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.

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Patents from 2015

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Biocompatible Nano Rare Earth Oxide Upconverters for Imaging and Therapeutics, Michael Bass, Sudipta Seal, and William Self

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Photodetectors Based on Wurtzite MgZnO, Winston Schoenfeld, Ryan Boutwell, and Ming Wei

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Liquid Crystal Display Panel, Shin-Tson Wu, Yu-Cheng Lai, and Yifan Liu

Patents from 2014

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Signal processing using spectrally phase encoded optical frequency combs, Peter Delfyett

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Optical Modulator with Linear Response, Peter Delfyett, Josue Davila-Rodriguez, Michael Goldblatt, and Nazanin Hoghooghi

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An Optoelectronic Oscillator Using A High Finesse Etalon, Peter Delfyett and Ibrahim Ozdur

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Semiconductor Light Sources Including Selective Diffusion for Optical and Electrical Confinement, Dennis Deppe and Sabine Freisem

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Laser Pulse Temporal, Spectral And Spatial Shaping Devices Based On Volume Diffractive Gratings With Variable Parameters, Leonid Glebov, Oleksiy Andrusyak, Emilie Flecher, Larissa Glebova, Julien Lumeau, Sergiy Mokhov, Vadim Smirnov, Vladim Smirnov, and Boris Zeldovich

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Solid State Gas Dissociating Device, Solid State Sensor, and Solid State Transformer, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Polarization Demultiplexing Using Independent Component Analysis, Guifang Li, Xiaobo Xie, and Fatih Yaman

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Silicon Photonic Fiber and Method of Manufacture, Guifang Li and Fatih Yaman

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Waveguides Configured to Simultaneously Guide Electromagnetic Waves of Different Wavelengths, Guifang Li and Fatih Yaman

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Efficient Computation And Compensation Of Linear And Nonlinear Distortion in Dispersion-Managed Fiber-Optic Transmission, Guifang Li and Likai Zhu

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Electrode Structure, Method, and Application, Winston Schoenfeld and Hani Khallaf

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Extremely Non-Degenerate Two Photon Absorption Sensing Method, Apparatus, and Applications, Eric Vanstryland and David Hagan

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Display Device, Shin-Tson Wu, Yu-Pei Chang, Meizi Jiao, Yan Li, Chen-Chu Tsai, and Ming-Huan Yang

Patents from 2013

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Emissive Fibers Containing Up Converters Excited by GaAs Based Semiconductor Light Sources, Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe

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Low voltage display or indicator systems employing combinations of up converters and semiconductor light sources., Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe

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Up Converters and GaAs Based Semiconductor Light Sources System for Large Color Gamut Display and Projection Displays, Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe

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Optoelectronic Logic Gate for Real Time Data Mining in a Bit Stream, Peter Delfyett, Ibrahim Ozdur, Sarper Ozharar, and Franklyn Quinlan

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Systems and Methods for Controlling Objects, Aristide Dogariu, Gabriel Biener, and Kiminobu Sugaya

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Process of production of high efficiency diffractive and refractive optical elements in multicomponent silicate glass by nonlinear photo ionization followed by thermal development., Leonid Glebov, Larissa Glebova, Julien Lumeau, Leo Siiman, and Vladim Smirnov

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Method for Generating, Transmitting, and Receiving Power, Aravinda Kar and Bruce Marshall

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Apparatus and Method of Forming High Crystalline Quality Layer, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Laser Assisted Nano Deposition, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Laser Formation of Graphene, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Systems for Extending WDM Transmission into the O Band, Guifang Li

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Electronic Compensation of Nonlinear Effects ofSemiconductor Optical Amplifiers, Guifang Li and Xiaoxu Li

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Compensation of Optical Transmission Impairments Using Digital Backward Propagation, Guifang Li, Eduardo Mateo, and Fatih Yaman

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Compensation of Transmission Impairments in Polarization Multiplexed Systems, Guifang Li, Eduardo Mateo, and Fatih Yaman

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Hybrid Differential Optical Sensing Imager, Nabeel Riza and Hassan Foroosh

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Cubic Semiconductor Alloys for Deep UV Applications, Winston Schoenfeld

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Liquid Crystals Composition and Liquid Crystal Display With Patterned Electrodes, Shin-Tson Wu, Chao-Lung Chin, Sebastian Gauza, Zhibing Ge, Hsu-Kuan Hsu, and Linghui Rao

Patents from 2012

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Pump Cavities for Diode Laser Array Pumped Laser Rods, Michael Bass and Ying Chen

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Composite cavity for enhanced efficiency of up conversion., Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe

