Eindhoven University of Technology

The technology shows promise for use in flexible devices across applications in medicine, optical communications, machine vision, and surveillance (Image: TU/e | Bart van Overbeeke)

Highly sensitive Photodiode demonstrates 200% quantum efficiency

The technology shows promise for use in flexible devices across applications in medicine, optical communications, machine vision, and surveillance

Martijn Heck

Although he thinks some people would claim the sector is already there, Prof Martijn Heck believes the next big thing in photonics is circuit-level design for photonic integrated circuits, and smart design for robustness. 

He said: ‘Circuits are currently too much seen as a collection of device-level building blocks, mimicking a miniaturised optical table setup, and their interaction is not yet fully taken into account. Smart design to calibrate and control photonic circuits inline should further accelerate the uptake.’

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