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Journalist David Edmonds profiles UCL's Professor Polina Bayvel, who develops optical communications technology that brings us the internet and much more.

A novel concept for extracting information from spectra where traditional post-processing procedures fail, dubbed ‘software-defined spectroscopy’, offers a fresh approach to high-resolution terahertz spectroscopy. The new method implements an ‘optical comb’ and combines it with a programmable modulator, all using components from the optical internet.

UCL has reaffirmed its position as one of the world’s top research institutes in a series of recent world rankings.

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a new way of imaging cells in 3D at 20nm resolution using single molecule light field microscopy (SMLFM), a new class of three-dimensional (3D) light field technology.

The world’s fastest data transmission rate has been achieved by a team of UCL engineers, led by Dr Lidia Galdino of The Optical Networks Group. The team reached an internet speed a fifth faster than the previous record.