EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Photonics
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Southampton
Department Name: Optoelectronics Research Ctr (closed)
Abstract
Currently, special fibres are a crucial enabling technology that communicates worldwide, navigates airliners, monitors oil wells, cuts steel, and shoots down missiles (and even mosquitoes!). New classes of special optical fibres have demonstrated the potential to extend the impact of optical fibres well beyond the telecommunications arena, in areas as diverse as defence, industrial processing, marine engineering, biomedicine, DNA processing and astronomy. They are making an impact and commercial inroads in fields such as industrial sensing, bio-medical laser delivery systems, military gyro sensors, as well as automotive lighting and control - to name just a few - and span applications as diverse as oil well downhole pressure sensors to intra-aortic catheters, to high power lasers that can cut and weld steel. Optical fibres and fibre-related products not only penetrate existing markets but also, more significantly, they expand the application space into areas that are impossible by conventional technologies. To fulfil this potential and further revolutionise manufacturing, there is a strong need to continue innovating and manufacturing market-worthy fibres, in order to sustain the growth in the fast expanding fibre-based manufacturing sectors.From its inception in the 1960s, the UK has played a major role in shaping the optical fibre industry, and the highly regarded Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton is at the forefront. Our vision is to build upon the rich expertise and extensive facilities that are already in place to create a world-class, industry-led Centre for advanced manufacturing processes for new photonic components and materials that will fuel the growth of UK companies, enabling them to expand their product portfolio, enhance competitiveness and increase their market penetration and overall share. We will liaise closely with UK and other European Research Centres to advance further the fibre and related material technology, as well as increase the application space. The Centre is expected to play a key role in job and wealth creation in the expanding and highly competitive advanced technology and manufacturing sector. The UK industrial sector accounts for a production volume in photonics of EUR 5.2 billion, which corresponds to 12% of the European volume, and 2.3% of the world market. Particularly notable about the photonics industrial sector is that it comprises a majority of SMEs, who typically do not have the economies of scale nor the financial resources to invest heavily in infrastructure on their own. Use of the Innovative Manufacturing funding mechanism, complemented by industrial user-provided direct and in-kind contributions of ~4M (similar in amount to that sought from EPSRC for the establishment of this IMRC) , will supply the seed funding and focus needed to research and develop the next generation fibre material and technology platforms, which in turn will fuel the growth in photonics related manufacturing. The establishment of such a manufacturing research centre, working closely with existing key high-tech photonic UK companies as well as emerging companies and new start-ups, will make a substantive difference to their ability to develop and gain larger penetration in their respective markets. The IMRC strategy will follow multiple strands taking a number of initiatives to continuously expand and strengthen the initial research portfolio by moving it further up in the innovation and value-added spectrum. During its lifetime, the IMRC will make concerted efforts to further increase the user number and level of engagement.
Planned Impact
The major impact targeted by this photonics manufacturing research program is the UK manufacturing sector, and through it the UK economy. Although photonics is often overlooked as a major economic force (compared to, say, the microelectronics industry), the numbers today attest to quite a different reality. The world market for photonics (production) is EUR 228Bn, and Europe's share is EUR 43.5Bn (19%) . Revenue growth is 12% (to EUR 49Bn in 2006). The sector employs 246,000 workers in Europe (not including subcontractors) in over 5,000 companies. Most of these are small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In areas such as production technology and optical components and systems, Europe has a 40% share of the world market. European photonics production is now equivalent to that of microelectronics in Europe, but with a higher growth rate (worldwide microelectronics production was EUR 200Bn in 2006, with 5.4% growth). Of this, the UK accounts for a production volume in photonics of EUR 5.2 billion, which corresponds to 12% of the European volume, and 2.3% of the world market . The upside for the UK is considerable in economic terms if we were able to capture a larger share of this manufacturing sector in Europe and worldwide. Particularly notable about the photonics industrial sector is that it comprises a majority of SMEs, who typically do not have the economies of scale nor the financial resources to invest heavily in infrastructure on their own. The presence of an Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre in this sector, correctly positioned, will benefit them considerably. Such an IMRC will enable the SMEs to design, develop and test novel manufacturing processes by leveraging upon the capital equipment and technical expertise established at the Centre. The scientific and technical advancements generated by this work will cover a continuum of areas, from fundamental knowledge and understanding of materials through to advances in applied technologies; hence the overall impact of this program will be widespread. Beneficiaries include those working to develop a fundamental understanding of the physical properties of photonic materials, through to engineers looking to develop next-generation device fabrication techniques, all of which will ultimately feed through and support industry. The research results from this program are expected to result in considerable interest on a national and international scale. Throughout the course of this program, we will undertake the training and development of the next generation of scientists and engineers to expand the knowledge and skills-base, and through it the competitiveness of the UK economy. This will be carried out through the institution's graduate training programme and staff development schemes, supported by professional bodies such as the Royal Society and the Royal Academy of Engineering. A number of joint projects have already been identified with commercial partners, and it has been arranged for technical staff from companies to be seconded to the IMRC for significant periods, which will help foster a better understanding between the companies' manufacturing needs and the IMRC's technical capabilities. The close interaction with industry under the proposed IMRC structure will also give our PhD students clear career role models. In the area of exploitation, the ORC has significant experience in exploiting IP both in terms of licensing to users and in the formation of spin-off ventures. In the Southampton area alone, there is a cluster of high tech, high value-added companies engaging in photonics that currently employ about 600 people and play a major role in the regional and national economy. Exploitation will be through the form of intellectual property generated or knowledge transfer, from either the platform research or the user-led projects. Where applicable, we will also seek to exploit our results through new start-up companies or joint ventures.
