Integrated photonic structures for high-speed, wide-field and super-resolved microscopy.

Research Area: Super-resolved microscopy enabled by silicon photonics

Main Researcher: Jeremie Wenger

The purpose of this project is to develop integrated photonic structures for upgrading state-of-the-art wide-field microscopes. The two main targets consist to improve the optical resolution and the image acquisition speed of wide-field microscopes in order to image biological dynamic objects at a 100 nm scale. The proposed concept combines properties that are involved in structured illumination microscopy (SIM) and in total internal reflection (TIR) microscopy, namely the implementation of high spatial frequencies, the ability to tune the phase of the exciting beams and a dark-field illumination configuration.

Other people involved:

• Zhechao Wang
• Jeremie Wenger
• Nicolas Le Thomas

Publications

International Journals


1. P. Ossieur, B. Moeneclaey, G. Coudyzer, J. Lambrecht, J. Craninckx, E. Martens, J. Van Driessche, C. Bruynsteen, J. De Busscher, J. Declercq, Y. Gu, S. Niu, T. Pannier, N. Singh, L. Van Severen, , L. Bogaert, D. Maes, T. Vanackere, E. Vissers, J. Zhang, S. Kumari, R. M. Oldenbeuving, X. Zhang, G. Van Elzakker, J. Van Campenhout, P. Absil, B. Kuyken, X. Yin, G. Torfs, J. Missinne, G. Van Steenberge, G. Roelkens, J. Bauwelinck, Integrated Photonics and Electronics for Optical Transceivers supporting AI/ML applications, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, 31(3), doi:10.1109/JSTQE.2025.3539379 (2025)  .