UCF faculty, students, and staff make new discoveries every day. This collection highlights patents obtained by the College of Optics and Photonics.
A listing of all UCF patents, can be found here.
Patents from 2005
Broadband Quarter-Wave Film Device Including in Combination a Chromatic Half-Wave Film and a TN-LC Polymeric Film, Shin-Tson Wu and Xinyu Zhu
Patents from 2004
Ultralow noise optical clock for high speed sampling aplications, Peter Delfyett, Depriest Christopher, and Tolga Yilmaz
Programmable Multiwavelength Modelocked Laser, Peter Delfyett, Trino Croeze, Eric Park, and Hong Shi
Method of Reducing Amplitude Noise in Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Lasers, Peter Delfyett and Michael Mielke
Free-Space Optical Communications with Partially Coherent Beams, Aristide Dogariu
Non Invasive Method and Low Coherence Apparatus for System Analysis, Aristide Dogariu
Narrow Band Transmitting-Receiving Telescope System, Oleg Efimov
High Efficiency Volume Diffractive Elements in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass, Leonid Glebov, Oleg Efimov, Larissa Glebova, and Vladim Smirnov
Apparatus and Method for Drawing Continuous Fiber, Aravinda Kar, Yonggang Li, Raymond McNeice, and Nathaniel Quick
EUV, XUV, and X-RAY Wavelength Sources Created From Laser Plasma Produced From Liquid Metal Solutions, Martin Richardson
Teleportal Face-To-Face System., Jannick Rolland, Ceyhun Akcay, Frank Biocca, Henley Quadling, Mark Quadling, and Haocheng Zheng
Automatic Motion Modeling of Rigid Bodies Using Collision Detection, Jannick Rolland and Yoahan Baillot
Compact Lens Assembly for the Teleportal Augmented Reality System (CIP), Jannick Rolland and Yonggang Ha
Compact Lens Assembly for the Teleportal Augmented Reality System, Jannick Rolland and Hong Hua
Discharge Lamp Sources Apparatus and Methods. (CA), William Silfvast, Marc Klosner, and Gregory Shimkaveg
Single Cell Gap Transflective Liquid Crystal Display with Slanted Reflector Above Transmissive Pixels, Shin-Tson Wu, Yi-Pai Huang, Han-Ping Shieh, and Y Zhu
Patents from 2003
Dispersed Crystallite Up-Conversion Displays, Michael Bass, Hans Jennsen, and Alexandra Rapaport
Lutetium Yttrium Orthosilicate Single Crystal Scintillator Detector, Bruce Chai and Yangyang Ji
Photonic Arbitrary Waveform Generation and Photonic Synthesis, Peter Delfyet, Christopher DePriest, and Tolga Yilmaz
Hybrid WDM-TDM Optical Communication and Data Link, Peter Delfyett, Brian Mathason, and Hong Shi
Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser, Peter Delfyett and Hong Shi
Interferometer with Optical Fiber Interconnected Dual Arm Sampler., Aristide Dogariu and Gabriel Popescu
Method for Characterizing Particles in a liquid Medium Using Interferometry., Aristide Dogariu and Gabriel Popescu
Method for Monitoring a Characteristic of a Mixture Comprising Particles Suspended in a Liquid., Aristide Dogariu and Gabriel Popescu
Optical System for Characterizing Particles in a Colloidal Suspension Using Interferometry., Aristide Dogariu and Gabriel Popescu
Process for Production of High Efficiency Volume Diffractive Elements in Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glass, Leonid Glebov, Oleg Efimov, Larissa Glebova, and Vladim Smirnov
Multi-Wavelength Solid State Infared Laser DIV, Hans Jennsen, Scott Buchter, Hanna Hoffman, and Anna Tabirian
One-Step Rapid Manufacturing of Metal and Composite Parts, Aravinda Kar, Franz-Josef Kahlen, and Srikanth Sankaranarayanan
Adjustable Bore Capillary Discharge, William Silfvast
Patents from 2002
Display Medium Using Emitting Particles Dispersed in a Transparent Host, Michael Bass and Hans Jennsen
Area Receiver with Antenna Coupled Infrared Sensors, Glenn Boreman, Christos Christodoulou, Iulian Codreanu, Aristide Dogariu, Christophe Fumeaux, Francisco Gonzalez, and Micheal Gritz
Continuously Variable, Wavelength-Independent Polarization Rotator, Florencio Hernandez and David Hagan
Apparatus, System, and Method for Extracting an Optical Clock Signal from an Optical Data Signal, Guifang Li and Weiming Mao
Laser plasma source for extreme ultraviolet lithography using a water droplet target, Martin Richardson and Guido Schriever
Head-Mounted Display With Eye Tracking Capability, Jannick Rolland and Laurent Vaissie
