Swamp Optics was founded in 2001 with a focus on providing innovative and economical equipment for measuring and compressing ultrashort laser pulses. The company specializes in frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG), a reliable method of measuring the intensity and phase of ultrashort pulses that has played a key role in ultrafast optical research since 1991.

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Company founder Rick Trebino is a world leader in ultrashort laser pulse measurement and a distinguished scholar at Georgia Institute of Technology. Professor Trebino is a co-inventor of the FROG technology and inventor of other measurement techniques such as GRENOUILLE. He has received numerous honors for his contributions to ultrafast measurement technology, including SPIE's Edgerton Award, R & D 100 Award, Circle of Excellence Award and Prism Award, and is a Fellow of AAAS, APS, OSA and SPIE.