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EPSRC Support by Research Area in Optical Communications

Research areas are used to describe EPSRC's portfolio of excellent long term research and high quality postgraduate training.

Grants are classified using one or more research areas. All the grants listed below have some relevance to this research area. The value of the investment is the total awarded by EPSRC and does not reflect the proportion assigned to this research area.

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Grant TitlePrincipal
Investigator		OrganisationDepartmentTotal Grant
Value (£)
Adaptive Reliable Receivers for Optical Wireless communication (ARROW)Safari, Dr MUniversity of EdinburghSch of Engineering 370,768
Advanced Signal Generation And Detection System For Next-generation Ultra-wideband Communication NetworksBayvel, Professor PUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 989,901
AirGuide PhotonicsRichardson, Professor DJUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 6,160,545
All-Raman optical amplification for next Generation ultra-wideband Optical Networks (ARGON)Forysiak, Professor WAston UniversityCollege of Engineering and Physical Sci 978,033
Composite material hollow core fibres for active photonicsSazio, Dr PUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 782,767
Converged Optical and Wireless Access Networks (COALESCE)Fice, Dr MJUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 1,373,034
CORNERSTONE 2Reed, Professor GTUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 1,494,157
EPSRC Capital Award for Core EquipmentPetley, Professor DUniversity of SheffieldGeography 549,334
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Applied PhotonicsReid, Professor DHeriot-Watt UniversitySch of Engineering and Physical Science 4,493,487
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Connected Electronic and Photonic Systems (CEPS)Seeds, Professor AJUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 5,419,248
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Future Communications 2: : Training Tomorrow's Internet InnovatorsBull, Professor DUniversity of BristolElectrical and Electronic Engineering 3,078,571
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Industry-Inspired Photonic Imaging, Sensing and AnalysisReid, Professor DHeriot-Watt UniversitySch of Engineering and Physical Science 5,111,553
EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Integrated Photonic and Electronic SystemsSeeds, Professor AJUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 4,351,176
EPSRC Core Equipment for Aston UniversityGreen, Professor SOAston UniversityResearch and Knowledge Exchange 390,000
EPSRC-SFI:Energy Efficient M Communication using Combs (EEMC)Ellis, Professor ADAston UniversityCollege of Engineering and Physical Sci 634,133
Fibre Parametric amplifiers for Real Applications in Optical Communication Systems (FPA-ROCS)Doran, Professor NJAston UniversityCollege of Engineering and Physical Sci 717,568
Future Communications: People, Power and PerformanaceBull, Professor DUniversity of BristolElectrical and Electronic Engineering 2,213,560
High Dimensional Wireless Passive Optical Networking for Access Deployment (PON-HD)Ellis, Professor ADAston UniversityCollege of Engineering and Physical Sci 562,149
High Dimensional Wireless Passive Optical Networking for Access Deployment (PON-HD)Lavery, Professor MPJUniversity of GlasgowSchool of Engineering 730,355
HyperTerahertz - High precision terahertz spectroscopy and microscopyDavies, Professor AGUniversity of LeedsElectronic and Electrical Engineering 6,517,861
Laser Imaging of Turbine Engine Combustion Species (LITECS)Johnstone, Professor WUniversity of StrathclydeElectronic and Electrical Engineering 5,813,734
Multifunctional Polymer Light-Emitting Diodes with Visible Light Communications (MARVEL)Darwazeh, Professor IUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 773,227
National Dark Fibre FacilitySeeds, Professor AJUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 4,900,552
National Dark Fibre Facility- Equipment EnhancementSeeds, Professor AJUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 437,481
Next Generation Imaging using Sparse Single-Photon DataBuller, Professor GHeriot-Watt UniversitySch of Engineering and Physical Science 1,418,014
OptoCloud: Ultra-fast optically interconnected heterogeneous Data CentersZervas, Dr GUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 1,120,128
Photonic Phase Conjugation Systems (PHOS)Ellis, Professor ADAston UniversityCollege of Engineering and Physical Sci 902,113
Photonic Phase Conjugation Systems (PHOS)Petropoulos, Professor PUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 574,499
Photonically-synthesized Digital-to-Analogue ConversionLiu, Dr ZUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 368,844
Self-organized light in multicore optical fibers: a route to scalable high-power lasers and all-optical signal processingGuasoni, Dr MUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 668,181
Silicon-rich silicon nitride Nonlinear Integrated Photonic ciRcuits & Systems (juNIPeRS)Petropoulos, Professor PUniversity of SouthamptonOptoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) 1,123,975
Super Receivers for Visible Light CommunicationsCollins, Dr SUniversity of OxfordEngineering Science 411,008
Terabit Bidirectional Multi-user Optical Wireless System (TOWS) for 6G LiFiElmirghani, Professor JUniversity of LeedsElectronic and Electrical Engineering 6,604,394
Towards 100 Gigabit Wireless Networking by Light (Go-by-Light) (Ext.)Haas, Professor HUniversity of StrathclydeElectronic and Electrical Engineering 240,960
Transforming networks - building an intelligent optical infrastructure (TRANSNET)Bayvel, Professor PUCLElectronic and Electrical Engineering 6,105,916

Total Number of Grants: 35
Total Value of Grants: £78,381,225

The grant value may include the cost of access to facilities (these funds are not awarded to the grant holding organisation).