H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049
Integrated Photonic-Nano Technologies
for Bioapplications (IPN-BIO)
News
2025
Arden Photonics at Laser World of Photonics
Munich, 24–27 June 2025
Arden Photonics Ltd (www.ardenphotonics.com) we’ll be exhibiting at Laser World of Photonics in Munich, 24–27 June 2025. Please visit us at Booth A3.116. David Robinson (Founder & CEO), Rob Roach (Business Development Manager), and Thomas Leung (Marketing Manager) would love to meet you.
Bridging Research & Industry: Advancing Optical Fiber Innovation
February 7, 2025
At Arden, we are committed to providing the best fiber measurement solutions for our customers. To truly leverage the power of technology, we go straight to the source of innovation.
Our Founder & CEO, David Robinson, had a productive discussion last week at Aston University with leading scientists in photonics, Dr. Lucas Tendela from Instituto de Física Rosario, Dr. Xianfeng Chen (Coordinator of IPN-Bio) from Nottingham Trent University, and Dr. Kaiming Zhou from Aston University. Together, they explored the latest breakthroughs in optical fiber technologies and discussed progress on the EU-funded IPN-Bio projects.
By staying engaged with innovative research, we aim to stay informed about next-generation fiber innovations and explore how they could be translated into practical solutions. Our goal is to empower our customers to develop even better optical fibers for a brighter future.
Innovation becomes reality when research meets industry. We are excited about the future ahead!
2024
Fully-funded PhD scholarship in the UK
Great PhD Opportunity -- Fully-funded PhD scholarship in the UK
Open to: Both UK and International candidates
PhD topic: Next generation nano-photonic biosensors for early diagnosis of cancers
Main supervisor: Dr Xianfeng Chen; xianfeng.chen@ntu.ac.uk
Application deadline: 24th Feb 2025
FOPS 2024 will take place on Friday the 22nd November 2024. The LFO of the University of Valencia (UVEG) participates in the organization of this one-day workshop that will take place at the Faculty of Physics, Lise Meitner Hall.
Colloquium at the Pontifica Universidad Católica del Perú
During the present IPN-Bio secondment of Dr. Miguel V. Andrés at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), he has been invited to present the research activity of the group on opto-mechanics in a talk addressed to undergraduate student and researchers of the university. The Colloquium is scheduled for Thursday the 24th October 2024.
LFO at the European Night of Researchers 2024
The LFO was present at the European Night of Researchers at the Burjassot-Paterna Campus, Friday 27th September 2024, at the central act where the Physics School of the University of Valencia participated. We showed several experiments of sound and light: the basis for acousto-optics and optomechanics. More than 100 people were playing with our experiments. A great opportunity to get our work closer to a general audience.
Our activity was funded by the EU project IPN-Bio (Ref.: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049).
Second IPN-Bio Workshop
The Second Workshop of IPN-Bio was co-organized by Dr. Zhipei Sun (AALTO/Finland), Dr. Xianfeng Chen (NTU/UK), Miguel V. Andrés (UVEG/Spain) and local host Prof Sheng JU (Suzhou City Univ/China). More than 60 participants attended the workshop, in-site and on-line, from 9 different countries, and more than 15 entities (AALTO/Finland, NTU/UK, Aston/UK, Arden/UK, UVEG/Spain, FYLA/Spain, CONICET/Argentina, PUCP/Peru, UCR/Costa Rica, SPU/USA, SIMIT/China, SIAT/China, Univ of Tokyo/Japan, Suzhou City Univ/China, Suzhou Institute of Biomedical Engineering & Technology/China, etc).
IPN-Bio Seminar at the University of Valencia
Group Seminar, Juny 26 2024
During the first months of 2024, several researchers of the IPN-Bio project have made a research stay at the University of Valencia: Dr. Francisco de Zela and Dr. Omar Ortiz from the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú (PUCP), Dr. Jaime Cascante from the Universidad de Costa Rica (UCR) and Dr. Christian Cuadrado-Laborde from the Instituto de Física Rosario (IFIR-CONICET, Argentina). We have taken advantage of these stays to present in several seminars part of the research results.
LFO & IPN-Bio at EXPERIMENTA 2024
The Laboratory of Fiber Optics and project IPN-Bio were present at the Science Festival EXPERIMENTA 2024. This festival is open to the general public and more than 3000 persons visited the fair in which 300 secondary school students presented about 70 experiments. The youngest members of the LFO were in charge of the experiments shown in our stand. This dissemination action was funded by the EU project IPN-Bio (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049).