Organisations
- University of Southampton (Lead Research Organisation)
- Loughborough Surface Analysis (Collaboration)
- Macquarie University (Collaboration)
- University of Saskatchewan (Collaboration)
- SPI Lasers UK (Collaboration)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Collaboration)
- Plastic Logic (Collaboration)
- University College Cork (Collaboration)
- Heriot-Watt University (Collaboration)
- IS Instruments (Collaboration)
- Seagate Technology (Ireland) (Collaboration)
- Eindhoven University of Technology (Collaboration)
- Fudan University (Collaboration)
- Qioptic (Collaboration)
- DAS Photonics S. L. (Collaboration)
- Coriant (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE (Collaboration)
- University of Tennessee (Collaboration)
- UNIVERSITY OF EXETER (Collaboration)
- Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable (Shanghai) Company Ltd. (Collaboration)
- Atomic Weapons Establishment (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Trumpf (Collaboration)
- University of Pardubice (Collaboration)
- Pulitzer Arts Foundation (Collaboration)
- Oxford Instruments (United Kingdom) (Collaboration)
- OFS Denmark (Collaboration)
- Fraunhofer Society (Collaboration)
- Polytechnic University of Turin (Collaboration)
- NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- National Physical Laboratory (Collaboration)
- Mettler Toledo Safeline Ltd (Collaboration)
- Czech Technical University in Prague (Collaboration)
- European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) (Collaboration)
- Glass Technology Services (Collaboration)
- ASTON UNIVERSITY (Collaboration)
- University of Oxford (Collaboration)
- University of Bristol (Collaboration)
- University College London (Collaboration)
- Gooch & Housego (Collaboration)
- Masdar Institute (Collaboration)
- BAE Systems (United Kingdom) (Collaboration, Project Partner)
- Gooch & Housego (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Fibercore (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Sensoptics Ltd (Project Partner)
- M Squared Lasers (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- SG Controls Ltd (Project Partner)
- Fianium (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Stratophase (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- Leonardo (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- TRUMPF (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- FiberLogix (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
- OpTek Systems (United Kingdom) (Project Partner)
Publications
Orava J
(2012)
Characterization of supercooled liquid Ge2Sb2Te5 and its crystallization by ultrafast-heating calorimetry.
in Nature materials
Shardlow PC
(2015)
Cladding shaping of optical fibre preforms via CO2 laser machining
Lin D
(2014)
Cladding-pumped ytterbium-doped fiber laser with radially polarized output.
in Optics letters
Jung Y
(2020)
Compact micro-optic based components for hollow core fibers.
in Optics express
Huang R
(2014)
Contact resistance measurement of Ge 2 Sb 2 Te 5 phase change material to TiN electrode by spacer etched nanowire
in Semiconductor Science and Technology
Lin D
(2014)
Controlling the handedness of directly excited Laguerre-Gaussian modes in a solid-state laser.
in Optics letters
Yao T
(2011)
Cryogenically cooled erbium-doped fiber lasers
| Description | The Centre supported three main platform projects and 27 projects sponsored by the industry, which provided a total cash contribution of 3.78 million pounds. Industrial partners included, amongst others, Fianium, Fiberlogix, EDF Energy, Trumpf, SPI lasers, AWE, Qioptiq, Selex Galileo, Overview Ltd. The platform projects, (in association with other UK and EU projects) were very successful and generated a number of record breaking results and created substantial impact in terms of presentation at leading international conferences, highlight on professional publications and magazines, publications in high impact factor journals, follow-on funding from industrial partners. Results include: 1. Demonstration of improved HC-PBGFs with low transmission loss over a very wide bandwidth (x10 improvement over SOTA) 2. manufacture of 2 D materials (like graphene, MoS2) from vapour phase on large substrates, with area as large as a 4" waver. 3. Demonstration of improved HC-PBGFs with lowest loss in the 2.0um and 1.0um wavebands. 4. Demonstration of large core HC-PBGFs based on a 37 cell core geometry. 5. Fabrication of very long lengths of HC-PBGF - tenfold improvement of the SOTA, pushing beyond the 10km mark. 6. Demonstration of low loss, low bending loss HC-PBGFs operating at mid infrared wavelengths. 7. Demonstration of a variety of accurate modelling tools in aid of fabrication, including modelling of the fibre drawing procedure as well as the optical properties of bandgap fibres and other microstructured fibres. 8. Demonstration of novel antiresonant guiding hollow core fibres with a simplified structure. |
| Exploitation Route | research, collaboration with other institutions for integration in components, industrial collaborations for exploitation. A new company has been set-up to commercialise results achieved in the fabrication of hollow core fibres. |
| Sectors | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Financial Services, and Management Consultancy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Security and Diplomacy,Other |
| Description | The EPSRC centre for innovative manufacturing in Photonics supported 28 industrial projects (funded with £3.78M from the industry), that resulted in the development of novel manufacturing technologies. These were exploited by the industrial partners for the improvement of commercial products already available or the development of novel products/technologies. A new company (Lumenisity Ltd) has been set-up to commercialise the results obtained on the manufacture of hollow core optical fibres. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
| Sector | Aerospace, Defence and Marine,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Energy,Manufacturing, including Industrial Biotechology,Security and Diplomacy,Transport,Other |
| Impact Types | Economic |
| Description | AWE-CO2 gas cells |
| Amount | £37,473 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | AWE-Mid IR fibres |
| Amount | £42,246 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2014 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | AWE-modal interference suppression |
| Amount | £34,923 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2011 |
| End | 06/2011 |
| Description | Centre for Defense Enterprise |
| Amount | £69,788 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ministry of Defence (MOD) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2013 |
| End | 05/2014 |
| Description | Centre for Defense Enterprise |
| Amount | £28,187 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ministry of Defence (MOD) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 10/2015 |
| Description | Centre for defence enterprise |
| Amount | £69,778 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ministry of Defence (MOD) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2013 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | Consolidator Grant (Poletti) |
| Amount | € 2,750,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | European Research Council (ERC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Belgium |
