Dutch Photonic Devices programme Stimulating Innovation through Science

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Published by: NL Agency Other relevant Dutch Organisations Enterprise Europe Network in general: NL Innovation • Assist companies in identifying potential commercial partners, Juliana van Stolberglaan 3 EG-Liaison especially in other countries PO Box 93144 EG-Liaison supports interested companies and institutions in • Help SMEs develop new products, to access new markets and to 2500 AC The Hague, The Netherlands obtaining European R&D funding. The aim is to promote (Dutch) inform them about EU activities and opportunities Phone +31 88 602 54 96 participation in European R&D programmes and to stimulate • Advise small businesses on technical issues such as intellectual www.agentschapnl.nl/iopphotonicdevices European cooperation in the field of innovation. EG-Liaison’s project property rights, standards and EU legislation [email protected] officers provide information and independent advice, free of charge. • A one-stop shop for EU businesses. They are frequently involved in special training programmes © NL Agency January 2010 dedicated to project proposers. In addition, they support parties, The Enterprise Europe Network in the Netherlands is represented by Publication: 3IPHD1002 both Dutch and European, in finding the right project partners. Agency NL, Syntens and EVD. NL Agency is a department of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs Contact Contact that implements government policy for sustainability, innovation, and NL Agency/Eg-Liaison | T: +31 88 602 52 50 T: +31 88 444 07 77 | [email protected] international business and cooperation. It is the contact point for [email protected] | www.agentschapnl.nl/egl www.enterpriseeuropenetwork.nl businesses, educational institutions and government bodies for information and advice, financing, networking and regulatory matters. Enterprise Europe Network Photonics Cluster Netherlands Launched in 2008 by the European Commission, the Enterprise Photonics Cluster Netherlands’ (PCN) objective is to be the Dutch The division NL Innovation helps Dutch businesses to innovate, Europe Network combines and builds on the former Innovation platform for knowledge transfer in the field of photonics for high-tech by providing finance, advice and contacts. Relay Centres (IRC) and Euro Info Centres (EIC). The new integrated companies and education at all levels. PCN was initiated by the Network offers a ‘one-stop shop’ to meet all the information needs Nederlandse Vereniging voor Fotonica (Dutch Society for Photonics, Innovation-oriented research programmes - IOP of SMEs and companies in Europe. The Enterprise Europe Network NVvF) and is co-supported by TNO Science & Industry in Delft. Stimulating Innovation through Science is present in more than 40 countries, with around 4,000 experien- The Dutch government aims to make the research world more accessible to ced staff in 600 local partner organizations providing expert advice Contact Guus Taminiau, Secretary | T: +31 6 286 15 334 industry and to improve and intensify contacts between the business and services to EU businesses. [email protected] | www.photonicscluster-nl.org community and the research world. The innovation-oriented research programmes (IOP) subsidise innovation-oriented technological research projects within specific themes at universities, (non-profit) research institutes and companies that fulfill the long-term needs of industry in the Netherlands. University applications of light attract much scientific University Medical Centre Research institute University of Groningen and commercial interest. They are January 2010 UMC Groningen Other Dutch research programmes Joseph Braat: Professor emeritus in Optics at Delft University of Technology: important enabling technologies for Dutch Photonic Devices programme “For a long time, the lasers featuring in James Bond and Star Wars movies were the numerous scientific and industrial areas. Merging Electronics and Micro & Nano-Photonics in Integrated science fiction-like­applications of a mysterious domain for the general public. Other educational institutes: The IOP Photonic Devices programme Systems (MEMPHIS) Now, ­however, photonic devices are widely accepted in our ­everyday lives. They started in January 2006 and concentrated Haagse Hogeschool, Den Haag ASTRON MEMPHIS is a coherent and visionary project bringing together the bring new light in all colours, facilitate information transport and data storage, from 2006 to 2009 on the development of Leidse Instrumentmakers School, Leiden best of `micro- and nano-electronics’ and `micro- and nano-pho- show clear-cut images on flat screens and help doctors to heal their patients. advanced light sources and detection tonics’ in a converging integrated technology platform which can Better cooperation will enable us to transform the new opportunities photonic NIKHEF devices provide into ­socially-relevant and durable applications.” systems, and the application