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03 June 2013
Professor Sir David Payne at knighthood ceremony
Copyright: Courtesy of British Ceremonial Arts.
Professor Sir David Payne, Director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre at the University of Southampton, has been knighted at Buckingham Palace for services to photonics, the science and application of light and electronics. View the ceremony at: http://www.orc.soton.ac.uk/800.htmlMore Information.Posted by ds3r10@sot on 03 Jun 2013.
28 May 2013
ORC researchers create high-capacity 'speed of light' optical fibre
Optical microscope image of a fabricated air-core fibre similar to those employed to transmit high capacity data at the speed of light in vacuum.
Copyright: Courtesy of R. Sandoghchi
By exploiting a characteristic of hollow-core optical fibres, researchers at the University of Southampton's Optoelectronic Research Centre claim to have brought data transmission rates within touching distance of the speed of light.In recent years, fibre optic cables have transformed the...
20 May 2013
South Africa’s new radio telescope reveals giant outbursts from binary star system
Artist's impression of the Circinus X-1 system
An international team of astronomers have reported the first scientific results from the Karoo Array Telescope (KAT-7) in South Africa, the pathfinder radio telescope for the $3 billion global Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. The results appear in the latest issue of the prestigious international astronomical journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS).Using the seven-dish KAT-7 telescope and the 26 m radio telescope at the...
10 April 2013
Scientists demonstrate that transport of light in random nanowire mats is strongly correlated and governed by mesoscopic interference contributions
Transmission of light through nanowire mats is characterized by only a few independent collective scattering modes
Physicists from the University of Southampton have demonstrated very strong, collective multiple scattering and mesoscopic (between macroscopic objects and the microscopic, atomic world) light transport in three-dimensional nanowire mats, which is of considerable importance for applications in next-generation light-harvesting and optoelectronics devices.For many years, researchers have...
22 March 2013
Launch of the first HE equipment-sharing database
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The first national equipment and facilities-sharing database has been launched for UK higher education – equipment.data.ac.uk.Led by the University of Southampton and funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on behalf of RCUK SSC Ltd, the new national aggregation portal allows institutions to both contribute to and access facilities and equipment data...
13 March 2013
Major grant will fund investigations into limits of quantum theory
Signal simulation of a superposition state.
Copyright: James Bateman.
A Physics and Astronomy academic has received a major research grant to help him explore the limitations of quantum theory.Dr Hendrik Ulbricht, a Reader in Physics and Astronomy, has been awarded nearly £500,000 by the John Templeton Foundation in the US.Sir John Templeton, the late American millionaire, investor and philanthropist, created the Foundation to encourage scientists and students across the...

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