| Start | 07/2016 |
| End | 06/2021 |
| Description | EDF Energy internal funding |
| Amount | £174,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | EDF Energy |
| Department | EDF Energy Nuclear Generation |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 11/2014 |
| End | 10/2016 |
| Description | EPSRC |
| Amount | £486,940 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N013883/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 01/2018 |
| Description | FORTH |
| Amount | € 3,300 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | Greece |
| Start | 09/2015 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | Fianium |
| Amount | £200,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fianium Ltd, UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2010 |
| End | 12/2012 |
| Description | Fianium - CASE |
| Amount | £22,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fianium Ltd, UK |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 03/2017 |
| Description | Fibercore |
| Amount | £10,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fibercore |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 03/2014 |
| Description | Fiberlogix |
| Amount | £23,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | FiberLogix |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2010 |
| End | 09/2011 |
| Description | Fibre Drawing - Manufacturing |
| Amount | £134,851 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Start | 04/2013 |
| End | 07/2014 |
| Description | Fibrecore fibres for distributed sensing |
| Amount | £5,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fibercore |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2011 |
| End | 06/2011 |
| Description | Ilika |
| Amount | £26,494 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ilika |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2014 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | Industrial |
| Amount | £8,100 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Fibercore |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 02/2015 |
| Description | Industrial (Korea) |
| Amount | £150,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Licomm |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Korea, Republic of |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 10/2018 |
| Description | Industrial (TIAX) |
| Amount | £5,343 (GBP) |
| Organisation | TIAX LLC |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 07/2015 |
| End | 07/2015 |
| Description | Innovate UK |
| Amount | £111,674 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2016 |
| End | 01/2017 |
| Description | Innovation fund |
| Amount | £15,060 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Zepler Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2015 |
| End | 07/2016 |
| Description | Innovation fund - Hollow core plastic optical fibres |
| Amount | £15,090 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Zepler Institute |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 12/2015 |
| End | 09/2016 |
| Description | Laser Quantum |
| Amount | £22,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Laser Quantum |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2011 |
| Description | Manufacturing Advanced Functional Materials |
| Amount | £3,125,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M015130/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | Manufacturing the Future |
| Amount | £2,476,881 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M015173/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2015 |
| End | 04/2020 |
| Description | Material Processing |
| Amount | £2,508,176 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M015130/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 01/2020 |
| Description | NPL |
| Amount | £106,586 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 02/2015 |
| End | 09/2018 |
| Description | NPL |
| Amount | £100,939 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2015 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | NPL-CDE fibre clocks |
| Amount | £50,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | NPL-DSTL studentship |
| Amount | £106,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Defence Science & Technology Laboratory (DSTL) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 06/2018 |
| Description | NPL-ESA Gas Sensing |
| Amount | € 99,997 (EUR) |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 03/2013 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | NTU |
| Amount | £12,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | NTU (singapore) |
| Amount | £175,222 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | Nanostructured Fibre and Mid-IR Fibre |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Start | 04/2013 |
| End | 07/2014 |
| Description | Onera |
| Amount | € 96,000 (EUR) |
| Organisation | National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | France |
| Start | 10/2012 |
| End | 09/2013 |
| Description | Oxford Electronics |
| Amount | £23,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Oxford Electronics Ltd |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2012 |
| Description | QLink Technologies |
| Amount | £19,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | QLink Technologies |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United States |
| Start | 06/2013 |
| End | 09/2014 |
| Description | Schlumberger |
| Amount | £1,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Schlumberger Limited |
| Department | Schlumberger Cambridge Research |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 04/2014 |
| End | 05/2014 |
| Description | Selex |
| Amount | £21,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Selex ES |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Italy |
| Start | 10/2013 |
| End | 03/2016 |
| Description | Standard Research |
| Amount | £381,101 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N020057/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | Standard Research |
| Amount | £559,500 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/M009033/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 05/2015 |
| End | 04/2018 |
| Description | TSB laser based manufacturing |
| Amount | £32,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Innovate UK |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2009 |
| End | 10/2012 |
| Description | Trumpf SPI |
| Amount | £400,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Trumpf |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 10/2011 |
| End | 09/2012 |
| Description | University Research Fellowship |
| Amount | £467,623 (GBP) |
| Organisation | The Royal Society |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 10/2020 |
| Description | Zepler Fund |
| Amount | £13,500 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University of Southampton |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2015 |
| End | 11/2015 |
| Description | communications |
| Amount | £211,227 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | EP/N510063/1 |
| Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2016 |
| End | 12/2018 |
| Description | eu framework 7 |
| Amount | € 5,700,000 (EUR) |
| Funding ID | 314410 |
| Organisation | European Commission |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | European Union (EU) |
