Mooi! Maar waarom zijn er op dat spectrogram twee frequenties te zien rond 210 Hz? (en ook twee rond de tweede harmonische)

Congrats to a new Doctor of Photonics Engineering! Congrats to Dr. Mattias Verstuyft!

Photonic chips move into the UV spectrum. Prof. Nicolas Le Thomas shows at SPIE Photonics West how these new chips can enhance microscopy. Photonics UGent imec

Wakey wakey! I will be presenting our progress in Programmable Photonics at SPIE Photonics West 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

It was an honour and a pleasure to contribute to this plenary session. For those who could not attend, here are the take-away messages of the talk. I have been pleading for “smart choices” to grow the field sustainably.

Maximilien Billet presenting about transfer printed tunable mode locked lasers at #PhotonicsWest. Transfer printing is gaining considerable interest at this conference. ⁦Photonics UGent⁩ ⁦imec⁩

Jeroen Missinne of ⁦cmst⁩ UGent ⁦imec⁩ presenting work on integrated microlenses for expanded beam coupling between PICs and fibers. This even allows to implement optical isolator functionality close to the PIC! ⁦SPIE Photonics West⁩

Luis Reis presenting octave-spanning supercontinuum generation in GaP-on-insulator waguides fabricated by micro-transfer printing, with the potential of chip-scale SC operating at low pump power. @photonicswest ⁦Photonics UGent⁩ ⁦imec⁩ ⁦Université libre de Bruxelles⁩

Ivo Tanghe of UGent ⁦PCN⁩ @photonicsugent discussing the remarkable optical gain properties of colloidal “bulk nanocrystals” (sounds like a contradiction 😉) at ⁦SPIE Photonics West⁩. If you want to know more, read the recent Nature Nanotechnology paper.

Diffraction gratings in the sky. How come?

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.

⁦Wim Bogaerts⁩ of ⁦UGent⁩ and ⁦imec⁩ opening the workshop on heterogeneous integration for PICs, co-organized by ⁦ePIXfab⁩ ⁦Thales Group⁩ and several ⁦Horizon Europe⁩ and ChipsJU projects.

The room is starting to fill up for the 9th ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School, which is this year hosted by CORNERSTONE at University of Southampton . Looking forward to exciting expert lectures, inspiring interactions and social activities with the 150 participants. #epixfab24

Impressive work from Kasper Van Gasse (done during his time @StanfordPhoton1). Looking forward to the continuation of his work on solid-state laser integration in our group!

Jorik Withouck of ⁦Photonics UGent⁩ winning the third prize in the silicon photonics quiz at the 9th ⁦ePIXfab⁩ silicon photonics summer school in ⁦University of Southampton⁩

Once again, JePPIX has joined forces with ePIXfab to organize the European Photonic Integration Forum (EPIF)💪🏼This event brings together industry veterans and entrepreneurs from promising startups 🔥 Find all info here: lnkd.in/eGXk_DFp #photonicseu #epif2024

DC of AC transport?

It was a pleasure and a privilege to present this talk and to articulate a vision for the silicon photonics community at large!