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CREOL Colloquium Series: Dr. Nelson V. Tabiryan "Azobenzene liquid crystals breathing life into optical materials"
Friday, October 03, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Azobenzene liquid crystals breathing life into optical materials:photoactuated polymers, phototunable bandgaps, micro-optical structures, and polymer engines fu...

“Concept Maps for an Integrated Electrical Engineering Curriculum” - Dr. Bahaa E. A. Saleh
Friday, September 26, 2008 11:30 AM to 12:30 PM
HEC 101
Dr. Bahaa E. A. SalehSchool of Electrical Engineering and Computer ScienceBoston Universitywww.eecs.ucf.edu Bahaa E. A. Saleh, Ph.D., currently is a Professor ...

"Functions, design, and characteristics of the crystalline waveplate"-Ray Williamson
Friday, September 26, 2008 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
"Functions, design, and characteristics of the crystalline waveplate"Affiliate Member-Ray WilliamsonRay Williamson Consulting Abstract:This presentation is int...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Andre J. Gesquiere: A Nanoscale Spectroscopic Study of Chain Morphology in Conducting Polymer Materials for Optoelectronic Device Applications
Friday, September 19, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Andre J. Gesquiere, Daeri Tenery, Zhongjian Hu, Max BonnerNanoScience Technology Center and Department of Chemistry, University of Central FloridaEmail: andre@m...

Seminar: "Analytical electron microscopy techniques for probing nanostructures"
Wednesday, September 10, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Advanced Materials Processing and Analysis Center (AMPAC) Analytical electron microscopy techniques for probing nanostructures Qi Zhang,...

Dr. Zenghu Chang: "Attosecond light switch"
Friday, August 29, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
Room A214
Abstract: The field of ultrafast optics is experiencing an attosecond revolution. Attosecond optical pulses have recently become important tools for investi...

"DEFECT CHARACTERIZATION IN SEMICONDUCTORS"-Dr. M. Zafar Iqbal
Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL #102
DEFECT CHARACTERIZATION IN SEMICONDUCTORS Deep Level Transient Spectroscopy M. Zafar Iqbal Semiconductor Physics Laboratory Department of Phy...

“Adaptive Photonic Phase Locked Elements ------A DARPA program for Electronic Laser Beam Control”-Dr. Terry Dorschner
Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
“Adaptive Photonic Phase Locked Elements ------A DARPA program for Electronic Laser Beam Control” Biography: Dr. Terry Dorschner is the Principal In...

“Monitoring of Environmentally Hazardous Exhaust Emissions from Cars Using Optical Fibre Sensors”-Dr. Elfed Lewis
Friday, August 01, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL #103
Abstract. Progress is reported on an ongoing investigation originating from a recently completed EU framework 6 (FP6) funded project Opto-Emi-Se...

“Preservation and Enhancement of Brightness in Arc Lamp and LED Illumination Systems”-Dr. Kenneth Li
Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
CREOL A214
“Preservation and Enhancement of Brightness in Arc Lamp and LED Illumination Systems” Dr. Kenneth Li Biography: Dr. Li served as President and CEO at Wavien...

"Biomedical optics and tissue interaction"-Prof. Israel Gannot
Thursday, July 31, 2008 10:30 AM to 11:30 AM
CREOL Room #102
"Biomedical optics and tissue interaction" Israel Gannot Department of Biomedical Engineering, School of Engineering Tel-Aviv University, Tel...

Final Examination of Franklyn John Quinlan for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Optics
Friday, June 20, 2008 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
CREOL Room 103
Title: "LOW NOISE, HIGH REPETITION RATE SEMICONDUCTOR-BASED MODE-LOCKED LASERS FOR SIGNAL PROCESSING AND COHERENT COMMUNICATIONS" Abstract: High repetit...

Dissertation Abstract & Announcement of Dissertation Defense: Leo Siiman
Monday, June 09, 2008 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Announcing the Final Examination of Leo Siiman for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Optics Dissertation title: "ULTRASHORT LASER PULSE INTERACTION WIT...

