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This year we exhibited at:
Photonex 07, October, Coventry, UK
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Visit our stand at Photonex in October 2007, see www.photonex.org for more details
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Basic Tech 1000 micro emitters Open Day, Imperial College London, 17th May 2007
SUPA AGM to be held in Edinburgh 13th June 2007
CLEO/ Laser 2007 Munich 18 to 21 June (tbc)
| Open Day - 21st September 2006 | |
On the 21st September the Institute celebrated its tenth anniversary with an Open Day for industry and academia. A morning of presentations was followed by posters, networking and lunch in the Court-Senate suite of the University. In the afternoon, tours of eight laboratories was rounded off with tea and networking in the Institute. Thanks to all of you who participated. From your comments it seems that everyone found the day informative and interesting. For those of you who were unable to attend, copies of the presentations can be found here. For more technical detail on the work presented during the lab tours, click here. |
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| Prof Allister Ferguson hands over to guest speaker Prof Markus Pessa from Tampere University of Technology, Finland. |
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John, Martin, Tim and David in full flow. |
Adaptive Optics Workshop 2 : Adaptive Optics beyond Astronomy
Thursday 3rd of November 2005
Bioengineering Lecture Theatre (Foyer Level 2)
Wolfson Centre, Strathclyde University
As part of the dissemination for the Basic Technology project on deep time resolved imaging a
workshop on the use of adaptive optics outside astronomy will be held at the University of
Strathclyde on the 3rd of November 2005. This meeting will be jointly hosted by the Institute of
Photonics and Oxford University. The main focus of the meeting will be on the use of adaptive
optics for improved imaging at depth and will be of interest to physicists and life scientists working
in these areas. If you wish to present a poster on related work please inform us when you register.
Click here for leaflet and travel info - requires Adobe reader 
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Supa photonics launch event - May 31st 2005 |
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| To view programme click here (requires Acrobat Reader) |
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| further information on SUPA available here |
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The Institute has had four papers accepted for LEOS 2004. Details below: |
Name: Paper Number: Paper Title:
Session: Date: Time: Room: |
Scott A Smith TuS 5 A Daimond-Microchip GaInNAs VECSEL Operating at 1315nm
Tuesday, 9 November 2004 2:30pm - 2:45pm Rio Mar Ballroom 3 |
Name: Paper Number: Paper Title:
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Nicolas Laurand WQ 2 Experimental Comparison of Multiple Queantum-Well GaInNAs Vertical-Cavity SOAs
Wednesday, 10 November 2004 1:45pm - 2:00pm Rio Mar Ballroom 1 |
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Dr Erdan Gu TuW 2 Bifocal and Negative Microlens Arrays in Hard Optical Materals Tuesday, 9 November 2004 2:00pm - 2:15pm Rio Mar Ballroom 9 |
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Chris Griffin ThS 3 Flurescence Excitationand Lifetime Measurements using GaN/InGaN Micro-LED Arrays Thursday, 11 November 2004 2:15pm - 2:30pm Rio Mar Ballroom 3 |
| Photonex04 |
The Institute exhibited at Photonex04 which was held on 6 & 7 October 2004 at Stoneleigh Park, Warwickshire. Photonex is the annual exhibition for photonic and optical technologies in research, industry and science and will be of interest to optical engineers, analytical scientists, physicists, QA scientists and other disciplines using or thinking of using photonics and optical technologies. Or if you wish to meet a potential technology partner, designer, laser safety adviser, project partner, prototyping company or sub-contract production facility? You can meet these companies and sub-contract professionals as well. |
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IOP open day 23rd September 2004 - click here for a review |
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Photon04 is the largest optics conference in the UK and is the second in the series which began ion Cardiff with Photon02 in September 2002. Photon04 was held on the 6th to 9th September 2004 at Glasgow Caledonian University. The meeting included:
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The Institute took part in this conference and exhibition, organised by UKCPO, follow the link to the specific web site www.photon04.org for more detailed information about this event. A total of seven papers from the Institute were selected and presented orally, these were:
For more information on Photon 04 - go to the following link www.photon04.org |
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| The Institute had 5 papers accepted for
oral presentation at the recent CLEO conference in San Francisco.
The Technical Program-Papers submitted for presentation at CLEO/IQEC
undergo a rigorous peer-review process that helps to set the standard
of excellence for which the conference is known. Presentations of
those papers selected, along with a distinguished list of invited
speakers combine to make the Technical Program among the most highly
regarded in the field.
That all the papers submitted by the Institute to CLEO were accepted, is recognition of the excellent work being undertaken at the Institute. These presentations (with presenters highlighted in red) were:- |
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A 0.6W CW GaInNAs vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser operating at 1.32mm, Scott Alexander Smith, John-Mark Hopkins, Handong D. Sun, David Burns, Stephane Calvez, Martin David Dawson, Tommi Jouhti, Janne Konttinen,Markus Pessa; Inst. of Photonics, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK, Optoelectronics Res. Ctr.,Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
We report the first high-power vertical external cavity surface-emitting laser operating at 1.3µm. Continuous-wave output power greater than 0.6W was achieved using a GaInNAs/GaAs structure capillary-bonded to a single-crystal diamond heatspreader.
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Paper ref CTuCC4 Passive stabilisation of an SBR-modelocked Nd:KGW laser by nonlinear absorption in Indium Phosphide, Pavel Cerny, Gareth Valentine, David Burns, Kenneth McEwan; Inst. of Photonics, Univ. of Strathclyde, UK, DSTL, UK.
We demonstrate, for the first time to our knowledge, that passive stabilisation using inverse saturable absorption in indium phosphide expands the parameter range for stable continuous wave mode-locking in a diode pumped passively mode-locked Nd:KGW laser.
