NanoPhotonics in the Netherlands
1. Quality
2. Highlights
3. Cohesion
4. Education
October 2015
1. Quality
Personal honors
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2 Fellows of American Physical Society (Lagendijk, Vos)
4 Fellows of Optical Society (Kuipers, Mosk, Pollnau, Vos)
2 Members Dutch Academy of Science (Lagendijk, Polman)
3 Members Young Academy of Science (Herek, Koenderink,
Kuipers)
Chinese Academy Excellence Fellow (vd Vegt)
French Academy Descartes-Huygens Prize 2015 (Vos)
UK Royal Society Exchange Fellow (Barnes)
Visiting professor USTC Hefei China (vd Vegt)
Visiting professor Paris Tech (Lagendijk)
Prestigious projects
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1 NWO Spinoza (Lagendijk)
5 NWO Vici (Herek, Mosk, Pinkse, Pollnau, Vos)
1 ERC Advanced (Pollnau)
1 NWO Vidi (Mosk)
2 ERC Consolidator (Mosk, Garcia Blanco)
 3 FOM programs: “Laser wakefield accelerators” (Boller
Bijkerk), “Photons in complex media” (Lagendijk), “Stirring of
light!” (Vos)
 1 EPSRC (UK) program “Unleashing plasmonics” (Barnes)
Research with industry
 ASML+DIMES+Philips+TNO, Smart Optical
Systems (Boller, 4.4 M€ + 0.9 M€ Industry contr.)
 Lionix+many others, Memphis: Integrated Photonic
Devices (Boller Garcia, 4.6 M€ +1.5 M€ cash)
 ASML+ESA+Philips+TNO, Building on transient
plasmas (Boller Bijkerk, 4.6 M€ + 0.9 M€)
 Philips, White LEDs (Vos, STW 0.6 M€ + 0.3 M€)
 Shell, Photovoltaics & Energy (vd Vegt, 3 PhDs)
 Thales France, Nanophotonic Circuits (Mosk, ERC
1.5 M€ + 0.1 M€)
 HTSM Hireamp& Waterprint (Garcia 0.9 M€ + 0.4 M€)
 Nikon & Lambert Instr. (Blum Subramaniam, STW)
 Wetsus+LioniX (Offerhaus Herek, FOM-IPP)
 Pilots: APE-Berlin & Roche (Offerhaus), Maersk Oil
(Boller), Schott (Mosk Pinkse), ASML (Vos)
2. Highlights
Look through an opaque medium
Object
(before)
Object
(recovered)
100 mm
Bertolotti, van Putten, Blum, Lagendijk, WLV & Mosk, Nature 491 (2012) 232
Collaboration COPS (Vos, Mosk, Lagendijk) & NBP (Blum, Claessens)
Identify chemicals in a cell
Delineate cancerous tumor
(dashed) in tissue slice:
Overlay of multiple images
(CARS, fluorescence)
Lipids (CARS)
rich in healthy tissue
Trastuzumab (fluorescence)
labels cancer
DAPI (fluorescence)
stains cell nuclei
OS (Herek) with UMCG Oncology (de Vries)
50x50 mm2
Arjaans et al. Cancer Res. 73 (2013) 3347; Garbacik et al., PRL 107 (2011) 253902
On-chip lasers & nonlinear optics
World record narrow bandwidth on-chip
High nanoscale confinement (Lionix & MESA+)
World record broadest bandwidth on-chip
LPNO (Boller) with OS (Offerhaus), Fallnich (WWU Münster)
Epping et al., Opt. Express 23, 642 (2015)
Fan et al., Opt. Lett. 39, 1748 (2014)
Nanophotonic energy transfer
High transfer
efficiency
Low transfer
efficiency
Pair of dye molecules, spaced by DNA:
energy transfer [lighting, biosensors, “molecular ruler”]
 Purely nanophotonic control, no chemical change
Blum, Zijlstra, Lagendijk, Wubs, Mosk, Subramaniam & Vos PRL 109 (2012) 203601
Quantum credit card
(a) Few-photon waves from modulator (SLM1) to scattering key
Response focused via SLM2 onto analyzer.
(b,c) Key authenticated: sharp spot! Wrong key gives speckle
Goorden, Horstmann, Mosk, Škorić & Pinkse, Optica 1, 421 (2014); with TUE
Get all details right on light
Cylindrical domain with
section removed
Adapted mesh and a posteriori
error indicator to efficiently
capture the singularity of the
electric field in time-harmonic
Maxwell equations at the
internal corner using
finite element computations
Harutyunyan, Izsák, van der Vegt & Botchev, Comp. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng. 197 (2008) 1620
Sarmany, Botchev & van der Vegt, Comp. Math. Appl. 65 (2013) 528
3. Cohesion
Applied Nanophotonics in Twente
Strategic Research Orientation:
“Applied Nanophotonics”
Joint effort of 5 optics chairs
with >90 researchers
E.g.: lasers, shaping ultrafast pulse,
integrated optics, nanobiophotonics,
quantum, Anderson localization, ...
www.appliednanophotonics.com
Joint activities
ANP Monthly Meeting (1st Thursday of month)
+ Staff lunch
ANP, Tecklenburg (DE), 2014
ANP Workshop (May-June, 1/year)
ANP Colloquium (~1/month)
ANP stimulates inter-chair projects
(>20 active)
Applied Nanophotonics in Twente:
largest Dutch academic Nanophotonics
community (> 90 “nanophotonicists”)
ANP Colloquia
30 ANP Colloquia since 2010
Notable guests featured:
Profs. Ekmel Őzbay (Bilkent), Lukas Novotny (ETH)
Alfredo de Rossi (Thales), Mathias Fink (ESPCI),
Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann (Marburg), Alex Gaeta (Cornell)
Uwe Morgner (Hannover), Regine Frank (Tübingen),
Yaron Silberberg (Weizmann), Villy Sundström (Lund),
Vahid Sandoghdar (MPI Erlangen), Hui Cao (Yale),
Wolfgang Langbein (Cardiff), Martin Wegener (Karlsruhe),
Paul French (Imperial), Bill Barnes (Exeter),
Peter Lodahl (Niels Bohr Inst.), and many others
ANP within Twente
Close collaborations of ANP with other MESA+ groups
papers with:
IMS (Blank, Rijnders)
MTP (Vancso)
MCS (Gardeniers)
MNF (Huskens)
TST (Krijnen)
XUV (Bijkerk)
And with groups in MIRA Institute
Applied Nanophotonics
Advanced Optics
& friends (Amolf, Nijmegen)
Hoenderloo June 2013
COPS
LPNO
MACS
NBP
OS
4. Education
Advanced Optics Graduate School
Coherent training of MSc & PhD students:
Workshops, courses , discussions
(since 2009)
Unique in the Netherlands:
focused graduate-level training
in Optics & Nanophotonics
30 EC tailored to PhD students
Ambition to fit the list:
Rochester, Palaiseau, Twente
www.universiteittwente.nl/education/tgs
Advanced Optics
1. First PhD students certificate
2. Networking activities
LinkedIn community
Optical Society (OSA) Twente
Student Chapter
3. Funding from NWO to grant
proposals by MSc students
to define their PhD research
4. Exchange link with IMPRS
(MPI Erlangen, Fraunhofer,
Uni. Jena) with WWU Münster
Thank you for your attention
For more information:
Prof. dr. Willem Vos
University of Twente
Enschede
The Netherlands
w.l.vos@utwente.nl