of photonic AMOLF University of Amsterdam be exploited in different applications, like communication, devices in health and medicine. Vrije Universiteit AMCUniversity of UtrechtUniversity of Twente medical devices, consumer infotainment, data processing, SRON machine control, aviation and space markets. Focus is on develo- ESTEC FOM UMC Utrecht The Dutch focus NMI University of Leiden ping tools (equipment and processes) and hybrid and heterogene- allows the development of new functional materials with well-desig- University of Delft The Netherlands has an excellent know- TNO Wageningen University ous integration technologies for bringing photonics and micro- ned properties. In the Netherlands, eight research institutes with a ledge infrastructure and is therefore an Erasmus MC (CODT) electronics together and to show several demonstrators of this high reputation in photonics have combined their activities in this ideal breeding ground for the development Radboud University Nijmegen platform technology. An excellent balance of partners from industry programme. Together, they focus within NanoPhotonics on two of innovations. There are a number of (multinational and SME), universities and research institutes results themes: nanoscale energy transfer and photonic signal processing. COBRA excellent research groups in the field of DPI in application-focussed fundamental research and development to University photonics at universities, (non-profit) University Medical Centre Technical University of Eindhoven create novel technology for a multi-market future. Contact Research institute University of Groningen research institutes and companies. UMC Groningen Prof. dr. A. Polman The Dutch have been focussing particularly Contact Center for NanoPhotonics, FOM-Institute AMOLF on the following areas: Dr. Bart Verbeek | T: +31 73 521 95 62 T: +31 20 608 13 00 • The development and application of • IR swept source for high-resolution ASTRON UMC Maastricht [email protected] | www.smartmix-memphis.nl www.nanoned.nl/flagships/nanophotonics light sources, primarily lasers, amplifiers functional imaging in medicine and LEDs, for production and material • HIP: HemodynamicsNIKHEF by Interferometric Smart Optics Systems (SOS) The Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM) AMOLF University of Amsterdam processing, lithography, measuring PhotonicsV rije Universiteit AMCUniversity of UtrechtUniversity of Twente Technological breakthroughs of the 21st century will greatly depend FOM promotes, coordinates and finances fundamental physics SRON techniques, lighting, communication, • HYMPACT:ESTEC HybridFO MammographyM UMC Utrecht using Applications of photonic devices on the way we can generate, control and use harnessed light. An research in the Netherlands. Relevant programmes with respect to NMI University of Leiden bio photonics, health care, medical Photacoustic ComputedUniversity of DelftTomography in health & medicine important share in the explosive development of the photonics photonics: TNO Wageningen University diagnostics linked to medical therapy and • MEM-FLIM: ModulatedErasmus MCElectron- (CODT) Development of new applications in health markets will spring from the quest for increased resolution in • The Industrial Partnership Programme eXtreme UV Dutch Photonic Devices programme Radboud University Nijmegen research; Multiplied all-solid-state camera for & medicine and specific medical imaging systems in health and life sciences, industrial imaging, Multilayer Optics Stimulating Innovation through Science • Research into new materials with special Fluorescence Lifetime ImagingCOBRADPI Microscopy ­applications, diagnostics and therapy consumer optics and astronomy. A good example is the use of • Microphotonic Light Sources optical properties, such as photonic • Frequency comb laser devices:Technical University of Eindhoven(invasive & non-invasive). deformable mirrors in astronomy with active feedback control, • Plasmonics crystals, photonic fibres, new substrate Miniaturization and application to which have dramatically improved the image resolution. The SOS • Joint Solar Programme The Dutch government aims to make the research world more accessible to industry and to materials, non-linear optical materials metrology and non-linear microscopy In the coming years new calls for projects programme aims at making this type of technology accessible and www.fom.nl/live/english/home.pag