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Paper ref CWF3 Passive mode-locking of multi-watt grazing-incidence Nd:GdVO4 laser using a saturable Bragg reflector, Gareth J. Valentine, Walter Lubeigt, David Burns; Inst. of Photonics; Univ. of Strathclyde, UK.
Passive modelocking of a diode-pumped grazing-incidence Nd:GdVO4 laser is reported for the first time to our knowledge. Modelocked slope efficiencies of 30%, output powers up to 4.2W and pulse durations down to 8.5ps are reported.
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Paper ref CWF6 . Active stabilization of a passively modelocked, grazing-incidence Yb:YAG slab laser, Gareth J. Valentine, David Burns; Inst. of Photonics; Strathclyde Univ.,UK.
Passive modelocking of a quasi-CW Yb:YAG laser based on a grazing-incidence geometry is demonstrated. Active stabilization via intracavity loss modulation is essential to prevent damage to the saturable absorber by undesirable Q-switching of the laser.
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Paper ref CThJJ5 Intracavity adaptive optics optimisation of a grazing-incidence Nd:GdVO4 laser, Walter Lubeigt, Gareth J. Valentine, David Burns; Inst. of Photonics, Strathclyde Univ., UK.
An intracavity deformable membrane mirror has been used to control the transverse mode profile of a diode-pumped, grazing-incidence Nd:GdVO4 laser. Automatic mode and power optimisation are demonstrated using a closed-loop genetic algorithm.
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All these papers were very well received and the presenters seemed to enjoy themselves in San Francisco as can be seen by the picture of Dr Gareth Valentine choosing a nice example of the local headwear. For more details of the CLEO conference, please see |
SPIE Photonics Europe 2004 - Conference, Exhibition and Short Courses 26-30 April 2004, Strasbourg, France
Photonics Europe will bring together research, engineering, technology, and applications under one roof. Conferences, a short course program, and a technical exhibition will provide attendees with access to researchers, leading educators, and hundreds of companies hungry to forge alliances and make new business contacts within the EC. Photonics Europe will contain conference tracks on the following areas of interest: Hot Topics in Photonics; Micro-Photonics; Photonics Design, Metrology and Instrumentation; Photonics in Multimedia Technologies; Lasers: Fundamentals and Applications.
The preliminary Call for Papers begins in April 2003.
Contact details for further information:
SPIE Customer Service
P.O. Box 10
Bellingham, Washington 98227, USA
Telephone: +1 360/676-3290
Fax +1 360/647-1445
Email: spie@spie.org
Meeting URL: www.spie.org/info/epe
Professor Martin Dawson was invited to give a technology briefing on GaN micro-LEDs at a CONNECT breakfast briefing held in Glasgow on the 28th of November from 8:00 - 9:30. For further information on CONNECT please visit their site - http://www.connectonthenet.com
LEOS 2002 10th - 14th November 2002
The 15th Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics
Society was held in the SECC Scottish Exhibition & Conference Centre
in Glasgow. This was the first ever annual LEOS meeting to be held outside
of the USA. The event comprised of a technical conference and an exhibition.
The Institute was one of the exhibitors at this meeting.
Dr David Burns one of the Research Team Leaders at the Institute, was
invited to present a paper on High Average Power, Picosecond Pulse Nd-Lasers.
For further details of Institute talks that were given at LEOS click
here.
For further information on LEOS, click on the following
link to their website - http://www.i-leos.org
PHOTON 02
2 - 5 September 2002 Cardiff International Arena
Photon 02 brought together at a conference and exhibition those working in academia and industry, and covering applied research, and industrial implementations and exploitations. In compiling the programme the organiser - United Kingdom Consortium for Photonics and Optics (UKCPO) - had available a wealth of experience from its member organisations, including the Welsh Optoelectronics Forum (WOF), Scottish Optoelectronics Association (SOA), Institute of Physics and Association of Industrial Laser Users (AILU). The result was a programme that covered the latest technology as well as the latest research, with speakers from industry and academia.
Within Photon 02 there was:
The Applied Optics & Optoelectronics Conference,
the biennial conference of the Institute of Physics Applied Optics Division
on research and application in optics and photonics. For further information
see here.
The Photonics Technology Programme, conference of seminars, workshops
and one-day meetings aimed at developers, practitioners, manufacturers,
industrialists and users.
The Photonex2002 Exhibition, the UK's annual trade exhibition of manufacturers
and distributors of optics, photonics, display, fibre, imaging, laser,
optoelectronics, telecoms and related products, systems and services.
The Technology Exchange Forum. A special exhibition area for research
groups and technology developers, high technology start-ups and university
spin-off companies.
'Meet the Buyer' Surgeries - a special activity within the exhibition
for bringing together suppliers and major UK and European purchasers.
A Recruitment Fair, to facilitate matching between employers and potential
employees.
For more information log on to the Photon 02 web site.
26th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS)
29 July - 2 August 2002 Edinburgh EICC conference centre.
The 26th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS) was held in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Monday 29 July-Friday 2 August, 2002. This was the next conference in a biennial series that began in Reading in 1952 and is now firmly established as a major event in the semiconductor physics conference calendar. The most recent meeting in Osaka in 2000 attracted over one thousand participants. The ICPS series takes place under the auspices of the Semiconductor Commission (C8) of the International Union of Pure & Applied Physics (IUPAP). IUPAP and the commission provide overall guidance and very valuable sponsorship to the ICPS series.
Scope of the Conference
The scientific programme consisted of plenary talks, symposia, and oral
and poster sessions. All accepted papers will be published in the proceedings.
The conference covered the following areas:
Bulk material, dynamics, defects and impurities, growth
Heterostructures, quantum wells and superlattices
Quantum nanostructures
New materials and new concepts
Novel devices
Spin effects
For more information log on to the ICPS web site.
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