Monolithic integrated active semiconductor optical waveguides for 1xN interconnect switch., Patrick Wa and Xuesong Dong
Patents from 2001
Display Medium Using Emitting Particles Dispersed in a Transparent Host, Michael Bass and Hans Jennsen
Wavelength Tunable Antenna Coupled Infrared Detectors, Glenn Boreman, Christos Christodoulou, Iulian Codreabu, Christophe Fumeaux, and Michael Gritz
Method and apparatus for producing group-III nitrides, Bruce Chai, Tim Anderson, and Olga Kryliouk
Hybrid WDM-TDM Optical Communication and Data Link, Peter Delfyett and Brian Mathason
Multiwavelength Modelocked Semiconductor Diode Laser, Peter Delfyett and Hong Shi
Duel Beam Low Coherence Interferometer with Improved Signal to Noise Ratio, Aristide Dogariu
Multi-Wavelength Infared Laser, Hans Jennsen, Scott Buchter, Hanna Hoffman, and Anna Tabirian
One-Step Rapid Manufacturing of Metal and Composite Parts., Aravinda Kar, Franz-Josef Kahlen, and Srikanth Sankaranarayanan
Self Frequency Doubled Nd-Doped YCOB Laser, Martin Richardson, Bruce Chai, Jason Eichenholz, Dennis Hammons, and Qing Ye
Self Frequency-doubled Nd-doped YCOB Laser, Martin Richardson, Bruce Chai, Jason Eichenholz, Dennis Hammons, and Qing Ye
Yb:Doped YCOB Laser, Martin Richardson, Bruce Chai, Jason Eichenholz, Dennis Hammons, and Qing Ye
Yb-Doped: YCOB Laser (DIV), Martin Richardson, Bruce Chai, Jason Eichenholz, Dennis Hammons, and Qing Ye
Discharge Lamp Sources Apparatus and Methods, William Silfvast and Marc Klosner
Debris Blocker/ Collector and Emission Enhancer for Discharge Sources, William Silfvast and Gregory Shimkaveg
Patents from 2000
Polarization-Tunable Antenna-Coupled Infrared Detector, Glenn Boreman, Christos Christodoulou, and Aristide Dogariu
Optical disk readout method using optical coherence tomography and spectral interferometry (DIV.C), Peter Delfyett and Jannick Rolland
Three Dimensional Optical Imaging Colpocopy, Peter Delfyett and Jannick Rolland
Digital Control Polarization Based Optical Scanner, Nabeel Riza
Capillary Discharge Extreme UV Lamp Sources for EUV Micrography and other related Applications, William Silfvast, Marc Klosner, and Gregory Shimkaveg
Patents from 1999
Three Dimensional Optical Imaging Colpocopy., Jannick Rolland and Peter Delfyett
Configurations, Materials and Wavelenghts for EUV Lithium Plasma Discharge Lamps, William Silfvast and Marc Klosner
Device and Method for Image Acquisition Through Multi-Mode Fiber, Boris Zeldovich and Maxim Bolshtyansky
Patents from 1998
Touch-off Probe., Kenneth Beck
1.3um Lasers Using Nd3+ Doped Apatite Crystals, Bruce Chai, Michael Bass, Pin Hong, and Xinxiong Zhang
Compact Optical Controller for Phased Array Systems, Nabeel Riza
Photonically Controlled Ultrasonic Probes, Nabeel Riza
Patents from 1997
Mode Locked Laser Diode in a High Power Solid State Regenerative Amplifier and Mount Mechanism DIV, Peter Delfyett
Optical Parametric Oscillator with built in Seeding Laser source, George Dixon
Scanning heterodyne Acousto-optical interferometers, Nabeel Riza
Spatial Solitary Waves in Bulk Quadratic Non-Linear Materials and Their Applications, George Stegeman, Lluis Torner, and William Torruellas
Apparatus and Method for Measuring the Power Density of a Laser Beam with a Liquid Crystal, Boris Zeldovich, Nelson Tabirian, Theo Tschudi, and Thomas Vogeler
Patents from 1996
High Speed Pulse Slicer/Demultiplexer With Gain For Use In Solid State Regenerative Amplifier Systems, Peter Delfyett, Sangyoun Gee, and A. Yusim
Optical signal coupling apparatus, Edward Miesak
Water Laser Plasma X-Ray Point Source, Martin Richardson, Kai Gabel, Feng Jin, and Masataka Kado
Efficient Narrow Spectral Width Soft X-Ray Discharge Sources, William Silfvast
Patents from 1995
Surface Detection fro Airports DIV, Michael Bass
Mode Locked Laser Diode in a High Power Solid State Regenerative Amplifier and Mount Mechanism, Peter Delfyett
Self Starting Femtosecond Ti Saphire Laser Intercavity Multiquantum Well Saturable Absorber, Peter Delfyett
Multiple Channel Rotary Optical Coupler, Edward Miesak
Water Laser Plasma X-Ray Point Source and Apparatus, Martin Richardson, Kai Gabel, Feng Jin, and Masataka Kado
Patents from 1994
Surface Detection for Airport System, Michael Bass
RbNBb. Sub.20.sub.6 Crystal, Bruce Chai and John Nicholls