Founded in 2001, Swamp Optics offers recently invented innovative and cost-effective devices for measuring and compressing ultrashort laser pulses. We specialize in frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG), the most robust and reliable method for measuring the time-dependent intensity and phase of an ultrashort pulse. FROG is rigorous, general, and relatively simple to implement, and it has become a very successful technique, and it has played a key role in ultrafast-optical research since 1991.

Swamp Optics' founder is Rick Trebino, the world's leading expert in ultrashort-laser-pulse measurement and the Georgia Research Alliance-Eminent Scholar Chair of Ultrafast Optical Physics at the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Professor Trebino is the co-inventor of FROG and the inventor of GRENOUILLE and a host of other clever techniques for measuring ultrashort laser pulses. He has received wide recognition for this work, including the SPIE's Edgerton Prize for developments in ultrafast measurement technology, an R&D100 award, a Circle of Excellence Award, and a Prism award.  He is a Fellow of the AAAS, APS, OSA, and SPIE.