Semiconductor Photonics Group

Wireless Electricity Is on the Horizon—And It Could ‘Beam’ Power Right to Your House Power beaming could allow an orbiting space-based power station to deliver one gigawatt of solar power, enough to power about 1 million homes annually.

It was interesting to talk with Darren Orf recently about the opportunities and challenges of wireless power beaming. www.popularmechanics.com/science/ener...

Many congratulations to Aidas Baltušis who successfully defended his PhD thesis: “Developing a Time-resolved Photoluminescence imaging system using a compressed sensing approach.” Many thanks to the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and EPSRC for supporting his project.

Two-Dimensional Coupled Wave Theory for Triangular Lattice TM-Polarised Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers This paper presents a coupled-wave analysis of triangular-lattice photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs) with transverse magnetic polarization. Six plane waves coupled by Bragg diffraction ...

Congratulations to Matthew Robinson for publishing his first paper on Two-Dimensional Coupled Wave Theory for Triangular Lattice TM-Polarised Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers (PCSELs) - a hot topic in the #semiconductor #laser field ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc...

Space lasers: What’s up with that? In a Q&A with Stephen Sweeney, a professor of photonics and nanotechnology at the University of Glasgow, he answers our questions about what’s up with space lasers and his work...

And a fun Q&A with @sweenster.bsky.social—thanks, Stephen!
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#lasers #photonics #scisky

Snowy start to the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen

Excellent first day networking and hearing from sector leads at the Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen. I wasn’t expecting snow though! ☃️

Dr Duffy presenting at the IEEE Photonics conference.

Congratulations to Dr Dominic Duffy for presenting an invited talk on our work on W-lasers at the IEEE Photonics conference in Rome last week.

The Largest B2B Space Event in Europe | Space Tech Expo Europe Join Space Tech Expo Europe, the premier event for space technology professionals. Explore the latest innovations an connect with industry leaders.

I’ll be in Bremen for Space Tech Europe Expo this week. Hope to see some of you there. www.spacetechexpo-europe.com

The group has a new home here!