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05 September 2017
National Fellowship honour for Professor Graham Reed of the ORC
Professor Graham Reed
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• Professor Graham Reed
• Silicon Photonics Group
• The Royal Academy of Engineering
Professor Graham Reed, Deputy Director of the ORC and Professor of Silicon Photonics, has been made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the latest tranche of elections to the Fellowship announced today.The Royal Academy of Engineering is the national academy...
21 August 2017
ORC represented at Photonics @ Singapore Mega-conference
The ORC team at the Photonics @ Singapore Mega-conference.
Earlier this month, over 30 Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) staff joined with our dual centre partner, The Photonics Institute (TPI), Nanyang Technological University, at the largest ever photonics conference to be held in Singapore – the Photonics @ Singapore Mega-conference.Combining three conferences in one: the 12th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO PR); the 22nd OptoElectronics and Communications Conference...
19 July 2017
Photonics Convergence to Underpin Industry 4.0
The smart factory. The fourth industrial revolution. The industrial internet. Whatever you prefer to call it, Industry 4.0 is becoming one of the defining themes of the current era, promising the combination of connectivity, flexibility, artificial intelligence and speed required to deliver next-level industrial productivity.So where does photonics fit in? Perhaps it would be easier to ask where doesn’t photonics fit in. From high-speed optical data links to the versatility of laser materials processing, and the feedback and...
13 July 2017
Silicon photonics consortium receives £4.8 million Prosperity Partnership boost
The Silicon Photonics Group fabricates its devices in the Southampton Nanofabrication Centre, one of the premiere cleanrooms in Europe.
The University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre is entering into a ‘Prosperity Partnership’ with Rockley Photonics as part of a £4.8m scheme to advance silicon photonics technology.Over five years, the University’s Silicon Photonics Group will receive £2.7m from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), working with Rockley...
04 July 2017
Call: Free silicon photonics fabrication for UK institutions
The Zepler Institute Cleanroom Complex
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• Silicon Photonics Fabrication - 3rd Call
• Silicon Photonics Research Group
Third fabrication call, June 2017As part of the EPSRC-funded CORNERSTONE project, research institutions are invited to submit mask designs to the forthcoming Silicon Photonics Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) run.This service is offered free of charge to UK institutions, but non-UK...
25 June 2017
Photonics worth £12.9B to the UK economy
Copyright: Image courtesy of University of Southampton and SPI Lasers
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• The Knowledge Transfer Network
• The Photonics Leadership Group
• The Future Photonics Hub
New figures show substantial value of light-based technologyThe Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and the Photonics Leadership Group (PLG) today report that companies manufacturing light-based technology (photonics) in...

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