Title: Pioneering Optical Coating Technology for Space Exploration with Gravitational Waves - Precision Metrology at the Thermodynamic Limit Abstract: The world-wide effort to detect gravitational waves has lifted the veil on a gravitational sky full of violent cosmic events with rich stories to tell. The sensitivities of the current observatories - marvels of precision engineering and optical metrology - have evolved to …
Office of ResearchJoin us for Coffee & Conversation at NeoCity! UCF is a partner in the NSF Florida Semiconductor Engine (FSE), headquartered at NeoCity in Osceola County. Learn more about the FSE in this Leadership Spotlight featuring Tawny Olore, P.E., FSE CEO. This event will be immediately followed by the ribbon cutting for the FSE's new office at NeoCity. This talk will …
Office of ResearchJoin us at the 2025 FSI Seminar Series-April Distinguished Guest Speaker: Dr. Emmanuel Urquieta, Vice Chair of Aerospace of Aerospace Medicine and Associate Professor of Medicine at the UCF College of Medicine Topic: The Space Health Revolution: Innovations in space health and biotech Location: Florida Space Institute, 12354 Research Parkway, Room 209 Time: 10:30 am-noon
Office of ResearchTitle: Eyes on the Sky, Nowhere to Hide: Challenges in Full Sky Space Domain Awareness and Communications Abstract: When satellites are lower than thirty degrees above the horizon, the non-negligible path length through the atmosphere exceeds 100 km. Operations in this regime are sometimes referred to as being "in the soup" because turbulence effects dominate both seeing and optical communications. …
Office of ResearchJoins us at the 2025 FSI Seminar Series-May Distinguished Guest Speaker: Dr. Rachael Seidler, Deputy Director of the Astraeus Institute, University of Florida Topic: The Space Health Revolution Location: Florida Space Institute, 12354 Research Parkway, Room 209 Time: 10:30 am-Noon
Office of ResearchTitle: Optics à la mode – a new way of making, using and understanding optics Abstract: Modern micro and nano fabrication now let us make complex and highly functional optics. Examples include sophisticated metasurfaces and highly programmable and even self-configuring silicon photonic interferometer meshes, with many potential applications in areas such as imaging, sensing and communications. Such systems are, however, …
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