The Laser & Plasma Laboratory is celebrating its 22nd anniversary this year. In the two decades since it's formation in 1990, just four years after the creation of CREOL, then called the Center for Research in Electro-Optics and Lasers, LPL has grown to be a major laboratory within the constellation of optics, photonics and laser laboratories, and centers surrounding the College of Optics & Photonics at UCF.
LPL is a founding laboratory within the new Townes Laser Institute, established in 2007 as a State Center of Excellence in next-generation laser technologies and their applications. Although LPL's scope of activities has progressively expanded over the years, its mission has remained the same. We strive for excellence in research and training in advanced laser technologies. Our primary products are the students we graduate with Masters and Doctoral degrees and the new science and technologies we create. We are organized into a number of research teams, laboratories and major facilities, and have established many formal and informal collaborations across the globe. These and other facets of our work are summarized on this website.
The LPL would like to welcome its new Research Scientist Dr. Magali Durand. Dr. Durand pursued her PhD at the LOA (Laboratory of Applied Optics) at Ecole Polytechnique in Paris on femtosecond laser filamentation. She studied the interaction between two filaments, the filament as a source of secondary radiation (Térahertz, Continuum de lumière, Troisième harmonique, Radio fréquence), and filamentation at long distances (1 km).
The Pegasus Professor Award is the most prestigious honor the university gives to a faculty member. The award, which was first given out in 2000, recognizes sustained excellence in teaching, research and service. This year, Dr. Richardson, after being a faculty at CREOL for more than 20 years, received the unique Pegasus Professor Award Read More