The UK at Photonics West 2025
27 - 30 January 2025
Photonics Leadership Group
Photonics Industry Trends, Benchmarks and Futures
27 January 2025 • 5:25 PM - 5:55 PM PST -
separate registration required
Anchored in
Quantum West Business Summit: The Path from Startups to End Users in Commercializing Quantum Sensing Technology
29 January 2025 • 3:15 PM - 5:00 PM PST | Moscone South, Room 153 (Upper Mezz)
Archangel light works
Testing a small, deployable, optical ground terminal for LEO to ground laser communications
28th January 6pm - 8pm PST in Room 2003 of the Moscone Center
Bay Photonics
Glenn George, CEO is presenting at the EPIC SUMMIT on Optimizing and Scaling Photonics Manufacturing
27th January 2025 10:45 at the Mariners’ Memorial Club & Hotel
CORNERSTONE
How CORNERSTONE is accelerating the translation of technology into the marketplace for startup companies
28th January 13:00-14:15 Moscone Center, Expo Stage, Hall DE
Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios Berraquero will be speaking at Quantum West
Wednesday 29th of January 10:30-12:00 Moscone South Room 153
Simone Eizagirre Barker be speaking at the SPIE Women in Optics event co-located with Photonics West
Sunday 26th of January San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Oxford Instruments Plasma Technology
Surface roughness of waveguide sidewalls measured by AFM
27th January 13:40-14:00 Moscone West Room 3006
Removal of etch damage in GaN mesas for μLED applications
29th January 2025 18:00-20:00 Moscone West Room 2003
ms-time resolution Raman spectroscopy using sCMOS cameras
28th January 2025 18:00-20:00 Moscone West Room 2003
UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council
1. Industry Session
Exploring Applications of Plasma Accelerators at the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre -
29th January 4 pm-5 pm, Moscone Center Expo Stage Hall DE
Introduction to EPAC and applications of extreme photonics - Tom Butcher
Panel discussion on laser-driven accelerators: technological challenges and opportunities Moderator – Ric Allott
Panel – Tom Butcher, EPAC; John Lincoln, Photonics Leadership Group; Bjorn Manuel Hegelich, CEO & Founder Tau Systems & University of Texas; Chris Bridle, Manx Precision Optics
2. Research Papers
Commissioning a high energy 10 Hz Ti:Sa amplifier for the petawatt laser at the Extreme Photonics Applications Centre – Luke McHugh
26th January 1.30 pm – 1.50 pm, Room 302 (Level 3 South)
Laser harmonic generation with tuneable orbital angular momentum using a structured plasma target – Raoul Trines
29th January, 2.50 pm – 3.10 pm, Room 151 (South Upper Mezz)
An overview of the UPLiFT project and an evaluation of candidate gain media for use in a laser driver for fusion – Agnieszka Wojtusiak
29th January, 4.55 pm – 5.10 pm, Room 303 (Level 3 South)
3.Posters
Understanding mode-locked quantum-dot lasers using the dispersion-scan technique – Maria Ana Cataluna
29th January 6 pm – 8 pm, Moscone Center, Room 2003 (Level 2 West)
