The ability to measure, quantify, manipulate, generate, alter, replicate, and control light has far reaching implications for the future of mankind. Communication, Medical, and Military applications abound. CDF, in its role as experimental support to the Nonlinear Dynamics Laboratory, seeks to explore basic research issues associated with a myriad of light and color related aspects of applied physics, nonlinear dynamics, and chaos.

The goal of the CDF page is to: