At the latest Photonics Leadership Group meeting at Photonex, Coventry on 10 October, the 30 senior representatives of the UK photonics industry present voted to create the positions of Vice-Chair person and Treasurer to the group. These additional voluntary positions representing the UK photonics industry, are being created in response to the significant increase in…
The success of the Photonics Leadership Group was underlined at its latest meeting at Photonex, Coventry on 10 October. With meetings now regularly attended by over 30 senior representatives from industry, academia and support agencies from a pool of over 60 the views of the group are increasingly sort to provide input into into policy…
Innovate UK and the Knowledge Transfer Network are hosting events on the 29th October in London and the 30th October in Glasgow to explore opportunities in the upcoming Horizon 2020 photonics funding calls on:- Photonics Manufacturing Pilot Lines for Photonic Components and Devices to provide open access to manufacturing of advanced photonics components and systems…
The Department for International Trade are soliciting views, especially from SMEs, on possible future UK trade agreements with USA, Australia New Zeeland and CPTPP (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam) by Friday 26 October at https://consultations.trade.gov.uk. Key questions include:- What do you stand to gain from free trade…
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been award for tools made of light and ground breaking inventions in laser physics to Dr Arthur Ashkin for optical tweezer and application to biological systems and to Dr Donna Strickland and Dr Gerard Mourou, for chirped pulsed laser amplification. Dr Stickland is only the third women to…
Closely following closing of round 2, Round 3 of Innovate’s Open Funding Competition opens today 24 September, with submission due by 14 November 2018.
The latest photonic tools for remote detection of hazardous chemical and biological materials have been integrated into robots and unmanned aerial vehicles and successfully field tested by DSTL scientists, the military, police and fire services. The culmination of Project Minerva supported four UK teams were to develop concept systems into field testable demonstration systems over…
Sir Mark Walport, Chief Executive, UK Research and Innovation highlights the strength of UK photonics in oral evidence to the Westminster Science and Technology Select Committee in the final session of its inquiry into quantum technologies “Photonics is a Major Strength…it is an area we are already very good at…where if you look more broadly…
DSTL has announced its intention to fund a second tranche of Quantum Sensing Phd’s starting in October 2019. The scope include many key photonics themes including:- electro-optics components novel VIS/IR sources single and multiphoton detectors digital optical delay lines photonics integrated circuits optical combs sub-shot noise imaging enhanced LIDAR
As regular contributors should be aware the next Photonics Leadership Group meeting will be 10 October alongside Photonex, in Coventry. If you are attending please also register for the Photonex exhibition