Events:

2020:

• 07/09/2020

• 24/03/2020: PhD-defense ir. Anton Vasiliev "Silicon Photonics Spectroscopic Trace Gas Sensors"

• 23/03/2020: PhD-defense ir. Floris Laporte "Novel Architectures for Brain-Inspired Photonic Computers" 

• 13/02/2020: PhD-defense Sanja Radosavljevic "Germanium-on-Silicon and Germanium-on-Silicon-on-Insulator Thermally Tunable Filters for Wavelength Selection of Quantum Cascade Lasers"

• 10/02/2020: PhD-defense Zhenzhou Tang "Novel Radio-over-Fiber Systems and Microwave Doppler Frequency Shift Measurement Using Standard Silicon Photonics Building Blocks" - joint PhD Ghent University - Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

• 07/02/2020: NB-Photonics seminar by dr. Paraskevas Bakopoulos (Mellanox Technologies)

• 27-29/01/2020: Photonics Retreat

• 24/01/2020: PhD-defense Mahmoud Shahin "Multi-Section InP-on-Silicon DFB Laser Diodes: Optimisations and Applications"

• 17/01/2020: PhD-defense Yuting Shi "GaAs nano-ridge laser epitaxially grown on Silicon"

• 16/01/2020: Methusalem Strategic Advisory Board meeting

• 09/01/2020: PhD-defense Grigorij Muliuk "Micro-Transfer-Printing of III-V Semiconductor and Silicon-Germanium Photodetectors on Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits"

• 06/01/2020: Talk by Bernardette Kunert (imec) on “GaAs Nanoridge engineering”

2019:

• 20/12/2019: Photonics Christman Drink

• 19/12/2019: PhD-defense Xiaomin Nie "Stationary Fourier Transform Spectrometer on a Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuit Platform"

• 06/12/2019: NB-Photonics seminar with dr. Jose Pozo (EPIC)

• 05/12/2019: PhD-defense Xing Yufei "Behavioural Models, Parameter Extraction and Yield Prediction for Silicon Photonic Circuits"

• 03/12/2019: PhD-defense Ali Raza "Raman Spectroscopy Enhanced by On-Chip Dielectric and Metal Waveguides"

• 08/11/2019: NB-Photonics seminar by dr. Bert Jan Offrein (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland)

• 21/10/2019: PhD-defense Alejandro Diaz Tormo "4π Raman Microscopy"

• 11/10/2019: NB-Photonics seminar by prof. Wim Bogaerts (UGent)

• 20/09/2019: NB-Photonics 5G workshop

• 10/10/2019: PhD-defense Artur Hermans "Low-Temperature Processed Thin Films of Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Materials for Silicon Nitride Photonic Integrated Circuits"

• 08/10/2019: Talk by prof. Victor Torres Company (Chalmers Uni.) on Dark-pulse microcomb dynamics in normal dispersion Si3N4 microresonators

• 30/09/2019: Talk by prof. Milos Nesladek (UHasselt)

• 05/07/2019: PhD-defense Jesper Håkansson "Optomechanical sensors in the silicon photonic platform"

• 17-21/06/2018: Specialist Course: Silicon Photonics Design

• 27/05/2019: PhD-defense Kasper Van Gasse "Heterogeneous silicon photonic devices and subsystems for microwave photonics"

• 06/05/2019: PhD-defense Antônio Ribeiro Alves Júnior "Building blocks and subcircuits for programmable silicon photonic circuits"

• 03/05/2019: PhD-defense Yinghao Ye "Time-domain macromodeling and variability analysis of electronic and photonic circuits"

• 24-26/04/2019: 21^st edition of European Conference on Integrated Optics (ECIO)

• 01/04/2019: Talk by dr. Raphael Van Laer (Stanford Uni.) on Quantum Electro-Optics with Gigahertz Phonons on a Chip

• 29/03/2019: Talk by prof. Kei May Lau (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) on III-V Lasers Grown on Silicon

• 01/03/2019: Presentations and exhibit by UGent spin-off companies

• 26/02/2019: PhD-defense Andrew Katumba 'Energy-Efficient Photonic Neuromorphic Computing for Telecommunication Applications'