| Start | 09/2012 |
| End | 08/2015 |
| Description | industrial |
| Amount | £33,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | IS Instruments |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 10/2015 |
| Description | industrial (Ilika) |
| Amount | £936 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ilika |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2015 |
| End | 10/2015 |
| Description | industrial (Ilika) |
| Amount | £5,167 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Ilika |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 07/2014 |
| End | 12/2014 |
| Description | trumpf |
| Amount | € 62,709 (EUR) |
| Organisation | Trumpf |
| Sector | Private |
| Country | Germany |
| Start | 10/2015 |
| End | 10/2015 |
| Title | UKPhotonics.org |
| Description | dynamic database collecting photonic activity in the UK. it scrapes national websites to update itself overnight. |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2013 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | increased interest in the EPSRC centre for innovative manufacturing in photonics. |
| URL | http://www.ukphotonics.org/ |
| Description | AU - waveguides |
| Organisation | Aston University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of bulk glass samples for laser written waveguides |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | Sample exchange, joint proposal planned |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | Application of HC-PBGFs for high capacity, low latency transmission |
| Organisation | Coriant |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of state of the art hollow core fibres for data transmission |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided access to commercial grade state of the art data transmission testbeds worth several £100k for carrying out trials of realistic scale. |
| Impact | Assessment of hollow core PBGFs for data transmission. First demonstration of DWDM high capacity transmission in HC-PBGFs; record transmission capacity and distance over this type of fibres |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | BAE system |
| Organisation | BAE Systems |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | confidential |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential |
| Impact | confidential |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | BU - Microsphere Fabrication |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of microspheres by acoustic levitation |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | joint publications |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | BU - Photonic devices |
| Organisation | University of Bristol |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabrication of planar chalcogenide devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization and integration in experiemental setup |
| Impact | joint EPSRC project |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | CERN radiation hard fibres |
| Organisation | European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) |
| Department | CERN - Other |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our centre has developed novel Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres for short and medium range data transmission links, which guide light in an air core and thus are thus expected to have significantly higher radiation hardness as compared to standard all solid fibres. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The group at CERN has carried out experiments and demonstrated a 100x reduction of radiation induced loss in pilot trials even under very high dose gamma irradiation. |
| Impact | Participation to specialist conference (TWEPP 2013) and publication on high impact journal: L Olanterä et al 2013 JINST 8 C12010 doi:10.1088/1748-0221/8/12/C12010 |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | Coriant High data rate HC-PBGF transmission trials |
| Organisation | Coriant |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Our centre has developed novel Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres for low latency data transmission applications. These fibres can be operated both as single mode and as few mode fibres over the distance of few hundred meters to a few kilometres. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Coriant has carried out transmission system tests using high specs commercial equipment and have achieved several record data transmission rates in the HC-PBGFs developed by the ORC, using spatial division multiplexing and a variety of advanced data transmission formats. |
| Impact | Y. Jung, V. Sleiffer, N. Baddela, M. Petrovich, J. R. Hayes, N. Wheeler, D. Gray, E. R. Numkam Fokoua, J. Wooler, N. Wong, F. Parmigiani, S. Alam, J. Surof, M. Kuschnerov, V. Veljanovski, H. Waardt, de, F. Poletti, and D. J. Richardson, "First Demonstration of a Broadband 37-cell Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber and Its Application to High Capacity Mode Division Multiplexing," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference 2013, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2013), paper PDP5A.3. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OFC-2013-PDP5A.3 Poletti, F., Wheeler, N., Baddela, N., Jung, Y., Wooler, J., Gray, D., Numkam, E., Hayes, J., Slavik, R., Alam, S.U., Sandogchi, S.R., Sleiffer, V.A.J.M., Kuschnerov, M., Petrovich, M. & Richardson, D.J. (2013). Recent advances in photonic bandgap fiber technology. Conference Paper : Proceedings IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topicals Meeting 2013, 8-10 July 2013, Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, (pp. TuC4.4-(115/116)). Invited paper. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/PHOSST.2013.6614513 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Customized Hollow core fibres for novel Gas sensing schemes |
| Organisation | IS Instruments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of hollow core fibres tailored for IS gas sensing applications |
| Collaborator Contribution | Support of a CASE Studentship; awarded and leading an Innovate UK grant in late 2015 |
| Impact | Support of new high value gas sensor instruments at IS Instruments (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Czech Technical University |
| Organisation | Czech Technical University in Prague |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | they developed special splicing and interconnection methods for compound glass fibres |
| Collaborator Contribution | We supplied CTU with various types of compound glass fibres for a joint project aiming to developing special splicing and interconnection methods |
| Impact | joint project aiming to developing special splicing and interconnection methods |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | DAS photonics |
| Organisation | DAS Photonics S. L. |
| Country | Spain |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | In collaboration with the University of Turin we have developed active phosphate glass optical fibers |
| Collaborator Contribution | DAS is a Spanish private company created in 2005 as a spin-off of the Nanophotonics Technology Center (NTC) of the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). DAS (Defense, Avionics and Space) main focus is to develop innovative products for the fields of defense, avionics and space. They are working to integrate our fibers into their high power lasers and amplifiers |
