CREOL, The College of Optics and Photonics

$1 laser pointer vs. $2,000 professional-grade laser. 🔦✨

At first glance, the cheap pointer might look “brighter,” but physics tells a different story. In the optics lab, it’s not about brute-force power. It’s about beam quality. Look closely at the beam profiles; the HeNe laser gives us that perfect Gaussian shape needed for precision research, while the pointer is just messy, diverging light.

Engineering is all about control. Which one would you choose for an experiment? 🔬

LaserLab EngineeringStudent

Laser alarm circuit

Showcasing how photonics enabled simple technology like a mouse!

Asking a service engineer how photonics is useful in the maritime industry

LED lightbulbs vs Incandescent lightbulbs

Why use kinetic interceptors when you have photons? ☄️➡️🚫
Visualizing the Golden Dome as the focal point for a missile defense array. In the photonics lab, we don’t just study light—we weaponize it for protection.

When you try explaining what photonics is…

Fiber Coupling