• 15/02/2019: Talk by Prof. German Ricardo Vargas Lopez (ESPOL, Ecuador)

• 01/02/2019: NB-Photonics seminar by Prof. Dirk Van Dyck (UAntwerp)

• 07/01/2019: NB-Photonics seminar by Dr. Wilmert De Bosscher (CTO of Soleras Advanced Coatings)

2018:

• 21/12/2018: Christmas Drink

• 20/12/2018: PhD-defense ir. Koen Alexander

• 10/12/2018: PhD-defense ir. Soren Dhoore 'Heterogeneously Integrated III-V-on-Silicon Wavelength-Tunable DFB and DBR Lasers'
• 07/12/2018: NB-Photonics seminar by Prof. Dick Broer (TUEindhoven, the Netherlands)
• 28/11/2018: Light Night (Photonics Society Ghent)
• 09/11/2018: Talk by Dr. Peter Goetz (US Naval Research Lab)
• 09/11/2018: NB-Photonics seminar by prof. Brian Cunningham (University of Illinois, USA)
• 30/10/2018: Talk by dr. Soavi (Cambridge Graphene Center, UK)
• 05/10/2018: NB-Photonics seminar by prof. Ton Koonen (TUeindhoven, the Netherlands)
• 21/09/2018: NB-Photonics Optical Spectroscopy Workshop
• 10/09/2018: Photonics Group Away Day
• 03/09/2018: PhD-defense Haolan Zhao 'Coherent Raman Spectroscopy Enabled by Photonic Integrated circuits'
• 30/06/2018: Photonics Group Dinner
• 26/06/2018: PhD-defense Saurav Kumar 'Fabrication and Characterization of Integrated Photonic Crystal Cavities for Sensing Applications'
• 18-22/06/2018: Specialist Course: Silicon Photonics Design
• 11/06/2018: 3rd edition of the Silicon Photonics Summer School
• 01/06/2018: PhD-defense Yunpeng Zhu 'Colloidal Quantum Dots as the Active Material for Silicon Nitride Photonics'
• 25/05/2018: PhD-defense Suzanne Bisschop 'Colloidal Quantum Dots for Integrated Light Sources'
• 26/04/2018: PhD-defense Ang Li 'Novel Degrees of Freedom for Design of Silicon Microring Resonators'
• 15/04/2018: Kinderuniversiteit 'Geniale Golven'
• 13/04/2018: Talk by Mark Wade (Ayar Labs) on Design Flows for Monolithically Integrated Electronic-Photonic Systems-on-Chip
• 10/04/2018: PhD-defense Ashwyn Srinivasan 'Advanced Germanium Devices for Optical Interconnects'
• 06/04/2018: NB-Photonics seminar with  dr. ir. Joris Roels (Melexis, Belgium)
• 20/03/2018: NB-Photonics seminar on "Center of Expertise- NB-Photonics"
• 06/03/2018: Talk by Delphine Marris-Morini (Paris-Sud) on Ge-rich SiGe photonic integrated circuits for mid-IR spectroscopy
• 06/03/2018: Talk by Hans Sigg (Paul Scherrer Institut) on Group IV based direct bandgap lasing
• 16/02/2018: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Gaetano Assanto (Roma Tre, Italy)
• 31/01/2018 - 09/02/2018: Interactieve tentoonstelling Zonder licht wordt het donker!
• 26/01/2018: Kick-off meeting H2020 Morphic project
• 22/01/2018: General Assembly H2020 Pilot Line PIXAPP

2017:

• 22/12/2017: Photonics Christmas Drink

• 21/12/2017: Recent Trends in Photonics Symposium

• 15/12/2017: Talk by Dr. Yi An (DTU Denmark) on Implementing photonic functionalities for avionics

• 06/12/2017: Photonics Retreat

• 01/12/2017: PhD-defense Sulakshna Kumari 'GaAs VCSEL Integration on SiN Waveguide Circuits: Design, Technology and Devices'

• 01/12/2017: NB-Photonics seminar with Lou Hermans (CMOSIS, Belgium)

• 27/11/2017: Talk by Dr. Banafsheh Abasahl (Carinthian Research & Technology center, Austria) on Nanoplasmonic antennas

