[Academic] SCOPE & IEEE Photonics Talk: Enhancement in LiDAR SNR using non-Classical Light

[Charli Hamilton]

Dear All,

SCOPE (Strathclyde Student Community for Optics Physics and Engineering) has invited Prof. Amr S. Helmy, University of Toronto, to give a talk at Strathclyde next week, as part of the IEEE Photonics Society Distinguished Lecturers program. Details below. This talk is completely free and there will be coffee and biscuits afterwards.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enhancement-in-lidar-snr-using-non-classical-light-tickets-624259395657

Title: Enhancement in LiDAR SNR using non-Classical Light

When: Tuesday 2nd May, 11am

Where: John Anderson building, Third Floor, Room JA325, University of Strathclyde

Abstract: Sensing modalities and instrumentation for target detection and ranging applications have received tremendous attention over the past decade. This has been driven in no small part by the insatiable demand for cheaper, more compact and significantly improved Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR), which is essential for autonomous navigation. The detection of objects in the presence of significant background noise is a problem of fundamental interest in sensing. In this talk, I aim to demonstrate theoretically and experimentally how one can exploit non-classical light generated in monolithic semiconductor light sources in conjunction with non-local effects to enhance the performance of optical target detection and model LiDAR system.

Biography: Prof. Helmy joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto with a mixed experience in academic as well as industrial settings. He received both his MSc (1995) and PhD (1999) degrees from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in the field of photonics. Between 2000 and 2004 he joined Agilent Technologies, where he was involved in developing different photonic devices ranging from high-reliability submarine-class lasers, to un-cooled single mode lasers, to integrated photonic circuits. Prof. Helmy’s research interests include quantum/non-linear integrated photonic devices/circuits and nano-photonic devices/circuits using hybrid metallic architectures. The application domains, where his group contributes, include optical signal processing, communications and sensing.

Hope to see you there!


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