“POLARIZATION OPTICS OF ANISOTROPIC MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS”-Tomasz R. Wolinski
Friday, May 16, 2008 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
CREOL Room #102
“POLARIZATION OPTICS OF ANISOTROPIC MICROSTRUCTURED FIBERS” Tomasz R. Wolinski Abstract: This development of optical fibers with two-dimensio...

"Controlling Light by Photonic Crystals"-Masaya Notomi
Friday, May 16, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Controlling Light by Photonic Crystals Masaya Notomi NTT Basic Research Laboratories Japan Abstract: In this talk, I will describe ...

"Advances in High Power Fiber Lasers: Novel Components, Systems and Applications"-Almantas Galvanauskas
Thursday, May 15, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Advances in High Power Fiber Lasers: Novel Components, Systems and Applications Almantas Galvanauskas Center for Ultrafast Optical Science University...

“Advanced Fiber-Optic Components based on Liquid Crystal infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fibers”-Johannes F. Weirich
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
CREOL Room #102
“Advanced Fiber-Optic Components based on Liquid Crystal infiltrated Photonic Crystal Fibers” Johannes F. Weirich Abstract: Infiltrating Liqu...

"Photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine" - Minghua Xu, Ph.D.
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Minghua Xu, Ph.D.Abramson Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 Abstract:Photoacoustic imaging has t...

"Tailoring Light, Spatially and Vectorially, with Optical Fibers"-Siddharth Ramachandran
Monday, May 12, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Tailoring Light, Spatially and Vectorially, with Optical Fibers Siddharth Ramachandran OFS Laboratories Somerset, NJ Abstract ...

"The Next Fiber Revolution: Kilowatts and more" -Johan Nilsson
Friday, May 02, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL 102
"The next fiber revolution: kilowatts and more" Johan Nilsson University of Southampton, England Friday, May 2, 2008 11:00 am to 12:00 pm CREOL 102 Abstra...

"Quantum coherent control of semiconductor artificial atoms" -Andreas Muller
Thursday, May 01, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL 102
"Quantum coherent control of semiconductor artificial atoms" Andreas Muller National Institute of Standards and Technology CREOL Conference Room 102 ABSTR...

"Fiber lasers: a personal perspective" -Martin Fermann
Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL 102
"Fibers and lasers: a personal perspective" Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:00 am to 12:00 pm CREOL 102 Martin Fermann IMRA America, Inc Abstract: We will revie...

"A Tale of Two Correlated Photons"-Sergey Polyakov
Monday, April 28, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL A214
"A Tale of Two Correlated Photons" Sergey Polyakov NIST/University of Maryland Abstract: Manipulation of correlated photons is...

Final Examination of Ms. Ying Zhou for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Optics
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room A214
Dissertation Title: "CHOLESTERIC LIQUID CRYSTAL PHOTONIC CRYSTAL LASERS AND PHOTONIC DEVICES" Abstract: This dissertation discusses cholesteric liquid ...

“Multi-photon entanglement for quantum information processing”-Dr. Zhi Zhao
Monday, April 21, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
“Multi-photon entanglement for quantum information processing” Zhi Zhao Oak Ridge National Laboratory Multiparticle entangled s...

Affiliates Day 2008: "Biophotonics & Bio-Applications"
Friday, April 18, 2008 8:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Alumni Center and CREOL Building
Program: (full program) Four invited external speakers and two notable UCF/CREOL speakers Dr. R. Rox Anderson, MD; Massachusetts General Hos...

"Production of entangled images by four-wave mixing"-Vincent Boyer, NIST
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL A214
The entanglement of light is usually regarded as a global quantum property of two beams. For a pair of spatially extended light fields--or images--, the conce...

"The New Enterprise Data Center: from converged optical networks to nanophotonics"-Dr. Casimer DeCusatis
Thursday, April 10, 2008 1:30 PM to 3:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Abstract: The design of large enterprise data centers is changing significantly, and is being driven by new applications for optical networking. While ma...

