NKT Photonics has developed a mid-IR supercontinuum source, the SuperK MIR, which uses technology advances from the MINERVA project.

This source was awarded the Laser Technology Innovation prize at the Ofweek 2017 conference in China (Sep-2017).

The MINERVA project final workshop will be held on FRI 30-Jun-2017. The event will cover a range of topics relating to mid-IR imaging and includes presenters from within the project as well as several invited guest speakers. Agenda and further details are here.

This free event will be held in Munich (at the Räter […]

MINERVA will have a booth, and a NKT will present a paper on mid-IR supercontinuum, at MIRSENS 4.
4th International Workshop on Opportunities and Challenges in Mid-Infrared Laser-based Gas Sensing
15-17 May-2017; Wroclaw, Poland

It promises to be a very interesting event: we hope to see you there!

Weblink:
http://mirsensconference.org/index.php

The MINERVA project is pleased to announce the preliminary agenda for our final workshop to be held on FRI 30-Jun-2017. Many thanks to our guest speakers, who will present on a range of topics relating to mid-IR imaging. There will also be a comprehensive overview of the progress made in the project including state-of-the-art hardware […]

The seventh MINERVA newsletter is now available from the website: Newsletter 7: Dec-2016

This includes an announcement of the MINERVA workshop: further info to follow shortly!

Other topics include:

-High-energy Er:ZBLAN fibre laser (LISA Laser)
-Mid-IR fibre developments including Pr-doping and ultra-low loss (University of Nottingham)
-Effect of pixel size in high […]

The MINERVA project public presentation Dec-2016 has been extensively updated with lots of new slides showing recent results, including chalcogenide fibres, long wavelength mid-IR sources, detectors, optical components and calomel crystals.

Any questions, please get in touch!

Link: http://minerva-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/MINERVA-project-presentation-Dec-2016.pdf

The MINERVA project is pleased to announce its final workshop on mid-IR technology.

The agenda will be released shortly, and will include presentations on:
-MINERVA hardware: mid-IR fibres; lasers, supercontinuum sources, components and detectors
-MINERVA applications: high resolution mid-IR imaging & spectroscopy, automated analysis of cell spectra for cancer diagnosis
-Expert guest […]

The MINERVA project has been extended for nine months, and will now finish 31-Jul-2017.

This will give the consortium more time to use and exploit the demonstration systems which are being integrated in the project. It is hoped that external users will be able to send samples for high resolution spectroscopic inspection in the mid-IR, and perhaps […]

SPIE has issued an article in the Biomedical Optics & Medical Imaging section of its Newsroom on MINERVA activities carried out at University of Exeter and Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Identification of gastrointestinal cancers using rapid mid-IR spectral imaging

Nick Stone, Jayakrupakar Nallala and Gavin R. Lloyd

Web link: http://www.spie.org/newsroom/6463-identification-of-gastrointestinal-cancers-using-rapid-mid-ir-spectral-imaging

MINERVA will have a booth at the Photonics Innovation Village as part of Photonics Europe 2016
03-07 Apr-2016; Brussels, Belgium
With over 1200 presentations and 18 conferences, this major European event covers a wide range of photonic technology including highly integrated and functional components, advances in laser and amplifier technologies and photonics […]