QUDOS 6th Plenary Meeting

Researchers from the QUDOS consortium came together at Cardiff University, Wales to join the 6^th QUDOS plenary meeting on 7 January 2025.    The QUDOS consortium comprises four world-renowned universities in photonics in the UK, namely UCL, University of Southampton, Cardiff University and University of Cambridge.  

With a little more than two years before the expected completion of the programme, Professor Alwyn Seeds of UCL, Principal Investigator of QUDOS, started the meeting by highlighting the key milestones achieved and the major tasks ahead towards monolithically integrating all required optical functions on silicon. 

Before the start of the plenary meeting, researchers enjoyed the QUDOS video while chatting with each other

Alwyn Seeds, UCL

Project Leaders from the four member universities of the QUDOS consortium then took turns to outline the latest developments of their projects.

After the presentations by the Project Leaders, researchers engaged in vigorous discussions of the development of the QUDOS programme and the choice of technology demonstrators for the final two years of the programme.

Thereafter, researchers from the four universities delivered technical talks on the developments of their specific projects. 

At the plenary meeting, researchers also showcased their posters and engaged in informal discussion during coffee breaks. 

After the lively discussion at the plenary meeting, researchers were excited and refreshed.  They were determined to carry on the remaining tasks with enlightened ideas in order to accomplish QUDOS’ goal of comprehensive optical integration on silicon.