2023
FOPS 2023 meeting will take place on Friday the 17th November 2023. The LFO of the University of Valencia (UVEG) participates in the organization of this one day workshop that will take place at the Faculty of Physics, Lise Meitner Hall.
LFO at the European Night of Researchers 2023
The LFO was present at the European Night of Researchers at the Burjassot-Paterna Campus, at the central act where the Physics School of the University of Valencia participated. With the activity “Look at the sound, listen the light” we showed how mechanical and optical waves coexist and interact with each other in different media (and of course, in optical fibers), the basic principle of acousto-optics and optomechanics. More than 100 people could play with our mini-LIGO, our mini-optical telecom-link and other experiences about diffraction, birefringence, etc.
Many other researchers were there showing their activities related to mathematics, biology, chemistry… great fun and a great opportunity to get our work closer to a general audience.
Our activity was funded by the EU project IPN-Bio (Ref.: H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049).
Invited talk at EOSAM-2023
Dr. Xianfeng Chen (Coordinator of IPN-Bio) has been invited by the European Optical Society (EOS) to give an invited talk to disseminate the IPN-Bio project and progress at the European Optical Society Annual Meeting (EOSAM-2023) in Dijon, France, 11 – 15 September 2023.
https://www.europeanoptics.org/pages/events/eosam-2023/topical-meetings-and-sessions/eu-project.html
GOOD news - Fully funded CONcISE (DC10 project) is still looking for PhD candidates
FYLA Laser is still looking for a candidate to perform an Industrial Doctorate in the frame of the MSCA Doctoral Network CONcISE:
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/86590
The candidate must fulfil the following:
·Be in possession of a Master degree that allows him/her to perform a Doctorate in Spain
·Mobility (not been in Spain for more than 1 year in the last 3 years)
·Be able to join the program before the end of 2023
·Move to Valencia, Spain for carrying out the PhD.
The candidate would join FYLA laser for the DC10:
“Development of an all-fiber fs-laser for multiphoton microscopy”
Project Description: The activities for the candidate will be focused on the design and development of an optical fibre laser for microscopy applications. Most of the activities will be involved in the optical fibre manipulation, so ability and calm are important skills for the tasks. The candidate has to be a dynamic person with capacity to work in a team group and collaborate with the rest of the team. Electronic and programming experience will be also useful for the integration of the optical part inside with the electrical and software.
Expected Results: industrialised few-cycle femtosecond supercontinuum source and system for actual needs of the multiphoton microscopy industry. Trained DCs to bridging the gap between scientific achievements and their commercialisation in the bioimaging sector.
If you are interested in, please send and email with your CV and motivation letter to: srota@fyla.com
Popular Papers from AOP and Optics Letters
Our article “Nonlinearity measurement undergoing dispersion and loss”, Optics Letters 48, 493-496, 2023, whose first author is Dr. David Castelló-Lurbe, is included in the list of Top-Viewed Papers (subject: Nonlinear Optics) from Optica Publishing Group.
Coffee Science at IICO
The Optica Student Chapter USLP invited Dr. Miguel V. Andrés to participate in a Coffee Science at IICO (Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Optica), the 3rd May 2023.
XXIII Semana del IICO, San Luis Potosí, México
Dr. Miguel V. Andrés has been invited to give a talk on opto-mechanics in the XXIII Semana de IICO (Instituto de Investigación en Comunicación Óptica), San Luis Potosí, Mexico, where he will present some of the results obtained in the IPN-Bio project. This event is addressed to a wide audience that includes physics and engineering undergraduate students, PhD students and researchers in optoelectronic materials and devices, and fiber optics, among others. In addition, the Optica Student Chapter UASLP has invited Dr. Miguel V. Andrés to a Coffee Science on Wednesday the 3rd May.
Multicore fibers in undersea cables
Arden Photonics’ FGC Fiber Geometry Measurement system is a complete solution for measuring the geometry of standard and specialty fiber, including multicore fibers used in submarine cables, in both production and R&D environments. To find out more about Arden’s FGC Fiber Geometry, please visit: https://www.ardenphotonics.com/cat-fiber-and-array-geometry-measurement/
Informal Meeting of IPN-Bio project at Costa Rica.
