Following the succesful FRET workshop in 2011, you are welcome to join Lambert Instruments and Nikon Europe for the 2nd edition of this one-day workshop. The focus is on how to perform FRET or FLIM and how to deal with the FLIM results.

Prof. T.W.J. Gadella of the University of Amsterdam, and Dr. J. van Rheenen of the Hubrecht Institute will present their work on FRET and FLIM and are available for informal discussion during the afternoon and the evening dinner. Hands-on sessions provide an introduction into widefield FLIM and confocal FLIM. Of course there is an opportunity to measure your own samples. 

Location: Nikon Europe headquarters, Amstelveen, The Netherlands

Date: February 7th 2012

Please download the following workshop flyer for the offered program and general information such as the venue.

Invitation and Call for Papers

Photonics Cluster Netherlands (PCN) and the German Society for applied Optics (DGaO) are inviting for the 113th annual DGaO conference from May 29th through June 2nd, 2012, in Eindhoven, The Netherlands.

It has been a long-standing tradition of the DGaO to occasionally hold their annual general meeting and technical conference in a neighbouring country. DGaO and PCN  would like to inivite you to join this unique conference at the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands.

On 27 and 28 March 2012 the sixth edition of the Dutch Photonics Event will take place at Niewegeins Business Centre near Utrecht. The unique conference will offer you a program with about 45 invited speakers from the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Besides interesting workshops and the tradeshow, we also organize an international brokerage event together with our partners Mikrocentrum and Syntens. Especially for visitors from other European countries this event is the unique possibility to meet the Dutch Photonics: companies, universities and knowledge institutes. We are very pleased with a growing contribution on all activities by our direct neighbours Belgium, Germany and France!

 After 20 years of active research and development of design and fabrication techniques, diffractive optics is approaching the status of a mature technology. In addition to the ongoing fundamental basic and applied research, we can find diffractive optics in increasingly many applications which are either completely based on diffraction phenomena or for which the diffraction solution is remarkably more compact, light-weight, or cheaper than its alternatives. This meeting will be the eighth in a series.

During Photonics West 2012 at SanFrancisco the Netherlands will be presented by the Holland Pavilion at the North Hall, booth 5000.  Besides PCN and NL Agency the following Dutch companies will join our pavilion:

• TFT-FOS
• RSP Technology
• Innoluce
• Anteryon
• 2MSensors
• Next Scan Technology
• Active Cooling Solutions

Please feel free to click on the companies name to visit their website. This year the Holland Pavilion is sponsored by NL Agency, LASER2000 Benelux and Avantes.