Prof. Kiko Galvez (Photo by Dylan Crouse ’15)
Kiko Galvez, Colgate University’s Charles A. Dana Professor of physics and astronomy, has been studying special forms of light that can be used to encode data with more information than the typical 1s and 0s of binary. And on March 2, 2021, Galvez and collaborator Behzad Khajavi from Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton were granted a patent for a new technology that helps decode this light-encoded information on the receiving end. This is the first patent assigned to Colgate.