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The 'Journal of Physics: Photonics' has published an article on the composition of nonlinear-optical data tables for emerging materials. The paper is a collaboration with twenty international experts under the coordination of B-PHOT researcher Prof. Nathalie Vermeulen.

B-PHOT welcomed Flemish Minister Jo Brouns to our Photonics Campus and its research infrastructure. The Minister was very interested in the groundbreaking Einstein Telescope project and the investments provided by the Flemish government.

It's International Day of Light! Celebrate light and the important role it plays in life! To honour our 'official holiday' at B-PHOT, we have organised a contest together with the B-PHOT Student Chapter: participate to win a cool prize!

The winners of the 2023 B-Photonics Cup have been decided! The annual competition between several schools in Belgium is an initiative of VUB, B-PHOT and Colruyt Group Technics and helps young students to develop their own gadget of the future by using light, together with their classmates and their science teachers.

Last week, B-PHOT welcomed the high school students from Don Bosco Halle at the VUB Photonics Campus. Our research team gave them an impression of what a photonics engineer does exactly and with a tour through the labs, they learned what life looks like as a scientist!

VUB and B-PHOT are working on the Einstein Telescope project, one of the 11 priorities of the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures to address European challenges. This unique third-generation gravitational-wave observatory wants to put Europe at the forefront of Gravitational Wave research.

B-PHOT is organising a workshop 'Photonics4FOOD' together with Flanders' Food on May 11th, 2023. Join us for free to discover how photonics and AI can work together to make the food industry safer and more sustainable.

Last Wednesday, Vrije Universiteit Brussel hosted the annual Photonics Networking Event of the Master of Science in Photonics Engineering. Our students gathered at the VUB Main Campus to connect with industry leaders and to follow some interesting workshops on CV writing and creative thinking.

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.