From the Lab to Real-World Applications: Advancing Technology Development
The University of Ghent has developed unique technologies in integrated optics for chip-scale frequency combs, enabling applications in areas such as 3D imaging, environmental sensing, LIDAR, and high-speed optical communications. In the EIC-funded MOLOKAI project, UGent and MBI, aim to advance chip-scale frequency-comb technology for real-world applications.
Technology Development and Industry Collaboration
Building on previous dual-comb results, the project will develop a broadband on-chip interferometer. In partnership with IBSEN Photonics, it will also create high-resolution spectrometers for reading Bragg sensors in fibers, and with SuperLightPhotonics will develop Mode-locked comb lasers as a source for supercontinuum. Additionally, it will adapt dual-comb technology to a GaAs-on-silicon nitride platform, enabling high-resolution imaging.
