Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/J62036/01
Title:	IRC IN OPTICAL AND LASER RELATED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Principal Investigator:	Gambling, Professor WA
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Department:	Optoelectronics Research Ctr (closed)
Organisation:	University of Southampton
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	01 April 1994	Ends:	01 October 1996	Value (£):	6,952,536
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Optical Devices & Subsystems Optoelect. Devices & Circuits
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing Communications
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Optoelectronics is a key technology for the future. The Optoelectronics Research Centre is engaged in research leading to new and improved forms of optical components and sub-systems for this rapidly expanding technology and to encourage their application in industry, medicine, environmental monitoring and elsewhere. The research, which is based on extensive facilities in fibre, waveguide, laser and optical amplifier facilities, seeks, through basic and strategic research, to create new materials, ideas, processes and devices for subsequent industrial exploitation. Progress: The Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) was established in October 1989 and is an independent research institute at the University of Southampton with collaborative groups at University College London and The University of Sussex. At Southampton it comprises 8 seconded academic staff from the departments of Electronics and Physics, together with 33 research staff, 7 international visitors, 30 research students and 20 support staff. Over 50% of the staff and students are supported from non-EPSRC funding sources. The ORC has established an excellent international reputation, provides high added value to the EPSRC grant and generates strategic research feeding into industry. In the past full year it produced nearly 200 high-quality publications. In addition to training of research students, the management structure ensures that research staff gain experience in project management and budgetary control. Most of the research targets for the period 1989-1995 were achieved by 1993 so that new ones have been established for the period 1993 to 1997. They range from new optical glasses for fibres and waveguides, through new fibre and planar lasers and waveguides, miniature crystal lasers, optical parametric oscillators and upconversion, photorefractive gratings in waveguides, single-wavelength DFB fibre lasers, second-generation fibre amplifiers, optical soliton generation and control, dispersion compensation in long-length fibre systems, agile and widely-tunable fibre lasers for wavelength division multi-plexing networks, to pollution sensors and new distributed strain and temperature sensors.
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