Michael Vervaeke

	Name	Michael Vervaeke
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Michael Vervaeke was born in Asse, Belgium, in 1975. He graduated as Industrial Electromechanical Engineer from the Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven (Gent, Belgium) in 1997. He enrolled subsequently for the Masters in Engineering at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Brussels, Belgium) where he obtained his degree in Electrotechnical Engineer with majors in Photonics in July 2000. That same year he joined the Applied Physics and Photonics department of the VUB where he pursues research on the packaging and integration of micro-optical and electrical devices. He developed a three-dimensional mechanical model of an intra-chip optical interconnect module and is building a demonstrator platform using in-house rapid prototyping technology (Deep Proton Writing). In 2007 he received a Ph.D. on "Photonic Modelling and Packaging of Chip-Level Interconnects) He authored more than 56 publications in international conference proceedings in his research field as well as in education, and authored or co-authored 11 journal publications.
As Senior Researcher he is involved in the public procurement and infrastructure build-up for new heavy equipment, including an advanced ultraprecision 5-axis diamond tooling lathe and milling workstation and a 300 mm hot embossing machine. He is B-Phot's technical project leader for the construction of a new cleanroom and laboratory environment.

Recent Publications

J. Van Erps, M. Vervaeke, H. Ottevaere, A. Hermanne, and H. Thienpont, “Deep Proton Writing for the rapid prototyping of polymer micro-components for optical interconnects and optofluidics,” Nucl. Instrum. Methods in Phys. Res. B, vol. 307, pp. 243–247, 2013.

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G. Belay, H. Ottevaere, Y. Meuret, M. Vervaeke, J. Van Erps, and H. Thienpont, “Demonstration of a multichannel, multiresolution imaging system,” Appl. Optics, vol. 52, no. 24, pp. 6081–6089, 2013.

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J. Van Erps, M. Vervaeke, H. Ottevaere, A. Hermanne, and Thienpont, H., “Deep proton writing for the rapid prototyping of polymer micro-components for optical interconnects and optofluidics,” in 18th International Conference on Ion Beam Modifications of Materials, 2013, vol. 307, pp. 243–247.

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M. Vervaeke et al., “Satelitte payloads with optical interconnects: Solving the bandwidth bottleneck in space,” in Proc. ICO Information Photonics, 2011, pp. 1–2.

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J. Van Erps, A. Pakula, S. Tomczewski, M. Vervaeke, L. Salbut, and H. Thienpont, “Populating multi-fiber fiberoptic connectors using an interferometric measurement of fiber tip position and facet quality,” in Proc. SPIE, Micro-Optics, VCSELs, and Photonic Interconnects III, 2010, vol. 7716, p. 77161I.

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