Today we wrapped up the 5th ePIXfab SIlicon Photonics Design Course, at the Photonics UGent. Group in the beautiful city of Ghent. Thanks to the wonderful participants from around the world to make this an amazing week.

Are you tired of feeling like a complete ignoramus on Silicon Photonics? ePIXfab can change this, in its next Summer school, with world-class experts lecturing on all aspects of silicon photonics. Join us with Cornerstone in Southampton University of Southampton epixfab.eu/trainings/upco…

#ofc2024 is only a few weeks away. If you want to get a quick-start in silicon photonics, and get your hands dirty in our on-line photonic design environment based on the IPKISS tools of Luceda Photonics , then there is still time to enroll for my Short Course (SC454) on Monday.

PHORMIC is proudly co-organizing the ePIXfab workshop on Heterogeneous Integration on 23-24 April in Paris-Saclay, hosted by Thales. Join us to learn more about the integration of low-power MEMS and transfer-printed lasers on IMEC's silicon photonics. epixfab.eu/trainings/upco…

Programmable photonics can be a game-changer for the adoption of photonic chips into new applications, opening up the technology to a much wider community of innovaters. Read our overview of the field in the latest issue of @OPNMagazine . optica-opn.org/home/articles/…

If you're at SPIE Photonics West | #PhotonicsWest , don't party too long tonight. Make sure to get to my talk on programmable photonics on Thursday morning: see you all at 8:00AM in Room 302. We have some exciting new results! H2020 MORPHIC The PHORMIC Project Photonics UGent @imec

Wakey wakey! I will be presenting our progress in Programmable Photonics at SPIE Photonics West | #PhotonicsWest on Thursday 8:00AM. Yes, you will need to get up early, but I will really try to make it worthwhile. Photonics UGent imec H2020 MORPHIC The PHORMIC Project KTH Royal Institute of Technology Tyndall Institute

💬 Silicon photonics + Roel Baets = the opening presentation of the OPTO Plenary! #PhotonicsWest

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We are looking in the Photonics UGent (a research group of imec) for a postdoc in the field of programmable photonics and photonic MEMS in the framework of the European project The PHORMIC Project . imec-int.com/en/work-at-ime…

We wish everyone a PHORMIdastiC 2024. We look forward to a year of exciting research in photonic chips. youtu.be/27hWPRYWvWM

Wim Bogaerts of Photonics UGent presents the work of the PHORMIC and H2020 MORPHIC projects on large-scale programmable photonics at #OpticaBICOP23 in London. How can programmable photonic chips boost the use of micro-scale light in a diverse range of applications.

I am proud to be elected one of the #OpticaFellows and the recognition this brings to our work at Photonics UGent UGent imec

We had a very exciting (but slightly soggy) meeting with the The PHORMIC Project consortium in Cork. Thank to Tyndall Institute for being such great hosts.

A really interesting and fun experience. We should do this more often. Breaking the barriers between individual research projects.

On first sight, Luis Reis of Photonics UGent is out of place in a session about combs. Yet here he is, shining at #FiO23 , explaining how he generates an octave-spanning supercontinuum in transfer-printed Gallium Phosphide that can be combined with silicon nitride circuits.

Margot Niels of Photonics UGent explains the #FiO23 audience how and why she she spends her days putting hair-like Lithium Niobate structures on Silicon Nitride waveguides. Long live heterogeneous integration.

Laurens Bogaert (not related, missing an 's') of Photonics UGent is showing off his poster at Optica #FIO23 : how to optimize gratings and stick photodetectors onto them, to help make the future more quantum.

Thanks again to all speakers and attendees for making this a fantastic day, and thanks off course to Roel Baets for showing us the way (the light) throughout all those years ! Photonics UGent UGent imec

Almost but not quite yet emeritus professor Roel Baets hosts the afternoon session of the
#LightAndEnlightenment symposium. The morning session showed us the technology, now we need to apply it to make our world a better place. Photonics UGent UGent imec