Project Consortium

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Welcome to PhotoGeNIC

The PhotoGeNIC consortium consists of eight partners from five countries (AT, BE, DE, FR, PL) including highly specialised SMEs, qualified university, advance research organisation and leading industrial companies. Their extensive know-how and long-lasting experience will allow the development of the new VCSEL industrial technology applying Ge large diameter substrates.

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Technical Lead
Włodzimierz Strupiński
Vigo Photonics
Poland
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Project Coordinator
Patrick Leczek
Technikon
Austria

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Blog

14 September, 2026

PhotoGeNIC News Update #02: Ge-VCSELs Become Reality

As PhotoGeNIC enters its final phase, the project has achieved a major milestone: successfully demonstrating high-performance 940 nm VCSELs grown on germanium substrates. Several 940nm VCSEL on Ge wafers were produced using MOCVD and MBE technologies, with three already showing...
20 August, 2026

Interview with Pieter Verhulst

🚗🔬 How do advanced photonic technologies make LiDAR systems smarter and more reliable? In our latest PhotoGeNIC interview, Pieter Verhulst from XenomatiX explains why VCSEL arrays are becoming an important light source for LiDAR and 3D sensing applications. Their scalability,...

Events

January

17 - 22

2026

SPIE Photonics West

@Location:

San Francisco
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The world’s largest photonics technologies event covering cutting-edge research in biomedical optics, biophotonics, industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, displays, quantum technologies, and more.

September

19

2025

VCSEL Day 2025

@Location:

Lódź
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The VCSEL Day is an annual meeting of scientists and researchers from across Europe and beyond working with vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs). The conference is attended by representatives from leading research institutions and universities and companies involved in VCSELs implementations.

March

09 - 13

2025

European Workshop on Molecular Beam Epitaxy (Euro MBE)

@Location:

Auron ski resort
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The workshop offers a platform for exchange, open discussion and presentation of the latest advancements in epitaxy, nanostructures, new trends on MBE growth, modeling, devices and related technologies.

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