News

A new paper on 'Miniaturized two-channel broadband spectrometer based on variable-spacing concave blazed gratings' has been published in the SPIE Journal of Optical Microsystems.

PhotonHub Europe exists for two years! Time for a Q&A with two of B-PHOT’s leading figures of the project, Susan Brindley and Peter Doyle.

B-PHOT professor Nathalie Vermeulen has been featured in the newest episode of the Physics World Weekly podcast. Together with Eric Van Stryland, she talks about the science of nonlinear optics and the wide range of applications – from astronomy to quantum computing – that have emerged.

VUB TechTransfer has launched a new brochure filled with success stories of innovations that improve society. Amongst them, photonics is mentioned by TTO Flanders, a joint initiative of the technology transfer offices between VUB, KU Leuven, Ghent University, the University of Antwerp, and Hasselt University.

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.

B-PHOT has hosted a second training on Optics and Freeform Optics for engineers and developers in the framework of PhotonHub's Experience Centre. Our researchers opened up their labs and shared basic technical insights and skills in optics and freeform optics design, prototyping, metrology and manufacturing.

B-PHOT will host the PhotonHub Demo Centre on 'Photonics & Food' in Brussels on October 6, 2023. Join our researchers in their labs and discover how photonics can play an essential role in the harvesting and screening of food products.

Happy International Women’s day! Today we celebrate the amazing achievements of women around the world. This year’s theme is all about embracing equity and promoting gender balance in all aspects of life. This is what we are doing at B-PHOT as well! #EmbraceEquity on the work floor.

Musical Blues! Local radio station 'Radio Rand' invited our Director Hugo Thienpont to select 20 of his favourite songs & to talk about B-PHOT, VUB, photonics and Gooik. The discussion is in Dutch, the music is universal!

We launched 2023 at full speed! Let's take a moment to reflect and look towards the future.

Optica spoke with Prof. Tigran Baghdasaryan about his career path in their latest issue of 'Senior Member Insights' in Optics & Photonics News (OPN) magazine.

The pan-European training programme CARLA has come to a conclusion. To promote photonics careers among STEM university students and young researchers, the initiative by the European Centres for Outreach in Photonics gathered 11 leading photonics organizations, which included VUB B-PHOT.