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FIREFLY presented at the SPIE Photonic Europe in Brussels

On 17 and 18 April 2012 the FIREFLY project was presented at the SPIE Photonics Europe exhibition in Brussels. At the stand, offered to us by the European Commission, the consortium, led by TNO, showed an ongoing presentation with our vision and project objectives. The presentation was combined with two informative flyers and a demonstration of some nano-imprinted samples. Attendees of the Photonics Europe conference who visited our stand, were interested in all components that we aim to develop. The future of optics in data transmission was widely recognized.

Bert Jan Offrein (IBM Zurich) explained the IBM-roadmap towards the ‘optical’ computer in a presentation at the conference. He mentioned the FIREFLY project which is aiming at one step of the roadmap: the optical data transmission on the optical PCB between components.

The process of nano-imprinting, as will be used for preparing the polymer waveguides, was presented by Mikko Karppinen (VTT Finland). Also Mikko referred to the FIREFLY project and the funding by the European committee, which will help making a step forward in the production of polymer waveguide on an industrial scale.

This exhibition was a great opportunity to present the objectives of our project to the photonics society in Europe and we hope we will be back in two years with interesting results and demonstrators.