Welcome to this year's second edition of PNOP! There are new opportunities in the new year: competitions for students, startups and entrepreneurs, new products from Polish manufacturers and more awards for leaders of the country’s photonics and optics community.

Enjoy the lecture and please share the information for our next editions,

Candela Foundation

Polska Platforma Technologiczna Fotoniki

The Photonics Society of Poland announces competition for the best Optics and Photonics Scientific Assocciation / student chapter of SPIE/OPTICA/IEEE in 2022. Applications for the competition can be sent until March 15, 2023. You are welcome to participate! Detailed information can be found on the competition website.

VIGO Ventures, the only European fund specializing in investments in photonics companies, invites all interested parties: researchers, potential founders and early-stage startups to an open online idea presentation session. Validate your idea, get support and funding. Deadline for application is February 21!

Candela Foundation has launched the 2nd edition of the Resonators scholarships program. Students selected in the competition will receive funding for internships at the University of Warsaw, the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, the International Centre for Translational Eye Research and the Polish Technological Platform on Photonics. Please share the information with students!

SPIE has awarded Danuta Bukowska Sampson with the SPIE Diversity Outreach Award, in recognition of her contributions and activities in popularising science and ensuring diversity in science. We congratulate her and wish her well in her future initiatives!

During SPIE Photonics West exhibition Vigo Photonics presented its cost-effective MWIR detection module for high volume applications - the AMS3140-01. Built-in amplifier and temperature controller combined with small dimensions provide easy integration with the target device. The module is an affordable solution for mass gas sensing applications.

SDS Optic, a Lublin-based company, has carried out the first complete launch of a production line for the pilot production of optoelectronic components of the inPROBE fibre optic microprobe. Developed by SDS Optic, inPROBE is a biophotonic sensor designed for very fast and painless examination of cancer markers.

KUKA, a global leader in the industrial robot industry, has published a case study of combining its robot with a 3D scanner on an optical quality control workstation developed for an aerospace customer by SMARTTECH3D, a scanner manufacturer near Warsaw.