Center for Freeform Optics

06/27/2025

09/26/2023

- Phase III, awarded by NSF -

The Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) awarded another five years of NSF funding starting September 1st, 2023, both at the University of Rochester, NY, and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
http://centerfreeformoptics.org/2023/09/phase-iii-awarded-by-nsf/

03/07/2022

Congratulations to LightPath, PRISM Awardee for freeform
https://spie.org/news/2022-spie-and-photonics-media-prism-awards-celebrate-innovative-photonics-technologies?SSO=1

At a gala reception, awards honored technologies and products in 10 categories from quantum, lasers, and biomedical devices to autonomous vehicles and augmented and virtual reality

09/27/2021

Congratulations to CeFO Students Yuxuan Liu and Sara Moein as two of the seven recipients of the 2021 Robert S. Hilbert Memorial Optical Design Competition.
https://blogs.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/2021/08/25/2021-robert-s-hilbert-memorial-optical-design-competition-results/

Do you have a diffused glass and coating on your horticultural lighting application? Synopsys provides an easy solution to measure glass and coating performance and optical properties.

05/11/2021

https://blogs.synopsys.com/optical-solutions/2021/05/11/qa-with-jannick-rolland-distinguished-optics-professor-and-industry-innovator/

We recently had the privilege of interviewing Dr. Jannick Rolland, Brian J. Thompson Professor of Optical Engineering at The Institute of Optics, University of Rochester, the Director of the NSF I/UCRC Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO), and the Director of the R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Enginee...

05/06/2021

“Image” is everything in the $20 billion market for AR/VR glasses. Consumers are looking for glasses that are compact and easy to wear, delivering high-quali...

05/06/2021

The demand for high-resolution optical systems with a compact form factor, such as augmented reality displays, sensors, and mobile cameras, requires creating new optical component architectures. Advances in the design and fabrication of freeform optics and metasurfaces make them potential solutions....

05/06/2021

University of Rochester combines metasurfaces and freeform optics for compact high-resolution systems.

05/06/2021

A team from the University of Rochester’s Institute of Optics imprinted freeform optics with a metasurface, in a combination of optical technolo

04/15/2021

https://www.photonics.com/Webinars/Freeform_Optics_for_Imaging_Design_Methods/w404

Part 1 of the 2021 Freeform Optics Series The rise of freeform optics in imaging applications has led to optical systems with increased etendue, m

03/25/2021

https://www.sme.org/aboutsme/awards/outstanding-young-manufacturing-engineer-award/2021-geoffrey-boothroyd-outstanding-young-manufacturing-engineers/

Congrats to CeFO Alumnus Nick Horvarth!

These 14 Outstanding Young Manufacturing Engineers, age 35 or younger, are being recognized for their exceptional contributions and accomplishments in the manufacturing industry. Each year, the award is named in honor of a specific individual who has made lifelong contributions to manufacturing and....

03/23/2021

https://exchange.uncc.edu/researcher-earns-nsf-career-award-to-support-work-with-optical-systems-to-find-creative-solutions/?fbclid=IwAR1E_NuO51oN-nwii3PlP612oYXH4hVpdaG9xHh_SMVgUy_wKZPXRUQbEps

UNC Charlotte researcher Rosario Porras-Aguilar is fascinated by light, inspired by its beauty and its usefulness. Specifically, she focuses her pioneering research on how light can enable more acc…