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Ultrafast and Non-linear Fiber Optics (UNFO)
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UNFO is the Ultrafast and Non-linear Fiber Optics facility in the James R. Macdonald Laboratory.
Modern telecommunications uses lasers to transmit information at high speed through fiber optic cables. Understanding the behavior of fiber optics is therefore crucial. Of particular interest are the various complex, non-linear effects that the fiber can have on laser light.
The team working in UNFO seek first to understand these effects, and then to use them to advance the technological state of the art. One project seeks to build a compact high-intensity ultrafast laser using fiber instead of the traditional crystals (like the Ti:Sapphire crystals found in KLS).
UNFO is headed by Professor Brian Washburn.
Last updated on Tuesday, 21-Oct-2008
