The College of Optics and Photonics

CREOLThe College of Optics & Photonics

The College of Optics and Photonics


CREOLThe College of Optics and Photonics

Industrial Affiliates Day2010


Prof. William T. RhodesDepartment of Comp & Elect Engrng & Comp Science

Florida Atlantic University

Industrial Affiliates Day Sponsors


Industrial Affiliates Day Exhibitors


Symposium Invited Speakers

Samuel T. HessAssociate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Institute for Molecular BiophysicsUniversity of Maine

Zenghu ChangErnest K. and Lillian E. Chapin

Professor of PhysicsKansas State University

UCF

Nader EnghetaH. Nedwill Ramsey ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania

Department of Electrical and Systems EngineeringPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania

David MillerW.M. Keck Foundation Professor

Stanford UniversityDepartment of Electrical

Engineering


Panelists

Nader EnghetaH. Nedwill Ramsey ProfessorUniversity of Pennsylvania

Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Paul DrzaicSenior Advisor

Liquidia Technologies

Samuel T. HessAssociate Professor

Department of Physics and Astronomy

Institute for Molecular BiophysicsUniversity of Maine

Ralph JamesPresident, SPIE

Brookhaven National Lab

David MillerW.M. Keck Foundation Professor

Department of Electrical EngineeringStanford University

James PearsonProfessor (retired)

CREOLUniversity of Central Florida


Optics at the Limit

Program


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Brief History

Center for Research & Education in Optics and Lasers

1987 CREOL founded

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The Founders

MJ Soileau

Eric Van Stryland

David Hagan Jim Moharam Karl Guenther1947-1994


2004 College of Optics & Photonics founded First in the US

Vision

Be the nation’s leader in education, research, scholarship in OS&E

& aid in the development of Florida’s technology-based industries


Two New Centers:

Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE)

Eric Van Stryland

2005Nanophotonics, Biophotonics, Imaging & Display

Townes Laser Institute (TLI)

Martin Richardson

2006Lasers, Industrial & Medical Applications


Progress at the Townes Laser Institute

Expansion into Optical Fibers and Fiber FabricationProfessor Axel Schulzgen joined Sept 2009Fiber facility under construction (one of three towers operating)Two Research Professor positions open

Search is opened for Faculty in Ceramic Laser MaterialsOne tenure/track and two Research Professor positions sought

Collaboration Agreement signed with FraunhoferInstitutePartnership in lasers and laser materials processingNew team headed by Dr Ilja Mingareev at Townes InstituteFour students (2 German, 2 US)

Townes Institute moves into AttoscienceProfessor Zenghu Chang to move to UCF this summerJoint position with Physics Department

LLNL

Townes Institute websitewww.townes.ucf.edu

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Advanced Materials Processing & Analysis Center

Other College & Centers

College of Engineering &Computer Science

College of Science

College of Medicine

NanoScience Technology Center


Faculty & Staff

Admin Staff 18

Research Scientists 32

Faculty 24 Faculty with joint appointments 14

Visiting Scientists 38

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Overview of the College


Faculty Distinctions

Kingslake Medal & Prize (Boreman) Gold Medal (Soileau) BACUS Prize (Saleh)Stokes Award (Wu) Gabor Award (Glebov)

Born Award Zel’dovich)Holonyak Award, (Deppe)Wood Prize (Stegeman)Beller Award (Soileau, Saleh) Distinguished Service (Saleh)Fraunhofer Prize (Wu)

Abbe Medal (Riza)

Engineering Achievement Award (Deppe)

19 Fellows 9 Fellows

5 Fellows10 Fellows

2 Fellows

1 FellowRajchman Prize (Wu)


Editors-in-Chief

J. of the Optical Society of America B (1984-1987)J. of Optical Society of America A (1991-1997)Applied Optics/Optical Technology (1998-2003)Applied Optics (2000-2005)IEEE J of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics (2001-2006)IEEE/LEOS Newsletter (1995-2000)Advances in Optics & Photonics (2008-present)Journal of Materials Research (2007-present)IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology (2004-2008)

