CREOL 1996 http www creol ucf edu

CREOL 1996 http: //www. creol. ucf. edu

CREOL - 2008 The College of Optics and Photonics Bahaa Saleh Eric Van Stryland, Dean; David Hagan, Associate Dean Dr. James Pearson, Director - retiring Built in 1995 83, 000 sq. ft. 85 labs 21, 000 sq. ft. addition, 2007

www. FPCE. ucf. edu The Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE) Nano-Photonics, Bio-Photonics , Imaging and Display Vision: Establish Florida as the national leader in photonicsbased industries and industries enabled by photonics. Goals: • Leverage state resources via partnerships with industry and government • Work in partnership with local, state and regional economic development organizations to attract, retain and grow knowledge -based, wealth producing industry to Florida. Building addition to house FPCE incubator Funded by Dept. of Commerce + match

Townes Laser Institute Martin Richardson New Center of Excellence in Florida ~$10 M including 5 new faculty positions in core laser technologies LASERS in MEDICINE LASERS in ADVANCED MANUFACTURING LASERS for DEFENSE TECHNOLOGIES Seeking Faculty candidates for two positions in High power fiber lasers Optical fiber fabrication Ceramic Lasers Nufern Inc. 10 x 2 cm Nd: YAG slabs

OPTICS IS AN ENABLING, PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY. . . In the Home h TV remote h CD player h CD ROM h Motion sensor h Smoke detector h Light bulbs h Etc. In the Economy h Telecommunications h Bar code scanners h Surveying h All sorts of manufacturing h Crop dusting h Entertainment h Etc. In Medicine h Tattoo removal h Various types of surgery h Vision correction h Various diagnostics h Cosmetic surgery h Blood monitors h Etc. In National Defense h Night vision h Reconnaissance systems h Communications h Range finders h Designators h Smart weapons h Etc.

EUVL Source Development Martin Richardson UCF/Powerlase university-industry collaboration. Technology now being transferred to LP PHOTONICS, a new SOCOMO company High rep-rate > 30 k. Hz proprietary UCF droplet Focused high power lasers 24 W EUV source power - 2 multiplexed 600 W lasers 27 W with new 1600 W laser – soon have ~ 60 W EUV 100% duty cycle, low debris, long-life operation Highest 13. 5 nm power of any laser-plasma EUV source! UCF/LP-Photonics just awarded a $175, 000 Phase III grant from Florida’s new SURCAG program for new companies….

Strategic Plan for College taken from CREOL! • Vision – Be the nation’s leader in education, research, and scholarship in optical science and engineering (OS&E) • Mission – Provide the highest quality graduate education in optical science and engineering – Enhance optics education at all levels – Conduct fundamental and applied research upon which future knowledge-based industries can be built – Aid in the development of Florida and the nations’ technology-based industries

Academic Program Organized Along the “other” Axis Control Theory Signal Systems Processing Optics Communications Electronics Applied Optical System Design Optics Materials Optoelectronics Lasers Fundamental Optical Properties of Solids Quantum Optics High Energy Nuclear Gravitation Physics Optics Atomic Physics Condensed Matter

Personnel Research Staff 55 Research and Associate Faculty 11 Faculty 26 Admin Staff 18 Students 160 Total Personnel 270 AND GROWING ~ 8 new faculty in next 5 years

Faculty Distinctions • 85% hold the rank of Fellow • Boards of Directors/Officers of: – OSA, SPIE, LEOS, National Society of Black Physicists • • • Editors, or on the editorial boards OSA Max Born Award to Boris Zel’dovich Over 300 scholarly works per year ICO Abbe medal to Nabeel Riza OSA Wood Prize to George Stegeman OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award to MJ Soileau SPIE, G. G. Stokes Award of SPIE to Shin-Tson Wu SPIE, Gabor Award of SPIE to Leon Glebov SPIE, Gold Medal of the Society to M. J. Soileau http: //www. creol. ucf. edu

FPCE-TLI FPCE Funding in $Millions Total Funding Received by Year

Source of Funding Total ~$20 M not including TLI

http: //www. creol. ucf. edu University and Industry Partnerships in Optics and Photonics 10, 000 m 2 CREOL building on UCF campus 49, 000 students!

