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.
Read more here.
Our Post-doc Yifeng Shao has invited our former Professor, Joseph Braat, for an interview published on Advanced Photonics to look back at his career, the development of optical storage and lithography in the Netherlands, and his transition to academia coming from Philips.
You find the interview here.
The first lesson of the basic course on Optics for the Lifelong Optics Learning has been given yesterday. The agenda for the other lessons can be found here.
NWO has granted two Perspectif program proposals where our group is part of:
Leading by light guidance, where the university of Twente is leading and Imaging at the smallest scales where our Department at TUDelft is leading.
Two videos have been produced to present the two projects:
You can find more information here.
Our Phd student, Sven Weerdenburg made a photo of our high harmonic generation EUV light source which has made it to the 2nd place of Optica (OSA) ‘Photo of the Year’ contest.
The other photo contest winners you can find here