Novel process to integrate single-crystal semiconductor into an optical fibre
The research team comprising experts from Penn State University in the US and the University of Southampton in the UK says that the device adds new electronic capabilities to optical fibres, whose performance in electronic devices like computers typically is degraded by the interface between the fibre and the device more...

Growing a Semiconductor Inside a Fibre Optic Cable
An international science team have developed a process for growing a single-crystal semiconductor inside the tunnel of a hollow optical fiber more...

New optical effect promises enhanced laser writing
Using a femtosecond laser to write patterns on a lithium niobate crystal has yielded the first evidence for a new optical phenomenon more...

Nano inspired fractals dominate landscape
Where nano technology helped create the stainglass effects of cathedrals and churches, now the fractal patterns can be seen on the University of Southampton's new Mountbatten Building. The fractal patterns were inspired by research on optical nanotechnology research in the School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) and the Optoelectronic Research Centre (ORC) more...

Nanowire 'regenerator' cleans up fibre optic signals
..."I think it's a very interesting approach," says David Richardson, a fibre optics researcher at the University of Southampton more...

UK and Taiwan partner on nanoscience research
Universities from the UK and Taiwan have joined forces in a project that they hope will combine the nanophotonics expertise of the UK with the industial links of Taiwan. The collaboration is funded by the UK's EPSRC, which awarded £169,342 to the ORC, the University of Bath and the National Taiwan University more...

All change, please
Examples of structural phase changes abound in the natural world around us. But if we can exploit such changes on the nanoscale using light, new nanophotonics technology may be just around the corner more...

SPI Lasers hires ex-IMI divisional FD
Founded in 2000 on technology developed by the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre, the business is based in Southampton more...

Filter tech zaps noise in next-gen optical networks 
Researchers at the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) within the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, announced they have developed a filter that can be used in high bit-rate optical systems to remove noise introduced when signals are transmitted over long distances more...

Southampton University develops noise-removal filter
Researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronics Research Centre in the UK have developed a filter capable of being used in high bit-rate systems more...

New Technology Eliminates Noise in Long-Distance Telecoms
Researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, UK, have developed a special type of filter that can be used in high bit-rate optical systems to remove noise introduced when signals are transmitted over long distances more...

Teflon reduces loss in microfiber resonators
optics.org discovers why ORC researchers in the UK are embedding microfiber coil resonators in a thin layer of Teflon - and it’s nothing to do with cooking more...

Single nanoparticle all-optical memory on the horizon
Gallium nanoparticles stimulated with nanosecond optical pulses could be used as the basis of next-generation all-optical memory and data-storage technologies, say physicists in the UK more...

Down to the wire
The laws of physics are strange at nano-scale. Take optical fibres, for example. Normal-size fibres act like pipes, with the light flowing inside the confines of the strands of glass. But make the fibre smaller — below the wavelength of the light — and the light will leak out of the sides of the strand while still following its path more...

Sensing technology detects one molecule in 10 million more...

Single gallium nanoparticle displays optical phase-change memory more...

Bit by bit, by bit
Researchers in the UK have now demonstrated a memory element that encodes information into four different phases of a gallium nanoparticle — and does this using only weak pulses of light more...

Better gadgets through nanotechnology
A new arrival at the University of Southampton will work on making smaller, more powerful computers and mobile phones a reality when the new Mountbatten Building opens next year more...

ORC claims light tuning breathrough
The ORC at the University of Southampton is claiming a research breakthrough. It has demonstrated broad range tuning of the wavelength of light generated through nonlinear optical processes in silica fibres more...

Quill-like writing with ultrafast laser
A team of ORC researchers, led by Prof Peter Kazansky, has achieved a calligraphic style of writing, similar to that linked with the quill pen, using ultrashort light pulses more...

Nanowire shines light on subwavelength microscopy
Rob Eason, of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, UK, was impressed by the research more...

Phoenix from the flames
Prof David Payne reveals the lessons learned after the Mountbatten Building fire and looks to the future of the ORC more...

Kilowatt fibre lasers and beyond
In this Webcast Professor David Payne presents his view of the future of high-power fibre lasers more...

Student Chapters form international network
The Optical Society of America Student Chapter has joined together with other international OSA student chapters to form a student-driven network known as IONS - The International OSA Network of Students more...

Fibre Fellowship
Dr Anna Peacock, a researcher from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, has received a five-year fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering, Britain’s leading national academy for engineering more... 

