Industry Tutorial - Adaptive Optical Laser Processing: From Diamonds to Datacentres
03 March 2026 10:00 - 11:00
Come join Patrick Salter, Chief Scientist at Opsydia, for a discusison on material proccessing with ultrashort pulse lasers.
Material processing with ultrashort pulse lasers is rapidly expanding within precision manufacture for semiconductor applications. It also offers many opportunities for three-dimensional fabrication inside transparent materials. Adaptive optical elements control the phase of the laser beam to maintain accurate processing within the entire 3D volume. We will show how this can be applied to write optical waveguides in glass without post-processing, for photonic interconnects in datacentres.
Speakers
Patrick Salter
Opsydia - Chief Scientist
Dr Patrick Salter is Chief Scientist at Opsydia, a spin-out company from the University of Oxford who specialise in the integration of ultrashort pulse laser manufacturing systems and adaptive optical technology. He is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at University of Oxford. He has a background in laser fabrication, microscopy, soft matter physics and adaptive optics.
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