 | The 4th edition of the Photonics Innovation Village will be organised by the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. By taking part in the competition, innovative researchers will receive a complimentary "mini-booth" in a special high-traffic section of the exhibition. |
Purpose of the Innovation Village
To support and publicise research teams from universities, non-profit institutions and research centres who are working on research, new applications and product development.
To provide free exhibition space together with broad exposure and publicity to the young innovators who are developing the photonics-based products of the future.
To showcase Europe's (and the world's) finest research programmes and to encourage the transfer of optics/photonics research and technology into new and useful products.
VUB - ISIS3D: Image Steering Integrated Screen for 3D viewing
VUB - New software for the characterisation of historical glass
VUB - Transverse Laser Mode Switching Devices and Subsystems for Q-switching lasers with enhanced figures-of-merit
Optrima - 3D camera
KIT - Tunable visible lasers for spectroscopy
Multitel - Optical instrument for interrogating high-sensitivity and multiparametric photonic biochips for future point-of-care diagnostic
SMARTHIES - Test station for MEMS based on exchangable micro-optical probing wafers
OSIRIS - 3D Rear Projector without glasses + LCOS Laser Front Projector
P4L - Electro-photonic biochip
Photonics Technology Laboratory Thailand - Data-Non-Intrusive Photonics-based Credit Card Verifier
Galway University - Low Cost kHz Wavefront Sensor Prototype
Tampere University - Yellow-orange high brightness semiconductor disk laser (VECSEL)
HEOS Photonics - SpectroRef: Spectrometer that measures refractive index of fluids
Trinity College - OSNR Monitoring using Two Fiber Interferometers
Belarusian State University - Compact, mobile fiber optical and thermal sensor for non invasive measurement of blood biochemistry
Photonics Research Center - A High Speed Passive Wavelength Measurement System
KIT - MicroMops© The Active Modular Micro-Optical System
CMST University of Gent - Photonics in Motion: strechable optical waveguide
Nanyang University - Compact Digital Holography (CDH) System
3D Metrics - “3d metric” software tool: image analysis to measure on-screen
IESL/FORTH - Photosensitive materials for two-photon polymerization
Awards and Judging
In the categories "Best Innovation by an Individual Researcher" and "Best Innovation by a Multilateral Project, Organisation or Company", the Innovation Village Selection Committee will grant awards for the best technological innovation among the participants in the Innovation Village. Category winners will receive an award of €1500. The first and second runner-up will each win €500.
The announcement of the winners in each category will take place at the Innovation Village on Thursday, 15 April 2010. This announcement will be accompanied by a reception for the participants of the Innovation Village.
The Innovation Village Selection Committee will include:
The four Photonics Europe 2010 Symposium Chairs
Representatives from the European Commission Photonics Unit, Photonics Unit
A representative from SPIE
A representative of Photonics21
Representatives from organising partner VUB
A representative from a bank or venture capital company
- A representative from a large European photonics company