M. BassB. SalehG. BoremanG. BoremanP. DelfyettP. DelfyettB. SalehW. SchoenfeldS.T. Wu


Scholarship2009 Publications

172Optics Express 20Optics Letters 11Applied Phys Lett 10IEEE PTL 9J of Phys Chem 7Phys Rev Letters 6Applied Optics 6IEEE JSTQE 5Optics Comm 5SID 5JOSA A/B 4Nature Pho/Phys 2Nano Letters 2


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110 PhD Students (60% international)10 PhD degrees 30 MS degrees

Graduate Program

Numerous student awardsExcellent job offers

Active student chapters


NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)

• Brings students from all over USA to work in CREOL labs.

• First International Optics REUUS, France, Germany & Ireland

Planning a BS Degree in EE with Photonics SpecializationConsidering a BS Degree in Photonics

Undergraduate Programs


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Utility Applications

Patents Issued


• CRYSTAL PHOTONICS(donated e-microscope)

• Beam• Laser Classics

(laser crystals)• OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS• LIGHT PROCESSING TECH• Laser Energetics• POLARA• Applied Photonics• NUONICS (Riza)

• OPTIUM

SPINOFFs Raydiance (loaned laser, 6 PhDs hired) FEMTOPTICS OPTIGRATE BD Displays – Bass/Deppe

Medical Lighting Solutions (Schoenfeld)

SD Photonics LTD.-Deppe/Freisem Tera Byte Mining-Delfyett Coherent Photonics-Li Speckodyne-Dogariu LP Photonics-Richardson

Entrepreneurial Activities


Partnership with Florida’s Photonics Industries

Supports the growth and profitability of the photonics industry in Florida

106 photonics companies$2.2 Billion in annualrevenues

148 photonics companies16,000 Employees$4 Billion in annual revenues

Central Florida


Industrial Affiliates Members (64)

Life Members (5)

Cobb Family FoundationNorthrop GrummanNufernMemoriam Members:

Dr. William SchwartzDr. Arthur H. Guenther

Medallion Members (7)Agilent Technologies Breault ResearchNorthrop Grumman Laser Systems Optical Research AssociatesPowerlase Limited Paul G. Suchoski, Jr. Zemax Development

Coherent,CST of AmericaEdmund OpticsER Precision OpticalLambda Research Corp

Optimax SystemsTektronix TRUMPFVectronixVeecoZygo

LAS-CADNewportLockheed Martin Ocean OpticsOpt-E

Senior Members (16)

Affiliate Members (38)AerotechAmerican PhotonicsAnalog Modules Applicote AssociatesThe Boeing CompanyDILAS Diode Laser, Inc.DRS TechnologiesFastPulse Technologies Inc.Gooch & HousegoHarris Corporation HORIBA Jobin YvonInsight TechnologyJENOPTIKLIA

LaserPath Technologies Lee LaserLIMOLockheed Martin Coherent TechLuna Innovations, Inc.MZA AssociatesOKO Technologies Olympus Industrial Ophir-SpiriconOSAOptigratePhotonics Spectra Photonics Online Quantum Technology Inc.

Quioptic LinosR-Soft Design Group Ray Williamson Consulting SciperioSPIETower Optical Corporation TwinStarVeeco Instruments Vytran LLC Yokogawa Corp of America



A bird’s-eye view of research


IRVisible

THzUV & X-ray

Research @ CREOL


IndustrialComputing

Medical

Biology

Security

Defense

TelecomFiber Optics

Lasers

Technology & Applications

Imaging, Sensing & Display

Nonlinear &Quantum Optics

Semiconductor & Integrated Optics


Lasers

Ultrafast Lasers Optical Freq Combs High Power Lasers

IR Lasers EUV & X-ray Lasers

Solid State Lasers Ceramic Lasers Fiber Lasers Semiconductor Lasers

Laser & Plasma Laboratory Laser Fabrication & Lithography Laser Material Processing Lasers in Medicine

Applications


Lasers Ultrafast Lasers Optical Freq Combs

Worlds’ lowest noise multi-GHz stabilized optical comb source.

