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Photonics Toolkit, Université Laval 2009 http://kik.creol.ucf.edu slide 1
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 student
CREOL professor
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Outline
- CREOL, brief history
- Students and faculty
- Research at CREOL, selected topics
- Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics (Kik group)
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Visit our website for more information
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UCF - campus
Nature
Sports facilitiesLounge pool?!
Library
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UCF – We have outgrown Google Maps
Founded in 1968
> 50,000 students!
> 1200 faculty
> 180,000 degrees awarded
CREOL: always evolving
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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 - timeline
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CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics
Built in 1995
83,000 sq. ft.
85 labs
FULL!!
http://www.creol.ucf.edu
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Fourteen years later: many changes!
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New (2008) CREOL extension – Incubator space and Townes Laser Institute (TLI)
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3,000 sq ft clean room, Class 100/1000
Leica 5000 + e-beam lithography
1 of 3 in the country
10 nm resolution!
resource center for univ &
user facility for industry.
Funded separately by matching $
now ~$10M of facilities
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
Semiconductor
Quantum dots Laser microcavity
NanoPhotonics Systems Fabrication Facility
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Total Funding Received by Year
FY 87
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FY 90
FY 91
FY 92
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Match C&G
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-TLI
Funding – seems healthy!
About 30% of funding via Industry related programs
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Affiliates program – 7 years of growth
Enough about administration – how about the people?
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We’re still growing ~ 6 new faculty in next 5 years
The people of CREOL (Creoleans?)
24 Optics Faculty11 Research and associate faculty160 Optics Students55 Research staff18 Administrative support
CREOL is a youthful place!
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OPTICS DAY
CAOS: CREOL Association of Optics Students
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AYMAN ABOURADDYMICHAEL BASSGLENN D. BOREMANDEMETRI CHRISTODOULIDESPETER J. DELFYETTDENNIS DEPPEARISTIDE DOGARIUSASAN FATHPOURLEONID B. GLEBOVDAVID J. HAGANJAMES E. HARVEYARAVINDA KARPIETER KIKSTEPHEN KUEBLERGUIFANG LIPATRICK L. LIKAMWAM. G. "JIM" MOHARAMMARTIN C. RICHARDSONNABEEL A. RIZA BAHAA E. A. SALEH (DEAN)WINSTON SCHOENFELDERIC W. VAN STRYLANDSHIN-TSON WUBORIS Y. ZELDOVICH
Meet the Faculty
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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
Faculty distinctions
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CREOL – research thrusts
Lasers
Fiber communications Semiconductor photonics Nonlinear and integrated photonics Optical systems
Coming slides – sampling of ongoing work
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Ultimate Scaling of Semiconductor Light SourcesQuantum 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
Dennis Deppe – Quantum Dots and Nanophotonics
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Cd Concentration2% 29%
410 nm 580 nm
Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) of MgCdZnO Semiconductors
Autonomous Neutron Detector Arrays for Special Nuclear Material (SNM)
Detection & Identification
• Low Power (zero bias)
• Lightweight
• Rugged
• Small Form Factor
Un-manned
Surveillance
• UV/Visible Devices
• ZnO Native Substrates
• Full Visible Range
• Wet Etchable
• High Temp. Operation 5mm Device
InGaZnO
Ti:InO
CdZnO
Transparent Conduction Oxides (TCOs)
(Cu,Zn,Ga,Ge,In,Sn,Sb,Bi - O)There are many formulations not yet investigated!!
• Excellent transparent contact
• TFTs with mobilities 10 times
that of amorphous Si
Winston Schoenfeld – Nanophotonics Device Group
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Laser plasma source
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Martin Richardson – EUV Sources for Lithography
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FWHM=0.62nm
without VBG feedback 100A, 527W, T=16C
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Spectral width at full pumping current ~1 nm
Based on holographic gratings formed in glass in multi-step process
0.5 kW commercial diode stack with a grating in front
Locks stack within 1 nm bandwidth (90% efficient)
Leon Glebov – Volume Bragg Gratings
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Tunable-focus Liquid Lens
1. Brain commands muscles
2. Muscles control the lens shape
PDMS
Liquid
Skeleton
Elastic
periphery
Artificial muscle
Ren et al, Opt. Express 14, 8031 (Sept. 4, 2006)
US patent 7,142,369 (Nov. 2006)
47 journal papers / 8 patents in 2006 !
Shin-Tson Wu – Liquid Crystal Device Group
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F/# = 2.0 with +/- 45o FOV
2 waves aberration at 45o
F/# = 2.4 with +/- 45o FOV
0.05 waves aberration at 45o
Foveated Conventional
Team members:
UCF (Prime)
Sandia
BNS
AFRL
Narrascape
Raytheon
Dynamic Foveated Imaging
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• Antenna-Coupled IR Detectors
• IR Frequency-Selective Surfaces
Wavelength-tunable and polarization-tunable antennas, leading to, e.g. pixel integrated IR spectrometers
Infrared Systems Lab
Optical Lithography
Eric Johnson
IR polarimeter antenna
Antenna array for IR
Glenn Boreman – IR optics, detectors and FSS
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Pieter Kik – Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics
Example project: surface plasmon excitation using resonant nanoparticle arrays
Darkfield microscopy showing blue plasmon resonance
Key ideas
- light guiding using charge density waves- far-field excitation of near-fields- tuned resonant enhancement of near-fields
Nanoparticle arrays
3D finite element simulation showing surface plasmon excitation using silver nanoparticles
Schematic of SP excitation
Atomic force microscopy ofe-beam generated Ag particles