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- Photonics21
  
  Photonics21
  The European Technology Platform Photonics21 unites the majority of the leading photonics industries and relevant R&D stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe. Today ...
  
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- Photonics PPP
  
  Photonics PPP
  The Association is an international non-profit association with scientific purpose governed by the provisions of Title 3 of the Belgium Law of twenty-seventh of June nineteen hundred twenty-one, and ...
  
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  Research & Innovation Priorities
  
  Research & Innovation Priorities
  Setting photonics research and innovation Prorities for the Horizon Europe Work Programmes lies in the heart of the Photonics Public Private Partnership tasks.
  
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  Structures, Processes and Statutes
  
  Structures, Processes and Statutes
  The Photonics Public Private Partnership acts as a "mouthpiece" of the European Technology Platform Photonics21 (and its almost 4,000 members) towards the European Commission.
  
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- Structure
  
  Structure
  Photonics21 is composed of several bodies. You can find more information on the structure of the platform in the following sections.
  
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  Board of Stakeholders
  
  Board of Stakeholders
  The Board of Stakeholders (BoS) is the main decision-making body of the platform. In particular, the BoS bears responsibility for:
  
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  Executive Board
  
  Executive Board
  The Executive Board (EB) is the managing body of the platform. The EB is responsible for the coordination and execution of the platform operations, for the preparation and the implementation of the ...
  
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  Work Groups
  
  Work Groups
  The Photonics21 Work Groups (WGs) are the main centres of activities within Photonics21. They focus on the development of the work group specific research and innovation priorites and the update of ...
  
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  Work Group 1
  Digital Infrastructure
  
  Work Group 1
  Early 2020, with the onset of COVID-19, digital infrastructure became an even more essential part of our personal and professional lives, acting as a 'lifeblood' the likes of which we have never seen ...
  
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  Work Group 2
  Manufacturing
  
  Work Group 2
  The Grand Challenges facing European research are well-documented. Digitisation, and a sustainable and circular approach for manufacturing and materials, will be the basis for a competitive, ...
  
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  Work Group 3
  Health
  
  Work Group 3
  The European population is ageing increasingly: the number of people today older than 65 relative to those in the working-age is assumed to double by 2045. Since age is a major factor for a higher ...
  
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  Work Group 4
  Climate, Mobility & Energy
  
  Work Group 4
  Photonics plays a role in the targets of Decarbonisation towards Zero Emission Road Transport, Clean Energy Transition, the Industrial Battery Value Chain, Renewable Energy with photovoltaics, energy ...
  
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  Work Group 5
  Safety, Security, Space & Defense
  
  Work Group 5
  A key responsibility of government is to keep its citizens protected and to make them feel safe. This can be accomplished on three levels: (1) Civilian empowerment, (2) Law enforcement and public ...
  
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  Work Group 6
  Agriculture & Food
  
  Work Group 6
  By 2030, the technology to feed a world population of 10 billion, push back food-borne illness, and reduce the environmental footprint of agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture needs to be in place. ...
  
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  Work Group 7
  Core Photonics
  
  Work Group 7
  Photonics will play a vital role in addressing the key socio-economic challenges facing Europe in the 21st century. As examples, we may note the following:
  
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  Mirror Group
  
  Mirror Group
  The Mirror Group constitutes the public complement to the industry-led Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. It supports and reflects ("mirrors") the activities of Photonics21 at policy level and from a ...
  
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Photonics21
The European Technology Platform Photonics21 unites the majority of the leading photonics industries and relevant R&D stakeholders along the whole economic value chain throughout Europe. Today ...

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Photonics PPP
The Association is an international non-profit association with scientific purpose governed by the provisions of Title 3 of the Belgium Law of twenty-seventh of June nineteen hundred twenty-one, and ...

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Structure
Photonics21 is composed of several bodies. You can find more information on the structure of the platform in the following sections.

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PPP Services
- Photonics for Finance
  
  Photonics for Finance
  The financing of innovative photonics companies in their different growth phases is a serious problem in Europe. Thats why Photonics21 strives to improve the access to financing for European ...
  
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- Photonics for Industry
  
  Photonics for Industry
  Several European Pilot Lines, which help companies take photonics technologies from lab into market, have been launched by the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Pilot Lines mean that ...
  
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- Photonics for Education
  
  Photonics for Education
  The Photonics PPP supports various projects with the aim of bringing photonics into the education system of Europe. In this sectore we dive a bit deeper into this projects.
  
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- European Calls
  
  European Calls
  There are regular Photonics Calls for Proposals published by the European Commission. The Photonics21 community is the dedicated body to define the European call topics for photonics.
  
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- Photonics Downloads
  
  Photonics Downloads
  The most relevant and recent publications from Photonics21 and the Photonics PPP can be found and downloaded in this section.
  
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Photonics for Finance
The financing of innovative photonics companies in their different growth phases is a serious problem in Europe. Thats why Photonics21 strives to improve the access to financing for European ...

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Photonics for Industry
Several European Pilot Lines, which help companies take photonics technologies from lab into market, have been launched by the Photonics Public Private Partnership (PPP). The Pilot Lines mean that ...

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Photonics for Education
The Photonics PPP supports various projects with the aim of bringing photonics into the education system of Europe. In this sectore we dive a bit deeper into this projects.

