News: Optoelectronics
29 July 2024
III-V Epi’s CTO Richard Hogg to chair PCSEL Workshop at Aston University
Richard Hogg, chief technical officer at III–V Epi Ltd of Glasgow, Scotland, UK — which provides a molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) and metal-organic chemical vapor deposition (MOCVD) service for custom compound semiconductor wafer design, manufacturing, test and characterization — and professor of Photonics at Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT), is chairing this year’s PCSEL Workshop 2024 at Aston University (7–8 November).
The workshop’s keynote speaker is professor Susumu Noda, a pioneer of PCSEL (photonic crystal surface-emitting laser) research and professor of Electronic Science and Engineering at Kyoto University in Japan.
If successfully commercialized, PCSELs are reckoned to offer many performance and manufacturing benefits over existing laser technologies.
“The workshop brings PCSEL researchers together from around the world to discuss results, device engineering, manufacturing and applications,” says Hogg. “Professor Noda is a significant keynote speaker and his laboratory in Japan is at the forefront of PCSEL research, set to transform next-generation smart manufacturing, ICT, LiDAR, face recognition, medical, healthcare, telecoms, and datacoms applications.
“The workshop will also raise the profile of AIPT, one of over 80 photonic research centres worldwide. AIPT actively collaborates with industrial and commercial partners, including Airbus, IBM, Infinera, Thales, BAE Systems, and Nokia Bell Labs,” says Hogg. “Additionally, as CTO of III-V Epi, I bring manufacturing experience of PCSEL-based, epitaxial nanostructures, using MBE and MOCVD machines, to the discussions.”
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