• 1.1 ps pulse width• 50 dB optical comb tine OSNR.• ~500 Hz comb tine linewidth• < 150 kHz max freq deviation in 30 s. • 3 fs timing jitter

Mode-locked system with ultra-high Q cavity, F=1000 etalon, and stabilization

Peter Delfyett


Peter Delfyett with Congresswoman Kosmas & Assistant Secretary of Commerce Fernandez


Lasers

Zenghu Chang

Ultrafast Lasers

CREOL enters theatto-second domain


3H6

3F4

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2µm 2µm

Pump at ~790 nmCross-relaxation

pumping25 μm 0.08 NA~4 wt% Tm3+

400 μm 0.46 NA

25 μm 0.08 NA~4 wt% Tm3+

400 μm 0.46 NA

Nufern fibers

Spectral control with VBGs & GMRFs

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50 pm linewidthtuning over 200 nm spectrum100s of Watts

High-Power TM-Doped Fiber Lasers in Mid-IRLasers Mid-IR Lasers

Martin Richardson


First 2-μm laser atmospheric test at the ISTEF laser range facility

ISTEF Laser Range Facility

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Lasers

Leonid Glebov

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Power: up to 250 WWavelength: 780 nmλ stability: 5 pmFWHM: 20 pm (10 GHz) !!!

Brightest semiconductor pumping source with fiber delivery for Rbvapor laser

High Power Lasers


High brightness semiconductor laser pumping source at 1532 nm for eye safe cryogenic lasers (in single movable cabinet)

Total power : 240 W Spectral width: 200 pm


Fiber Optics

Fiber Drawing Tower Fiber Fabrication Technology Multimaterial Fibers Nano-structured Fibers Mid Infrared Fibers Fiber Lasers

Ayman Abouraddy

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Fiber Optic Communication Fiber Optic Networks Fiber Optic Sensing

Applications


Fiber preform fab lab: making a preformcladding out of thin polymer films

Evaporator of chalcogenide glasses onto polymer films to make hollow-core fibers lined with 1D photonic bandgap structure.

Hollow core Mirror

liningCladding

Fiber Fabrication Technology Multimaterial Fibers Nano-structured Fibers Mid Infrared Fibers Fiber Lasers

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Photonic crystal and nano-structured fibers for fiber lasers and devices

Axel Schülzgen

500 nm 100 nm

Chiral nanostructures in fiber corefor polarization control

Core (5 m x 5 m)

Fiber Optics Nano-Structured Fibers


Semiconductor& Integrated Photonics

MBE Facility Epitaxial Growth LEDs & Laser Diodes Quantum Dots & Nanostructures Optoelectronics Oxide Semiconductors Photovoltaics Integrated Optics Periodic Structures

& Photonic Crystals Nanophotonics & Plasmonics Silicon Photonics Gratings & HOEs

Optical Communication Optical Processing & Switching Solar Energy Applications Integrated-Optic SensingIntegrated-Optic Signal Processing

Applications


New quantum dot lasers with record low thresholds & record low internal losses

Epitaxial Growth LEDs & Laser Diodes Quantum Dots & Nanostructures Optoelectronics

Dennis Deppe

Semiconductor & Integrated Photonics


Deppe’s QD LD record Jth = 8.8 A/cm2

Electron. Lett. 09


Oxide Semiconductors

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c-NiO344 nm

c-ZnO370 nmc-MgO

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Peak Responsivity 255 nm, 1.45 mA/W Ni0.75Mg0.25O

Winston Schoenfeld

NiMgO & ZnMgO alloys address the UV-C region!



Photovoltaics

‘Green’ Integrated PhotonicsTwo-photon photovoltaic effect

Energy harvesting through TPPV effect can be used to supply electrical power to electronics circuitry in optically interconnected VLSI chips.

