James C. Gates received the M.Phys. degree and the Ph.D. degree in optoelectronics from the University of Southampton, in 1999 and 2003, respectively. His Ph.D. dissertation investigated the optical properties of various photonic devices at a nanometer scale using an interferometric near-field technique. He is currently a Principle Research Fellow with the Optoelectronics Research Centre (ORC). After his Ph.D., he moved back to the Department of Physics, Southampton, and worked in the field of nanophotonics, before returning to the ORC in 2006. He currently develops fabrication techniques for manufacturing photonic devices, principally planar-integrated optical devices. He has worked on applications in sensing, telecommunications, and quantum optics.