“Harnessing Collaborative Innovation”-Dr. Casimer DeCusatis
Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
“Harnessing Collaborative Innovation” Dr. Casimer DeCusatis IBM Corporation, Poughkeepsie, NY Abstract: Understanding new ways to foster innovation ...

"Compact high repetition rate soft x-ray lasers"-Jorge J. Rocca
Friday, April 04, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Jorge J. Rocca NSF ERC for Extreme Ultraviolet Science and Technology Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Department of Physics Colorado St...

CREOL Student of the Year Finals 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CREOL 102/103
Each student will give a 12 minute talk with 3 minutes for questions. Florian Fournier: "Investigation of Freeform Surfaces in the Design of Efficient a...

"Optics, Photonics & Ophthalmology: A Vision for the 21st Century"-Jeffrey B. Robin, MD
Monday, March 31, 2008 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
"Optics, Photonics & Ophthalmology: A Vision for the 21st Century" Jeffrey B. Robin, MD Associate Professor of Ophthalmology UCF College of Medic...

"Energy Harvesting in Silicon Photonics"-Sasan Fathpour, Ph.D.
Monday, March 31, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
"Energy Harvesting in Silicon Photonics" Sasan Fathpour, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering Department, UCLA Abstract The mighty microelec...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Joseph R. Lakowicz "Plasmon-Controlled Fluorescence: A New Paradigm in Fluorescence Spectroscopy"
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:30 PM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
University of Maryland School of MedicineCenter for Fluorescence SpectroscopyDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology725 W Lombard St, Baltimore, Md 212...

"Quantum cascade lasers - bridging the THz gap with semiconductor lasers"-Mikhail A. Belkin
Friday, March 28, 2008 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
CREOL Room #102
Quantum cascade lasers - bridging the THz gap with semiconductor lasers Mikhail A. Belkin School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Harvard Universi...

“From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information”- L. J. Wang
Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM
CREOL Room #102
From Quantum Optics to Quantum Information L. J. Wang Director, Institute of Optics, Information, and Photonics, Max-Planck Research Group and the Un...

"Nonlinear optics in highly confined photonic structures"-Sean Spillane
Monday, March 24, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Sean Spillane Research Associate Quantum Science Research group Hewlett-Packard Laboratories Nonlinear optics in highly confined photonic s...

CREOL Colloquium Series: L. J. Wang "Precision Measurement of Gravity, Time and Applications"
Friday, March 21, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Director, Institute of Optics, Information, and Photonics,Max-Planck Research Group and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germanylawn@ioip.mpg.de I describ...

*Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging for the Characterization of Tissues*-Dr. Jianan Y. Qu
Thursday, March 20, 2008 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
*Optical Spectroscopy and Imaging for the Characterization of Tissues Pathology* *Jianan Y. Qu * *Department of Electronic and Computer Engineering *...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Lihong V. Wang "Photoacoustic tomography: High-resolution in vivo imaging at new depths"
Friday, March 14, 2008 10:30 PM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Lihong V. Wang, Ph.D.Gene K. Beare Distinguished ProfessorOptical Imaging LaboratoryDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Washington University in St. LouisEmai...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Erich P. Ippen "Clocks, Combs and Optical Arbitrary Waveforms"
Friday, March 07, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Erich P. IppenMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyCambridge, MA 02139 This seminar will describe strategy and progress towards the generation of optical arbit...

"Label-free techniques for protein analysis in array format"-Vladimir M. Mirsky
Thursday, March 06, 2008 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
CREOL #103
Label-free techniques for protein analysis in array format. Vladimir M. Mirsky. Institute of Analytical Chemistry, Chemo- and Biosensors, Univ...

"External reshaping of multi-mode radiation from broad-area laser diode into a laterally single-mode single-lobe beam"-Nikolai Stelmakh, Ph.D.
Thursday, March 06, 2008 3:00 PM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
"External reshaping of multi-mode radiation from broad-area laser diode into a laterally single-mode single-lobe beam" Nikolai Stelmakh, Ph.D. Researc...