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PPP Projects
- Current Projects
  
  POLYNICES
  POLYNICES will develop for the first time a polymer based Electro-Optic PCB (EOPCB) motherboard that will host Si3N4 chiplets, InP components and micro-optical elements.
  
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  TinyBrains
  The brain of the newborn is very different from the adult posing a major problem in assessing the origins of its injuries and in developing therapeutics. This is further complicated when the newborn ...
  
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  FAIR CHARM
  The emergence of innovative research avenues in biomedicine in the last decades (cell therapy, cancer immunotherapy, bio-nanotechnology) has led to many proof-of-principle demonstrations fostering ...
  
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- Past Projects
  
  RADICLE
  The RADICLE project will create a real-time adaptive control system for laser welding using a range of sensors in combination with intelligent and adaptive control technologies for in-process ...
  
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  HYPOSENS
  The Vision of HypoSens is to develop a widely accepted,non-invasive and crucial prognostic tool for breast cancer progression in early stages to help clinicians and specially oncologists to decide ...
  
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  FemtoSurf
  The tremendous success of lasers in industry resulted in massive demand for photonics-based solutions. At the moment lasers are inseparable part of fields like communications, medicine, science and ...
  
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VISSION
VISSION will tap into the potential of silicon nitride – an ideal platform for photonic integrated circuits owing to low propagation loss, high power handling and compatibility with CMOS technology.

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PHABULOUS
PHABULOµS is the European one-stop shop for the manufacturing of free-form micro-optics offering accelerated innovation & production cycles from prototypes to piloting and large volume ...

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PARALIA
PARALIA will enable an agile, low-cost, and energy-efficient multi-sensor combining Radar and Lidar technologies will re-architect the sensors ecosystem, upgrading their capabilities and enabling ...

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News
- News Archive
  
  Apply now! Photonics21 Innovation Award 2024 launched
  Photonics21 has launched the Photonics21 Innovation Award 2024. This dedicated Innovation Challenge seeks to push for more entrepreneurship in photonics. The Photonics21 Innovation Award addresses ...
  
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  Photonics21 welcomes 14 newly elected members of Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders
  As of the closing date on 7 November 2023, a total of 125 Photonics21 voters participated in the two-week online election for the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. This corresponds to an impressive ...
  
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  Povide us your view & make a difference! Photonics21 Survey on Advanced Materials in the Photonics Supply Chain
  As a follow-up activity of the Supply Chain Survey jointly carried out by Photonics21 and the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), Photonics21 aims to further investigate the role of ...
  
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Apply now! Photonics21 Innovation Award 2024 launched
Photonics21 has launched the Photonics21 Innovation Award 2024. This dedicated Innovation Challenge seeks to push for more entrepreneurship in photonics. The Photonics21 Innovation Award addresses ...

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Photonics21 welcomes 14 newly elected members of Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders
As of the closing date on 7 November 2023, a total of 125 Photonics21 voters participated in the two-week online election for the Photonics21 Board of Stakeholders. This corresponds to an impressive ...

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Povide us your view & make a difference! Photonics21 Survey on Advanced Materials in the Photonics Supply Chain
As a follow-up activity of the Supply Chain Survey jointly carried out by Photonics21 and the European Photonics Industry Consortium (EPIC), Photonics21 aims to further investigate the role of ...

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Events
- Upcoming
  
  11 December 2023
  
  Photonics for Environment and Sustainability
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  13 December 2023
  
  Laserlab-Europe Talks: Multi-pass cells
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  15 December 2023
  
  HYDROPTICS project Workshop - Photonics-based platform for process optimisation in the oil industry
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- Archive
  
  01 December 2023
  
  Photonics 4 Cultural Heritage
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  24 November 2023
  
  Photonics 4 Manufacturing, Athens
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  25 October 2023
  
  Photonics 4 Industry
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11 December 2023

Photonics for Environment and Sustainability
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13 December 2023

Laserlab-Europe Talks: Multi-pass cells
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15 December 2023

HYDROPTICS project Workshop - Photonics-based platform for process optimisation in the oil industry
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Membership

Software Online Training: Grating Modeling and Design

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2021 04–07 October

Gratings are the most widely applied diffractive optics elements in various optical systems. VirtualLab Fusion software provides the Fourier modal method (FMM a.k.a. RCWA) and the thin element approximation (TEA) for grating simulations. This interactive online training shows how to use the corresponding technologies from VirtualLab Fusion to solve practical grating modeling and design tasks for modern optics applications. In the training, we will of course work together with our latest released version, 2021.1!

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Upcoming Events & Workshops

11 December 2023
Online

Photonics for Environment and Sustainability

Overview Photonics has a key part to play in addressing the climate agenda and contributing to achieving net zero targets. There are multiple opportunities to harness the power of photonics ...

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13 December 2023
Online

Laserlab-Europe Talks: Multi-pass cells

Title: Multi-pass cells - quasi-guiding systems for laser pulse post-compression and advanced nonlinear optics Speaker: Christoph Heyl (DESY, Germany) Date: Wednesday, 13 December 2023, 4:00pm CET ...

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15 December 2023
online

HYDROPTICS project Workshop - Photonics-based platform for process optimisation in the oil industry

NEW DATE! Members of the Hydroptics consortium will explain how the platforms developed in the frame of the EU-funded Hydroptics project allow reliable, cost-effective, and high accuracy monitoring ...

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Monday, 23 October 2023

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