The industry’s most innovative people 2024 Roel Baets
Organisation: Ghent University and Imec Role: Professor
Roel Baets is a full professor at Ghent University, Belgium, and is associated with nanoelectronics R&D organisation Imec and the Photonics Research Group at Ghent University, which recently saw its seventh spin-off company launched. Baets is working on medical and other sensor devices based on silicon photonics, which he says has “endless application potential.” He plans to make further contributions to the development of a silicon photonics ecosystem and supply chain in Europe over the coming year. Talking about obstacles to overcome in
Sandrine Lévêque-Fort
Organisation: ISMO/CNRS-Université Paris Saclay
Role: Research Director
Sandrine Lévêque-Fort, a Research Director at the Université Paris-Saclay, France, is developing a single molecule localisation microscope to reveal the nanometric organisation of live cells. Lévêque-Fort and her team have demonstrated a new way to localise molecules by introducing a time-varying structured excitation, which has allowed them to detect molecules below the diffraction limit in a wide field using a monodetector. “From a microscopist's point of view,” she says, “we need new detectors with
improved performances in terms of speed and sensibility”. She says one of her proudest moments in photonics was “to see the first commercial version of the set-up for a 3D single molecule localisation microscope we developed in the lab with my former PhD student Nicolas Bourg [an honouree in last year’s Photonics100] being used in another lab”. You can find Sandrine Lévêque-Fort on
X (formerly Twitter) and LinkedIn. She will be attending Focus on Microscopy 2024, in Genoa.
Sebastian Etcheverry
Organisation: LuxQuanta Technologies Role: CTO
Sebastian Etcheverry is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of LuxQuanta. This company was spun out of The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in May 2021 after incubating in ICFO’s KTT LaunchPad. Etcheverry provides expertise in experimental quantum cryptography and leads a team of expert engineers with decades of experience in quantum technologies, field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) development, telecommunications, digital signal processing, microelectronics, software development, and optoelectronic components.
Based in: Barcelona, Spain
Education: PhD, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Based in Barcelona, the company aims
to deliver Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) systems and technologies to be integrated into existing network infrastructures while capable of providing a quantum-safe layer of security on top of mathematical cryptographic techniques. NOVA LQ is the company’s first Quantum
Key Distribution solution for distributing highly secure keys in metropolitan networks. The continuous variable technology inside (CV-QKD) allows the integration of the system into existing optical fibre links, coexisting with conventional telecommunication technologies.
Based in: Paris, France Education: PhD, ESPCI Paris
Based in: Ghent, Belgium Education: PhD, Ghent University
the field, Baets says: “The challenge is to bring new silicon photonics products to the market despite an immature supply chain, and to build an industrial ecosystem for integrated photonics that will thrive, including technology providers, service providers and end-user companies.” He believes the continued emergence
of co-packaged optics (CPO) over the next year will be key for the next generation of interconnect systems in data centres, supercomputing, and more. Baets will be a plenary speaker at Photonics West 2024.
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