High Power Leaders Gather at Photonex 08

Industry’s top manufacturers and academics to present at IEEE/LEOS sponsored seminar programme. At this week’s Photonex 08, leading laser system manufacturers and university academics will take part in a high level seminar programme on High Power Diode Lasers and Systems. Representatives from Alcatel Thales III-V Labs (France), Jenoptik (Germany), Intense and GSI Lasers, will be joined by academics from Cambridge, Glasgow and Nottingham universities. The seminar, supported by IEEE/LEOS, confirms Photonex as the UK’s premier showcase for the photonics industry’s most advanced

technology. Photonex is taking place in Coventry’s Stoneleigh Park, 15 – 18 October.

“The market for advanced, high power laser systems has shown incredible growth in recent years, and that growth shows no signs of slowing,” said Professor Catrina Bryce of Glasgow University. “The high power diode laser and systems market is seeing advances in the capabilities of both conventional solid state lasers and fibre lasers being driven by improvements in power, mode structure, brightness and reliability of high power pump laser diodes. “This seminar, along with the rest of the programme taking place at the event, will see the top people from the commercial and research areas of this exciting marketplace outline the very latest advancements in technology, business and applications.

“As Photonex grows in size and stature each year, so does it’s seminar programme, and this year it has attracted some big names in the photonics space.” The seminar programme will also include an Innovation and Investment Seminar Programme to link with this year’s new forums, as well as Industrial innovation with lasers in the medical sector and Solving sensing problems with photonics, amongst others. The programme, along with the addition of this years Innovation and Investment Forums, means that this years Photonex is pushing itself to the front of the crowd, to be recognised as a truly innovative and high-calibre show.