Outline • Importance and Prospects of Optics & Photonics • The need for Optics & Photonics • Interdisciplinary nature of graduate education in Optics & Photonics • Selected success stories – (Science, Engineering and Industry) • I’ll use CREOL for my examples

UCF Technology Incubator • Expand high tech industry in Central Florida. • Help startup companies succeed. • Facilitate tech transfer. • Provide training and support Incubator Clients • 90 Companies served in total 4 yrs • 45 current companies • 18 graduates • Created more than 750 jobs • Average salary of $68, 000 • Raised $125 M in venture capital • Generated more than $150 M CREOL invested $ is starting the incubator with the Colleges of Eng. and Business

Florida’s High Tech Corridor not for profit government agency to promote high-tech industry in region • Current year: $3. 5 M match. $10. 3 M corporate support. • Since 1996: $45 M match. • $122 M corporate support and 822 research projects. $405 M Total Corp. Match • Who is served? 1300 students, 300 faculty, and 260 companies

Florida High Tech Corridor Economic Development Florida Photonics Cluster UCF Incubator Project CREOL/Bus/Eng SPINOFF COMPANIES § CRYSTAL PHOTONICS INC. – donated e-microscope § Beam, Inc. § Laser Classics – does laser crystals § OPTICAL DIAGNOSTICS § LIGHT PROCESSING TECH § Laser Energetics § POLARA § Applied Photonics § NUONICS § § § § OPTIUM – recent IPO Raydiance (6 Ph. Ds hired) FEMTOPTICS OPTIGRATE BD DISPLAYS (new) Pico (‘in FPCE incubator’) LP Photonics (‘in FPCE incubator’) Applicote (in FPCE incubator) § Inflect

Nano. Photonics Systems Fabrication Facility 3, 000 sq ft, 280 M 2 clean room Class 100/1000 resource center for univ & user facility for industry. Set up as a user facility for industry. Leica 5000 + e-beam lithography 10 nm resolution!

• • • Examples of Spin-Offs and Tech-Transfer Optium Opti. Grate OPTIGRATE Holochip Raydiance Applicote Northrop Grumman AT&T Sandia: System integration Raytheon (Tucson): Applications Lasertel Prairie Tech. . . .

Guifang Li & Patrick Li. Kam. Wa Intensity Waveform After 90 km (50 ps/div) Intensity Waveform After 115 km (25 ps/div) 1 0 1 0 1 0 1 EAM 1 0 1 0 • First UCF Venture • Founders: G. Li, P. Li. Kam. Wa • First-Round $: Oct. 2000, $12. 5 M • Business Space: Transmission Products (Transponders, Regenerators) • Second-Round $: Oct. 2006, $15 M • IPO: October 2006; Market Cap: ~ $480 M

Nonlinearity Compensation in Optical Transmission DWDM Transmitter Recirculating Loop Coherent Receiver DSP With Linear Compensation . . . With nonlinear Compensation Working with AT&T

OPTIGRATE Leon Glebov - Photo-Thermal-Refractive (PTR) glass ØHigh resolution spectroscopy Volume Holograms in Glass ØLaser scanning PTR glass Writing ØVolume Bragg lasers Writing beam ØCoherent coupling of lasers ØSpectral beam combining ØSpectral Narrowing Transmitted Diffracted ØWDM beam ØConventional optics: lenses. . Reading beam Bragg grating e. g. Na doublet (0. 6 nm) resolved without collimator or slit

Extra narrow laser diode bars Leon Glebov Rb vapor absorption Laser diode bar from Lasertel with thick PTR Bragg mirror. Problem: find narrow band pump for Rb laser

Solution! Instrument limited! Laser diode bar with thick PTR Bragg mirror emitted 30 W within 20 pm with electric tunability over 400 pm with efficiency of 90% of the original diode bar. Slope efficiency was 0. 9 W/A.