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Dynamic Reflectarray Technology for Electro-Optical Sensors, Glenn Boreman, Edit Braunstein, James Ginn, Thomas Haberfelde, Andrew Hawkins, David Shelton, and Gene Tener

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Diffraction Free, Self-Bending Airy Wave Arrangement, Aristide Dogariu, Demetrios Christodoulides, and Georgios Siviloglou

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Articles Comprising Crystalline Layers on Low Temperature Substrates, Aravinda Kar and Sachin Bet

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Method of Fabricating Solid State Gas Dissociating Device By Laser Doping, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Electronic Post-Compensation of Optical Transmission Impairments Using Digital Backward Propagation, Guifang Li, Xin Chen, Gilad Goldfarb, Inwoong Kim, Xiaoxu Li, Eduardo Mateo, Fatih Yaman, and Likai Zhu

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Dispersion Compensation Using Digital Infinite Impulse Response Filtering, Guifang Li and Gilad Goldfarb

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Electronic Compensation of Impairments Using Wavelet Filters for Backward Propagation, Guifang Li and Gilad Goldfarb

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Systems and Methods of Polarization Time Coding for Optical Communications, Guifang Li and Yan Han

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Hybrid Optical Distance Sensor, Nabeel Riza

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Hybrid Photonic Signal Processing Modules, Nabeel Riza

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Spatially Smart Optical Sensing and Scanning, Nabeel Riza and Frank Perez

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Systems and Method for Performing Gabor-Domain Optical Coherence Microscopy, Jannick Rolland and Panomsak Meemon

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Dynamically Focused Optical Instrument, Jannick Rolland and Supraja Murali

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Optical Instruments Having Dynamic Focus, Jannick Rolland, Supraja Murali, and Kevin Thompson

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Comprising A Dielectric Layer Between The First And Second Electrodes In The Transmissive Region, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Wang-Yang Li, Chung-Kuang Wei, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Liquid crystal display devices with high transmittance and wide viewing angle, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Wide-Acceptance-Angle Circular Polarizers (DIV), Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, Ruibo Lu, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Liquid Crystal Display with Different Twisting Directions of Liquid Crystal Molecules, Shin-Tson Wu, Ju-Hyun Lee, Wang-Yang Li, and Chung-Kuang Wei

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display, Shin-Tson Wu, Ju-Hyun Lee, and Xinyu Zhu

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Transflective liquid crystal displays., Shin-Tson Wu, Wang-Yang Li, Ruibo Lu, and Chung-Kuang Wei

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Polarizing Lamp, Shin-Tson Wu, Wang-Yang Li, Chang Tsai, and Chung-Kuang Wei

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Liquid Crystal Display, Xinyu Zhu, Zhibing Ge, Wang-Yang Li, Chung-Kuang Wei, and Shin-Tson Wu

Patents from 2011

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Signal processing using spectrally phase-encoded optical frequency combs, Peter Delfyett

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Ultralow Noise Mode-locked Laser and RF Sinewave Source. DIV, Peter Delfyett, Myoung-Taek Choi, and Sangyoun Gee

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Systems and Methods for Generating a Tunable Laser Beam, Peter Delfyett, Kye-Sung Lee, Panomask Meemon, and Jannick Rolland

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Embedded Semiconductor Component, Aravinda Kar and Nat Quick

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Solid State Energy Conversion Device, Aravinda Kar and Nathaniel Quick

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Optical device and Method of Making, Aravinda Kar, Nathaniel Quick, and Islam Salama

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Direct Detection DIfferential Polarization-Phase-Shift Keying for High Spectral Efficiency Optical Communication, Guifang Li and Yan Han

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Systems and Methods for Optical Carrier Recovery, Guifang Li and Inwoong Kim

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Generator for Flux Specific Bursts of Nano-Particles, Martin Richardson, Chiew-Seng Koay, and Kazutoshi Takenoshita

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Hybrid gain guiding in laser resonators, Martin Richardson, Timothy McComb, and Vikas Sudesh

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Methods and Systems for Realizing High Resolution Three-Dimensional Optical Imaging, Nabeel Riza

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Imaging Systems for Eyeglass-Based Display Devices, Jannick Rolland and Ozan Cakmakci

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Fast Response Liquid Crystal Mode. DIV.B, Shin-Tson Wu and Wing Choi

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High Speed and Wide Viewing Angle Liquid Crystal Displays, Shin-Tson Wu and Wing Choi

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Liquid Crystal Display Device Having Patterned Electrodes for Repetitive Divided Horizontal Electric Field and Fringing Electric Field, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Having Mutually Complementary Patterned Electrode and Reflector, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, and Xinyu Zhu

