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Friday, October 26, 2018

Coop internship offer for undergraduate in Engineering or Physics

A full-time paid internship is available for the Winter 2019 term in our lab.  The intern will work on an advanced fiber optic sensor system to detect the onset of corrosion in the metal bars used to reinforce concrete in large structures, such as tall buildings and bridges.  This work will involve the design... More

Thursday, August 2, 2018

Monitoring Supercapacitors for Renewable Energy Storage Systems

Our recent collaboration on using Tilted Fiber Bragg Gratings to monitor the state of charge of supercapacitors has been selected as a newsbreak in EurekAlert, the scientific bulletin board of the AAAS. https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/cioo-abo072918.php... More

Monday, April 16, 2018

Upcoming conferences: Spring-Summer 2018

Our students will soon be travelling with presentations by Hamed at Photonics North in Montreal (June) and  BGPP (part of the OSA Advanced Photonics Congress in Zurich, Switzerland), where Sondos will also be presenting the main results from her soon to be finished PhD thesis.  Jacques will also attend BGPP to present a Keynote... More

Monday, April 16, 2018

Winter and Spring 2018 conferences

Prof. Chris Smelser, an APClab Faculty member from the School of Information Technology attended Photonics West in San Francisco this January to present a paper on Second harmonic generation in multilayered glass structures;  and Jacques attended Europtrode 2018 at the end of March in Naples to present an invited talk on fiber optic biochemical... More

Monday, April 16, 2018

New web site

Our web site is being reborn with more information and timely news.  Improvements will be made gradually over the next few... More

Saturday, April 14, 2018

Photonics North

Group members upcoming conferences. Sondos, Violeta, and Dingyi are going to Photonics North in Quebec City at the end of May to present some of their work. Jacques will present invited talks at the European Workshop on Optical Fiber Sensors (EWOFS 2016) in Limerick (Ireland) in the first week of June, then another one at... More

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