The group welcomes the 2026 cohort of graduate students with a day trip to East Sooke Park. New group members Marina, Bree and Paul may get a distorted view of a typical day in the LaserLab, though.

Arthur and Swapnil built a sensor system that can transmit sound frequencies using light as a carrier. They showed this can be done over more than 75 km of optical fiber - no amplifiers, no boosters - using a heterodyning method. Read about their work in Journal of Lightwave Technology

DOI: 10.1109/JLT.2026.3711399

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11614399

Sarah, Emma, Travis, and Peter wrote a review on Techniques and instruments for fluorescence excitation-emission matrix spectroscopy. We think you may find it interesting… check it out!

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trac.2026.119025‍ ‍