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Liquid Crystal Display with Different Twisting Directions of Liquid Crystal Molecules, Shin-Tson Wu, Ju-Hyun Lee, Wang-Yang Li, and Chung-Kuang Wei

Patents from 2010

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Narrow Spectral Width Lasers Optimized and Temperature Stabilized with Volume Bragg Grating Mirrors, Michael Bass and Te-Yuan Chung

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Composite cavity for enhanced efficiency of up conversion., Michael Bass and Dennis Deppe

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Elliptical Polarizers, Tags and Identification Systems Using Frequency Selective Surfaces, Glenn Boreman, Daniel Mullally, and Jeffrey Tharp

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Mode-Locked Optical Amplifier As A Source For A wdm-WDM Hierarchy Architecture, Peter Delfyett, Thomas Banwell, Shahab Etemad, Stefano Galli, Janet Lehr Jackel, Ronald Menedez, and Paul Toliver

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Phase Chip Frequency-Bins Optical Code Division Multiple Access, Peter Delfyett, Thomas Banwell, Shahab Etemad, Stefano Galli, Janet Lehr Jackel, Ronald Menedez, and Paul Toliver

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Matched Optical Waveforms for Detection and Identification of Biological Pathogens., Peter Delfyett, Geoffrey Burdge, John DeSalvo, Bruce FitzGerald, and Andreas Leven

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High Precision Measurement of the Free Spectral Range of an Etalon, Peter Delfyett, Sangyoun Gee, Sarper Ozharar, and Franklyn Quinlan

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Optical Frequency Self Sabilization in a Couple of Optoelectronic Oscillator, Peter Delfyett, Sangyoun Gee, Sarper Ozharar, and Franklyn Quinlan

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Extreme Optical Pulse Stretching Amplification and Compression with Active Dispersion Tuning, Peter Delfyett and Scott Rozzo

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Optical Coagulation Monitor and Method of Use, Aristide dogariu

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Double Bragg-Grating Scanning- Transmitter/Receiver, Leonid Glebov and Vladim Smirnov

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Deposition of Crystalline Layers on Polymer Substrates Using Nanoparticles and Laser Nanoforming, Aravinda Kar and Sachin Bet

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Apparatus and Method for increasing thermal conductivity of a substrate., Aravinda Kar and Nathaniel Quick

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Systems and Methods for Adaptive Interference Cancellation, Guifang Li

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Direct Detection DIfferential Polarization-Phase-Shift Keying for High Spectral Efficiency Optical Communication, Guifang Li and Yan Han

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Waveguide-Pumping Gain-Guided Index Anti Guided Fiber Lasers, Martin Richardson, John Ballato, Michael Bass, William Hagemann, Timothy McComb, Anthony Siegman, and Vikas Sudesh

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Advanced Droplet and Plasma Targeting System, Martin Richardson, Robert Bernath, Christopher Brown, Joshua Duncan, and Kazutosh Takenoshita

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Systems and Methods for Providing Compact Illumination in Head Mounted Displays, Jannick Rolland, Yonggang Ha, and Vesselin Shaoulov

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Transflective LCD with Reflective Layer Connected to Reference Voltage Greater than 0.5 VRMS and Less than LC Threshold Voltage, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Wang-Yang Li, Ruibo Lu, Chung-Kuang Wei, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Transflective LCD using multilayer dielectric film transflector, Shin-Tson Wu, Zhibing Ge, Qiong-Hua Wang, Xinzhang Wu, and Xinyu Zhu

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Head Mounted Display with Curved Display Screen, Curved Tunable Focus Liquid Crystal Micro-Lens and First and Second Curved Black Masks Corresponding independently to One of the Right and Left Eye, Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, Ruibo Lu, and Xinzhang Wu

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Vertical Alignment Liquid Crystal Displays with High Transmittance and Wide View Angle, Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, Ruibo Lu, and Xinzhang Wu

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display Using Separate Transmissive and Reflective Liquid Crystal Cells and Materials with Single Cell Gap, Shin-Tson Wu, Qi Hong, and Yung-Hsun Wu

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Transflective Liquid Crystal Display, Shin-Tson Wu, Ju-Hyun Lee, and Xinyu Zhu

Patents from 2009

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Sub-Millimeter and Infrared Reflectarray, Glenn Boreman, James Ginn, and Brian Lail

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Elliptical Polarizers, Tags and Identification Systems Using Frequency Selective Surfaces, Glenn Boreman, Daniel Mullally, and Jeffrey Tharp