"Multi-material, multi-scale optoelectronic fibers and fiber arrays"-Ayman Abouraddy
Thursday, March 06, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102 & 103
Multi-material, multi-scale optoelectronic fibers and fiber arrays Speaker: Ayman Abouraddy Research Scientist Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Optics Day 2008
Wednesday, March 05, 2008 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM
CREOL Lobby
Check out the demonstrations, listen to the talks, get free optics stuff, eat pizza and mingle with the public. The schedule for the day is: &n...

Shinwook Lee Dissertation Defense: "High Power Mode-Locked Semiconductor Lasers and their Applications"
Monday, March 03, 2008 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Dissertation Abstract & Announcement of Dissertation Defense Announcing the Final Examination of Mr. Shinwook Lee for the degree of Doctor of Philosoph...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Girish Agarwal "Quantum Imaging and Sensing beyond Rayleigh Resolution"
Friday, February 29, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
G S AgarwalDepartment of Physics, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 74078 One question of great importance in the field of imaging is the issue of the ...

"Molecular Micro-cavity laser as Model Systems for Chaotic Wave Optics"-Prof. Joseph Zyss
Thursday, February 28, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Abstract to follow........

Joseph Zyss: "From Molecular Nonlinear Optics to Multiphotons Imaging for Materials and Life Sciences"
Wednesday, February 27, 2008 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
J. ZyssLaboratoire de Photonique Quantique et Moléculaire (CNRS, UMR 8537)Institut d’Alembert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan, France.zyss@ida.ens-cachan.fr...

Sir Peter Knight: "An Ultrashort History of Time: from Flash Photography to Attosecond Science"
Monday, February 25, 2008 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Peter KnightBlackett Laboratory, Imperial College London SW72AZ In 1905, Einstein published a seminal set of papers that revolutionized modern physics. One of ...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Vladimir M. Shalaev "Engineering Optical Space with Metamaterials"
Friday, February 15, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
Vladimir M. ShalaevSchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Birck Nanotechnology Center, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA Meta...

“Many-body effects in semiconductor lasers"-Dr. Weng Chow
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
“Many-body effects in semiconductor lasers" Speaker: Dr. Weng Chow Sandia National Laboratories Abstract The typical description of semiconductor lasers t...

“Nanophotonics, photonics applications and optical communications at DTU”-Prof. Anders Bjarklev
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Abstract: I will give an overview seminar describing the research activities at our newly formed department of Fotonik, Department of Photonics Engineering, at...

"Medical THz bioeffects & imaging"-Jerry Joseph Wilmink Ph.D.
Monday, February 11, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Recent years have seen an explosive increase in the use of lasers for medical applications, particularly in the field of dermatology where they are commonly use...

CREOL Colloquium Series: Mordechai (Moti) Segev "Anderson Localization of Light"
Friday, February 08, 2008 10:30 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 102
The universal phenomenon of localization of waves will be reviewed, in thecontext of our recent experiments demonstrating the first observation ofAnderson local...

Research Highlights at MZA Associates Corporation-Dr. Aaron J. Masino
Monday, February 04, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room #102
Seminar: Research Highlights at MZA Associates Corporation Dr. Aaron J. Masino Senior Scientist, MZA Office: (561)747-6881 ext. 222 email: amasino@m...

Final Examination of Konstantinos Makris for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Optics
Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 266
Dissertation title: “Optical Solitons in periodic structures” Abstract:By nature discrete solitons represent self-trapped wavepackets in nonlinear periodic str...

CREOL Seminar Series: Colin J. McKinstrie: "Optical signal processing by fiber-based parametric devices"
Friday, January 18, 2008 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
CREOL Room 103
The first seminar in the new CREOL seminar series will be given by Colin J. McKinstrieBell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent, Holmdel, NJ 07733, USATel: 732-888-727...

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