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Photonics in Florida Optics and Photonics Research at CREOL Pieter Kik, Asst Professor in Optics CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA. CREOL professor. CREOL student. Outline. CREOL, brief history Students and faculty
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Photonics in Florida Optics and Photonics Research at CREOL Pieter Kik, Asst Professor in Optics CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics University of Central Florida Orlando, FL, USA CREOL professor CREOL student
Outline • CREOL, brief history • Students and faculty • Research at CREOL, selected topics • Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics (Kik group)
UCF - campus Library • Nature Lounge pool?! Sports facilities
UCF – We have outgrown Google Maps • Founded in 1968 • > 50,000 students! • > 1200 faculty • > 180,000 degrees awarded CREOL: always evolving
CREOL - timeline • 1985 CREOL approved as a type II Center by BOR • 1986 Florida Legislature appropriates $1.5M • 1987 M.J. Soileau becomes First Director of CREOL • Location: double-wide trailer on CREOL bldg site • 1995 Move into new CREOL building • 1998 Provost announces the School of Optics • Degrees in Optics • 2004 Provost announces the College of Optics & Photonics • Dean: Eric W. van Stryland • 2008 New Dean: Bahaa Saleh
CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics Built in 1995 83,000 sq. ft. 85 labs FULL!! http://www.creol.ucf.edu
New (2008) CREOL extension – Incubator space and Townes Laser Institute (TLI)
NanoPhotonics Systems Fabrication Facility Hired 5 new faculty; e.g. eminent scholar Dennis Deppe, UT Austin, inventor of near IR quantum dot laser. Enabling technology: high power, high efficiency lasers for e.g. medical diagnostics 3,000 sq ft clean room, Class 100/1000 Funded separately by matching $ now ~$10M of facilities resource center for univ & user facility for industry. Leica 5000 + e-beam lithography 1 of 3 in the country 10 nm resolution! Semiconductor Quantum dots Laser microcavity
Funding – seems healthy! Total Funding Received by Year Funding in $Millions FPCE FPCE-TLI About 30% of funding via Industry related programs
Affiliates program – 7 years of growth Enough about administration – how about the people?
The people of CREOL (Creoleans?) CREOL is a youthful place! • 24 Optics Faculty • 11 Research and associate faculty • 160 Optics Students • 55 Research staff • 18 Administrative support We’re still growing ~ 6 new faculty in next 5 years
CAOS: CREOL Association of Optics Students OPTICS DAY
Meet the Faculty AYMAN ABOURADDY MICHAEL BASS GLENN D. BOREMAN DEMETRI CHRISTODOULIDES PETER J. DELFYETT DENNIS DEPPE ARISTIDE DOGARIU SASAN FATHPOUR LEONID B. GLEBOV DAVID J. HAGAN JAMES E. HARVEY ARAVINDA KAR PIETER KIK STEPHEN KUEBLER GUIFANG LI PATRICK L. LIKAMWA M. G. "JIM" MOHARAM MARTIN C. RICHARDSON NABEEL A. RIZA BAHAA E. A. SALEH (DEAN) WINSTON SCHOENFELD ERIC W. VAN STRYLAND SHIN-TSON WU BORIS Y. ZELDOVICH
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 • Abbe medal of ICO to Nabeel Riza • OSA Wood Prize to George Stegeman • OSA Esther Hoffman Beller Award to MJ Soileau
CREOL – research thrusts • Lasers • Fiber communications • Semiconductor photonics • Nonlinear and integrated photonics • Optical systems • Coming slides – sampling of ongoing work
Dennis Deppe – Quantum Dots and Nanophotonics Ultimate Scaling of Semiconductor Light Sources Quantum dots are an enabling technology for: --- Temperature insensitive, ultrafast lasers and amplifiers --- High beam stability, narrow linewidth high power laser diodes --- Photonic crystal, microcavity VCSEL, and quantum light sources Record high To 1.3 µm laser using p-doped InAs QDs (APL 80, 3277 (2002)). demonstrated the first 1.3 µm QD lasers in 1998
Winston Schoenfeld – Nanophotonics Device Group Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of MgCdZnO Semiconductors Autonomous Neutron Detector Arrays for Special Nuclear Material (SNM) Detection & Identification • UV/Visible Devices • ZnO Native Substrates • Full Visible Range • Wet Etchable • High Temp. Operation • Low Power (zero bias) • Lightweight • Rugged • Small Form Factor Un-manned Surveillance CdZnO 5mm Device 410 nm580 nm Cd Concentration 2% 29% Transparent Conduction Oxides (TCOs) (Cu,Zn,Ga,Ge,In,Sn,Sb,Bi - O) InGaZnO • Excellent transparent contact • TFTs with mobilities 10 times • that of amorphous Si There are many formulations not yet investigated!! Ti:InO
Laser plasma source Martin Richardson – EUV Sources for Lithography 13.5nm
Leon Glebov – Volume Bragg Gratings 0.5 kW commercial diode stack with a grating in front Locks stack within 1 nm bandwidth (90% efficient) Spectral width at full pumping current ~1 nm Based on holographic gratings formed in glass in multi-step process
Skeleton PDMS Elastic periphery Liquid Artificial muscle Shin-Tson Wu – Liquid Crystal Device Group Tunable-focus Liquid Lens • Brain commands muscles • Muscles control the lens shape Ren et al, Opt. Express 14, 8031 (Sept. 4, 2006) US patent 7,142,369 (Nov. 2006) 47 journal papers / 8 patents in 2006 !
Dynamic Foveated Imaging Team members: UCF (Prime) Sandia BNS AFRL Narrascape Raytheon Foveated Conventional F/# = 2.0 with +/- 45o FOV 2 waves aberration at 45o F/# = 2.4 with +/- 45o FOV 0.05 waves aberration at 45o
Glenn Boreman – IR optics, detectors and FSS Optical Lithography Eric Johnson Infrared Systems Lab Antenna array for IR IR polarimeter antenna Wavelength-tunable and polarization-tunable antennas, leading to, e.g. pixel integrated IR spectrometers • Antenna-Coupled IR Detectors • IR Frequency-Selective Surfaces
Pieter Kik – Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics Example project: surface plasmon excitation using resonant nanoparticle arrays Key ideas - light guiding using charge density waves- far-field excitation of near-fields- tuned resonant enhancement of near-fields 3D finite element simulation showing surface plasmon excitation using silver nanoparticles Nanoparticle arrays Schematic of SP excitation Atomic force microscopy ofe-beam generated Ag particles Darkfield microscopy showing blue plasmon resonance
Photonics in Florida Optics and Photonics Research at CREOL Broad range of topics Exciting research Many young scientists Great environment (use with care) Questions? Space shuttle Kennedy Space Center