| Impact | integration of phosphate fibres into a product |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Development of custom SDM fibres |
| Organisation | OFS Denmark |
| Country | Denmark |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Characterisation of novel few-mode fibres for spatial division multiplexing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided about 12 samples of state of the art SDM fibres to be tested at the ORC and used for transmission tests value >£20,000 |
| Impact | Support of new products at OFS (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Development of custom active and passive fibres for spatial division multiplexing |
| Organisation | Yangtze Optical Fibre & Cable (Shanghai) Company Ltd. |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Characterisation of novel few-mode fibres for spatial division multiplexing |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided about 5 samples >1km length of state of the art SDM fibres to be tested at the ORC - value >£10,000 |
| Impact | Support of new products at YFTC (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Development of custom power delivery fibres |
| Organisation | SPI Lasers UK |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of novel delivery fibres for SPI fibre laser products. £10k funding from the Zepler Innovation fund |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided £6000 for custom raw materials employed in fabrication |
| Impact | Support of development of new components (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Development of custom power delivery fibres |
| Organisation | Trumpf |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Development of several novel fibres for delivery of high-peak power |
| Collaborator Contribution | Fully funded staged research programme - Ist stage (2015-2016): EUR 62,709 with follow-on projects expected |
| Impact | Support of development of new components (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2015 |
| Description | Development of custom spatial division multiplexing (SDM) and low latency fibres and their use in datacom systems. |
| Organisation | Pulitzer Arts Foundation |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Design and fabrication of custom low latency fibre and multicore fibre for integration with Polatis' Devices |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided test equipment worth £65,000 on a long term loan; Testing of custom designed ORC fibres in a device configuration. |
| Impact | Support of ongoing activities and new products at Polatis (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | FDU - Chalcogenide microspheres |
| Organisation | Fudan University |
| Country | China |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided bulk samples which were fabricated into microspheres |
| Collaborator Contribution | Collaborations |
| Impact | Internal Report |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | FIfL - Volume gratings |
| Organisation | Fraunhofer Society |
| Department | Fraunhofer Center for Laser Technology |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided bulk glass samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | testing |
| Impact | none |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | GTS - Material Analysis |
| Organisation | Glass Technology Services |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided ICP-MS analysis to evaluate our glass and raw materials |
| Impact | Enabled further understanding of our processes and lead to ongoing collaboration |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Gooch and Housego |
| Organisation | Gooch & Housego |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | confidential |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential |
| Impact | commercial |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | HW - Z-Scan and Laser Writing |
| Organisation | Heriot-Watt University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of bulk glass for nonlinear characterization and waveguide writing |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | EPSRC joint grant |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | Hollow core fibres for gas sensing applications |
| Organisation | Atomic Weapons Establishment |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Design and fabrication of custom hollow core fibres |
| Collaborator Contribution | £147,000 worth of research contracts over the course of the CIMP; Testing of custom designed ORC fibres in a device configuration. |
| Impact | Support of ongoing activities at AWE (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2009 |
| Description | Hollow core fibres for miniaturized atomic clocks |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Design and fabrication of custom hollow core fibres |
| Collaborator Contribution | £150,000 worth of research contracts over the course of the CIMP; support for ORC application for DSTL PhD studentship; access to bespoke equipment @NPL for testing ORC fibres. |
| Impact | Support of ongoing activities at NPL (commercially sensitive) |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | LSA - Material Analysis |
| Organisation | Loughborough Surface Analysis |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided SIMS analysis to evaluate our material purity |
| Impact | Enabled further understanding of our processes |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | MI - Rare earth doped glasses |
| Organisation | Masdar Institute |
| Country | United Arab Emirates |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of rare earth doped glass |
| Collaborator Contribution | Characterization |
| Impact | Contribution to a student PhD thesis |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | MIT - Provision of thin films and bilateral visits |
| Organisation | Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of rare earth doped glass and thin films |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | internal reports |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | MT - Thrmal Analysis |
| Organisation | Mettler Toledo Safeline Ltd |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Demonstration of ultrafast thermal analysis |
| Collaborator Contribution | provide equipment |
| Impact | publications |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | MU - microspheres |
| Organisation | Macquarie University |
| Country | Australia |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of chalcogenide microspheres |
| Collaborator Contribution | Characterization |
| Impact | Joint Publications |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | NPL chalcogenide canes |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Glass rods provided |
| Collaborator Contribution | Testing |
| Impact | none, yet |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | NPL thermal sensitivity HC-PBGF |
| Organisation | National Physical Laboratory |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our centre has developed novel Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres for data transmission applications. These fibres guide light in an air core and thus are thus expected to have significantly lower sensitivity to thermal phase noise, and thus to be more suitable to transfer ultraprecise timing signals as compared to standard all solid fibres. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The group at NPL has carried out experiments and demonstrated a >18x reduction in thermal sensitivity in HC-PBGFs as compared to standard single mode fibres. |
