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Optoelectronics collaboration transforms company to a global supplier/leader in semiconductor laser products

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Submitting institution
University of Glasgow
Unit of assessment
12 - Engineering
Summary impact type
Technological
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Is this case study continued from a case study submitted in 2014?
Yes
Underpinning research subjects
  • Optical Physics
  • Electrical And Electronic Engineering
  • Communications Technologies

1. Summary of the impact

2. Underpinning research

3. References to the research

4. Details of the impact

5. Sources to corroborate the impact

Additional contextual information

Grant funding

Grant number Value of grant
1) EP/E065112/1 £2,450,000
2) First Step Award £5,000
3) KTA £40,000
4) KTP £56,000
5) College Industrial PhD Scholarship £30,000
6) EC H2020 ICT £660,000
7) SU2P project £12,000
8) EP/R001774/1 £102,000
9) PIADS CDT £90,000
10) E&ET call £113,000
11) I-UK/QT4 £118,000
12) Direct funding £40,000
13) KTP £188,000
14) PIADS CDT £90,000
15) PIADS CDT £90,000
Countries
  • Worldwide
Formal partners
  • CST Global
Funding programmes
  • 1) High Power, High Frequency Mode-locked Semiconductor Lasers 2007-2011
  • 2) High Frequency Laser Testing 02.2011-05.2011
  • 3) Low Cost Lasers for Telecoms10.2011-09.2012
  • 4) 07.2012 - 01.2014 High performance, low cost, single frequency laser device platform for next generation access networks- KTP008847
  • 5) Adi-vanced Etching Technology 12.2014-12.2018
  • 6) iBROW - Innovative ultra-BROadband ubiquitous Wireless communications through terahertz transceivers 01.2015 - 12.2017
  • 7) Blue DFB development 9.2014-3.2015
  • 8) 04.2017 - 05.2018 Quantum Cooling using Mode Controlled Blue Lasers (CoolBlue)
  • 9) PhD Scholarship Blue Lasers 10.2017-10.2020
  • 10) Adi-vanced Etching and Passivation for Low Cost Manufacturing (LowPass) 12.2017-12.2018
  • 11) Quantum Cooled Systems using Mode Controlled Blue Lasers (Coolblue2); 03.2018-03.2019
  • 12) 50% secondment of Kelly A. 05.2018 to 11.2018
  • 13) 25G laser product development KTP11146 06.18-06.2020
  • 14) High speed laser modelling and characterisation. 10.2018-10.2021
  • 15) Laser Linewidth study and optimisation 10.2018-10.2021
Global research identifiers
  • 1) grid.421091.f
  • 2) grid.437916.e
  • 3) grid.421091.f
  • 4) grid.423443.6
  • 5) grid.8756.c
  • 6) grid.453396.e
  • 7) grid.437916.e
  • 8) grid.421091.f
  • 9) grid.421091.f
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  • 10) grid.423443.6
  • 11) grid.421091.f
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  • 13) grid.423443.6
  • 14) grid.421091.f
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  • 15) grid.421091.f
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Name of funders
  • 1) EPSRC
  • 2) Scottish Funding Council
  • 3) EPSRC
  • 4) Innovate UK
  • 5) University of Glasgow
  • 6) European Union
  • 7) Scottish Funding Council
  • 8) EPSRC
  • 9) EPSRC
  • 9) CST Global
  • 10) Innovate UK
  • 11) EPSRC
  • 12) CST Global
  • 13) Innovate UK
  • 14) EPSRC
  • 14) CST Global
  • 15) EPSRC
  • 15) CST Global
Researcher ORCIDs
  • 0000-0002-6142-1760