All aboard the Light Express!

Shattered - Dr James Gates (on the left) and I have just finished another Light Express Roadshow performance. The Light Express is our Photonics Schools' Outreach activity at the University and it's our Open Day - we've performed to over 4,000 students and members of the public this year - no wonder I'm tired.



The show includes a variety of spectacular demonstrations - using our new 3-colour diode pumped laser system - to try to entice more students to study Photonics - or Physics - at University.

It takes us about 3 hours to set up the show - it's rather like setting up a mobile disco, but with some serious safety considerations to contend with. The lecture - which I give - takes about 40 minutes and explains how vital lasers are to modern life - we focus on telecommunications and how lasers run the internet.

Now, back to finishing those presentations for the conference and I'm wondering whether we can use the Light Express laser system for colour holography.....