Invited talk at Photonex 2023

Between 24th and 26th November, the SPIE Photonex, took place in Glasgow, Scotland. Zero Point Motion Founder & CEO Lia Li, Lead MEMS Engineer Aaron Geisberger and Applications Engineer Sergejs Leonovs attended to find out the latest developments in PICs and silicon photonics and envisaged impacts in future product developments and applications.  

Photonex is the UK’s premier optics and photonics conference, bringing together academia and industry, presenting the latest advancements in optical technology.  

Lia gave an invited talk titled: “Bridging the gap in product-market fit for quantum positioning and navigation”, highlighting our progress in optically enhanced inertial sensors and how our sensors sit between the potential that quantum sensing offers and the traditional capacitive MEMS-based inertial sensing. 

As part of her duties as an SPIE ED&I Committee member Lia and Dr Jess Wade (Chair of ED&I committee) organised an ED&I panel consisting of: Dr Kirsty Annand (Opening Up Photonics, Programme Manager for The UK Tech Hub in Quantum Enhanced Imaging), Dr Thalia Dominguez Bucio (Research Fellow in Silicon Photonics at Southampton University), Dr Alison McLeod (Opening Up Photonics, Technology Scotland), Dr Jake Biele (co-founder Light Trace Photonics) and Carol Monaghan (MP for Glasgow North West) to talk about initiatives within the community, the challenge of ED&I ‘work’ and diversifying the community. 

Talking about the event, “The photonics industry in the UK is strong and growing, especially within Universities and at early-stage R&D,” said Aaron “the next step for this technology is achieving scale and the cost reduction that it will bring.”