We were delighted to learn recently that Dr. Nils Hempler, a
member of our laser engineering team, was awarded the prize of
Young Researcher of the Year at the Glasgow Science Festival. One
very encouraging aspect of the accolade is that the judging panel
was composed of school children from around the city aged between
10 and 12. Advanced engineering firms like ours have a role to play
in our communities in terms of inspiring young people to an
interest in science and an aspiration to higher education. Nils'
great achievement in winning this prize is actually that he was
able to ignite the interest of those children and make them feel
excited about physics and his work on our terahertz laser
systems.
Originally from Germany, Nils loves living and working in Scotland
because of the rock climbing and the vibrant and rapidly growing
photonics industry. He joined M Squared in July 2010 after
completing his PhD at the Institute of Photonics. He is currently
involved in the development and product management of our Firefly
THz lasers, unique in the market because they can be tuned with
sufficient accuracy to overcome atmospheric absorption and enable,
for example, stand-off detection at distances greater than 15
metres.
You can meet him at SPIE Photonics West in January where he has
been invited to present a paper on our work on narrow Linewidth,
continuous Wave, SDL-pumped OPO's.
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