• 16/11/2017: PhD-defense Ruijun Wang 'III-V/Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for Spectroscopic Sensing in the 2-2.5 µm Wavelength Range'

• 14/11/2017: Talk by Maximilien Billet (University of Lille) on Sub-sampling of sub-THz and THz waves using LT-GaAs photoconductors under 1550 nm light excitation

• 10/11/2017: NB-Photonics Seminar with Peter Cirkel (EYEco-eyeCO)

• 30/10/2017: PhD-defense Pieter Wuytens 'Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Intracellular Sensing and Protease Activity Detection: From Chip Technology to Applications'

• 23/10/2017: PhD-defense Leila Abdollahi 'Graphene-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits: Design, Technology and Devices'

• 05/10/2017: PhD-defense Andreas De Groote 'Heterogeneous Integration of Multibandgap III-V Semiconductor Light Sources on Silicon Photonics'

• 06/10/2017: NB-Photonics all-day annual meeting with keynote speaker prof. Stefan Maier (Imperial College London, UK)

• 03/10/2017: Photonics Group Away Day

• 11/09/2017: NB-Photonics seminar with prof. Andries Meijerink (Utrecht University, the Netherlands)

• 7-8/09/2017: Photonics Summer Symposium - September session

• 6-7/09/2017: Specialized Course: Silicon Photonics Design - Pt. 2

• 13/07/2017: NB-Photonics seminar with prof. Stefano Barbieri (IEMN, Lille) on Quantum cascade lasers: from mid-infrared to terahertz

• 04/07/2017: PhD-defense Mark Hsu 'Monolithic Integration of Barium Titanate on Silicon for High-Speed and Power-Efficient Optical Modulator Applications'

• 01/07/2017: Photonics Group Dinner

• 29/06/2017: Photonics Summer Symposium

• 19/06/2017: Specialist course: Silicon Photonics Design

• 13/06/2017: PhD defense Chen Hu 'Short-Wave Infrared Photodetectors Based on Colloidal Quantum Dots'

• 07/06/2017: PhD defense Daan Martens 'Photonic Biosensors in Silicon Nitride with an On-Chip Spectral Filter Read Out by a Broadband Light Source'

• 15/05/2017: Photonics@be Doctoral School on 'Graphene, Metamaterials & Terahertz' May 15-17

• 09/05/2017: Talk by Clemens Kruckel (Chalmers University)

• 20/03/2017: NB-Photonics Seminar with Prof. Chris Van de Walle (UCSB)

• 15/03/2017: Photonics Event

• 09/03/2017: Talk by prof. Camille Bres (EPFL)

• 03/03/2017: NB-Photonics Seminar with Prof. Jef Poortmans (imec / Energyville)

• 27/02/2017: Talk by prof. Bernhard Lendl (TU Vienna)

• 27/02/2017: Talk by Quantum Sparrow

• 15/02/2017: PhD-defense Nuria Teigell Beneitez 'Imprinted Micro- and Nanophotonic Sensors'

• 03/02/2017: NB-Photonics Seminar with Jean-Luc Doumont (Principiae)

• 23/01/2017: 10 years of IOF photonics innovation at UGent

• 20/01/2017: PhD-defense Utsav Dave 'Nonlinear Optics in a-Si:H-on-Insulator and InGaP-on-Insulator Waveguide Circuits'

• 17/01/2017: Talk by dr. Ana Radosavljevic (University of Belgrade) 'Light propagation in complex systems of coupled waveguides'

• 10/01/2017: Talk by dr. Vincent Ginnis (VUB) 'Extraordinary motion of optically driven microparticles'

• 06/01/2017: Talk by dr. Diedrik Vermeulen (Acacia Inc) 'The Rise of Commercial Silicon Photonics, the past, the present and the future'

2016:

• 16/12/2016: NB-Photonics Seminar with Prof. Tim Wilkinson (University of Cambridge)

• 02/12/2016: NB-Photonics Seminar with Prof. Niels Quack (EPFL)

• 01/12/2016: Talk by Jorge Quereda Bernabeu (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid)

• 29/11/2016: PhD-defense Amin Abbasi 'High Speed Directly Modulated III-V-on-Silicon DFB Lasers'