Taking advantage of the presence -during the RIAO 2023 conference- of several representatives of our IPN-Bio consortium from IFIR-Argentina (Dr. Christian Cuadrado), PUCP-Peru (Dr. Omar Ortiz), UCR-Costa Rica (Dr. Jaime Cascante and Dr. Luis Poveda), UVEG-Spain (Dr. Miguel V. Andrés and Dr. Martina Delgado), and NTU- United Kingdon (Dr. Xianfeng Chen), we had an informal meeting, discussing the development of the project and planning the secondments for next months.
The Iberoamerican Meeting of Optics 2023 (Reunión Iberoamericana de Óptica 2023), RIAO 2023 will take place in San José, Costa Rica, on 27 march, 2nd april. The IPN-Bio consortium has an extensive participation in this event, with up to four oral talks (a plenary and two special guests) and two poster presentations. IPN-Bio consortium gathers together a large number of researchers from Iberoamerican countries (Argentina, Perú, Costa Rica and Spain), resulting in a fruitful collaboration.
If you attend the meeting, please come and get in touch, we are always open for a scientific chitchat!
Arden Photonics Ltd at Photonics West
CEO David Robinson and sales engineer Alistair Robinson from Arden Photonics Ltd will be at Photonics West in San Francisco, from 31 Jan to 2 Feb 2023, to catch up on the latest market trends, talk about projects and developments, and their latest optical fiber measurement solutions.
2022
FOPS 2022 meeting will take place on Friday the 2nd December 2022. The LFO participates in the organization of this one day workshop that will take place at the Faculty of Physics, Lise Meitner Hall.
Dr. Martina Delgado-Pinar, invited speaker at the conference EOSAM 2022
Dr. Martina Delgado-Pinar was invited to EOSAM 2022, the European Optical Society Annual Meeting, to present the latest advances obtained by the Laboratory of Fiber Optics in the development of devices based on the combined use of Bragg gratings and tapered fibres. Among all the results achieved in the more than twenty years that the group and the researcher have been working on this topic, she highlighted the technique for writing single-mode Bragg gratings in commercial multimode fibres, and the development of biosensors in which the Bragg grating is formed by the proteins themselves imprinted on the surface of tapered fibres.
International stays of LFO researchers in the context of the European Project IPN-Bio
During the months of July to October, LFO researchers visited two of the universities participating in the European IPN-Bio project. Dr. Martina Delgado-Pinar spent July and August at the University of Costa Rica, sharing time with the members of LAFTLA, the group led by Prof. Jaime Cascante. During her stay, they organized the photonics school "Lasers applied to biomedical sciences", aimed at undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering, in which about twenty of them were able to establish their first experimental contact with photonics and, in particular, with fiber optic lasers. Prof. Miguel V. Andrés visited the Pontífica Universidad Católica del Perú to work with LFO collaborators Dr. Omar Ortiz and Prof. Francisco de Zela. In order to learn more about the work topics of both groups and to find new common interests, they organized a series of seminars where different researchers presented their results and future projects.
Prof. Miguel V. Andrés will give an invited talk at the INAOE, Mexico.
On-line: Monday the 4th April 2022, 13:00 h – Mexico.
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The Instituto Nacional de Astrofísica Óptica y Eletrónica (INAOE), Mexico, has invited Prof. Miguel V. Andrés to give an on-line talk on “Forward Brillouin Scattering in Optical Fibers: A Novel Characterization Technique and Applications”. The link to attend the talk is: https://www.youtube.com/c/INAOEOficial |
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Monday the 4th April 2022 13 h – Mexico ↔ 20 h – Spain. |
2021
LFO has contributed to RNO 2021 meeting with four communications. The most recent advances of the different research lines of the group will be presented.
More information on the RNO 2021 here.
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IPN-Bio School & FOPS Meeting
1st - 3rd December 2021 |
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The consortium of the European Project Integrated Photonics-Nano Technologies for Bioapplications (IPN-Bio) organizes in Valencia the IPN-Bio School. The IPN-Bio School is addressed to Ms, and PhD students, as well as young researchers, interested in bioapplications of photonics technologies. More information here.
The school is co-organized by the Laboratory of Fiber Optics of the University of Valencia and FYLA. Registration is free and will be open between the 4th October and the 8th November 2021. You can register here.
