The AiPT research seminars bring together international experts and AiPT staff, fostering an environment of knowledge sharing and discovery across a range of diverse topics. The AiPT research seminars continue to promote scientific dialogue and engagement among the global research community, ensuring that AiPT remains at the forefront of innovation and discovery in the fields of photonics and telecommunications.
Upcoming Seminars
Speaker: Dr Andreas Wuestefeld
Affiliation: Technology Lead – Fiber Optics at NORSAR
Title: Applications of Fibre Sensing for Solving Modern Societal Challenges
Time: 11am-12pm, 18 February 2025
For nearly 150 years seismology relied on single stations to record ground vibration. This information provided tremendous new insights into the structure of the earth and its processes. Furthermore, the techniques used for locating earthquakes have also been relevant to military applications to locate artillery positions and larger explosions. Notably, a global network of seismographs was established in the 1970s to monitor nuclear explosion around the globe.
Modern fibre networks provide the opportunity for a paradigm change in both density and coverage of the monitoring network. By connecting DAS interrogators to existing fibre infrastructure, it is possible to expand the coverage and resolution of a monitoring network at comparatively low costs. Notably, subsea cables allow access to areas previously beyond reach for seismographs. Moreover, being readily available these networks allow for rapid deployment in conflict areas or natural disaster zones.
This presentation will give an overview of various applications NORSAR has been working on over the past years. This includes detection of earthquakes and explosions. Other infrasonic signals we detected include sonic booms of jet plane, meteors, and thunderstorms. More engineering examples include water pipeline leak detection, as well as avalanche monitoring. All this highlights the potential how fibre sensing together with seismological methods can help to address modern societal challenges.
Past Seminars Archive
Speaker: Dr. Giulia Marcucci, University of Glasgow
Title: Riding the Wave of Green Change: Advancing Wave-Based Analog Reservoir Computing for Sustainable AI
Date: 9 January 2025
Speaker: Dr Julia Lehman, University of Birmingham
Title:Mid-infrared Frequency Comb Spectroscopy: Spectrometer Development and Applications in Chemistry
Date: 8 January 2025
Speaker: Dr Angeles Camacho Rosales, Coractive Inc, Canada
Title: Specialty optical fiber technologies, industrial overview
Date: 20 November 2024
Speaker: Dr Antonio Hurtado, UKRI Turing AI Fellow, Institute of Photonics, Dept of Physics, University of Strathclyde
Title: Photonic Spiking Neurons and Spiking Neural Networks for High-Speed Neuromorphic Technologies
Date: 20 November 2024
Speaker: Assoc Prof Ugur Tegin, Koç University (Turkey)
Title: Tunable and scalable optical computing with linear and nonlinear optical dynamics
Date: 18 Nov 2024
Speaker: Prof Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion Univerity (BGU)
Title: Advancing Light-Matter Interaction with Photonic Chips
Date: 24 October 2024
Speaker: Prof Massimiliano Guasoni, ORC Southhampton
Title: Optically Reconfigurable Photonics in Optical Fibers
Date: 23 October 2024
Speaker: Prof. Sahin Özdemir, Saint Louis University, USA
Title: Non-Hermiticity as a Resource for Photonics
Date: 16 October 2024
Speaker: Prof. Sahin Özdemir, Saint Louis University, USA
Title: Non-Hermiticity as a Resource for Photonics
Date: 16 October 2024
Speaker: Prof Takeshi Yasui, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: “Century of light” pioneered by invisible light
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Dr Yu Tokizane, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: Wireless communication utilizing terahertz waves generated through a Kerr micro-resonator soliton comb
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Dr Eiji Hase, Institute of Post-LED Photonics (pLED), Tokushima University, Japan
Title: Application of dual-comb technique for scan-less confocal imaging of amplitude and phase
Date: 30 September 2024
Speaker: Prof Pavlo Mikheenko, University of Oslo, Norway
Title: Nanosuperconductivity and nanophotonics in biological systems
Date: 19 September 2024
Speaker: Prof Julien Javaloyes, Universitat de les Illes Balears (Spain)
Title: Coherence and multiplicity of frequency combs in Harmonic Mode-Locked lasers
Date: 19 July 2024
Speaker: Andrey Matsko, California Institute of Technology (CalTech), US
Title: Theory and applications of hyperparametric microwave photonic oscillators
Date: 4 June 2024
Speaker: Professor Daniel Elson, Imperial College London
Title: Spectrally-and polarization-resolved imaging in vivo-providing surgical guidance using vision and robotics
Date: 16 May 2024
Speaker: Prof Francesco Pavone, University of Florence
Title: Morpho-chemical tissue imaging
Date: 9 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Victoria Barygina, University of Florence
Title: Skin signaling: a study in controlled cell co-cultures and detection in vivo
Date: 9 May 2024
Speaker: Dr Mitchell Cox, PhD (Wits), SMIEEE, Optica Ambassador
Title: Towards long range free‐space optical communications at the Wits OC Lab
Date: 30 April 2024
Speaker: Professor Juergen Popp, Friedrich-Schiller University, Institute of Physical Chemistry and Abbe School of Photonics, Germany; Leibniz-Institute of Photonic Technology Jena, a member of the Leibniz Research Alliance Leibniz Health Technology, German
Title: Raman spectroscopy for translational medicine
Date: 15 April 2024
Speaker: Dr. Pedro Parra-Rivas, Università La Sapienza, Roma, Italy
Title: From temporal to spatiotemporal dissipative solitons: a bifurcation journey in optical resonators
Date: 7 March 2024
Speaker: Dr Feng Wen, Key Lab of Optical Fiber Sensing and Communications, Ministry of Education, School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Title: Signal processing technologies in mode division multiplexing systems
Date: 20 February 2024
Speaker: Dr. Maria Chernysheva, Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology, Jena, Germany
Title: Trends and prospectives of ultrafast fibre laser development and applications in Leibniz Institute of Photonics Technology
Date: 19 February 2024
Speaker: Dr Kouichi Akahane, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (Japan)
Title: Semiconductor quantum dot lasers operating in the telecom band
Date: 25 January 2024
AiPT Seminar Series
The AiPT team organises a series of scientific seminars covering a wide range of topics, from experimental and theoretical challenges in photonics to industrial applications. If you are interested in collaborating with our team and would like to deliver a talk, please contact the AiPT Seminar Chair, Dr Auro Perego, at a.perego1@aston.ac.uk