"Behind an unremarkable facade in the small Flanders municipality of Gooik, you can find a world-leading lab specialized in photonics." Belgian newspaper De Tijd came to visit the VUB Photonics Campus in Gooik to interview B-PHOT Research Director Hugo Thienpont.

Last week, an international delegation of Flanders Investment & Trade paid a visit to the Photonics Campus of Vrije Universiteit Brussel. B-PHOT professors gave the visitors a nice tour to meet our team and discover our highly equipped research labs.

VUB hosts the Introductory Online Course in Photonics Innovation by PhotonHub Europe.

Join us on June 21 at VUB for the Inaugural Lecture "Can a rainbow help make the internet faster?" by ERC Grant Holder Martin Virte.

B-PHOT will host the PhotonHub Demo Centre on 'Photonics & Food' on June 9, 2022, in Brussels. Join our researchers in their labs and discover how photonics can play an important role in the harvesting and the screening of food products.

B-PHOT welcomed the full team in Gooik for a nice team barbecue with lots of food, fun and smiles!

The Microoptics Conference (MOC) 2022 in Jena, Germany, offers lectures and discussions to provide a scientific exchange for an update and review of scientific and technical information in a very wide range of micro-optical topics. B-PHOT Professor Heidi Ottevaere will be the programme co-chair of the conference.

David Castelló-Lurbe's article "Breaking fundamental noise limitations to supercontinuum generation" was published as Editor's Pick in the latest Optics Letters from Optica. Last month, it was the most downloaded article in the publication.

Light Night is a yearly event of the B-PHOT Student Chapter in which we host well-known Photonics scientists. This year, we have two speakers, namely Prof. Sir Michael V Berry (University of Bristol) and Prof. Dr. Ir. Heidi Ottevaere.

B-PHOT Student Chapter challenges you to align laster-photonics setups! Compete in teams of 2 for focusing the most light into a very narrow pinhole, much like threading a needle and feel the true meaning of colours via spectroscopy!

It is that time of the year again and B-PHOT Student Chapter is back with another Photo Contest. If you have an eye for aesthetics, we challenge you to capture the beauty of light and its display in our daily lives, technology, and/or in our cultural and social celebrations.

Flying to Spain in a more ecological way? Our post-doc researcher Sidney Goossens has the answers! Listen to his interesting talk for Universiteit van Vlaanderen (in Dutch).