photonics toolkit, université laval 2009 slide 1 photonics in florida optics and photonics...

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


Outline

- CREOL, brief history

- Students and faculty

- Research at CREOL, selected topics

- Nanophotonics and Near-field Optics (Kik group)


Visit our website for more information

….


UCF - campus

Nature

Sports facilitiesLounge pool?!

Library


UCF – We have outgrown Google Maps

Founded in 1968

> 50,000 students!

> 1200 faculty

> 180,000 degrees awarded

CREOL: always evolving


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


CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

Built in 1995

83,000 sq. ft.

85 labs

FULL!!

http://www.creol.ucf.edu


Fourteen years later: many changes!


New (2008) CREOL extension – Incubator space and Townes Laser Institute (TLI)


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


Total Funding Received by Year

FY 87

FY 88

FY 89

FY 90

FY 91

FY 92

FY 93

FY 94

FY 95

FY 96

FY 97

FY 98

FY 99

FY 00

FY 01

FY 02

FY 03

FY 04

FY 05

FY 06

FY 07

0

10

20

30

Match C&G

Fun

ding

in $

Mill

ions

FP

CE

FP

CE

-TLI

Funding – seems healthy!

About 30% of funding via Industry related programs


Affiliates program – 7 years of growth

Enough about administration – how about the people?


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!


OPTICS DAY

CAOS: CREOL Association of Optics Students


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

http://creol.ucf.edu/People/Details.aspx?PeopleID=9117

























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


CREOL – research thrusts

Lasers

Fiber communications Semiconductor photonics Nonlinear and integrated photonics Optical systems

Coming slides – sampling of ongoing work


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



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


Laser plasma source

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

12 13 14 15 16 17 18

0

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

3500

13.5nm

Martin Richardson – EUV Sources for Lithography



970 975 980

0.0

0.2

0.4

0.6

0.8

1.0

VBG feedback 100A, 495W, T=16C

FWHM=0.62nm

without VBG feedback 100A, 527W, T=16C

Inte

nsi

ty, a

.u.

Wavelength, nm

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



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


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


• 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


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


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

photonics toolkit, université laval 2009 slide 1 photonics in florida optics and photonics...

Documents

photonics toolkit

library slide

optics creol

universit laval

photonics research

new creol

outline creol

field optics kik group