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.
AIPT Upcoming Seminars in 2025
Speaker: Prof Max Ryadnov
Affiliation: National Physical Laboratory
Title: Of engineering and biology, metrology and standards
Time: 11am, 10 July 2025
Venue: NW708, MS Teams
Abstract:Engineering principles applied to harness biology incite technologies accessing goods and products of properties and quantities limited only by imagination. The extent to which the principles themselves can be harnessed are limited by the reproducibility of their application to biological systems and processes. An ultimate test to link engineering and biology is that of traceability. Here paths between the two, being tested in the UK’s National Physical Laboratory, with examples from research and industry are discussed.
Bio: Prof Max Ryadnov leads Engineering Biology at NPL. He is an NPL Fellow in biometrology, professor of biophysics and holds a PhD in Chemistry. In his role Max is responsible for pre-normative research for standardisation in biology delivered with global metrology organisations such as VAMAS where he chairs a technical working area supporting the industry uptake of life sciences innovations. Max has worked with over 100 companies at different TRLs, and collaborates extensively in the UK and internationally, with a substantial grant portfolio from UKRI, ISCF, EURAMET, STFC and industry. He has authored over 150 publications, two books in biodesign and is the editor of several book series. His work continues to promote science beyond the bench and is regularly covered in industry-oriented magazines and by the mainstream media.
Speaker: Prof Martin Booth
Affiliation: Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Title: Adaptive laser writing for three-dimensional precision fabrication of functional devices
Time: 10:30am, 11 July 2025
Venue: NW708, MS Teams
Abstract: Adaptive optics allows for spatial control over the phase and intensity of a laser beam, making it a powerful tool to assist ultrashort pulse laser machining. Optical aberrations caused by refraction at interfaces distort the laser focus, compromising resolution and fabrication efficiency. We show how the aberrations can be dynamically compensated using adaptive optics, such as liquid crystal spatial light modulators, for improved manufacturing of functional devices. Examples include fabrication of waveguide circuits in a range of materials, fiber based Bragg sensors for harsh environments, diamond based electronics and compact tunable liquid crystal devices.
Bio:Prof Martin Booth is chair in Optical and Photonic Engineering at the University of Oxford. His research involves the development and application of adaptive optical methods in microscopy, laser-based materials processing and biomedical imaging. In particular, his group have developed numerous implementations of adaptive optics for aberration correction in high resolution microscopes and precision laser fabrication systems. He has held Royal Academy of Engineering and EPSRC Research Fellowships and an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. In 2014 he was awarded the International Commission for Optics Prize. He was appointed Professor of Engineering Science in 2014 and Chair in Optics and Photonics in 2023. He is a fellow of SPIE, Optica, and the Institute of Physics and serves on the board of Optica. He has over 180 publications in peer-reviewed journals, over thirty patents, and has co-founded two spin-off companies, Aurox Ltd and Opsydia Ltd.
Past Seminars
Speaker: Gavrielle Untrach, Technical University of Denmark in the Department of Health Technology
Title: Potential of spatially offset optical coherence tomography (SO-OCT) for biomedical imaging
Date: 24 June 2025
Speaker: Dr Eliot Gillum, SETI Institute
Title: LaserSETI: All-Sky, All-the-Time Optical SETI
Date: 16 May 2025
Speaker: Prof Harald Haas, Cambridge University
Title: Recent Advances in Light-Based Wireless Networking
Date: 28 April 2025
Speaker: Adjunct Prof Regina Gumenyuk, Tampere University
Title: Harnessing the power and structure of light
Date: 24 April 2025
Speaker: Dr George Dwapanyin, University of St. Andrews
Title: Looking Through the Glass: Raman Spectroscopy of Concealed Samples in Sealed Containers Using Shaped Laser Light
Date: 14 April 2025
Speaker: Prof Anatoly Zayats, King’s College London
Title: Ultrafast and Nonlinear Plasmonics
Date: 19 March 2025
Speaker: Prof Callum Littlejohns, ORC Southampton
Title: Silicon Photonics
Date: 18 March 2025
Speaker: Prof Logan Wright, Yale University, Department of Applied Physics
Title: The High-Dimensional Future of Light
Date: 11 March 2025
Speaker: Dr Abderrahmen Trichili, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford
Title: Understanding Optical Wireless Channels Using a Visible Light Sounder
Date: 20 February 2025
Speaker: Dr Andreas Wuestefeld, Technology Lead – Fiber Optics, NORSAR
Title: Applications of Fibre Sensing for Solving Modern Societal Challenges
Date: 18 February 2025
Speaker: Prof Arnaud Mussot, University of Lille
Title: Broadband and stable frequency combs in high quality factor fiber Fabry Perot resonators
Date: 6 February 2025
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 November 2024
Speaker: Prof Alina Karabchevsky, Ben-Gurion University (BGU)
Title: Advancing Light-Matter Interaction with Photonic Chips
Date: 24 October 2024
Speaker: Prof Massimiliano Guasoni, ORC Southampton
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 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), USA
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; Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology Jena
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, 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 Photonic Technology, Jena, Germany
Title: Trends and Prospectives of Ultrafast Fibre Laser Development and Applications in Leibniz Institute of Photonic 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