Dr. Raymond Rumpf, EMPossible’s lead instructor, was honored to be named to the Florida Tech Career Hall of Fame for 2020. Dr. Rumpf received his Bachelor’s and Masters’s degrees in Electrical Engineering from Florida Tech in 1995 and 1997 respectively, and his PhD in Optics from the University of Central Florida in 2006. Dr. Rumpf […]

Dr. Raymond Rumpf recently travelled to Bangkok, Thailand to present a workshop on finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) to students at Bangkok University. Every student left with a working simulation of a diffraction grating.

Diffraction gratings are common optical elements in spectrometers, fan-out gratings, dichroic mirrors, and other filter devices. One common aspect of all of these is that they split an incoming wave into multiple diffraction orders. The direction of the diffraction orders depends on the angle of incidence and period of the grating relative to the wavelength. […]