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From Star Trek’s Holodeck to Iron Man’s helmet, science fiction has set the bar high for real-time 3D holographic images. But while we are still pretty far from that, we are getting closer.To appreciate the potential of 3D, think about how we get information about the world around us. The visual is very important: about 90 per cent of human input c…

Two CAPE Blue Sky Research projoects have been awarded to  CPDS group membersLabel free multimodal biosensing based on guided mode resonance sensor (LMB-GMR) - Pawan Shrestha, Xin ChangReconfigurable photonic crystal devices for wavelength-division multiplexing - Xin Chang, Mike Pivnenko, Pawan ShresthaThe CAPE Blue Sky Award gives the opportunity …

Many fields such as industrial manufacturing require 3D surface profile measurement with nanometre precision. Achieving this precision requires an instrument with incredibly high component accuracy. In this interview, Professor Daping Chu, described the project "Holographic Interferometer for 3D Surface" he is leading at the Cambridge University- N…

CPDS had the annual Christmas group formal on 20th December 2019 at Trinity Hall College. CPDS staffs, students, members and guests enjoyed a wonderful night together to celebrate Christmas!Trinity Hall College sits on the beautiful River Cam and is the fifth-oldest college of the University of Cambridge, having been founded in 1350 by William Bate…

CPDS researchers have developed a new augmented reality (AR) head-mounted display (HMD) in collaboration with Huawei European Research Centre, in Munich. The HMD delivers a realistic and comfortable 3D viewing experience, without the commonly associated side effects of nausea or eyestrain. It can deliver high-quality clear image directly on the ret…

Researchers from CPDS, the University of Cambridge, are working with Jaguar Land Rover to develop next-generation head-up display technology that could beam real-time safety information in front of the driver, and allow passengers to stream 3D movies directly from their seats as part of a shared, autonomous future.Their excellent work has been repo…

CPDS researchers Jiaqi Chu and Daping Chu have published a paper titled "Encoding and multiplexing of 2D images with orbital angular momentum beams and the use for multiview color displays"on the Research. The article has been selected as the front cover on Issue 1,March, 2019.To find more details of the paper, please see:https://spj.sciencemag.org…

Congratulations to Dr Yuanbo Deng from CPDS, who has won first prize in the 3rd China(Shenzhen) Innovation & Entrepreneurship International Competition, UK Division. The winning project is titled "AR Head Up Display for train, bus and truck". 

CPDS researchers Shunpu Li, Young Tea Chun, Jin Li, Pawan Shrestha, Yuanbo Deng, Daping Chu and colleagues from other research institutes have published a paper titled "Two-dimensional arrays self-assembled via interference of concentration modulation waves in drying solutions"on Materials Horizons. The article has been selected as the front cover …

On Dec.5th, 2018, CPDS staffs, students, members and guests together had a wonderful night in Peterhouse College to celebrate Christmas!     

Professor Zhaohui Wu, President of Zhejiang University, and Professor Min Li, the Director of Foreign Affairs Office, visited CPDS on December 12th. Professor Daping Chu welcomed them and gave a talk introducing CPDS, CAPE and University of Cambridge. Further collaboration between two sides have been discussed after the talk.

Congratulations to CPDS member, Professor Daping Chu, Dr Kun Li and Dr Ali Ozgur Yontem (Listed following alphabetic order) and 5 Jaguar Land Rover(JLR) colleagues! They are selected as JLR Innovista finalists for their excellent work on "Volumetric 3D Augmented Reality HUD".They are invited to the finals event and awards ceremony on 12th February …

Congratulations for Dr Kun Li for winning First Prize in the Photography Competition of Engineering Department. His microscopic image (below) shows liquid crystal molecules between cross-polarisers. It was taken when Dr Li was examining the uniformity of the structural 'floor' of nanoscale grooves for rod-shaped liquid crystal molecules to rest on.…

On 2018 September 27th, the CTO of CRRC Zhuzhou, Mr. Feng and his colleagues visited CAPE and CPDS to discuss current and future cooperation between two sides. CPDS has been working closely with CRRC Zhuzhou to develop the first head up display (HUD) system for train in the past two years.

In this talk, high-speed free space optics communication (FSO) technologies will be reviewed and introduced. We design and demonstrate two proposed FSO schemes. The first scheme is a bi-directional, short-range and free-space optical (FSO) communication with 2x4x10 Gb/s capacity in wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) channels for short-distance …