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SPIE Photonics West 2026
January 20 - 22, 2026 | San Francisco, USA
The world’s premier lasers, biomedical optics and biophotonic technologies, quantum, and optoelectronics event
Imec
We are present at Booth 5216 at SPIE Photonics West! Discover cutting-edge advancements in imaging and sensor technology with us. As your trusted R&D partner for advanced imagers and sensors, we specialise in delivering custom solutions from initial design to prototyping and manufacturing.
- Si & SiN Integrated Photonics: Advanced solutions leveraging 200mm and 300mm platforms for next-generation photonic circuits.
- Optical MEMS: Miniaturized optical systems enabling high-performance, compact designs.
- Quantum Sensing: Pioneering technologies for ultra-sensitive detection and measurement.
- VIS-NIR-SWIR Flat Optics: Cutting-edge metasurfaces for broadband imaging and sensing.
- Post-CMOS/CIS Processing: Enhancing sensor functionality through advanced post-processing techniques.
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Industry stage:
- Advancing SiN Photonics: new functionalities, CMOS-compatible platforms for quantum and sensing applications - Saturday, January 17 January 2026, 3:45 PM - 4:15 PM - Amin Abbasi, Senior Business Development manager
- Toward Large-Scale Quantum Systems: Integrated Photonics Platforms for Computing, Communication, and Sensing - Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 11:15 AM - 11:45 AM - Iakov Goldberg, R&D project lead
- Integrated Photonic Technologies for Scalable Solid-State FMCW LiDAR Systems - Wednesday, January 21, 2026 - 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM - Marcus Dahlem, Program Manager
Industry event:
- Vision Tech: Wafer-Level Spectral Image Sensors: Turning Spectral Imaging into a Viable Option for Industrial Scale - 20 January 2026 • 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM PST - Wouter Charle, program manager
Invited papers:
- Wafer-scale photonics packaging in the EU PUNCH project - 20 January 2026 • 10:25 AM - 10:55 AM PST - Geert Van Steenberge, Principle member of technical staf
- Reliability in through silicon vias (TSVs) - 20 January 2026 • 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM PST - Emmanuel Chery, principle member of technical staff
- Micro-transfer printing for heterogeneous integrated active devices on silicon nitride platforms (Part of Optio) - 21 January 2026 • 11:00 - Lam Thi Ngoc Tran
- Wafer-scale multiwavelength lasers on silicon - 21 January 2026 • 8:00 AM - 8:30 AM PST - Dmitry Kazakov, R&D Engineer
Papers:
- Gigahertz Pockels-based strontium titanate modulator - 18 January 2026 • 3:40 PM - 4:00 PM PST - Anja Ulrich, Doctoral reseacher
- Strong piezoelectricity in thin-film strontium titanate for cryogenic quantum transduction - 18 January 2026 • 3:20 PM - 3:40 PM PST, Ahmed E. Khalil, PhD researcher
- Improving chirp and ranging of FMCW LiDAR by external cavity laser design - 19 January 2026 • 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM PST - Ruud Oldenbeuving, Principle member of technical staff
- Multimodal data fusion for high-speed in-situ detection of deformation defects in selective laser sintering - 20 January 2026 • 2:10 PM - 2:25 PM PST - Mathieu Vandecasteele, Doctoral researcher
- Reversible structural phase transition in MoOx thin films for tunable optical devices - 20 January 2026 • 4:45 PM - 5:05 PM PST - Christian Valencia Campoverde Sr.
- Fiber-length agnostic all-optical equalisation using silicon photonics neural networks - 21 January 2026 • 8:55 AM - 9:10 AM PST - Ruben Van Assche, Doctoral researcher
- Enabling electrically driven perovskite laser diodes for photonic integration - 21 January 2026 • 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM PST - Karim Elkhouly, Researcher
- Wafer-scale manufacturing of wide angle field of view metalens for Lidar applications - 21 January 2026 • 8:30 AM - 8:50 AM PST - Florian Maudet, Reseacher
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