http:www.creol.ucf.edu

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http//www.creol.ucf.edu
CREOL FPCE The College of Optics and Photonics
University and Industry Partnerships in Optics
and Photonics
10,000 m2 CREOL building on UCF campus 49,000
students!
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Outline

• Importance and Prospects of Optics Photonics
• industry as well as science enabling technology
• The need for Optics Photonics
• graduates (as opposed to Scientists and Engineers
  who do Optics Photonics on the side)
• Interdisciplinary nature of graduate education
  in Optics Photonics
• Selected success stories
• (Science, Engineering and Industry)
• Ill use CREOL for my examples

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Academic ProgramOrganized Along the other Axis
Communi- cations
Control Theory
Signal Processing
Optics
Systems
Electronics
Optical System Design Optics Materials Optoelect
ronics Lasers Optical Properties of
Solids Quantum Optics
Applied
Fundamental
High Energy
Nuclear Physics
Gravitation
Atomic Physics
Optics
Condensed Matter
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OPTICS IS AN ENABLING, PERVASIVE TECHNOLOGY . . .

• In the Home
• TV remote
• CD player
• CD ROM
• Motion sensor
• Smoke detector
• Light bulbs
• Etc.

• In Medicine
• Tattoo removal
• Various types of surgery
• Vision correction
• Various diagnostics
• Cosmetic surgery
• Blood monitors
• Etc.

• In the Economy
• Telecommunications
• Bar code scanners
• Surveying
• All sorts of manufacturing
• Crop dusting
• Entertainment
• Etc.

• In National Defense
• Night vision
• Reconnaissance systems
• Communications
• Range finders
• Designators
• Smart weapons
• Etc.

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EUV sources for Lithography
Martin Richardson Laser Plasma Labs
13.5nm
24 W _at_ 6.6 kHz at source, demonstrated 10 hrs
of continuous operation. Conversion Efficiency 2

Working with Powerlase
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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 125M in venture capital
• Generated more than 150M

CREOL invested is starting the incubator with
the Colleges of Eng. and Business
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Floridas High Tech Corridornot for profit
government agency to promote high-tech industry
in region

• Current year 3.5M match. 10.3M
  corporate support.
• Since 1996 45M match.
• 122M corporate support and 822 research
  projects. 405M Total Corp. Match
• Who is served? 1300 students, 300 faculty, and
  260 companies

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Florida High Tech Corridor Economic
DevelopmentFlorida 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
• loaned laser (6 PhDs hired)
• FEMTOPTICS
• OPTIGRATE
• BD Displays

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Industrial Affiliates
Medallion Members
Life Members Cobb Family Foundation Dr. Arthur H.
Guenther Memoriam Member Dr. William
Schwartz Northrop Grumman Corporation Nufern
Agilent Technologies CST of America Melles
Griot Newport Corporation Northrop Grumman Laser
Systems Ocean Optics Paul G. Suchoski,
Jr. Tektronix
Senior Members
Affiliate Members
All for Partnership Building 5M/yr
As of July, 2007
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New NanoPhotonics Systems Fabrication Facility
3,000 sq ft, 280 M2 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!
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Examples of Spin-Offsand Tech-Transfer

• Optium
• OptiGrate OPTIGRATE
• Raydiance

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• First UCF Venture
• Founders G. Li, P. LiKamWa
• First-Round Oct. 2000, 12.5M
• Business Space Transmission Products
  (Transponders, Regenerators)
• Second-Round Oct. 2006, 15M
• IPO October 2006 Market Cap 480M

Guifang Li Patrick LiKamWa
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Intensity Waveform After 90 km (50 ps/div)
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Intensity Waveform After 115 km (25 ps/div)
EAM
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OPTIGRATE
Leon Glebov - Photo-Thermal-Refractive (PTR) glass

• Applications
• Conventional optics lenses
• beam splitters, polarizers, atten.
• Laser systems
• attenuators, mode selectors, ...
• Opt. Com.- WDM filters,
• add/drop, equalizers, ...
• Data storage -unlimited reading
• .

Volume Holograms in Glass
0.5-nm spectral separation between channels
M22 Feasibility of 200-channel combinerNow
doing 5 lasers at 150W for 695W (93)
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Peter Delfyett Raydiance
Ultra-short pulse laser technology for multiple
applications.
Based on energy storage in time Extreme
Chirped-Pulse Amplification, XCPA
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Shin-Tson Wu
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)
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FacultyIP startup ..Tech transferSBIR -
STTRBusinessvalue added, research lab
Communityessential part of community, good
investment
Partnerships are Keygrow attract,
retainclusters, leverage university facilities
Director_at_CREOL.UCF.edu
And Jeb Bush gave us 14.5M for this!
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The Future

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