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Metamaterials: Time Crystal Gets Light Going

Photonic time crystals, whose properties change periodically, promise significant advances in microwave technology, optics and photonics. Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), together with partners at Aalto University and Stanford University, have now produced a two-dimensional photonic time crystal for the first time and demonstrated important applications.

25 high tech companies on Campus you should know about

We proclaim 2022 The Year of Innovation. In this "End of the Year" list we highlight 25 Campus high-tech, innovative companies, including multi-nationals, startups, scale-ups and everything in-between. These are companies of the future, and they’re all here at HTCE.

This 'Harry Potter' light sensor achieves magically high efficiency of 200 per cent

Using green light and a double-layered cell, PhD researcher Riccardo Ollearo has come up with a photodiode that has sensitivity that many can only dream of.

A "game changer" for clothing recycling?

Photonic fibers borrow from butterfly wings to enable invisible, indelible sorting labels.

High-performance Visible-light Lasers that Fit on a Fingertip

In a significant advance for impactful technologies such as quantum optics and laser displays for AR/VR, Columbia Engineering’s Lipson Nanophotonics Group has invented the first tunable and narrow linewidth chip-scale lasers for visible wavelengths shorter than red.

Joining Forces: Fast-as-lightning 3D Microprinting with Two Lasers

Researchers from the Cluster of Excellence "3D Matter Made to Order" Print Microstructures by Crossing Red and Blue Laser Beams - Publication in Nature Photonics

Computing with light

The start-up QuiX Quantum will develop prototype photonic quantum computers over the next four years.

New on-chip frequency comb is 100x more efficient

Device opens the door to applications in optical communications, sensing, and the search for exoplanets

PhotonFirst wants to become global innovation leader in integrated photonics sensing

PhotonFirst develops and manufactures photonics sensing technologies to measure temperature, strain, pressure, shape and acceleration in objects ranging from buildings to airplanes to medical devices.

Boosting light power revolutionizes communications and autopilot

EPFL scientists have built a compact waveguide amplifier by successfully incorporating rare-earth ions into integrated photonic circuits. The device produces record output power compared to commercial fiber amplifiers, a first in the development of integrated photonics over the last decades.

13 breakthrough High Tech Campus companies you will hear more about in 2022

For the second consecutive year, we have compiled a list of Campus companies that Eindhoven, the Netherlands and the world will hear more about in 2022. This year, we’re focusing on companies created in High Tech Campus’s startup ecosystem, or that landed on the Campus during 2021.