| Impact | publications planned & applications for further funding. |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | NTU - fibre characterization |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided speciality fibre for characterization in Singapore |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterised the fibre |
| Impact | Singapore Patent filed: 10201402459T |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | NTU - studentship |
| Organisation | Nanyang Technological University |
| Country | Singapore |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Establishment of a joint PhD project and recruitment of a student |
| Collaborator Contribution | Establishment of a joint PhD project and recruitment of a student |
| Impact | a PhD graduate |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Oxford Instrument |
| Organisation | Oxford Instruments |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | confidential |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential |
| Impact | commercial |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Plastic Logic |
| Organisation | Plastic Logic |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | confidential |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential |
| Impact | commercial collaboration |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Politecnico di Torino |
| Organisation | Polytechnic University of Turin |
| Country | Italy |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | We are collaborating on the fabrication of active non-silica glasses by sharing recipes, glass samples, fabrication techniques and people, through 1 EU Marie Curie research fellowships and through the exchange of 2 visiting students (1 MSc and 1 PhD). Since 2016 discussions with Dr Paola Palmero have also taken place regarding the development of active glass materials for 2 um and 3 um wavelengths. It is now planned that Dr Fedia Ben Slimen, an ORC Hub researcher within the Compound Glass Group, will visit Dr Palmero's team to perform preliminary experiments for the development of active materials for 2 um and 3 um fibre based optical amplifiers. The visit will take place within the framework of the EU COST Action MP1401 |
| Collaborator Contribution | We are collaborating on the fabrication of active non-silica glasses by sharing recipes, glass samples, fabrication techniques and people, through 1 EU Marie Curie research fellowships and through the exchange of 2 visiting students (1 MSc and 1 PhD). Development of active materials for 2 um and 3 um fibre based optical amplifiers. |
| Impact | Fabrication of novel fibres, glass samples, 1 EU Marie Curie research fellowships exchange of 2 visiting students (1 MSc and 1 PhD). |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | Qioptiq |
| Organisation | Qioptic |
| Country | Germany |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | confidential |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential |
| Impact | commercial - confidential |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | Seagate |
| Organisation | Seagate Technology (Ireland) |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | confidential - commercial |
| Collaborator Contribution | confidential - commercial |
| Impact | confidential - commercial |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | TuE HC-PBGF transmission trials |
| Organisation | Eindhoven University of Technology |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our centre has developed novel Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres for low latency data transmission applications |
| Collaborator Contribution | . The group at TU/e has carried out transmission system tests achieving the higher capacity x distance demonstrated to date in a HC-PBGF. |
| Impact | R. van Uden, C. Okonkwo, H. Chen, N. V. Wheeler, F. Poletti, M. Petrovich, D. J. Richardson, H. de Waardt, and A. Koonen, "8.96Tb/s (32×28GBaud×32QAM) Transmission over 0.95 km 19 cell Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber," in Optical Fiber Communication Conference, OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optical Society of America, 2014), paper W4J.3. http://www.opticsinfobase.org/abstract.cfm?URI=OFC-2014-W4J.3 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | UC - Ultrafast Thermal Analysis |
| Organisation | University of Cambridge |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of chalcogenide films for thermal characterization |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | Joint publications |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | UCC 2 micron HC-PBGF transmission |
| Organisation | University College Cork |
| Country | Ireland |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Our centre has developed novel Hollow Core Photonic Bandgap Fibres with low loss at the 2 micron wavelength. |
| Collaborator Contribution | The group at UCC/Tyndall has carried out full transmission system experiments within the novel transmission window at 2 microns. |
| Impact | M. N. Petrovich, F. Poletti, J. P. Wooler, A.M. Heidt, N.K. Baddela, Z. Li, D.R. Gray, R. Slavík, F. Parmigiani, N.V. Wheeler, J.R. Hayes, E. Numkam, L. Gruner-Nielsen, B. Pálsdóttir, R. Phelan, B. Kelly, John O'Carroll, M. Becker, N. MacSuibhne, J. Zhao, F.C. Garcia Gunning, A.D. Ellis, P. Petropoulos, S.U. Alam, and D.J. Richardson, "Demonstration of amplified data transmission at 2 µm in a low-loss wide bandwidth hollow core photonic bandgap fiber," Opt. Express 21, 28559-28569 (2013) http://www.opticsinfobase.org/oe/abstract.cfm?URI=oe-21-23-28559 N.MacSuibhne, Z.Li, B.Baeuerle, J.Zhao, J.P.Wooler, S.U.Alam, F.Poletti, M.N.Petrovich, A.M.Heidt, N.V.Wheeler, N.K.Baddela, E.Numkam Fokoua, I.P.Giles, D.J.Giles, R.Phelan, J.O'Carroll, B.Kelly, D.Murphy, B.Corbett, A.D.Ellis, F.C.Garcia Gunning, D.J.Richardson "WDM transmission at 2 microns over low-loss hollow core photonic bandgap fiber" OFC '13 Los Angeles 17-21 Mar 2013 |
| Start Year | 2010 |
| Description | UCL - Material Analysis |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | samples |
| Collaborator Contribution | Provided SIMS analysis to evaluate our material purity |
| Impact | Enabled further understanding of our processes |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | UE - Chalcogenide thin Films |
| Organisation | University of Exeter |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of chalcogenide thin films |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | EPSRC proposal |
| Start Year | 2011 |
| Description | UO - Thermal Expansion |
| Organisation | University College Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provided Access to Equipment for Oxford PhD student |
| Collaborator Contribution | use of equipment |
| Impact | contribution to student PhD thesis |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Description | UP - Thin Films Characterization |
| Organisation | University of Pardubice |
| Country | Czech Republic |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Provision of thin films |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | bilateral visits |
| Start Year | 2013 |
