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The Femtosecond Optics Group (FOG) was established in 1986 by Roy Taylor as a subgroup within the larger Laser Optics Group in the Physics Department. Initially research interests were in wavelength tunable femtosecond dye lasers, pulse compression techniques and optical soliton physics, with the group establishing a strong internationally dominant profile. In the 90s the group's principal activities were in diode-pumped solid state lasers, fibre Raman amplifiers and basic nonlinear optics in fibre. In 2001 the group joined the newly formed Photonics Group and the research programmes became primarily all- fibre based developing high power MOPFA (master oscillator power fibre amplifier) systems for high power visible generation, pulsed and cw pumped supercontinuum production and novel nonlinear optical studies in specialist fibres.
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