Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems (IPES) Industry Day 2018 for UCL-Cambridge Centre

Does your company have an interest in integrated photonic and electronic systems technology? Come and meet with our students and academics at our Annual Industry Day in London. During the day we will be showcasing some of the research and technological achievements so far of the UCL-Cambridge Centre. We will describe some example student projects and will give you the opportunity to meet both the students and academics involved with the Centre and consider offering our students the chance to contribute to your research agenda and make a real difference to your company.

We invite our industrial partners including Qioptiq, Oclaro, Toshiba, VividQ and any companies with an interest in integrated photonic and electronic systems to offer industry linked projects to our Masters and PhD students on the programme.

JOIN US on 12th January 2018 to:

• Attend presentations from technology leaders
• View the latest applications for photonics
• Meet students and academics developing solutions for applications
• See poster displays showcasing the latest research discoveries in integrated photonics
• Explore collaborative research opportunities for your company
• Discuss offering a mini-project or PhD to one of our outstanding students
• Network with companies interested in photonics - refreshments & buffet lunch provided thanks to our sponsors HGF

If you are from a company interested in offering a research project to one of our students, we would be especially pleased for you to join us for the day. We look forward to meeting you.

We would like to thank our Sponsor, HGF Intellectual Property Specialists who have provided lunch and refreshments.

Schedule

09.30 Arrival: Registration and Coffee

10.00 Introduction to the Centre. Professor Alwyn Seeds (UCL), Director.

10.15 Keynote Presentation from David Youngman, Thales "Information generation, the complex and changing task of observing and recognising items of interest from an airborne platform" focusing on the technology challenges and opportunities of integrated photonics

10:45 Keynote Presentation from Jerome Grelin, Engineering Manager: "Technology challenges and opportunities in photonics related to fibre optic sensing"

11.15 Mid-morning refreshments and student posters.

11.30 Company Presentations

13.00 Buffet Lunch (lunch courtesy of our sponsor: HGF Intellectual Property Specialists)

14.00 Student Presentations:

Miss Eleni Bohacek (UCL), a PhD student working on a project with Airbus linked to the Mars Rover '3D Vision on Mars'

Mr George Roberts (Cambridge), a PhD student working on a project with Toshiba Research Labs: ‘Optical Injection locking applied to quantum key distribution’

15.00 Opportunities in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems Research and Technology Development. Discussion chaired by Professor Richard Penty (University of Cambridge)

15.15 Working with the Centre: Project Proposal Arrangements. Dr Cyril Renaud (UCL)

15.30 Tea and Informal discussions

16.00 Close

Our Speakers

Professor Alwyn Seeds (UCL), Director of the IPES CDT

Professor Alwyn Seeds FREng, FIEEE, is Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL, which includes some 50 researchers working on various aspects of photonics. The Department's photonics activities were highlighted by the 2008 RAE Panel as being of "undoubted international excellence". His key technical innovations have been in microwave photonics, an area now enjoying worldwide sales of >$0.3B He is the author of some 250 papers in this research area, over 60 of them invited, inventor on some 14 patents and has been Conference Chair/Programme Chair for many international conferences in photonics. Among his leadership roles he is the Vice-President for Technical Affairs of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-optics Society, the lead society for photonics within the IEEE. He is the founder/co-founder of three technology companies including Zinwave.

Dr Jerome Grelin, Engineering Manager, Smart Fibres Ltd

Jerome is a qualified research and development engineer with 5 years experience within the development of technical and scientific projects inside multidisciplinary engineering teams. He has worked in a research laboratory on applied physics research projects but also in an R&D team on new product development.

David Youngman, Engineering Manager, Thales Land and Air Systems

David is a Fellow of IET, Chartered Engineer and Engineering Manager for Thales, with responsibility across key Air Programmes within Thales across multiple sites. He provides technical Leadership of complex, multidisciplinary airborne development projects including mission critical, safety involved and safety critical.

Eleni Bohacek, PhD Student, UCL

Eleni graduated with a first class degree in Earth Sciences from UCL in 2014, with a specialism in Planetary Science. Currently Eleni is a member of the UCL-Cambridge Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems, and completed her MRes degree in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems in 2015. Her MRes research projects included simulations of lasers for a space based interferometer, and the characterisation of inhomogeneities in InGaN-based light emitting diodes.

In October 2015, she began her PhD studies in the “Optical Devices and Systems Laboratory” research group in collaboration with the Mullard Space Science Laboratory. She is currently working under the supervision of Dr David Selviah and Professor Andrew Coates on novel 3D image processing algorithms for data from the cameras on board the European Space Agency 2018 ExoMars Rover.

In summer 2017 Eleni was a Visiting Researcher at NASA's Frontier Development Lab in Silicon Valley, applying Artificial Intelligence techniques to problems in planetary defence and space resources, with a small team including staff from Intel. For more information see here.

George Roberts, PhD Student, University of Cambridge

George graduated with a First Class Master of Physics from the University of Sheffield in 2014. Following this, he joined the Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Photonic and Electronic Systems at the University of Cambridge. He achieved a distinction in his Masters of Research (MRes) and decided to pursue his PhD in quantum cryptography, sponsored by Toshiba Research.

George is developing a data transmitter with the potential to become the standard for next-generation quantum communications. His transmitter will be far more energy efficient, smaller and easier to implement than any other device. Importantly it will be compatible with existing fibre cable infrastructure and support multiple communication protocols, making quantum communications easier and more widespread.

George was recently awarded a prestigious Royal Commission of 1851 Industry Fellowship for his work with Toshiba. For more information see here.

Professor Richard Penty (Cambridge), Director of the IPES CDT

Professor Richard Penty studied for his doctoral research in the Cambridge University Engineering Department on optical fibre devices for signal processing applications, receiving his PhD in 1989. He returned to Cambridge in 2001, having been a Professor at the University of Bristol. His research interests include high-speed optical communications systems, high brightness lasers, optical amplifiers, high speed and high power semiconductor lasers and radio over fibre and LAN systems. He has been an author of in excess of 400 refereed journal and conference papers and is Editor-in-Chief of IET Optoelectronics. He is a co-founder of Zinwave and Master of Sidney Sussex College.

Dr Cyril Renaud (UCL), Assistant Director of the IPES CDT

Dr Renaud is a Reader in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering at UCL leading research on components and systems for THz photonics, where he is the holder of the record for the highest power extracted from a photodetector at 1 THz. He has also worked and studied within some of the most prestigious institutions involved in Photonics in Europe (Institut d’Optique, Ecole Normale Superieur Optoelectronics Research Centre). He is an inventor on 3 patents in photonics.