and integrated-optical and micro-optical • On-chip Integrated CO2 and NH3 HumanUMC Maastricht within these focus areas will become affordable to a much wider industrial community. This will be improve and intensify contacts between the two. Innovation-oriented research programmes components; Gas Sensors. available. realized by a unique trend change in the development strategy with Generic Technologies for Integrated Photonics • The development of new optics (diffrac- new design methods and technologies that optimize the integra- The European photonics market is well over 50 B€ per year. It equals (IOP) subsidize innovation-oriented technology research projects within specific themes at tive optics), foils, materials and light For more detailed information on these Contact tion of and interaction within the complete optical system with the size of the micro-electronics production and shows a faster sources for various areas, including the projects, see: www.agentschapnl.nl/­ The Dutch Photonic Devices respect to resolution and cost, reliability and complexity. growth. The share of Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) in this universities, (non-profit) research institutes and companies which fulfil the long-term needs of above. The emphasis is very much on the iopphotonicdevices/projecten programme is executed by NL Agency. market is still small because the costs of today’s photonic ­integration far-reaching miniaturization of these NL Agency / IOP programme Photonic Devices Contact technology are prohibitive for most applications. the industry in the Netherlands. One such theme is photonic devices. systems by, for example, using microsy- Focus areas in IOP Prof. dr. ir. M.H.G. Verhaegen It is the aim to initiate a breakthrough of PICs to a wide range of stem technology (MST) and industrial Photonic Devices 2010-2014 Programme coördinator: Delft Center for Systems and Control Engineering | applications and to bring about a major advance of the state-of-the- assembly methods derived from the Recently a second phase was granted for the Dr.ir. Eddy Schipper www.dcsc.tudelft.nl art in Photonic IC design by building on emerging generic photonic Rich history in photonics IOP Photonic Devices semiconductor industry. IOP Programme for 2010-2014. T + 31 88 602 53 43 Delft University of Technology | www.tudelft.nl foundry capabilities, which combine high performance with low cost. The Netherlands has a long, rich tradition in theory of the propagation of light and its The aim of the IOP programme Photonic Research foci in this programme are: [email protected] T: +31 15 278 52 04 | [email protected] The programme builds on the prominent position which the Dutch the field of optics and photonics starting in application in the phase-contrast micros- Devices is to intensify the interaction Research projects within the IOP www. agentschapnl.nl/iopphotonicdevices photonics community has obtained thanks to large investments in 1690 with Christiaan Huygens and his Traité cope. Furthermore, in the last century Delft between universities, (non-profit) research ­programme Photonic Devices: New photonic devices based NanoNed – NanoPhotonics the past decades. It uses this knowledge to provide a substantial de La Lumière. Huygens was one of the University of Technology pioneered the field institutes and companies in the Netherlands • High- resolution light detectors for on generic technologies Programme coördinator: NanoNed is the Netherlands nanotechnology research initiative number of companies with low-cost access to leading-edge photonic Netherlands’ greatest physicists, a telescope of electron optics, resulting in the develop- by giving an extra impulse to research radio-molecular imaging Focus is on the divice itself with special Drs. Dieneke Meijer which combines the Dutch strengths in nanoscience and ­technology integration technology to increase the competitiveness of their (device) builder and also the founder of the ment of the electron microscope. Also within this theme and by actively involving • The Raman pen: towards low-cost, attention to ‘generic’ technologies. But by T + 31 88 602 58 04 in a national network with scientifically, economically and socially product portfolio and expand their market share. theory of the propagation of light. The first today, a lot of high-quality research is being the industry in the execution. Collaboration pen-sized Raman devices for applications using ‘standardised’ building blocks in [email protected] relevant research and infrastructure projects. Eleven large program- `optical device’ builder was Antonie van carried out into optics and photonics in between universities, (non-profit) research in health and medicine design, manufacturing, packaging and www. agentschapnl.nl/iopphotonicdevices mes have been defined. One of these so-called flagships is Contact Leeuwenhoek, who constructed the first the Netherlands. institutes and companies leads to new • PRESMITT: Plasmon resonant nanoparti- assembly we hope that we can accelarate NanoPhotonics. It addresses photonic materials and devices based on Prof. dr. ir. M.K. Smit | COBRA microscopes. The Dutch physicist Frits networks and reinforcement of existing cles for molecular imaging and therapy of the developement process and reduce the nanotechnology. Novel nanotechnological methods allow a further Eindhoven University of Technology | www.tue.nl Zernike received the Nobel Prize for his networks. Photonic devices and modern tumours: in vitro to preclinical studies costs for new products. miniaturization of optical devices. In addition, nano­technology T: +31 40 247 50 58 | [email protected]