| Description | US - Spectroscopy |
| Organisation | University of Saskatchewan |
| Country | Canada |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Supply of rare earth doped glass |
| Collaborator Contribution | characterization |
| Impact | none, yet |
| Start Year | 2012 |
| Description | University of Tennessee Knoxville |
| Organisation | University of Tennessee |
| Country | United States |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Fabricated multielement fibre for neutron imaging |
| Collaborator Contribution | provided isotopically pure glasses |
| Impact | Fibres for neutron imaging |
| Start Year | 2014 |
| Title | HC-PBGF (fabrication) |
| Description | Fabrication technique for hollow core photonic bandgap fibres |
| IP Reference | US20160236964 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | None |
| Title | HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS |
| Description | Low-loss and wide bandwidth hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (Structure) |
| IP Reference | EP3047318 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | None |
| Title | HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME |
| Description | A hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber having a hollow core and a cladding which surrounds the core at a core boundary and comprises a lattice or network of struts and interstitial nodes which together define an array of cavities, wherein a ratio between a difference in a length of a longest and shortest pitch spacing of the nodes at the core boundary to an average pitch spacing at the core boundary is less than about 0.3. |
| IP Reference | WO2015040187 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | None |
| Title | HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME |
| Description | A method of fabricating a hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber, comprising the steps of: providing a stack of capillaries, wherein the stack has a hollow core and the capillaries at a boundary of the core comprise a plurality of first, corner core capillaries and a plurality of second, intermediate core capillaries; applying a pressure differential between the corner core capillaries and the intermediate core capillaries, whereby a size of the corner core capillaries can be controlled in relation to the intermediate core capillaries; and reducing the stack to a fiber, wherein the fiber has a hollow core and a cladding which surrounds the core at a core boundary and comprises a lattice or network of struts and interstitial nodes which together define an array of cavities. |
| IP Reference | WO2015040189 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | still in patenting process |
| Title | HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC BANDGAP FIBERS AND METHODS OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME |
| Description | Fabrication technique for a hollow core photonic bandgap fibres |
| IP Reference | EP3047319 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | None |
| Title | Hollow-core photonic bandgap fibers and methods of manufacturing the same |
| Description | A method of fabricating a hollow-core photonic-bandgap fiber having a stack of capillaries, with a hollow core 205 and the capillaries at a boundary of the core comprise a plurality of corner core capillaries 203 and a plurality of intermediate core capillaries 203, where the corner core capillaries 203 have a non-circular cross section, and optionally an elongate cross section. The stack is reduced to a fiber with a hollow core and a cladding which surrounds the core at a core boundary and comprises a lattice or network of struts (109, fig 2) and interstitial nodes which together define an array of cavities (115, fig 2). Numerous other related inventions are disclosed. |
| IP Reference | GB2518420 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2015 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | None |
| Title | Laser with axially-symmetric beam profile |
| Description | commercial |
| IP Reference | |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2011 |
| Licensed | No |
| Impact | none |
| Title | Low-loss and wide bandwidth hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (Structure) |
| Description | Low-loss and wide bandwidth hollow-core photonic bandgap fiber (Structure) |
| IP Reference | US20160209586 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2016 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | None |
| Title | Non-Linear Frequency Conversion Invention |
| Description | Non-Linear Frequency Conversion Invention |
| IP Reference | US20140023098 |
| Protection | Patent granted |
| Year Protection Granted | 2014 |
| Licensed | Commercial In Confidence |
| Impact | None |
| Title | Optical Fibre Lasers |
| Description | commercial |
| IP Reference | GB1101187.1 |
| Protection | Patent application published |
| Year Protection Granted | 2011 |
| Licensed | Yes |
| Impact | Laser Quantum exploited the patent commercially |
| Company Name | Lumenisity Ltd |
| Description | Lumenisity is a University spin out concerned with commercialising hollow core optical fibre technology for diverse applications. |
| Year Established | 2016 |
| Impact | Company has secured funding, expanded to employ ~100 people and set up manufacturing facilities in Romsey. It was acquired by Microsoft at the end of 2022.. |
| Description | "Science on Stage" EU Teachers |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | "Science on Stage" EU Teachers, Queen Mary University London |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | 2016 University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Engagement with 256 children and accompanying parents at the 2016 University of Southampton Science and Engineering day with the Lightwave Roadshow, an outreach education program based at the Optoelectronics Research Centre and supported by the EPSRC Future Photonics Manufacturing Hub. Significant participation by postgraduate students with research relevant to the Hub activities, with positive change of attitude and renewed engagement of the program following this activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.zeplerinstitute.ac.uk/news/4858 |
| Description | Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Big Bang Science and Engineering Fair, NEC Birmingham, March 2014 |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | British Science Festival : "Light shaping the future" |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited talk at the British Science Festival to inform current research fields of light for telecommunications aimed at the general public (>50 in attendance), which led to questions on my research and current consumer and technology trends. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Family Science and Engineering Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Family Science and Engineering Day 3 separate events, UoS campus |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Farnborough Air Show 2012 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Stand generated interest from more technologically savvy visitors interested in photonics application and visual displays attracted interest and questions from schoolchildren in particular Dissemination of research in photonics and optical fibres. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| Description | From heliographs to the Internet: celebrating Light - Cafe Sci Salisbury |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 70 members of the general public attended a 45 minute presentation on the International Year of Light and my current research being carried out at the university of Southampton. Many questions were raised by the audience after the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | http://cafescientifiquesalisbury.org.uk/2015/09/light/ |
