Professor Richard Hogg, Chief Technical Officer at III-V Epi, will chair two sessions at PCSEL 2025, the International Workshop on PCSELs, held at the University of Glasgow, 10–12 November 2025. This includes the Keynote Session, “Progress of PCSELs”, from Susumu Noda, Professor of Electronic Science and Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan; the world-renowned pioneer of PCSEL (photonic crystal surface emitting lasers) research and a leading authority in the industry.
Professor Hogg, said, “PCSEL 2025 provides a forum for leading academic and industrial researchers to discuss results and share ideas on PCSEL device engineering, manufacturing and new applications. PCSELs have many performance and manufacturing advantages over current laser technology and are particularly well-suited to high-coherent power applications. These benefit markets as diverse as AI, smart manufacturing, ICT, LiDAR, face recognition, healthcare, telecoms, and datacoms. As CTO of III-V Epi, I will bring practical epitaxial wafer design, manufacturing, and test and characterisation experience, expertise and know-how to those discussions.”
The PCSEL 2025 workshop runs for three days and is held in conjunction with the International Symposium on Photonic and Electromagnetic Crystal Structures (PECS) XIV. In addition to Prof. Susumu Noda’s keynote session, there are further academic speaker contributors representing Aston, Glasgow, Illinois, Peking and Kyoto universities and industrial speakers representing Sumitomo Electric, Hamamatsu Photonics, Stanley Electric and Huawei UK. These sessions cover topics ranging from high-power InP-based PCSELs and GaN devices to photonic-crystal integration.