Sasan Fathpour

OPN June 09




Sasan Fathpour

Silicon Raman Amplifiers Integrated with Quantum Dot Laser Pumps

Silicon Photonics


Nanoparticle-based surface plasmon coupler

Nanophotonics Fabrication Facility3,000 ft2, class 100/1000 cleanroomLeica 5000 + e-beam lithography with on-chip 10 nm resolution.1 of 3 in the US!

Semiconductor& Integrated Photonics

Integrated Optics Periodic Structures

& Photonic Crystals Nanophotonics & Plasmonics

Pieter Kik


Nonlinear & Quantum Optics

Nonlinear Guided Waves & Fibers Nonlinear Optical Materials Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy Nonlinear Optics in Periodic Structures Photosensitive Glasses Solitons Quantum Optics

Laser Protectors Quantum Communication & Information

Applications



Nonlinear Guided Waves & Fibers Nonlinear Optical Materials Nonlinear Optics & Spectroscopy

Continuum The Z-scan team and theirwhite-light nonlinear spectrophotometer

David HaganEric Van Stryland


Nonlinear Optics in Periodic Structures Photosensitive Glasses Solitons

Nonlinear & Quantum

Optics

Demetri Christodoulides

Science, 2009

Ultra-intense Airy beams in airfor diagnostic spectroscopies

Airy beams:


Looking into a self-distorting worldNature-Photonics, 2009

Nonlinearity Compensation

Nonlinearity Compensation in WDM SystemsCompensation of dispersion and nonlinear phase modulation by digital backward propagation (DBP)

Guifang Li


Transmitter

CoherentReceiver

DBP Experiment• 3 WDM Channels

• Loop Length: 160 km

• Modulation Format: BPSK

• Symbol Rate: 6 Gsymbols/s

• Channel Spacing: ~6.5 GHz• All 3 channel can fit into the

analog bandwidth of the scope

• 3 channels are orthogonal, i.e., no linear cross talk

• All 3 Channels Co-Polarized

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DBP Experimental Results: 760km NZ-DSF, PL=6dBm

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One-StepDBP


Quantum Optics

Entangled-Photon Source

Nonlinear & Quantum

Optics


Infrared Systems Lab

Solar X-ray Imager

Near-field Scanning Optical Microscopy

Optical Design & Image Analysis Near Field Imaging Propagation in Random Media X-ray & EUV Technology Infrared Sensors & Systems Millimeter & THz Technology Optics of Liquid Crystals


Optical Sensing & Imaging Biological & Medical Imaging Microscopy Optical EUV & X-ray Astronomy Optical, EUV & X-ray Lithography Displays Optical Signal Processing

Applications


Infrared Sensors & Systems Millimeter & THz Technology

Glenn BoremanExtension of radio-frequency (RF) concepts to IR & THz using electron-beam lithography.

Infrared Systems Lab

1 meter

RF Antenna IR Antenna



Frequency selective surface (FSS):Periodic arrays of antennas

Periodic structures keep radiation inside the microwave oven.

Surface selective to wavelength, direction, coherence & polarization of incoming radiation: tagging, cloaking.

RF IR


• Area Receiver with Antenna Coupled Infrared Sensors -6,459,084• Elliptical Polarizers, Tags and Identification Systems Using

Frequency Selective - 7,629,569• Infrared/Millimeter wave focal plane array -7,358,497• Multispectral Multipolarization Antenna-Coupled Infrared Focal

Plane Array -7,095,027• Polarization-Tunable Antenna-Coupled Infrared Detector -

6,037,590• Sub-Millimeter and Infrared Reflectarray - 7,623,071• Wavelength Tunable Antenna Coupled Infrared Detectors -

6,310,346• Polarization-Tunable Antenna-Coupled Infrared Detector -

6,037,590

Infrared Sensors and Systems Patent Portfolio


Optics of Liquid Crystals

E-field Kerr-induced anisotropy (1ms)E-field rotation (5 ms)

