Introduction
Five leading research and educational institutions in Europe are collaborating to offer a joint Erasmus Mundus Master of Science program in Photonics, providing a top-quality eduction in all aspects of photonics. The master programme has a duration of two years (120 ECTS points), with students spending a year in two different countries.
Coordinator: Ghent University (Belgium)
Partners: Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), St Andrews University and Heriot-Watt University (U.K.), Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
Photonics
Photonics is now widely recognized as a major innovation enabling discipline for the 21st century. It can be defined as that field of science and technology where the fundamental properties of light and its interaction with matter are studied and applied.
News & highlights
UGent: 17/09/2010: Center for Nano- and Biophotonics kick-off event |
UGent: 18/08/2010: Shanghai Ranking: UGent Top 100 |
USTAN: 10/07/2010: Microphotonics Group spotlight summary of an article on Planar photonic crystal cavities published at Optics InfoBase |
VUB: 4/07/2010: B-Phot's “Photonics Innovation Village” in the spotlights of the top-journal “Nature Photonics” |
HWU: 23-30/06/2010: EMMP Summer school 2010 |
HWU: 28/06/2010: Workshop: 'Best practices in Photonics Education' |
USTAN: 6/06/2010: Microphotonics Group article on abiadic frequency conversion for optical data transfer published in the SPIE newsroom. |
KTH: 19/04/2010: European research project HECTO increases fiber-optical communication speed to 112Gbit/s |
