TECHNICAL EXPERTISE

35 years of experience in optics and photonics:

Working from concept to design, from simulation to build, from proof of concept to device and from fundamental physics to engineering optics.

​Optical Design:

Ray tracing, imaging optics. Light-field Cameras. Plenoptics. Complex optical systems including systems with spectroscopic elements, micro lens arrays and diffractive optics. Hyperspectral imaging systems. Micro-optics.

Non-imaging Optical design:

Non-imaging optics. Lensless imaging.  Ultra-flat optics. Scintillation detectors (radioactivity).

Physical Optics:

Diffraction gratings, interference filters, waveguides, waveguide couplers, holograms.

Thermal Infrared:

Camera design, bolometers, filter design, hyperspectral systems, tunable quantum cascade lasers, thermal emitters.

Biomedical and wearable optics:

Experience in systems for heart rate, oxygen and CO2 measurement. Ultra-compact optics for imaging and non-imaging systems

Biosensors:

Mainly refractive index sensing using plasmonics and waveguides.

​Photonics:

Design and characterization of light emitting diodes, VCSEL’s, photoinic crystals and thin film filters.

​Plasmonics:

Localized plasmons, surface plasmons, refractive index sensing with plasmonic and waveguides. Nanophotonics and photonics crystals

​Optical MEMS: design and conception

• MEMS Tuneable gratings for tuneable lasers, wavemeters and spectrometers
• MEMS programmable diffraction gratings
• MEMS optical accelerometer
• MEMS thermal emitter
• MEMS fixed and tuneable Fabry-Pérot filters
• MEMS plasmonic filters