More information about accommodation and travel here.
You can find more detailed information on the IPN-Bio School in the attached leaflet.
International dissemination of LFO’s scientific results: Prof. Miguel V. Andrés will give an invited talk at CIO A.C. (Mexico)
The Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica (CIO) A. C., León, Gto. (México), has invited Dr. Miguel V. Andrés to give a talk on “In-Fiber Transverse Acoustic Resonances: Accurate Measurement of Poisson’s Ratio of Optical Fibers”, on Friday, 16thJuly 2021.
The talk is uploaded to YouTube, and is available here.
LFO has contributed to XIV International Workshop on Sensors and Molecular Recognition (IWOSMOR), a workshop organized by Instituto Interuniversitario de Investigación y Reconocimiento Molecular y Desarrollo Tecnológico (IDM) with four contributions, which reinforces its collaboration with Prof. Maquieira's group on biosensing.
More information on IWOSMOR here.
LFO has contributed to OPTOEL 2021 meeting with five communications. The most recent advances of the different research lines of the group will be presented.
More information on the OPTOEL 2021 here.
LFO participates in the organization of major national meetings on Optics and Optoelectronics
Scientific meetings have been affected by COVID pandemia, and most of them have turned into online modality. This is the case of two of the major Spanish meetings related to Optics, Photonics and Optoelectronics: Reunión Nacional de Óptica (RNO 2021) and Reunión Nacional de Optoelectrónica (OPTOEL 2021). Both of them are sponsored by the Spanish Optical Society, Sedoptica. While this year RNO 2021 is organized by the Women in Optics and Photonics committee of Sedoptica, OPTOEL 2021 is the most important activity of the Optoelectronics committee.
The members of LFO are highly involved in these activities. Prof. Miguel V. Andrés is organizer of OPTOEL 2021 and, together with Prof. Antonio Díez, are part of the scientific committee of this event. On their side, Dr. Martina Delgado-Pinar is co-chair of RNO 2021, while MSc. Luis A. Sánchez is organizer and community manager of this meeting.
OPTOEL 2021 will be held on 30th june, 1st-2nd july 2021. Twitter: @optoel2021
RNO 2021 will be celebrated on 22nd-24th November 2021. Contributions can be submitted here. Twittter: @2021rno
Join us and participate in the networking with your colleagues in the area!
LFO has contributed to the CLEO-Europe 2021 with four oral talks. The most recent advances of the different research lines of the group will be presented.
More information on the CLEO-Europe 2021 here.
The Laboratory of Fiber Optics presents its research activity in Photonics at Fira Experimenta
Fira Experimenta is the Science Fair organized by the Grupo de Trabajo en Física “Arquímedes” and the Facultat de Física of the University of Valencia. This Science Fair is open to the general public and consists on a competition where high school and college students present their science and technological projects. This year, the exhibition was celebrated on April, 25th, and LFO was present with a stand to give the attendees to the fair a bit of taste of what means to develop a scientific career in photonics. The youngest members of the LFO, Carolina Londero, Abraham Loredo-Trejo and Luis A. Sánchez were in charge of the experiments shown in our stand. This dissemination action was funded by the EU project IPN-Bio (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049).
LFO honors their female researchers on International Women’s Day
LFO joins the celebrations on 11th February and 8th march by honoring the female researchers that have developed their scientific careers as members of our group. Some of them begun with us as undergrad students, as PhD researchers, or as postdoctoral members:
Dr. Martina Delgado-Pinar, Dr. Lorena Velázquez-Ibarra, and MSc. Carolina Londero are working in the IPN-Bio Project (H2020-MSCA-RISE-2019-872049) and the OAFOM Project (PID2019-104276RB-I00)
Dr. Yanelis López-Diéguez, Dr. Irma Villegas-García, MSc. Leticia Carrión-Higueras, Dr. Erica Alcusa-Sáez, Dr. Nathália Beretta Tomazio, Dr. Angélica María Mesa Yandy, Dr. Qing Shi, Dr. Giorgina Beltrán Pérez, and Dr. Dinora Guzmán Chávez were working in previous projects.
LFO encourages young women to join STEAM careers, as our female colleagues in our recent history.
2020
FOPS 2020 meeting will take place on Friday the 27th November 2020. The LFO participates in the organization of this one day workshop that will take place at the Faculty of Physics, Lise Meitner Hall.