Nematic LCD

LC MaterialsLCDsTunable-Focus LCBlue phase LCD

ST Wu



Features of BP-LCD:1. No need for polyimide alignment layers2. < 1 ms response time (instead of 5 ms). This enables

color sequencing using RGB LED backlight. Hence:• No need for color filters• 3X lower power consumption• 3X higher resolution

3. Insensitive to cell gap Simpler fabrication

UCF contributions:1. Developed better physical models of Kerr effect2. Invented protruded electrodes to reduce operating

voltage from > 50V to < 10V

Potential to transform the $100B LCD industry


• Achromatic quarter-wave films - 7,009,670 • Broadband quarter-wave films -6,922,221• Fast Response in-plane-switching pi-cell liquid crystal displays -6,987,549• Fast Response Liquid Crystal Mode- 7,298,445• Flower Shaped Vertical Alignment LCD with Wide Viewing Angle and Fast response time - 7,295,274• Fringing field switching liquid crystal displays using trapezoid electrodes - 7,199,852• Full color transflective cholesteric liquid crystal display with slant reflectors above transmissive pixels -

7,027,118• General film compensated reflective twisted nematic liquid crystal display -7,271,865• High Brightness Twisted-Nematic Transflective Liquid Crystal Display -6,989,878• Liquid Crystal Display- 7,557,897• Multi-Domain In-Plane Switching Liquid Crystal Displays with Interleaved Common and Pixel

Chevron-Shaped electrodes in Both Horizontal and Vertical Directions to Divide Electrode Structure into Two Regions- 7,538,844

• Multi-Film Compensated liquid crystal display with Initial Homogenous Alignment. -7,557,881• Reflective liquid crystal projection displays with low voltage and high contrast using improved bisector

effect.-7,327,420• Single Cell Gap Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with Reflector above Transmissive Pixels -

6,801,281• Transflective LCD using multilayer dielectric transflector -7,230,663• Transflective liquid crystal display using separate transmissive and reflective liquid crystal cells and

materials with single cell gap -7,359,015• Wide Viewing Angle Transflective Liquid Crystal Display -7,589,808

LCD Patent Portfolio


Photonic Sensors & Systems

Photonic Control of Cells’ Motility

Using optical torques induced by light polarization to dynamically guide cell migration & differentiation without inducing phototoxicity.

Groups of SH-Sy5 cells after exposure to

light polarized as indicated.

t=0 t=30 min

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Aristide Dogariu

Photonic “scaffolds” for tissuerepair and engineering

Applications: Regenerative medicine & cell therapies

Cell migration and motility assays



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Lasers

Applications

Fiber Optics- Laser Protectors- Quantum Communication

& Information

-Optical Sensing & Imaging-Biological & Medical Imaging-Microscopy-Optical EUV & X-ray Astronomy-Optical, EUV & X-ray Lithography-Displays- Optical Signal Processing

- Optical Communication- Optical Processing & Switching- Solar Energy Applications- Integrated-Optic Sensing- Integrated-Optic Signal Processing

- Laser Fabrication & Lithography

- Laser Material Processing- Lasers in Medicine

- Fiber Optic Communication- Fiber Optic Networks- Fiber Optic Sensing


• Affiliate Member: $1K cash; $3K equipment

• Senior Member: $3K cash; $10K equipment

• Medallion Member: $10K+ cash; $30K+ equipment

Life Member: Create endowed professorship, or other major donation

Affiliate Annual Dues


Ready and early access to R&D results Access to many state-of-the-art facilities Early access to students Networking for government lab and federal funding programs for R&D

in industry (SBIR’s, STTR’s, ATP’s, and BAA’s) Visibility & recognition of support of the first College-level program in

optics & photonics– College’s website, Highlights, CREOL lobby “Wall of Honor”, and other

avenues– Membership plaque for company’s lobby

CREOL’s Industrial Affiliate Program

Benefits of Membership


Research sponsorship: Joint R&D with possibility of partial State and/or Federal funding support

Industrial Fellowships For Students– For as little as $10K committed over three years, a student

fellowship is established, named after company.

Participate on College’s Industrial Advisory Board

Other Corporate Partnership Opportunities

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