Join Lightwave from the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, alongside researchers from Cornerstone, to bring light to life!

Create your own mosaic using polarising filters and discover how light can be used to reveal a hidden message. Make your own Pepper's Ghost optical illusion and see reflection in action, then build your own kaleidoscope and explore how light can create beautiful colours and ever-changing designs. Get creative with a hands-on card game activity and explore how silicon microchips are made through the fascinating process of microfabrication, inspired by real techniques used in the cleanrooms here at the University of Southampton!

See how nanoscale waveguides on these chips can guide light, enabling vast amounts of data to be transferred using light rather than electrical signals.

Discover how this emerging technology is helping to shape the future of high-speed optical communications, AI, and advanced sensors that can monitor our health and environment. Learn how fibre optics carry information at incredible speeds and be mesmerised by our infinity mirror.

Play with light, spark your curiosity, and uncover the amazing possibilities it holds!