News - 13-Jun-2024

The discovery of an old Microscope

In the back of a cupboard of our group, (Optics Cluster at the Imaging Physics department of Applied Sciences), a box full of interesting objects had been hiding for almost thirty years. Nestled amongst prisms and scopes, was a mysterious microscope. Most of the objects dated from the mid-20th century, but this microscope looked older – much older! What happened and how did it end up in a closet at AS? The Team Maatwerk from TU Delft went to investigate.

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  • News - 13/06/2024

    The discovery of an old Microscope

    In the back of a cupboard of our group, (Optics Cluster at the Imaging Physics department of Applied Sciences), a box full of interesting objects had been hiding for almost thirty years. ...

  • News - 13/06/2024

    Interview Joseph Braat, former Professor

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  • News - 09/03/2023

    First course and agenda for Lifelong Optics Learning

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  • News - 23/01/2023

    In Memoriam: dr. Jeff Meisner

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  • News - 13/01/2023

    A glance at our Carla Camp

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  • News - 10/01/2023

    Dr. Aurèle ADAM winner of the Westerdijk Prize

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  • News - 10/01/2023

    Happy New Year 2023

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  • News - 15/12/2022

    Two NWO Perspectief Proposal granted for our group

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  • News - 05/12/2022

    OSA ‘Photo of the Year’, second place for Sven Weerdenburg

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  • News - 11/11/2022

    Face2Phase 3rd edition November 7-9, 2022 in Delft

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  • News - 04/10/2022

    Wenye Ji invited speaker OPL-2022 conference

    Wenye Ji has been invited to give a talk at the OPL-2022 conference in November this year. ...

  • News - 14/07/2022

    Our colleague Aurèle ADAM is the new director of studies for our master program

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  • News - 29/04/2022

    CARLA Camp 31 May & 1 June 2022

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  • News - 11/02/2022

    Omar El Gawhary appointed as member of the Council of Experts on National Measurement Standards

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  • News - 09/12/2021

    New superconducting material raises the operating temperature of space detectors

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  • News - 26/03/2021

    OASIS: a Far-Infrared Space Mission

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  • News - 05/03/2021

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    For English see belowImage from Dutch Optics Centre websiteHet Dutch Optics Centre (DOC), een samenwerking tussen de Technische Universiteit Delft en TNO, heeft het Lifelong Optics Learning opleidingsplatform opgezet voor professionals in optica ...

  • News - 03/03/2021

    World-record in single-photon detection efficiency has been achieved by TUDelft team in Optica/Imphys (Editor’s Pick in APL Photonics)

    Detecting light at its quantum limit -single photon-level has enabled and greatly benefited quantum information sciences, fluorescence imaging, Lidar (radar with light), and many other applications. Since 2001, superconducting nanowire single photon detectors ...

  • News - 12/01/2021

    EMPIR project funded

    The project proposal POLight (Pushing boundaries of nanometrology by Light), coordinated by Omar El Gawhary, submitted within the European Metrology Programme for Innovation and Research (EMPIR), call on Fundamental Metrology 2020, has ...

  • News - 01/11/2020

    Project GUSTO in the picture at TU Delft

    Jian-Rong Gao and his team are working very hard on project GUSTO. If all goes to plan, GUSTO (a helium balloon the size of a soccer stadium with a NASA telescope) will ...