Introduction to Lasers, in his second year at the City College of New York. He says he had a gut feeling that this could be the next big thing./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nAfter gaining some experience in the industry, he gravitated to UCF because there was ample opportunity to grow with a young school./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cWhen I came to UCF, CREOL was just beginning [as a center],/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d Delfyett says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cI noticed was that the administration and CREOL really liked to foster this concept of UCF and CREOL strongly partnering with the community and the industry. And with that kind of vision, I thought, /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2018This would be a great place to be able to not just train students and develop technologies, but to move technologies from the laboratory and out into the real world./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
The dedication to understanding the importance of CREOL, which began a college in 2004, and fostering partnerships is something that Delfyett says has continued throughout his tenure at UCF. He cites President Alexander N. Cartwright/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s background in electrical engineering and other administration members with backgrounds in science and research as a testament to the university/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s commitment to STEM./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
Delfyett remains optimistic that he may yet realize some of his greatest research aspirations /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2013 or at least play a role in their development./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cSomething that I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019m interested in now is a telescope with thousands of telescopes arranged kind of like lenses on a fly/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s eye,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cIf you can do this properly, you can make an imaging device that could potentially physically image a planet in another solar system./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
Delfyett/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s enterprising ambitions boldly go even further into the sci-fi genre./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cBoom. I want to make the holodeck from Star Trek,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cThe entire room would be paneled with special holographic displays, and it would truly appear as three dimensions and the floor would move as if you were walking./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nThe technologies to make this a reality aren/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019t limited to fictional characters like Captain Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation, Delfyett says./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cWe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019re working on the technology to be able to transmit that amount of information required to make all of these videos go at that at the rate,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cWe/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019re working on technologies that show that if we wanted to have this in our house, it would only require the power five homes rather than that of, say, a nuclear power plant./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
Delfyett/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s bold aspirations are very in sync with his pioneering outlook on innovation and ingenuity./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s great to have this coming from the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s like getting the hometown recognition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2014 Peter Delfyett, Pegasus Professor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cI plant the flag far down the road, and I have no idea how I/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019m going to get there,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d he says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019ve been talking about these things for 25 years, but over time, the technology gets better and more mature and we/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019re taking steps to making these things become a reality./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
Delfyett considers himself /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201csomewhere in the late middle/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d of his career, but he has no intention of slowing his pace just yet./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
His induction into the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame further fuels his research ambitions and desire to discover new frontiers in optics and photonics./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cI/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019ve been around for a long time where a lot of the work that we have done over the years is really now starting to get the recognition,/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d Delfyett says. /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201cIt/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s great to have this coming from the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame. It/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s like getting the hometown recognition./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201d/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
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/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nJason Eichenholz /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201995MS /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201998PhD (2023) Co-founder and chief technology officer, Luminar Technologies, courtesy faculty member in CREOL; optical science and engineering alum/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nDavid Kotick /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201981 /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201983MS (2021): Senior science technical manager at the Naval Warfare Center Training Systems Division; electrical engineering alum/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nMichael Bass (2019): Professor emeritus of optics and photonics, physics, and electrical and computer engineering/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n Sudipta Seal (2018): Pegasus Professor; trustee chair professor; university distinguished professor of materials science and engineering/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n Issa Batarseh (2017): Pegasus Professor of electrical engineering/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n Jacqueline Quinn /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201994MS /news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u201999MD (2016): environmental engineer and research scientist for NASA/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s Kennedy Space Center; environmental engineering alum/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/nJ. Soileau (2016): Professor emeritus of optics and photonics; distinguished professor of electrical and computer engineering, and physics/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n Shin-Tson Wu (2014): Pegasus Professor of optics and photonics; trustees chair professor/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The honor recognizes Pegasus Professor of Optics and Photonics Peter Delfyett/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/u2019s vast contributions to improving the quality of life for people in Florida and beyond./news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":141666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,23,24],"tags":[981,14751,3685,14916],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-141679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-research","category-science-technology","tag-college-of-optics-and-photonics","tag-faculty-excellence","tag-peter-delfyett","tag-research"],"yoast_head":"/news/wp-json/wp/v2/posts/141679/n
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