• 27/11/2016: Dag van de Wetenschap / Day of Science

• 17/11/2016: 21st Annual Symposium of the Benelux chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society

• 14/11/2016: Talk by Dr. Owen Marshall (Manchester University)

• 04/11/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Bjorn Maes (UMons)

• 26/10/2016: PhD-defense Weiqiang Xie 'Development of Passive and Active Integrated Silicon Nitride Photonics'

• 25/10/2016: Visit from National Taiwan University

• 23/10/2016: Light Night: talk and workshop by David Giltner

• 07/10/2016: NB-Photonics Annual Meeting 2016

• 30/09/2016: PhD-defense Hongtao Chen 'Advanced Germanium p-i-n and Avalanche Photodetectors for Low-Power Optical Interconnects'

• 23/09/2016: Photonics Group 'Away Day'

• 22/09/2016: PhD-defense Ashim Dhakal 'Nanophotonic Waveguide Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy'

• 13/09/2016: Talk by Dr. Mingchu Tang (University College London)

• 12/09/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Liang-Chy Chien (Kent State University)

• 29/08/2016: Silicon Photonics Summer School

• 06/07/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Matthew Shawkey (UGent)

• 01/07/2016: Talk by dr. Ali Serpenguzel (Koc University)

• 28/06/2016: Talk by dr. Mike Smith (Sydney University)

• 17/06/2016: Talk by Prof. Hui Ye (Zhejiang University)

• 03/06/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Peter Vandenabeele (Department of Archeology, UGent)

• 26/05/2016: PhD-defense Raphael Van Laer 'Light-Sound Interaction in Nanoscale Silicon Waveguides'

• 23/05/2016: PhD-defense Frederic Peyskens 'Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Using a Single Mode Nanophotonic-Plasmonic Platform'

• 17/05/2016: cQOM ITN workshop 'From Photonics Research to the CMOS-fab'

• 13/05/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Sebastian Munck (VIB institute)

• 11/05/2016: PhD defense John George 'Integration of Ferroelectric Thin Films on Silicon for Electro-Optic Devices'

• 09/05/2016: IAP Photonics@be doctoral school 'From Foundations to Systems' (May 6-11, Oostduinkerke)

• 06/05/2016: Talk by Prof. Moti Fridman (Barr-Ilan University)

• 02/05/2016: Lunch Seminars on Light & Sound with Prof. Amir Safavi-Naeini (Stanford University) & Dr. Ewold Verhagen (FOM Institute AMOLF)

• 08/04/2016: Talk by Dr. Yukio Kawano (Tokyo Institute of Technology)

• 07/04/2016: Visit from SPIE President Dr. Robert Lieberman

• 06/04/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Ben Eggleton (CUDOS, Sydney University)

• 31/03/2016: Talk by dr. Jason Pelc (HP Labs)

• 04/03/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Prof. Werner Mäntele (Univ. Frankfurt)

• 23/02/2016: PhD-defense Sarvagya Dwivedi 'Tolerant Spectral Filters Using Silicon Nanophotonic Waveguides'

• 22/02/2016: PhD-defense Alfonso Ruocco 'Active and Passive Wavelength Filters for Silicon Photonic Integrated Spectrometers'

• 12/02/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Paul Heremans (imec-KUL)

• 07/02/2016: Kinderuniversiteit 'Hoe maak je het? Met een ingenieur!' - Workshop 'Painting with Light'

• 26/01/2016: Talk by Prof. Ahluwalia Balpreet Singh (University of Tromso)

• 08/01/2016: NB-Photonics seminar with Christian Koos (KIT)

2015:

• 28/10/2015: PhD-defense Jan-Willem Hoste 'Dual Polarization Ring Resonator for Conformational Analysis of Molecular-Sized Layers'

• 15/10/2015: Visit from Dalian University of Technology

• 09/10/2015: Talk by dr. Thai Tran (Berkeley University)

• 24/08/2015: Talk by Yoshima Satoshi (Mitsubishi Electric)

• 29/06/2015: Talk by Prof. David Miller (Stanford University)

• 23/06/2015: Photonics Summer Symposium (Photonics MSc. thesis presentations, June 23-25, VUB)

• 16/06/2015: Talk by Gordon Ning Liu (Huawei)

