III-V Epi CTO to chair PCSEL workshop
Richard Hogg, CTO at III-V Epi and professor of photonics at Aston Institute of Photonics Technology (AIPT), Birmingham, UK, will chair this year’s PCSEL Workshop 2024, in November.
The workshop’s keynote speaker is Susumu Noda, a pioneer of PCSEL (Photonic Crystal Surface-Emitting Lasers) research and professor of Electronic Science and Engineering, at Kyoto University, Japan.
PCSELs are a new and evolving type of semiconductor laser. They emit light from their top surface and will offer many performance and manufacturing benefits over current, laser technologies, if successfully commercialised.
Hogg, said: “It is an honour to chair this year’s PCSEL workshop at Aston University’s AIPT facility. The workshop brings PCSEL researchers together from around the world to discuss results, device engineering, manufacturing and applications. 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".
He added: “The workshop will also raise the profile of AIPT, one of over eighty photonic research centres worldwide. AIPT actively collaborates with industrial and commercial partners, including Airbus, IBM, Infinera, Thales, BAE Systems, and Nokia Bell Labs. Additionally, as CTO of III-V Epi, I bring manufacturing experience of PCSEL-based, epitaxial nanostructures, using MBE and MOCVD machines, to the discussions.”
