Dr. ir. Karel Van Acoleyen awarded with the AIG-award
Dr. ir. Karel Van Acoleyen has been awarded with the
AIG-award. The AIG-award, worth 2500 Euro, is awarded every four years to
recognize a researcher who delivered the best original work in the Engineering
sciences and made a true contribution to the promotion of it.
Dr. ir. Karel Van Acoleyen (MSc. Photonics 2008 -
Doctor in de Ingenieurswetenschappen: fotonica 2012) won the AIG-award with his
work
'Nanophotonic
Beamsteering Elements Using Silicon Technology for
Wireless Optical Applications'
.
In this work, the feasibility of using an integrated photonics platform for
optical beam steering was investigated. One- and two-dimensional beam steering
functionality as well as phase reconstruction of scattered light on an
integrated silicon photonics chip was shown. This has several applications in
LIDAR, bio-sensing, optical interconnects and wireless optical communication.
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