Princeton University

CULA


Last Modified December 2004


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CONTACT CULA:

Telephone:
    [609] 258-5202

FAX:
    [609] 258-6746

Postal Address:
    Dept. of Chemistry
    Princeton University
    Washington Rd.
    Princeton, NJ 08544

Email:
    Warren S. Warren,
      CULA Director
          
    Joseph X. Montemarano,
      Industrial Liaison
          
    Manjusha Mehendale,
      Facility Director
          
    Denise D'Auria,
      CULA Secretary

The Center for Ultrafast Laser Applications (CULA), funded beginning October 1997 as a Center of Excellence by the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, exploits recent developments in "ultrafast laser systems" which generate intense laser pulses with durations from roughly 10 picoseconds to 10 femtoseconds. The Center promotes a wide variety of medical, chemical, analytical and communications applications with breakthrough potential for New Jersey companies and for health care delivery in the state. Center thrusts include:

  • an optical communications network which should work one hundred times faster than the best commercial systems, yet uses off-the-shelf components;
  • applications of tunable picosecond infrared pulses, which could revolutionize analytical capabilities for pharmaceutical and chemical processes;
  • development of clinical methods for assessing tissue viability and malignancy, which adapt recent technological innovations for telecommunications to create cost-effective and robust systems.