| Description | Key stage 3 school visits |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 175 pupils in key stage 3 attended 2 events visiting the research organisation and taking practical classes on telecommunications and applications to photonics and manufacturing research. Positive change of attitude noted from both youths and accompanying teachers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Pint of Science, Southampton |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 150 members of the general public attended the Southampton's Pint of Science "From Atoms to Galaxies" in May 2015. Many questions were addressed to researchers involved in the event on their presentations and in discussion afterwards. Assimilation of knowledge documented, positive feedback asking for a similar event to be held in 2016. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://pintofscience.co.uk/event/light-the-future-of-the-internet/ |
| Description | Primary school workshops |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Work with university of southampton Outreach Office Widening Participation program. 3 events carried out to engage with 300 pupils from local schools. The activity has resulted in the participation of a high-profile Primary Science Festival in Winchester Cathedral. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Public Engagement Training |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Public Engagement Training for Postgraduate Students 3 sessions |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Reflecting Photonics Garden for 2015 Royal Horticultural Society Tatton Park Flower Show |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | See awards for outcome of this activity. The Reflecting Photonics Garden was exhibited at this year's RHS Tatton Show celebrating the International Year of Light. The garden was designed, produced and exhibited through a collaboration between the University of Southampton and garden designers Elks-Smith Garden Design. An estimated 80,000 participants attended the RHS show at Tatton Park. Approximately 2,000 people took Reflecting Photonics handouts. Of these, 42 members of the general public has lengthy conversations with my public engagement team to reflect on knowledge change, change of behaviour (would you recommend physics to a friend?) |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| URL | https://www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/rhs-flower-show-tatton-park/exhibitors/Archive/2015/gardens/Refl... |
| Description | Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show Tatton Park |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Reflecting Photonics - Scientists in the Garden. Conversations with approx 1200 visitors about research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visit (Inspire course) Key stage 5 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 30 pupils from schools around the UK attended a workshop and visit of the research facilities of the Optoelectronics Research Centre as part of a residential course for girls. Change of attitude towards the subject area recorded and assimilation of knowledge and application of photonics research. Renewed interest to participate in the residential course in 2017. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | School visits (Key stage 2) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 344 students attended a workshop on fibre optics and telecommunications developed based on the research areas of the postgraduate students involved in running the activity. The workshop is in high demand for 2016 from schools. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | School visits (Key stage 3) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | A series of workshops on telecommuniations was delivered to 763 students in key stage 3. The postgraduate demonstrators were asked questions about their research and studies, which has fed back into developing the structure of the workshop and PGRs improving their ability to communicate with school students and non-specialist audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |
| Description | School visits, 6th form |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | 126 6th form students visited the university in 4 events in 2015 to take part in workshops on fibre optics, quantum computing and telecommuniations research and to visit the university's cleanroom facilities. Comments are positive and further activities have been requested as a result. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015,2016 |
| URL | http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/q-wow.html |
| Description | School visits, external (Key stage 1) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visits to 4 schools and reached 180 students at key stage 1. This activity has required further demand from schools and further visits are in preparation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| Description | Science Museum |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | London Science Museum 2 x Shows. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Science and Engineering Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Science and Engineering Day |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | University of Southampton Science and Engineering Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I have been involved in Science and Engineering Day at the University of Southampton since 2014, where each year 400-500 members of the general public (out of an audience of >2000) visited a workshop that I have organised on the fundamentals of optics and photonics. As a result of this workshop, myself and the postgraduates taking part in the event wished to develop new workshops to engage the same audience on but more specifically on our research areas. The experience of communicating fundamental science facilitated the process and gave us confidence to do this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015,2016 |
| Description | Winchester Cathedral Primary Science Festival |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Participation in 2016 Winchester Cathedral Primary Science Festival. Working with 2 regional schools and 130 students in UK year 5-6. The work has resulted in presentation of activity at an international conference, as well as a change of attitude and assimilation of knowledge from the youths participating in the activity. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://blogs.unionsouthampton.org/blog/2016/11/25/opsoc-pgr-students-sheds-light-on-science-at-winc... |
| Description | outreach in schools |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Visit to schools, engagement with 4,200 pupils and members of general public, interactive experience with photonics. increased number of schoools asking for outreach activities. requests from museums. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014,2015 |