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The open arena of photonics

‘I wanted to create my own destiny,’ says UT alumnus Albert Hasper. ‘I had the choice to stay with a big company or to build something from the ground up.’ In 2018, he chose the latter. Together with another UT graduate Joost van Kerkhof, he founded PHIX, start-up focused on photonics assembly based in the High Tech Factory on campus.
News

Photonics incubator opens on campus

The Fraunhofer Project Center at the UT has opened an incubator center for photonics assembly. Currently located in the High Tech Factory, the incubator is focused on helping companies to develop and manufacture photonics devices.
Science
Photonics and its countless possibilities

The invisible impact of light

Red, green, blue. Light is in everything and it makes everything around us visible. At the same time, there is light which we cannot see, yet which has a growing impact on our society: photonics. Klaus Boller, Professor of Laser Physics, discusses his views on the sense, nonsense and countless possibilities of what he calls a ‘disruptive, enabling technology.’

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