Optoelectronics Research Centre

What a fantastic virtual networking event organised by for ZIPN ECRs. made it feel so much more like a live event. I think everyone enjoyed catching up, sharing ideas and making new connections!

ORC PhD student Alice Iles talked to about her amazing work developing rapid point-of-care diagnostics https://youtu.be/oGHm1ZZxAJY

Future Photonics Hub Outreach - Doing a PhD at the Optoelectronics Research Centre Alice Iles: Learning about Photonics.

The University is ensuring all lab-based staff and PhD students have access to COVID-secure facilities on campus so they can continue their important experimental work.

Find out how Professor Peter Kazansky’s invention of storing data in silica glass led to a Microsoft collaboration Project Silica – rethinking the future of cloud storage. https://bit.ly/2UHqp8w

Research team, led by Professor Graham Reed has developed the world's first all-silicon optical transmitter at 100Gbps. Findings are published in The Optical Society's prestigious journal Optica. Lead author and innovator Dr Ke Li talks to us at https://bit.ly/2IttA1a

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If so, we recommend you review the UK National Security and Investment Bill to find out what it means for your area of UK photonics. The deadline to input into the consultation process is 6th Jan 2021. https://bit.ly/3pKClVe

Congratulations to Colin Mitchell and Amy Tong for being featured as The Optical Society’s, 'Spotlight on Optics' in a piece by Jonathan Bradley from McMaster University https://bit.ly/3klRw4n.

A warm welcome and fantastic Q&A hosted by Professor Sir David Payne with our new cohort of PhD students today.

Imagine being able to buy a pack of COVID-19 testing strips - a bit like a pregnancy test - from your local chemist or supermarket and get a result at home within 15 minutes.

Rapid COVID-19 diagnostics trials underline the potential for daily population testing, using home testing kits. https://bit.ly/3hZtYAe

Huge congratulations to Professor Graham Reed for being elected as a Fellow of The Optical Society! He joins a prestigious group of members who have served the optics and photonics community with distinction. 👋

EPSRC's Impact Acceleration Account funds research into a photonics based home testing kit that can detect COVID-19 in 15 minutes. Lab free test results https://bit.ly/3im5GBk

Stacey Pool from ITV talks to Dr Collin Sones about the based home testing kit for developed with the faculty of Medicine

Rapid Covid-19 home testing kit developed in Southampton hailed a 'game changer' | ITV News A pioneering Covid-19 home testing kit, which gives results within 15 minutes, could be widely available by the end of the year. The swab test, currently being trialled at Southampton University, is the first of its kind in the UK.