Salamanca, Gto., June 4, 2017.- Professor-Researchers of the University of Guanajuato (UG) and the University of Valencia, Spain, maintain a collaboration to develop experiments with optic fiber and publish results.

Because of this collaboration, Dr. Miguel Vicente Andrés Bou, professor of applied physics and initiator of the Laboratory of Optic Fibers at the University of Valencia, visited the Division of Engineering of Campus Irapuato-Salamanca of UG, invited by Dr. Oleksiy Shulika, professor of the Department of Electronic Engineering and member of the academic body of Optoelectronics.

He is currently working in a project to develop light sources for microscopy, which is simpler and more efficient with optic fiber. These are new application areas of the optic fiber, additional to communications.

The light sources have important applications in biomedicine and the industrial area, mentioned Dr. Andrés, who has developed new techniques to measure small imperfections in the optic fibers which are overlooked with other techniques and parameters that have interest in new applications, since the previous techniques had certain limitations because of the error in the resolution –which thanks to his work have improved—, or limitations because of the bandwidth.

The characterization techniques allow to precisely measure the properties of light. These fibers are used in generating new light sources of the optic fiber in combination with lasers, allowing to build light sources, that cannot be developed in a simple way.

For example, he works in supercontinuum sources, white light lasers with applications in the industry of material classifying and some of the lasers will be well adapted to material processing in the industry.

The researcher regularly visits several universities in our country, to create collaboration bonds with his Mexican pairs.