Inometrix Inc.
Project Number
1487
Description
Technology
Current commercial dispersion measurement equipment is incapable of stable, accurate and low cost characterization of short length optical fibers/waveguides. Technology developed by Michael Galle and his research team at the University of Toronto changes this by introducing not just one but two new dispersion characterization technologies. These new patent pending technologies will be exclusively licensed to an Ontario start-up company (Inometrix Inc.), founded by the Principal Investigator Michael Galle with the help of the Innovations & Partnerships Office, to commercialize the technology. The core novel and disruptive IP involves single-arm-interferometer technology which allows for the characterization of very low dispersion length (DL) product waveguides/fibers (<10-3 ps/nm) with an accuracy better than 10-4 ps/nm and at a cost less than one-quarter of today’s commercial equipment.