Spectral beam combining of 5 fiber lasers C 1 -5: Fiber laser collimators M 1 -9: Steering mirrors C 1 M 1 C 2 M 6 C 3 M 2 M 7 D M 3 C 4 M 8 M 4 G 1 M 9 G 2 G 1 -4: Reflecting VBGs D: Detector or beam dump C 5 30 cm G 3 G 4 M 5 Ø Five Yb-doped 160 W lasers (IPG Photonics) Ø Output power 770 W Ø Combining efficiency ~ 91. 7% Ø Spectral power density ~ 0. 38 k. W/nm Ø Divergence of a test beam is M 2=1. 15

Peter Delfyett & Raydiance Ultra-short pulse laser technology for multiple applications.

e. Xtreme Chirped Pulse Amplification (X-CPA) >16, 000 x stretch/compress ratio Peter Delfyett

Laser Beam Steering Shin-Tson Wu Phase Change Position Plane Wave Working with Raytheon

Shin-Tson Wu Tunable-focus Liquid Lens Skeleton PDMS Elastic periphery Liquid Artificial muscle Liquid crystal work in Scientific American Working with Holochip

Aravinda Kar Laser-Doped Si. C LED for highly pure white light Mechanism of Light Emission (6 H-Si. C (n-type) substrates) 6 H-Si. C N-Eu (Red Light) 6 H-Si. C N-Cr (Green Light) Working with Inflect 6 H-Si. C N-Al (Blue Light) 6 H-Si. C (n-type) N-Al-Cr (White Light) For 6 H-Si. C (n-type) substrates: Color Rendering Index = 98. 3% CCT (Color-Coordinated Temp. ) = 5409 K 4 H-Si. C (p-type) Al-Cr-Se (White Light) For 4 H-Si. C (p-type) substrates: Color Rendering Index = 99. 4% CCT (Color-Coordinated Temp. ) = 7722 K CCT of average daylight = 5500 K, which is the standard for pure white light

Laser beam microvias - Kar Gain medium Gaussian beam Mirror 84% within the Airy disk Mirror 7% in the second ring Pitchfork beam Residue Cu Cu Polymer Pitchfork beam: Good for microvias in nanoelectronics Gaussian beam with diffraction ring: Bad for microvias in nanoelectronics 46 μm Microvia profile Polymer Working with Applicote Copper film 33 μm 20 μm Polymer Comparison between the beam shaping calculation and experimental pitchfork profile Top view of a microvia showing the embedded copper layer The thermal model results for microvia profile compares well with the experimental profile

CREOL Infrared Systems Lab Glenn Boreman IR Antennas Working with NGC

THz & mm. W Material Characterization THz laser: 300 GHz to 7 THz mm. W source: 90 -140 GHz

IR Frequency-Selective Surfaces (FSS) Resonant frequency & spectral bandwidth controlled by geometry of periodic metallic structures. Provides control of emissivity – hence IR surface signature. Can fabricate on plastic substrates for decals and tags. 109 pixels

Nano-Photonics Device Group (NPDG) Winston Schoenfeld Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of Mg. Cd. Zn. O Semiconductors • UV/Visible Devices • Zn. O Native Substrates • Full Visible Range • Wet Etchable • High Temp. Operation ( T > 400 K) 410 nm 2% Cd. Zn. O Cd Concentration World’s First Quantum Well Cd. Zn. O LED Autonomous Neutron Detector Arrays for Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Detection & Identification • Low Power (zero bias) • Lightweight • Rugged • Small Form Factor Un-manned Surveillance 5 mm Device 580 nm 29% Quantum Dot Opto-spintronic Devices Using Conditional Faraday Rotation Working with PICO Example: Polarization Multiplexing Device

Imaging with Extended Depth of Focus ODALab-UCF – Jannick Rolland Images of African Tadpole across a 4 mm Depth of Focus Student: Kye Sung Lee SPIE Scholarship in Optical Engineering 2008 -2009 Acknowledgements, Partners, and Funding Florida Photonics Center of Excellence (FPCE), Marco Costa (MD) (Shands-UF Hospital), Olusegun Ilegbusi (MMAE-UCF), Huikai Xie (ECE at UF), Jean-Luc Nogues (Agiltek), Optical Research Associates, Julio Corsi (Precision Design Systems Corp. ), Apollo Optical System (NY), Rochester Precision Optics (NY). 600 m Axicon Lens

