Purdue 'milestone' a step toward advanced sensors, communications

Jason McKinney, a former visiting assistant professor in Purdue's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, works with equipment that produces pulsing laser light in the university's Ultrafast Optics and Optical Fiber Communications Laboratory. Researchers in the lab recently have shown how to finely control the spectral properties of ultrafast light pulses, a step toward creating advanced sensors, more powerful communications technologies and more precise laboratory instruments. McKinney is now an engineer at the Naval Research Laboratory. Credit: Purdue Engineering Communications Office photo/Vincent Walter