarship Fund for undergraduate students in…
Wed May 13
Graduate student Tao Zhan wins 2020 SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship. Winners are selected based on their “prospect for long-term contribution that the granting of an award will make to the field of optics, photonics or related field.” Kate Medicus, the 2020 Scholarship Committee Chair, noted, “Congratulations to the winners of the SPIE 2020 Education Scholarships! The…
Wed May 6
Graduate Student student Grace Fangwang Gou from Dr. Shin-Tson Wu‘s LCD group, has won the 2019 JSID Best Paper of the year award for the paper titled “High performance color‐converted micro‐LED displays.” There is only one such award each year.