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Date Announced: 24 Sep 2017
Xmark Media the organisers of Photonex Europe, the UK's showcase photonics event, has co-located this already successful event with a significant conference. The Enlighten Conference features 15 programmes. This is FREE-to-attend and will be held on Wednesday & Thursday 11th and 12th October as part of the growing two-day event at the visitor-friendly Ricoh Arena in Coventry.
The Enlighten Conference is headlined by IEEE High Power Diode Lasers & Systems, the 9th in the series, it enjoys a reputation for showcasing the most significant recent advances in both the technology and the applications of high power diode laser systems. The importance of this conference is reflected in the participation of international leaders in the field. Keynote presentations will be given by Dr Klaus Kleine, Coherent Inc. (USA) and Dr Masao Kawaguchi, Panasonic Corp (Japan).
This year’s conference will host a joint session with a new meeting on Metal Power-based Additive Manufacturing. The meeting is designed to provide a platform for technical discussion of areas related to metal powder-based AM processes, to encourage better pan-European communication and co-operation between leading and upcoming academics and industrialists in the field. The programme includes speakers from China, Germany, Italy and closer to home from universities and companies including; University of Nottingham, Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) and Nottingham start-up Added Scientific.
Optical Engineering and Design on Wednesday will feature a Keynote presentation by Yan Cornil of LightTec SARL (France) who will be talking about "Desensitization of optical systems during the optimization process". This meeting will be particularly interesting for optical designers who need to understand “Bridging the gap between optical technology and manufacturing capability” a talk by Colin Williams, a precision engineering consultant. Other subjects include 3D laser writing inside transparent materials, phase-change materials for improved colour and fast switching in solid-state reflective displays, modelling of ultra-fast photodiodes and renowned speaker Professor Cliff Jones, University of Leeds will speak about “Optimisation of liquid crystals for switchable contact lenses".
Rounding off the day will be a workshop by COMSOL: Simulating Photonics with COMSOL Multiphysics.
Other meetings include: Graphene & Emerging 2D Materials, an H2020 Photonics - UK Information & Brokerage Event, Hyperspectral Imaging, Optical Metrology for Manufacturing, Surface Analysis, Thin Film and Coating Technologies for Science & Industry and Vision & Imaging Programme.
Conference bridges the world of academia and industry.
There are many conferences around Europe that do not create the environment conducive to meeting and interfacing with technologists from industry. The remit of the programme organisers at the Enlighten Conference has been to approach the building of their specific meetings taking into the consideration the co-location with the PHOTONEX EUROPE exhibition, an appealing forum providing great networking opportunities.
One meeting that is set up expressly with the intention of giving industry the opportunity to discover how academia can assist industry to benefit from silicon photonics in new devices and systems is a new silicon photonics/compound semiconductor meeting. This is aptly called Silicon Photonics adoption by Industry. The take-away from the meeting will be considerable knowledge about how much adoption there has been in of this technology in the UK.
This meeting is led by a team from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (University of Southampton), led by Prof Graham Reed, with the assistance of Prof Michael Lebby, Lightwave Logic Inc, Colorado, USA, Dr Wyn Meredith, Compound Semiconductor Centre (CSC), Cardiff and Prof Alwyn Seeds, University College London, and includes contributions from key research groups around the UK and companies currently adopting silicon photonics technologies.
It features several prestigious speakers including Dr Andrew Rickman OBE, CEO and Chairman of Rockley Photonics and Prof Diana Huffaker, Director of Institute for Compound Semiconductors.
Training and Tutorials by the exhibiting companies.
Lasers are one of the major subjects of interest at the exhibition this year, and to benefit visitors to the event there will be Laser Safety Training – the fundamentals organised by exhibitor Pro-Lite, and presented by Hans Christian Meedt of Laservision GmbH.
The Photonics Showcase, application tutorials and innovation programme includes eight technology tutorials and two innovation-type presentations. Firstly you can find out about the National Centre for Healthcare Photonics and secondly whilst considering funding available think about attending “The Future Photonics Hub Innovation Fund – Q & A session“, at the start of the programme on Wednesday.
The Photonex Europe exhibition
An ever-popular event for exhibiting companies as it is a once a year opportunity to put on a show. For visitors it is an opportunity to watch demonstrations on stands, and benefit from the seeing photonics equipment in action.
The Networking Hub. If you are wishing to meet with friends and colleagues at the exhibition the exhibition hall has a free to use Networking Hub, sponsored by Innovation UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network.
PHOTONEX EUROPE is the UK event that connects the supply chain with the photonics & light technologies user communities in industry and research throughout Europe.
E-mail: ld@xmarkmedia.com
Web Site: https://www.photonex.org
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