OTTAWA, March 17, 2009 - OneChip Photonics Inc., a company co-founded by the CRPuO's director, Prof. Trevor J. Hall, has secured $19.5 million in venture capital financing from leading Canadian and U.S. investors.

Funding will enable company to deliver the only fully integrated FTTH transceiver technology on the market and expand its operations globally.

BRUSSELS, Belgium, April, 2008 - Professor Trevor J. Hall has been appointed a co-director of the 2008 NATO Advanced Study Institute on Laser Control & Monitoring in New Materials, Biomedicine, Environment, Security and Defense.

The NATO-ASI 2008 will take place at the Crowne Plaza Ottawa Hotel & Conference Centre in Ottawa from November 24th to December 5th.
http://www.photonics.uottawa.ca/nato-asi-2008/

OTTAWA, April 24, 2008 - NRC, NSERC and BDC announced the winners of a special $15-million nanotechnology research funding competition.

Among the five winning projects is "SUNRISE: Semiconductors Using Nanostructures for Record Increases in Solar-Cell Efficiency", in which Professor Hall plays an essential role.

OTTAWA, June 3, 2007 - CRPuO members are extensively engaged both in the conference organisation and as participants. Dr. Trevor J. Hall is co-president of the Executive Committee.

The Technical Programme Committee includes Dr. Hanan Anis, Dr. Xiaoyi Bao, Dr. Karin Hinzer, Dr. Hussein Mouftah and Dr. Andrew Risdale as session Chairs.

OTTAWA, Friday, April 25, 2003 - Dr. Trevor Hall, the holder of the Canada Research Chair in Photonic Network Technology, has been appointed as director of the University of Ottawa's Centre for Research in Photonics.

The Centre's mission is to push the frontiers of photonics so that this Emerging field will become a source of commonly used innovations and applications.

Three years ago, at the height of Canada's overwhelming high-technology boom, the University of Ottawa pledged to fill several research chairs in the area of photonics. Today, two chairs have been filled by five-star scientists who are now part of a major national research project to develop a more flexible telecommunications network based on photonics. The University has become a Centre of Excellence in a little understood technology - photonics ...

In front of a standing-room only audience, photonics researcher Trevor Hall describes a day when the technology behind light signals could be used in all aspects of life. Already, wavelengths of light are used in the home to transmit data encoded on CDs, DVDs, and the remote control for your TV or stereo.

In the future, photons could be embedded in "smart" clothing.

The University of Ottawa is one of five schools participating in a photonics research project that launched on Thursday with $7 million in federal money and a helping hand from a trio of local tech firms.

The Agile All-Photonics Research Network will, over the next five years, research ways that existing national broadband networks that deliver high-speed Web services can be collapsed to a single strand of optical fibre.

The Agile All-Photonic Networks research network (AAPN) is the most collaborative and comprehensive project of its kind, bringing together five Canadian universities (McGill, Ottawa, Toronto, Queen's, and McMaster), two federal research laboratories (NRC's Institute for Microstructural Sciences, and Industry Canada's Communications Research Centre), and eight private Canadian companies, including Nortel Networks, Tropic Networks, and Adtek Photomask, among others.

Ottawa universities have secured $5.8 million in fresh funding that will boost key areas of research and providelaboratories and state-of-the-art equipment for three newly endowed academic positions.

The multi-year grants will go to two researchers at the University of Ottawa, and one at Carleton University. All three work in the field of computer networking, considered a vital field of research for both institutions.

OTTAWA, Tuesday, November 12, 2002 - The University of Ottawa's depth of expertise in photonics grew today with the announcement of two Canada Research Chairs in this emerging field.

Prof. Xiaoyi Bao and Prof. Trevor Hall have received Tier 1 Canada Research Chairs. Prof. Bao's chair is in fibre optics and photonics, while Prof. Hall will continue his research in photonic network technology.