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, …
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Sep 30
Photon 2022
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
Graduation 2022
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
Angus Bridges wins Lord Kings Norton medal
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
Covid-19: A lockdown retrospective
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