03 October, 2016

UNLOC Senior Research Fellow, Alex Alvarado has worked with colleagues in Nokia Bell Labs on a new method which will help the rapid design and prototyping of optical communication systems.

16 September, 2016

UNLOC researchers will make a major contribution to ECOC 2016 in Dusseldorf, 18-22 September. UNLOC members from UCL and Aston University will present a combination of workshops and papers on unlocking the capacity of optical communications.

29 July 2016

This month we mark two anniversaries in communications. Both of which are connected with the UCL Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. It is 150 years since the installation of the first transatlantic telegraph cable and 50 years since Kao and Hockham developed the use of optical fibre for telecommunications.

30 September, 2016

We are very pleased to welcome Dr Zhixin Liu to the UNLOC team. Zhixin joins as a lecturer at UCL from the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC) at the University of Southampton.

31 August, 2016

Dr Tianhua Xu, UNLOC Senior Research Fellow, has accepted an invitation to serve on the technical program committee for the IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2017. The conference theme is ‘Bridging People, Communities and Cultures’.

1 May, 2016

Prof Polina Bayvel, the director of the EPSRC-funded UNLOC programme and head of the ONG group in UCL, will become an elected fellow of the Royal Society at a formal ceremony in July.

21 September, 2016

UNLOC Investigators, Prof Andrew Ellis and Dr Robert Killey, and UCL Optical Networks Group PhD Student, Zhe Li, represented UNLOC at the recent Huawei Innovation Research Program (HIRP) workshop on Novel Photonics Technologies for Optical Communication.

17 August, 2016

From 18-22 September, members of the UNLOC programme will decamp to the 42^nd annual European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication (ECOC 2016).

29 April, 2016

Domanic Lavery, a senior research associate with UNLOC has been awarded a 5-year Research Fellowship from the Royal Academy of Engineering.