Sep 30
This year the FLAIR conference (Field Laser Applications in Industry and Research) returned to the French spa town of Aix-les-Bains. Nick Davis and Dan Francis attended to present posters on their recent work on tuneable laser spectroscopy. The posters, which only just arrived in the nick of time due to issues with UK delivery companies, …
Sep 30
Photon is the UK’s leading optics and photonics conference and this year’s edition was held at the East Midlands Conference Centre in Nottingham. Engineering Photonics was represented by Tom Charrett and Kieran Wiseman who gave talks on their recent work. Tom, who had an invited presentation, discussed the development of optical instrumentation for process monitoring …
Jun 24
Cranfield University’s 2022 graduation ceremony was held on June 23rd with four Engineering Photonics PhD graduates in attendance. Congratulations to Laura Aime, James Bremner, Angus Bridges and Kieran Wiseman on their well deserved success! Angus was also award the Lord Kings Norton medal for most outstanding doctoral student across the whole University. L. Aime ‘Development …
Jun 24
Congratulations to Angus Bridges who was this years recipient of the Lord Kings Norton medal. The medal, which is awarded to the most outstanding doctoral student of the year, was presented as part of Cranfield’s 2022 graduation ceremony. A. Bridges, ‘Optical metrology to support the next generation of nanopositioning’ (2022).
Jun 14
On Monday 23rd March 2020, the Engineering Photonics labs were closed with immediate effect due to the spread of COVID-19 that had originated in Wuhan four months earlier. Most EP staff were working from home from that point on until early April when most Cranfield staff were put on furlough. Furlough was done on a …
Mar 18
Congratulations to Kieran Wiseman who successfully defended his thesis on wavelength modulation interferometry for precision metrology! Novel applications and stabilisation for widely wavelength modulated laser interferometry for precision dimensional metrology K Wiseman
Jan 19
The Engineering Photonics Group bids farewell to James Bremner who is leaving to join the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at City University, London. Members of the group who were present took the opportunity to say goodbye over a beer at the Cranfield Student Association bar.
Dec 13
Congratulations to Angus Bridges on successfully defending his thesis on 13th December 2021. His thesis title is “Optical metrology to support the next generation of nanopositioning”. Angus spent the majority of his time working at NPL and is now an employee there working in Dimensional Metrology Group.
Sep 28
Congratulations to James Bremner who successfully defended his thesis on multiplexed tunable diode laser spectroscopy using range-resolved interferometry!
Sep 24
Engineering Photonics bids farewell to Thomas Kissinger who returns to his native Germany to take up a position as Junior Professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau. His new role in the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering will see him lead the new department of nanofabrication and nanomeasurement technology, in which he will research precision machines …