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INPHOCOM group awarded new research-education project

The INPHOCOM group has been awarded a 3-year project, aiming to enhance laboratory infrastructure to support hands-on learning in fiber optics and integrated photonics.

Dr. Daniel Benedikovic will serve as a Lead Guest Editor for JOSA B Feature Issue

Dr. Daniel Benedikovič, leader of the INPHOCOM group has been appointed as a Guest Editor for the OPTICA JOSA B Feature Issue on “Recent Advances in Integrated Photonics.”

MIRAQLE project

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova

The Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of Žilina has received a prestigious research grant from Slovakia’s National Recovery and Resilience Plan.

SPIE Photonics West 2025 (SK)

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova

Daniel Benedikovic attended an international conference SPIE Photonics West 2025 in San Francisco, USA, delivering two invited talks on recent advances in fiber-chip couplers on silicon nitrides.

Pavel Cheben Award

We congratulate to our esteemed co-worker Prof. Pavel Cheben on being awarded by the SPIE organization for his pioneering work on metamaterial optical waveguides for integrated photonic circuits.

Hands-on lectures

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova, Peter Brida

We are pleased to strengthen academic-industrial collaboration with our partners by developing attractive hands-on lectures for Master students in Telecommunication and Radiocommunication engineering.

The cheap solution for integrated photonics light coupling challenge (SK)

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova, Lukas Koskar

The difference in size between elements of photonic integrated circuit and an optical fiber is several orders of magnitude, which makes it particularly difficult to mutually interconnect these two worlds without significant losses.

Slovaks report a breakthrough. They invented cheap interconnection of chips and optical fibers (SK)

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova, Lukas Koskar

Electronic circuits are constantly switching off and on, and this is energy consuming. Photonic circuits work differently, handling information in the form of light.

Revolutionary method of connection between optical fibre and chip created at the University of Žilina (SK)

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova

The research team of Dr. Daniel Benedikovic from FEEIT UNIZA has proposed a new way of high-efficiency interconnection between the chip and the optical fiber.

The University of Žilina has created a revolutionary way of connection between optical fibre and chip (SK)

Thanks to: Adriana Valentovicova

The University of Žilina informs about a revolutionary novelty. Researchers from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the University of Žilina have created an innovative way of connection between an optical fibre and a chip.

A simpler path for efficient interconnects between integrated photonic chips and conventional optical fibre (SK)

Thanks to: Peter Brida

Photonic integrated circuits are a promising next-generation technology because they can form complex optical systems, such as communication networks, sensors or even quantum computers, on a single compact semiconductor chip.

Trends in fibre and integrated optics (SK)

Thanks to: Peter Brida

In the last weeks of the winter semester 2023/2024, we continued to organized specialized seminars with experts from the industrial and academic domains, opening up new horizons to our students.

FEEIT UNIZA researcher becomes adjunct research professor at Carleton University (SK)

Thanks to: Peter Brida

Dr. Daniel Benedikovic from the Department of Multimedia and Information and Communication Technologies FEIT UNIZA and the University Science Park UNIZA, has been honourably appointed as Adjunct Research Professor in the Department of Electronics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.

Trends in fibre and integrated optics – seminar series (SK)

Thanks to: Peter Brida

In the penultimate week of the winter semester (December 7, 2022) we started our new series of scientific and educational seminars at KMIKT FEEIT UNIZA with the common title “Trends in fiber optics and integrated optics”. The aim of this scientific-educational cycle is to introduce top experts from industry and academia, not only from Slovakia but also from abroad, to our students in various courses.