Expertise, Capabilities and Facilities for Photonics Research
PREIN is a Photonics Research and Innovation platform focusing on light-based solutions from scientific excellence to industrial and societal impact. PREIN partners are worldwide leaders in photonics that changes the world.
Economic impact and industrial collaboration are increased mainly through a tight collaboration with Photonics Finland as PREIN and Photonics Finland continue to increase and tighten their cooperation.
Additionally, FinnLight – Finnish Research Infrastructure on Light-Based Technologies – provides a comprehensive combination of technologies covering all classes of photonics materials as well as full-scale process lines for device fabrication and assembly.
Our expertise
Our different partners have a long experience in
- Electromagnetic field control incl. coherence and polarization
- Modeling, design, analysis, and development of optical systems, structures with nano- and micro-scale features, silicon waveguides and heterogeneous integration techniques, highly stable laser sources and laser diodes, solar cells, tailored light sources for sensing and imaging
- Instrumentation for measuring moisture, analyzing chemical composition, characterizing the thickness and uniformity of materials, spectral imaging
Our capabilities
We develop the knowledge generated by the Flagship partners for a wide range of potential applications. Example of unique know-how incl. but are not limited to portable and disposable sensors, broadband light sources, LIDAR technologies, smart photovoltaic modules. We also have a wide range of instruments and services that we can offer for industrial collaborations:
- silicon processing
- active and passive polymer photonic devices that can be produced by high volume production methods for energy harvesting and sensor applications
- prototyping for illuminating, imaging and sensing optics
- volume production methods
- molecular beam epitaxy for optoelectronics devices processing
- 3D printing of centimeter-scale optics
We can also develop tailored solutions to specific problems.
Our facilities
- FinnLight photonics infrastructure
- Centre for Metrology and Accreditations (MIKES)
- Micronova clean room for wafer processing
- PrintoCent for printed photonics
- MicroModule Centre for photonics packaging
- Clean room for opto-eletronics devices processing
- Molecular beam epitaxy, nanoimprint lithography and atomic layer deposition