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A novel optical memory element developed by ORC physicists could compete with DVD and hard disks

'The best of both worlds'
Scientists at the ORC have developed a novel 'flat' optical fibre that may break new ground in the creation of flexible integrated optical devices more...

Solar cells allow fibre to carry power
Getting power to a sensor is easy, but what if the sensor is 20,000V away from the central unit, or the other side of an MRI scanner's 2T alternating magnetic field? The ORC's Dr Neil Broderick explains to Electronics Weekly how. More...

Nano memory
There has always been scaremongering over new technologies when they are first in development, usually by those who do not understand the science behind them. One of these new developments is in nanotechnology, which researchers at our University have made great strides into expanding the uses of more...

Four states are better than two
A computer memory cell ordinarily stores either a zero or a one, but a newly demonstrated example could also store a two or a three more...

Memory devices: Just a phase
Gallium nanoparticles can be reversibly switched between four different structural phases with a laser, which could increase the data storage density in all-optical media more...

Czech Management Institute MBA Teaching Material (2007)
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The LED - older than we thought
If you look in an encyclopaedia, the LED was invented by four independent American research groups in 1962. But the latest edition of Nature photonics reveals that it was actually discovered by a little-known Russian genius around 40 years earlier more...

Celebrating the centenary of the LED
The ORC's Professor Nikolay Zheludev has recently had a paper dedicated to the 100-year history of the LED published in Nature Photonics more...

UK equals US spin-out success
The University of Southampton is ranked among the best in the world for turning its research into companies through the spin-out process, a new survey shows more...

David Payne Named IEEE Photonics Award Recipient more...

A more flattering light
A groundbreaking form of 'flat' optical fibre has been developed and patented by Southampton University. It promises to be far more flexible and efficient than existing integrated opto-electronic systems, which couple rigid, glass-based substrates with lengths of optical fibre more...

Nanohole array brings light into focus
Optical physicists in the UK and Spain have fabricated an array of nanoholes that can focus light into a spot that is smaller than the wavelength of light used more...

Array of nanoholes focuses light
A specially designed array of nanoholes can focus light into a very small spot that is smaller than the wavelength of light used. This significant discovery could find use in a variety of applications in nano-optics, including high-density optical information storage, photolithography, and making a small "light pen" that can image inside cells and other microscale objects. This revelation was made by a group led by Professor Nikolay Zheludev at the ORC, with co-workers at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire and the Instituto de Optica in Madrid more...

Flat optical fibre is good for networks
'Flat fibre’ has been patented by researchers from the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton more...

Simultaneously detection
A technique which for the first time allows simultaneous detection of both the spectral and spatial variation of an X-ray beam has been developed by researchers at the University of Southampton more... 

A new reflection in the mirror
A research group has devised a new type of mirror that reverses the magnetic field of a light wave upon reflection, rather than its electric field, as regular mirrors do more...

A little light detection
A sensor developed by Stratophase, the spin-out company founded by Professor Peter Smith of the ORC and ECS, can detect the presence of anthrax or other biological hazards by monitoring changes in light refraction more...

Photonic Frontiers
Photonic frontiers: metamaterials - metamaterials do optical wonders more...

Bar codes fabricated on the microscale
Researchers at the University of Southampton in the UK have taken the familiar bar code to an extreme. They have developed diffraction-based bar codes up to 100 µm in length and only a few microns wide that can be read without contact, in a manner analogous to the way everyday 1-D codes are scanned at the grocery store more...

Optical barcodes as labels
Researchers at Southampton University in the UK have developed an optical tagging technique based on nanostructured grating patterns more...

Optical barcodes as microlabels
A new study shows how micro diffractive gratings have potential in tagging samples and products more...

Optics: Mirror image
Mirrors don't just reverse right and left — they also invert the phase of light waves that bounce off them. More precisely, they reverse the phase of the electrical component of an electromagnetic wave, but leave the magnetic component intact. Nikolay Zheludev of the University of Southampton, UK, and his colleagues have now made a mirror that does the opposite more...

Scanning nanobarcodes
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Nanophotonics group share £11m
Two top research teams at the University of Southampton have this week secured a funding boost worth over £11 million between them more...

From stretchable electronics to active plasmonics more...

Time-reversal symmetry broken
A collaboration led by researchers at the University of Southampton has demonstrated that a two-dimensionally patterned nonmagnetic metamaterial can produce effects that are not time invariant more...