{"id":46,"date":"2025-12-17T22:44:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T22:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/?page_id=46"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:39:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T01:39:16","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"auto-style3\" lang=\"EN\">The Photonics Research Lab at the University of Kent has been at the forefront of research on radio, microwave and millimetre-wave over fibre systems for the last 20 years. In recent years, our research activities have been focused on inter-disciplinary areas that study the interaction between photonics and other traditional or state-of-the-art technologies in different fields, such as microwave photonics, biophotonics and fiber optics, for industrial, communications, biomedical, and energy applications. <\/span><span class=\"auto-style3\" lang=\"EN\">The research activities have been well funded by the European Commission, UK research councils and charitable foundations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Examples of current and recent externally-funded projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #3366ff\"><span style=\"color: #497bde\"><a style=\"color: #497bde\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research-projects__trashed\/royal-society-epic-bio\/\"><strong>EPIC-BIO<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>&#8211; A two-year international exchanges project funded by the Royal Society aiming to develop ultra-sensitive optical fibre biosensors for single-molecule detection of cancer biomarkers<\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/afcad\/\"><span style=\"color: #497bde\">AFCAD<\/span><\/a><\/strong> &#8211; A three-year InnovateUK and Aerospace Technology Institute funded programme aiming to rapidly develop high temperature polymer electrolyte membrane (HTPEM) fuel cell technology for aviation.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #497bde\"><strong>Low-profile ultra-wideband wide-scanning multi-function beam-steerable array antennas<\/strong><\/span> &#8211; A three-year EPSRC-funded project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Photonics Research Lab at the University of Kent has been at the forefront of research on radio, microwave and millimetre-wave over fibre systems for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/research\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86382,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86382"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/46\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/photonics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}