Eric Johnson Appointed Associate Director of Optoelectronics Center
Professor Eric G. Johnson, Director of the Micro-Photonics Lab, College of Optics & Photonics/CREOL, University of Central Florida, is moving to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.   Dr. Johnson's new position as the Associate Director of the Center for Optoelectronics and Optical Communications will give him the opportunity to take a leadership role in the next growth phase of the Center.

The Center has recently moved into a new purpose built 90,000 square foot facility which will accommodate some 25 optics faculty and several user facilities, including a state-of-the-art clean room for photonic device fabrication. The Center is also promoting industry partnerships and has laboratory space allocated for commercial use.  At present there are approximately 40 graduate students in the newly approved graduate programs in optical science and engineering who use the Center's resources.

Dr. Johnson, a fellow of SPIE, received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Alabama at Huntsville, MS from the University of Central Florida, and BS from Purdue University. He joined the faculty at CREOL in 2000. Prior to that, he was the VP of Research & Development at Digital Optics Corporation in Charlotte. His research interests include diffractive and micro-optical systems and applications, data communications, and micro-optics fabrication.