Photonics at the Brussels Photonics Team: from lab to fab

Speaker:Prof.Heidi Ottevaere (UVB)

Time and Date: 9:30- , Oct. 28, 2014

Place: Room 138, Physics Building, Handan Campus

Abstract

Photonics -the "Science-and-Technology-to-Harness-Light"- is a discipline that involves fundamental research of photons, of light-matter interactions, and the development of novel technologies and applications based on the unique properties of light. Photonics leverages these unique properties to probe, sense, transmit, process, display and store information, and to accomplish a multitude of original functionalities, which cannot be achieved otherwise.

The Brussels Photonics team (B-PHOT) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) has been active in the field of micro-photonics for more than 20 years. With its micro-optical design platform, its cyclotron based deep-proton writing, its polymer prototyping platform and its large-scale micro-optical measurement centre in clean room conditions B-PHOT is currently among the world-leaders in optical modelling, optical characterization, low-cost rapid prototyping, and proof-of-concept demonstration of micro-optical modules and has research collaboration agreements with top-level research groups in Europe, in the United States, Australia, and Asia as well as with various companies active in domains such as optical telecommunication, projection and display and food sorting. During the seminar we will elaborate on the recent scientific achievements and touch upon the research plan that B-PHOT intends to develop during the next years to continue to push the frontiers of micro-photonics research.