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01 December 2020
Air-guided fibre optic overcomes attenuation limits of conventional fibres
Guiding light through air filled fibre offers a potential way to overcome the limitations of traditional optical fibre
Hollow-core optical fibres invented and fabricated at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) have demonstrated their potential to outperform and ultimately replace silica fibres in key application areas.The new fibres can surpass current attenuation limits caused by the scattering of light in glass and trigger dramatic advances in quantum communications, data transmission, and...
01 December 2020
Multimillion-pound research to transform how data is sensed, transferred and processed on silicon chips
Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre
Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) are investigating new ways of integrating high capacity optical communications and signal processing onto a single silicon chip as part of an ambitious new £6.1 million research programme.The Quantum Dots on Silicon - QUDOS programme unites collaborators from University College London, Cambridge, Cardiff and Southampton to fundamentally change the way in which data is sensed, transferred between...
27 November 2020
Southampton innovation underpins £10m drive to expand quantum technologies
Laser wavelength conversion technology pioneered at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) is integral to a new £10 million collaboration creating new markets for the next industrial revolution in quantum systems.QT Assemble is an Innovate UK collaborative R...
27 November 2020
Artificial intelligence re-imagined to tackle society's challenges with people at its heart
The Southampton fellowship will develop AI that could help people switch to greener forms of energy and transport.
AI systems will be re-designed to value people as more than passive providers of data in a prestigious new Turing Artificial Intelligence Acceleration Fellowship at the University of Southampton.The novel research, led by Electronics and Computer Science's Dr Sebastian Stein, will create AI systems that are aware of citizens' preferences and act to maximise the benefit to society.In...
25 November 2020
Southampton takes leading photonics research to the national stage
Dr Callum Littlejohns who organised and chaired the silicon photonics symposium at the SPIE Photonex and Vacuum Expo 2020 Digital Forum.
The latest innovations in photonics manufacturing were showcased on the national stage by academics from the Southampton-led Future Photonics Hub and Southampton's Silicon Photonics Group.Leading photonics researchers from both groups organised two events at the recent premier UK photonics exhibition - SPIE Photonex and Vacuum Expo 2020 Digital Forum.The first was...
25 November 2020
Have your say on the UK's National Security and Investment Bill
The Future Photonics Hub, led by the University of Southampton, is encouraging people to take the time to understand the UK Government's recently published National Security and Investment Bill and what it will mean to their organisation.While The Hub can't offer legal advice, it wants to raise awareness of the significant details in the new Bill which are particularly relevant to the UK photonics sector - including the introduction of a mandatory requirement to notify government of transactions in sensitive sectors with an...

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