On October 2nd, Job Noordkamp successfully defended his Master’s thesis: “Integrated Stimulated Brillouin Laser in Foundry Silicon Nitride”.

During his time with the group, Job achieved a major breakthrough by realizing the Brillouin laser and comb on silicon nitride photonic circuits—a long-standing goal of our research. His contributions to the group were remarkable!

We wish you the best of luck with your next steps, Job!

We were delighted to participate in the 2025 MESA+ Meeting, which celebrated the institution’s 25th anniversary. As in previous years, we actively contributed by sharing our most recent scientific results.

The meeting featured several key contributions from our group: Yvan delivered a compelling talk focusing on Brillouin microwave photonic filters for security applications. Furthermore, during the poster session, Steven and Kees presented our recent work and roadmap on scalable TFLN photonics technologies, and Randy demonstrated Brillouin amplifiers and lasers in silicon nitride photonics.

We are extremely proud that, in the poster competition, Randy won the ‘Best Poster’ prize among nearly 70 attendees. Congratulations, Randy, on this outstanding achievement!

We are happy to share our recent work in Laser & Photonics Reviews: ‘Integrated RF Photonic Front-End Capable of Simultaneous Cascaded Functions’ .

In this study, we demonstrate a compact photonic architecture that handles multiple RF processing tasks simultaneously, paving the way for more efficient and compact RF photonic systems.

Congrats, Steven and the team!

We are pleased to announce that our study, ‘Integrated Brillouin photonics in thin-film lithium niobate,’ was published in Science Advances in April.

In this paper, we demonstrate strong stimulated Brillouin scattering on the thin-film lithium niobate platform. As proof-of-concept demonstrations, we realized net-gain Brillouin amplifiers, generated a stimulated Brillouin laser, and devised a multifunctional Brillouin-based MWP processor, all within the standard TFLN platform.

Congratulations, Steven and the team!