IR & Thertz Combs for Fast Spectroscopy THz fs laser 1 fs laser 2 detector 22 m time 100 ms 930 965 cm-1 Dan van der Weide 21 st Century Scholar NH 3 puff Frequency-comb infrared spectrometer for rapid, remote chemical sensing: no moving parts, coherent source (bright). remote sensing by probing the absorption spectra of NH 3 vapor fluctuations 22 m away Prairie Technologies and Tera-X, with extensions to Agilent Technologies mid-infrared frequency Optics Express, Vol. 13, Issue 22, pp. 9029 -9038 Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 5, pp. 3430 -3438

Just a small sampling of what CREOL does for partnerships Completely missing work of faculty members: Michael Bass, Dennis Deppe, David Hagan, James Harvey, Pieter Kik, Patrick Li. Kam. Wa, Jim Moharam, Nabeel Riza, William Silfvast, MJ Soileau, George Stegeman, Boris Zel’dovich Guifang Li, and me And joint appointees: Larry Andrews, Kevin Belfield, Louis Chow, Eloy Hernandez, David Kaup, Michael Leuenberger, Robert Peale, Ron Phillips, Alfons Schulte, Mubarak Shah, Art Weeks, Cynthia Young

UCF Researcher of the Year: Demetrios Christodoulides Bending light around corners http: //www. foxnews. com/story/0, 2933, 317931, 00. html Christodoulides, a Provost’s Distinguished Research Professor, is highly respected among his colleagues as a brilliant theoretician and researcher in the field of nonlinear optics.

Graduate Student Success • Won New Focus award $10, 000 – 3 top winners + 5 runners up + 1 this year at CLEO! • Many other awards • CAOS – CREOL Association of Optics Students fantastic outreach program OPTICS DAY http: //www. creol. ucf. edu

Industrial Affiliates Program ~8 years

Industrial Affiliates Medallion Members Agilent Technologies CST of America Life Members Melles Griot Newport Corporation Northrop Grumman Laser Systems Nufern Powerlase Limited Cobb Family Foundation Paul G. Suchoski, Jr. Memoriam Member Dr. Arthur H. Guenther Tektronix Lockheed Martin Memoriam Member: Dr. William Schwartz Breault Research Organization, Inc. New Focus Coherent, Inc Nikon Instruments, Inc. Crystal Photonics Opt-E Essilor of America Optical Research Associates General Dynamics C 4 Systems Optimax Systems Senior Members Goodrich Corp. -Sensors Unlimited Trumpf, Inc JDS Uniphase Zygo Corporation Optronic Laboratories, Inc. Lambda Research Corporation Photonics Online Lee Laser 3 M Company Photonics Spectra A C Materials R-Soft Design Group Affiliate Members Aerotech, Inc. Raydiance, Inc. Analog Modules Ray Williamson Consulting Applicote Associates, LLC Rini Technologies The Boeing Company Rorze Systems, Corp. Coastal Optical Systems, Inc. Schott North America DRS Optronics Sciperio, Inc. Fibertek, Inc. Siskiyou Design Instruments Harris Corp. SPIE – The International Society for Optical Engr HORIBA Jobin Yvon Texas Instruments Laser Institute of America Tower Optical Corp Laser. Path Technologies Trinity Technologies LINOS Twin. Star Optics Coating & Crystals Lockheed Martin Coherent Technologies Veeco Instruments Ophir-Spiricon MZA Associates Corp. Vytran, LLC Optical Society of America X-Rite, Inc. OKO Technologies As of April, 2008 Opto. Sigma Corp. Olympus Industrial Zemax Development Group All for Partnership Building $5 M/yr

Partnerships are Key grow attract, retain clusters, leverage university facilities… Faculty IP …startup. . Tech transfer SBIR - STTR Business value added, research lab … Community essential part of community, … good investment Director@CREOL. UCF. edu And Jeb Bush gave us $14. 5 M for this!

The Future • The transistor and microelectronics have been the technology of the 20 th century – enabled by optics • Optics and Photonics is the technology of the 21 st century - enabled by electronics

Spring Thing • Saturday, April 19, 2008 1: 00 PM • Soggy Acres (MJ Soileau’s place) 100 Tuskawilla Rd. Winter Springs, FL 32708 • A great social event on Lake Jesup. All CREOL personnel and all the supporters and friends of CREOL are invited. Great food, drink, and fellowship!