by admin | Jun 30, 2021 | News, News Stories
Rebuilding the UK telecommunications industry Professor David Richardson has been at the forefront of photonics research for the past 30 years. He has led various large collaborative optical communications research programmes in the UK and abroad, as well as being...
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | News
How fibre lasers can help save the planet High power fibre laser technology boasts many unique features that set it apart from other competing technologies and could be the key to making manufacturing more efficient and sustainable. High power fibre lasers are now...
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | News Stories
Investing in the next generation of photonics leaders As an Early Career Researcher, Dr Natalie Wheeler knows the challenges she and her peers face when trying to “cross the barrier” from postdoc to research group leader. Space to develop ideas while having the...
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | News Stories
A roadmap to meet the demand for silicon photonics fabrication in the UK Callum Littlejohns is the coordinator of the CORNERSTONE programme, a silicon photonics rapid prototyping fabrication service based at the University of Southampton. He shares his insights into...
by admin | Jun 9, 2021 | News Stories
Advancing infrastructure and boosting productivity using fibre vibration monitoring and detection In 2010, Dr Ali Masoudi embarked on his PhD at the University of Southampton and devised a distributed acoustic sensor (DAS), which can measure vibration in real-time...