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Marie Curie Actions

Aston has received an Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship award allowing Dr Miguel Preciado to work in the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies for two years.

The title of the project is In-fiber optical cavities structures for telecommunications and sensing. Dr Preciado will work closely with Dr Xuewen Shu and Dr Kate Sugden who have research activities in related areas.

He will also work closely with Dr Paul Harper  on the development of devices relating to high speed telecommunications systems.

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Dr Vladimir Mezentsev has a successful Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professorship application to develop the solid state microchip laser operating in Mid-Infra-Red (MidlR) range for applications in MidlR spectroscopy, environment monitoring, free space communications, detection, and sensing."
Bragg grating
A recent collaboration between members of the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies and colleagues in Denmark and Cyprus resulted in the first Bragg gratings recorded in optical fibres fabricated from TOPAS cyclic olefin copolymer.

The significance of this result was recognised by the journal chosen for publication, Electronics Letters, which chose to highlight the work in a news article accompanying the paper.

Photonics events

Photonics and Sensing Showcase - 28 February 2012

On Tuesday 28 February the Aston Institute of Photonic Technologies at Aston held a showcase event to illustrate the wide range of industrial applications for photonics and sensing technologies and to share success stories from industrial collaborations to date.

They are invited delegates from SME's to large companies to attend this interactive and informative half-day event.
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