• 12/06/2015: PhD-defense Gunay Yurtsever 'Photonic Integrated Components for Optical Coherence Tomography'

• 12/06/2015: Quantum photonics seminar

• 11/06/2015: Talk by prof. Hirochika Nakajima (Waseda University)

• 06/06/2015: Photonics Dinner

• 05/06/2015: NB-Photonics seminar - Maarten Roeffaers (KUL)

• 08/05/2015: NB-Photonics seminar - Michael Debije (TUe -Eindhoven)

• 28/04/2015: TechBoost!2015 "Light in the nano world"

• 03/04/2015: NB-Photonics seminar with Hatice Altug (EPFL)

• 18/03/2015: IEEE Job Fair / Photonics Event

• 17/03/2015: PhD-defense Aditya Malik 'Germanium-on-Silicon Photonic Integrated Circuits for the 5 μm Wavelength Range'

• 10/03/2015: Workshop on TeraHertz Photonics organized by Lille 1 University and Ghent University

• 13/02/2015: NB-Photonics seminar - Liesbeth Lagae (imec) & Jean-Pierre Timmermans (Antwerp University)

• 12/02/2015: PhD-defense ir. Yannick De Koninck 'Heterogeneously Integrated III-V on Silicon Microlasers Based on Resonant Grating Mirrors'

• 12/02/2015: Talk by Prof. Kevin Williams (TUe) 'Towards large scale InP photonic integrated circuits'

• 10/02/2015: PhD-defense ir. Pieter Geiregat 'Colloidal Quantum Dots for Guided Wave Photonics: From Optical Gain to Ultrafast Modulation'

• 30/01/2015: Symposium 'Licht tussen kunst, wetenschap en technologie'

• 19/01/2015: PhD-defense ir. Sam Werquin 'Optimizations of a Ring Resonator Biosensor Platform for Applications in DNA Detection'

• 01/01/2015: Happy New Year! Happy 2015! Happy International Year of Light!

2014:

• 19/12/2014: Photonics Group 'Christmas Drink'

• 11/12/2014: Talk by Dr. Christian Wolff (CUDOS, Australia)

• 05/12/2014: 15th FEA Research Symposium

• 05/12/2014: NB-Photonics seminar with Ewold Verhagen (Amolf)

• 17/11/2014: Talk by Prof. Matthias Vanwolleghem (Univ. de Lille)

• 10/11/2014: PhD-defense ir. Abdoulghafar Omari 'Optical Properties of Colloidal Quantum Dot Functionalized Silicon-On-Insulator Waveguides'

• 07/11/2014: NB-Photonics seminar with Mathias Fink (Paristech ESPCI)

• 05/11/2014: Talk by Dr. William Green (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center)

• 03/11/2014: 19th Annual Symposium of the Benelux chapter of the IEEE Photonics Society

• 26/09/2014: Talk by prof. Ben Yoo (UC Davis)

• 19/09/2014: Talk by prof. Michael Watts (MIT)

• 08/09/2014: NB-Photonics Annual Meeting 2014

• 06/09/2014: Photonics Group 'Away Day'

• 29/06/2014: Silicon Photonics Summer School 2014 (June 29 - July 4), Ghent

• 14/06/2014: Photonics Group 'Dinner'

• 28/05/2014: PhD-defense ir. Thomas Van Vaerenbergh 'All-Optical Spiking Neurons Integrated on a Photonic Chip'

• 26/05/2014: PhD-defense ir. Martijn Tassaert 'Leveraging High Index Contrast for Optical Signal Processing Applications'

• 22/05/2014: Talk by prof. Juejun Hu (University of Delaware)

• 09/05/2014: NB-Photonics Seminar - dr. Delbeke (IOF Plateau)

• 08/05/2014: Photonics Light Night @ VUB

• 05/05/2014: IAP Photonics@be Doctoral School (May 5 - 7), Oostduinkerke

• 25/04/2014: PhD-defense ir. Peter De Heyn 'Receivers Based on Silicon Ring Resonators for Multi-Wavelength Optical Interconnects'

• 17/04/2014: Talk by prof. Amr Helmy (U. Toronto)

