News & Events
- CeFO Spring 2025 IAB meeting
- Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship in Optical Design 2025
- Welcome to AOM
- Welcome to Valeo
- CeFO June updates
- CeFO Fall 2024 IAB Meeting
- Youxing Chen has earned the NSF’s most prestigious award in support of early-career faculty in STEM
- Jannick Rolland named to Augmented World Expo’s XR Hall of Fame
- April 2-3, 2024: Optica Freeform Optics Industry Summit at Optimax
- SPIE AR I VR I MR – Photonics West 2024
- Center for Freeform Optics IAB Meeting
- Phase III, awarded by NSF
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- Congratulations to John Lambropoulos
- Congratulations to Konstantinos Falaggis
- 2023 Kevin P. Thompson Prize awarded to Eric Schiesser
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- LightPath wins Prism Award
- A new way to make AR/VR glasses
- Verification of cascade optical coherence tomography for freeform optics form metrology
- Rosario Porras-Aguilar awarded 2021 NSF CAREER AWARD & COTTREL
- Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award
- Joseph Fraunhofer Award / Robert M. Burley Prize
- New training in AR/VR tech gives Rochester doctoral students an edge
- CeFO student Nicholas Takaki receives Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship
- CeFO Alumnus Kyle Fuerschbach receives Kevin P. Thompson award from OSA
- Webinar: “Emergence of Freeform Optics in Imaging Systems: A Leap Forward”
- Collaborative ‘back and forth’ drives progress on freeform optics
- Center for Freeform Optics awarded another five years of NSF funding through August 2023
- Announcement for applications for Kidger Scholarship Award in Optical Design 2019
- Photonics.com – Freeform Optics Design Approach Uses Starting-Point Geometries
- AR/VR Displays: Engineering the ultimate augmented reality display: Paths towards a digital window into the world
- UNC Charlotte Student Dustin Gurganus awarded SPIE Student Travel Grant
- Xu Awarded SPIE Optics and Photonics Education Scholarship
- New Method Eliminates Guesswork When Lenses Go Freeform
- CeFO researcher develops process to speed up the development of freeform optical devices
- 2018 Kevin P. Thompson Prize awarded to Xiaojing (Grayce) Huang
- Inaugural Kevin P. Thompson Optical Design Innovator Award Winner Announced
- OCT Adapted for Freeform Optical Metrology
- AWE Honors Jannick Rolland as an Influential Woman Pioneer in Augmented and Virtual Reality
- New Member Thales
- Welcoming Synopsys to CeFO
- OSA Women in Science Tributes
- Thompson Award Nomination Deadline October 11th
- CeFO’s Joseph Owen is Making a Career of Freeform Optics
- UNC Charlotte’s CeFO Team Have Been Pioneers in Freeform Optics for Over 10 Years
- Lighting the Way with Freeform Optics
- Spotlight on CeFO: Freeform Spectrometer Design Innovation
- CeFO is Pleased to Announce UTC Aerospace Systems as Our Newest Member!
- Jannick Rolland Receives Edmund A. Hajim Outstanding Faculty Award
- CeFO Welcomes LightPath Technologies as Our Newest Member!
- Emerging CeFO Success Story: Miniature Imaging Spectrometer
- Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship: 2017 AWARDEE – JONATHAN PAPA
- NSF CAREER Award
- OptiPro Receives Tibbetts Award in 2017 White House Ceremony
- As Center for Freeform Optics Grows, So Do Opportunities for Students
- POCO Graphite, an Entegris company, joins CeFO
- Call for Abstracts: OSA Optical Design and Fabrication Congress
- Call for Papers: ASPEN/ASPE Spring 2017 Topical Conference
- Stephen Burns to Become Professor Emeritus
- Nikon Research Corporation of America Joins CeFO
- L-3 Communications Joins CeFO
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- SPIE Photonics West Conference
- Eminess Joins CeFO
- Corning Joins CeFO
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory Joins CeFO
- Invitation for Conference Papers
- SPIE OPTIFAB Conference
- Short Course on Freeform Optics at OPTIFAB
- Microsoft joins CeFO
- Reimers Wins Design Competition
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- Eric Schiesser awarded 2015 Michael Kidger Memorial Scholarship
- AIM Photonics receives $110M federal funding
- ODF ’16
- SPIE Optics + Photonics 2015
- Aperture Optical Sciences joins CeFO
- ASPE 2015 Summer Topical Meeting
- Oculus, a division of Facebook, joins CeFO
- Outstanding Dissertation Award to Fuerschbach
- Yao Receives Student Award
- Greg Forbes joins CeFO
- Carl Zeiss AG Joins CeFO
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- Freeform Optics Meeting in Denmark
- OSA Freeform Optics Meeting
- 2014 New CeFO Members
- SPIE Photonics West 2015
- Frontiers in Optics 2014
- Spotlight on Head-Worn Displays
- EOSAM 2014
- Center for Freeform Optics (CeFO) IAB Meeting
- R.E. Hopkins Center for Optical Design and Engineering
- International Lens Design Conference (IODC)
- ASPE/ASPEN Summer Topical Meeting
- Optical Fabrication and Testing (OF&T)
- 3D Printing and Metrology of Freeform Optics
- High Speed Machining of Brittle Optical Material