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PROGRAM OVERVIEW
- Prof. dr. Sonia M. García Blanco - "Al2O3-on-SiO2 integrated photonic platform"
A general overview about the Al2O3 integrated photonic platform with emphasis on the building blocks that are being developed in the ALUVia Project.
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Dr. Sonia M. García Blanco is a full professor leading the Integrated Optical Systems group (IOS), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. The research interests of IOS include the development of new materials, integration technologies and devices for integrated photonics for various applications. She received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Glasgow, Glasgow, U.K., in 2003. After a Postdoctoral position with the University of Toronto, she joined the Institute National d’Optique in Québec (Canada) as a staff member working in infrared microbolometer detectors and wafer-level integration technologies. In 2010, she joined the University of Twente as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor and currently as full professor at IOS. She is recipient of the ERC Consolidator grant and then an ERC Proof-of-concept and an EIC Transition. - Prof. Juejun Hu - "Smaller is smarter: integrated photonics for sensing"
In this talk Prof. Juejun Hu will start with a brief overview of how photonic integrated circuits can be applied to transform chemical and biological sensing, and then discuss two specific cases highlighting the promise of integrated photonic sensing technologies: a chip-scale sensor for detection of lead contamination in water, and an on-chip spectrometer with performance rivaling its benchtop counterparts.
BIOGRAPHY
Prof. Juejun (JJ) Hu is currently the John F. Elliott Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at MIT. His research primarily focuses on integrated optics and photonics. Prof. Hu has authored and coauthored more than 150 refereed journal publications, and he has been recognized with the SPIE Early Career Achievement Award, the Robert L. Coble Award from the American Ceramic Society, the Vittorio Gottardi Prize from the International Commission on Glass, the NSF CAREER award, and the DARPA Young Faculty Award, among others. Hu is a fellow of Optica, SPIE, and the American Ceramic Society. He is also the co-founder of InSpek, an MIT spin-off focusing on novel on-chip optical sensing solutions, as well as two other start-ups on emerging photonics technologies. - Jérôme Michon - “Waveguide-enhanced Raman sensors for industrial process monitoring”
Waveguide-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (WERS) is a promising method for detecting chemical and biological compounds with high sensitivity and selectivity on a chip-scale platform, but has so far been limited to demonstrations in research laboratories. We present the implementation of a fibre-coupled WERS sensing system in an industrial bioproduction process and outline future directions for the development of WERS sensors.
BIOGRAPHY
Jérôme is co-founder and CEO of InSpek, a start-up company developing on-chip optical sensing solutions. He started InSpek after his PhD and post-doc in integrated photonics. During his PhD, his research was on flexible integrated photonics and photonic sensors. He then worked on waveguide-enhanced Raman spectroscopy, the technology at the core of InSpek, during a post-doc at C2N/Université Paris-Saclay. Jérôme holds an engineering degree in Physics from Ecole Polytechnique and a PhD from MIT.
