We welcome Dharma Prasetya Permana to join our group as an intern for the next few months.
Dharma obtained his BSc in Physics from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), Indonesia in 2023. Before he starts his Erasmus Mundus Joint Master EuroPhotonics program in September 2024, he will work with Yvan on the four-wave mixing experiments in our group.
Good luck, Dharma! Hope you will enjoy your time here!
We are pleased to share a new publication of our paper at APL Photonics , titled “Observation of a Brillouin dynamic grating in silicon nitride waveguides”. In this paper, we report the first ever observation of Brillouin dynamic gratings in silicon nitride waveguides. Congrats Roel and Jasper!
On March 25th, Roel successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis titled “Stimulated Brillouin scattering in silicon nitride based waveguides”.
Roel’s contributions to research in our group over the past few years have been remarkable. He unlocked the first on-chip stimulated Brillouin scattering signal in our group. Additionally, he advanced the SBS signal by employing tellurite-covered silicon nitride waveguides. Furthermore, he explored new Brillouin-based applications, i.e. Brillouin dynamic gratings.
Roel will start his new career as the integrated optics system architect at LioniX. Congrats, Roel! And good luck!
Last week, Yvan and Steven attended the 5th International Workshop on OptoMechanics and Brillouin-Mandelstam Scattering (WOMBAT) in Campinas, Brazil.
It is an outstanding workshop with a lot of interesting talks. From our side, Yvan contributed an oral contribution about SBS in the tellurite-covered silicon nitride waveguides. In the meantime, Steven presented a poster about the overview of the SBS characterization activities in the scalable photonic integrated platform.
The first NLNP roadmapping day was successfully held on January 19, 2024. We summarized the research activities in the last year and discussed goals for the near-term and long-term future. It is a truly fun day filled with new ideas and nice food. Thanks, Zheng and Carla for organizing it!
Our group is awarded the prestigious ERC proof of concept grant for the project Veritas. We will receive 150k euros for this project to develop versatile, reconfigurable light sources in photonic integrated circuits. Congrats, the Veritas team!
This news also appears at the University of Twente website.
On December 15th, Randy te Morsche successfully defended his Master’s project on “Stimulated Brillouin scattering and lasing in tellurite-covered silicon nitride photonics”. He worked on this project with his daily supervisor Yvan Klaver, and they have made great progress together.
Congrats, Randy! Enjoy your short break before rejoining us for the Ph.D. project next year!
Lou Kanger, a former master student from our group, received the KHMW Young Talent Graduation Prizes for his master’s project on optical frequency combs. Lou explored frequency combs integrated on a single chip and developed innovative ways to test them for applications in next-generation radio communication.
Currently, Lou works at Enlightra, a start-up company in the field of frequency combs in Switzerland. Prior to his departure to receive the prize, he also gave us an exciting presentation about the latest progress in optical frequency combs and a live demo of the up-to-date prototype from Enlightra.
Congrats Lou! We are so proud of you!
On November 9th, Jitse Boonstra successfully graduated from our group with Bachelor degree. He worked with Zheng on “Calibration and control of cascaded microring resonators using Extremum Seeking Control” for the last two months.
Congrats, Jitse!
On September 28, 2023, David hosts his inauguration ceremony for being promoted to full professor and the chair of the Nonlinear Nanophotonics group at the Faculty of Science and Technology, University of Twente.
During the inauguration ceremony, David gave the lecture And light said: “Let there be sound!”. Group members of NLNP and LPNO, colleagues within the university, guests from the Netherlands and other countries in Europe, and friends and family from Indonesia, all joined the event to celebrate this big moment with David.
Congratulations, David! Wish both the light and sound will always resonate with you!
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