Here you find latest news about what is going on at and around DTU Fotonik.
The PH lamps are designer classics which will light our homes for many years to come. But when you calculate their output in terms of energy and lighting, the PH lamps are about to be surpassed by new designer lamps based on diode lights.
DTU Fotonik at Bredbånds-dagene 2008
IT and Telecom companies to kick-start research project to drive cost efficient WDM PON technology and the European Commission funds the new project with Euro 3 million.
In October 2008 the annual OSA student chapter leadership meeting, organized by the Optical Society of America (OSA) and the Frontiers in Optics Conference 2008 (FiO) was held in Rochester, USA.
On Friday, October 17th, DTU Fotonik employees had the opportunity to attend a lecture by prof. Benjamin Eggleton, Director of Centre for Ultra-bandwidth Devices for Optical Systems (CUDOS), Professor of Physics, University of Sydney, Australia
The OPNET 2008 Best Technical Paper Award goes to Network Technology and Service Platforms researchers.
The first DTU Fotonik Travelling Summer School took place in Colombia in August this year. It will not be the last Travelling Summer School.
There are no scalpels needed in the new cataracts treatment, that DTU Fotonik has been part of developing.
The 2008 EOS Prize is awarded to N. Asger Mortensen and Sanshiu Xiao.
A group of DTU Fotonik Students: Mads Lykke Andersen, Per Lunnemann Hansen, Alexander Huck, Martin Schubert and Stephan Smolka have managed to establish the first Scandinavian OSA Student Chapter.
The first DTU Fotonik Travelling Summer School will take place in Colombia in August this year. The summer school will be hosted by the Faculty of Telecommunications and Computer Sciences of the
Pontificia Bolivariana University of Colombia in Medellin, Colombia.
Two of DTU Fotonik's young scientists are mingling with Nobel Laureates in Lindau, Germany. They are the only Danish participants present.
In a new project at DTU and Copenhagen University, scientists will attempt to attain control over the smallest particles of light – photons. The supercomputers of the future as well as unbreakable codes are some of the possible end results of this undertaking.
DTU Fotonik has undergone extensive changes this year. There are now 17 research groups, which are arranged into 4 clusters. The previous five Research Areas of COM•DTU, Nanophotonics, Networks, Systems, Coding, and Fibers and Nonlinear Optics no longer exist. Research at DTU Fotonik now takes place in the following clusters and groups:
Fiber optical measuring systems make it possible to measure sound and vibrations with great accuracy. The Danish High technology Foundation grants 14 million kroner for research into optical measurement
DTU Fotonik has just installed a new high-power femtosecond laser. It is the most intense laser in Denmark
The terahertz "camera" that lets you see the concealed.
New Center of Excellence under the leadership of Jesper Mørk of DTU Fotonik
COM•DTU is changing its name to DTU Fotonik
In these days (16th and 17th of January) the Networks and Systems Areas participate in the ALPHA kick-off meeting. ALPHA is a new European ICT project, which focuses on new services for the home users, the access network and in-house cabling. Some of the technologies in question are plastic fibres, radio over fibre, integration of wireless access and fibre access. In addition, easy configurable and self-configurable management of the home access network is very important and part of the project objectives.
It has been 40 years since Palle Jeppesen first started working at DTU. During those years he has made many significant and important contributions to his area of research, Optical Communications.
Paper by three COM-DTU Networks researchers awarded with travel grant at ChinaCom 2007. ChinaCom is being positioned as a premier international conference in the field of communication, networks and internet applications.