• 17/04/2014: Talk by Claudia Beleites and Christian Matthäus (Institute of Photonic Technologies Jena)

• 04/04/2014: PhD-defense Pauline Mechet 'III-V Microdisk Lasers on Silicon-on-Insulator: Fabrication Optimizations and Novel Applications'

• 04/04/2014: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Ronda (Philips Group Innovation)

• 31/03/2014: PhD-defense Shibnath Pathak 'Silicon Nano-Photonics Based Arrayed Waveguide Gratings'

• 26/03/2014: Photonics Event, Connecting Companies, Students and Researchers

• 25/03/2014: Talk by  Dr. Francesco Morichetti (Politecnico di Milano) & Dr. Nicola Callabretta (TUe)

• 17/03/2014: PhD-defense Thijs Spuesens 'Compact on-Chip Optical Interconnects on Silicon by Heterogeneous Integration of III-V Microsources and Detectors'

• 07/03/2014: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. van Leeuwen (Amsterdam Uni.)

• 24/02/2014: PhD-defense ir. Nannicha Hattasan 'GaSb/Silicon-on-Insulator Heterogeneous Photonic Integrated Circuits for the Short-Wave Infrared'

• 21/02/2014: Talk by Peter O'Brien (Tyndall Photonics Packaging group)

• 14/02/2014: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Aymeric Leray (IRI Lille/CNRS Dijon)

• 24/01/2014: PhD-defense Cristina Lerma Arce 'Novel microfluidic platforms incorporating photonic ring resonator sensors'

• 10/01/2014: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Wouter van der Wijngaart (KTH)

• 20/12/2013: Photonics Group 'Christmas Drink'

• 17/12/2013: 85 years FWO: Kennismakers (with 'the world of bio-photonics' session by NB-Photonics)

• 10/12/2013: Photonics Group 'Retreat'

• 06/12/2013: 14th FEA PhD Symposium

• 06/12/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Frans Harren (Radbout University)

• 05/12/2013: Photonics Light Night @ UGent

• 25/11/2013: 18th Annual Symposium of the IEEE-Photonics Society Benelux Chapter, TU Eindhoven

• 08/11/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - From Sun to Fuel - prof. Johan Martens (KUL) and prof. Willy Verstraete (UGent)

• 07/11/2013: Photonics Light Night @ UGent

• 10/10/2013: Photonics Light Night @ UGent

• 28/10/2013: Talk by dr. Andrew Rickman (Oclaro Inc. - ex-Bookham Technologies)

• 20/09/2013: NB-Photonics Annual Meeting 2013

• 19/09/2013: PhD-defense ir. Diedrik Vermeulen 'Silicon Photonics for Optical Fiber Communication'

• 16/09/2013: Talk by dr. Michael Roelens (Finisar)

• 03/09/2013: PhD-defense ir. Yanlu Li 'Miniaturized Laser Doppler Vibrometer Integrated on a Silicon Photonics Platform'

• 26/08/2013: PhD-defense Samir Gosh 'Optical Isolators in Silicon Based Photonic Integrated Circuits'

• 21/08/2013: PhD-defense Sukumar Rudra 'Diffractive micro-electromechanical structures in Si and SiGe'

• 07/07/2013: European MSc. in Photonics Summer School, EPFL

• 27/06/2013: Photonics Group 'Away Day'

• 24/06/2013: Photonics MSc. Thesis presentations, 8h30-11h30, Aud. E (Plateau)

• 17/06/2013: NB-Photonics Summer School

• 15/06/2013: Photonics Group 'Dinner'

• 14/06/2013: PhD-defense ir. Elewout Hallynck 'Applications of Integrated Photonic Structures on Membranes Fabricated by Locally Etching the Silicon Substrate'

• 11/06/2013: PhD-defense ir. Martin Fiers 'Nanophotonic Reservoir Computing Using Photonic Crystal Cavities'

• 07/06/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Gomez Rivas (TU Eindhoven)

• 31/05/2013: PhD-defense ir. Bart Kuyken 'Four-Wave-Mixing in Dispersion-Engineered Silicon Nanophotonic Circuits for Telecommunication and Sensing Applications'

• 27/05/2013: PhD-defense Stevan Stankovic 'Hybrid III-V/Si DFB Lasers Based on Polymer Bonding Technology'

• 03/05/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Edouard Brainis (UGent)

• 17/04/2013: Symposium on III-V and silicon photonic integration

• 05/04/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Mathew Halsall (Manchester)

• 04/04/2013: Advisory Board Methusalem project "Smart Photonic Chips" 2013

• 20/03/2013: Photonics Networking Event @ UGent

• 01/03/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Uli Lemmer (Karlsruhe)

• 01/02/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Johan Hofkens (KULeuven)

• 14/01/2013: DS Specialist Course 'Technological processes for nano- and biophotonics devices fabrication'

• 11/01/2013: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Bernard Vandenbunder (CNRS)

2012:

• 21/12/2012: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Nicolas Le Thomas 'Photonics to probe biological media at the nanoscale'

• 17/12/2012: Photonics Group 'Christmas Drink'

• 14/12/2012: PhD-defense ir. Nebiyu Yebo 'Silicon Based Integrated Optical Gas Sensing'.

• 05/12/2012: 13th FEA PhD Symposium

• 29/11/2012: 17th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter

• 25/11/2012: Science Day - Dag van de Wetenschap: Licht op een microchip, een blik achter de schermen (visit to the UGent Cleanroom)

• 23/11/2012: PhD-defense ir. Bram De Geyter 'Colloidal Quantum Dots as Light Emitters for Silicon Photonics

• 09/11/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Philippe Smet (UGent)

• 05/11/2012: ePIXfab full training, IHP Germany

• 16/10/2012: Talk Dorian Sanchez 'Selectively-etched tunnel-junction apertures for monolithic EP-VCSELs emitting in the mid-IR'

• 04/10/2012: PhD-defense Linghua Wang 'Fabrication Optimisation and Applications of PSQ-Ls Polymer Photonic Devices'

• 21/09/2012: NB-Photonics Annual Meeting 2012

• 13/09/2012: PhD-defense Rajesh Kumar 'Applications of InP-on-Silicon Microdisks in All-Optical Signal Processing'

• 08/09/2012: Photonics Group Reunion

• 27/08/2012: PhD-defense ir. Karel Van Acoleyen 'Nanophotonic Beamsteering Elements Using Silicon Technology for Wireless Optical Applications'

• 22/08/2012: PhD-defense Honghui Shen 'Numerical Study of Light Confinement with Metallic Nanostructures in Organic Solar Cells'

• 27/06/2012: EM Photonics Summer School

• 27/06/2012: Talk by prof. Bowers (UC Santa Barbara) 'III-V/silicon photonic integration'

• 26/06/2012: MSc. Photonics - Thesis project presentations

• 18/06/2012: NB-Photonics Summer School

• 16/06/2012: Photonics Group 'BBQ'

• 15/06/2012: PhD-defense ir. Tom Claes 'Advanced silicon photonic ring resonator label-free biosensors'

• 15/06/2012: Inaugural Lecture Prof. Dr. Andre Skirtach 'Nanotechnology and material science for bridging photonics, imaging and biotechnology'

• 13/06/2012: Photonics Group 'Away Day'

• 01/06/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Christophe Detavernier (UGent)

• 11/05/2012: Talk by prof. Gylfason (KTH) 'Photonic biosensors for Labs-on-Chip'

• 04/05/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. James Kirkpatrick (JGU Mainz)

• 13/04/2012: Talk by dr. Phil Stahl (NASA)

• 06/04/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Daniel Vanmaekelbergh (Utrecht University)

• 02/03/2012: PhD-defense ir. Wout De Cort 'Wavelength Tunability of Silicon-On-Insulator Ring Resonators with a Cladding Layer of Liquid Crystals'

• 02/03/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - dr. Sofie Bekaert (Bimetra)

• 28/02/2012: Talk by Alfredo De Rossi (Thales) 'All-optical signal processing'

• 08/02/2012: Photonics Group 'Strategy Day'

• 03/02/2012: NB-Photonics Seminar - prof. Parak (Philipps University Marburg, Germany)

• 11/01/2012: Talk by dr. Pavel Cheben (NRC, Canada) 'Silicon subwavelength photonics'

2011:

2010: