During Optics and Photonics in Sweden 2024 (OPS-2024) conference, awards were given to 1st and 2nd best Master Thesis, along with prizes for best student poster contributions.

1st prize Best Master Thesis


Maria Nilsson Tengelin handed over the prize for the Award Committee and Rebecka Norman represented Hamamatsu Photonics Norden.
PhotonicSweden’s award (1st prize) for the best master thesis in photonics/optics within the study year 2023/24 is given to Kerstin Vahlin for her Master of Science Thesis performed at Chalmers University of Technology:

Large-angle deflection lens using supercell metasurfaces

Kerstin has studied capabilities of metagratings to produce a focus at high angles, which is required for many applications in biophotonics such as chip-based optical tweezers. She has not only designed these metasurfaces but also manufactured and characterised them.

2nd prize Best Master Thesis


Maria Nilsson Tengelin handed over the prize for the Award Committee and Nilkas Sazén represented Edmund Optics.
PhotonicSweden’s award (2nd prize) for an excellent master thesis in photonics/optics within the study year 2023/24 is given to Adrian Vågberg for his Master of Science Thesis performed at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH).

CO2 absorption spectroscopy with backward wave OPOs

Adrian Vågberg has in his thesis addressed the challenging task of quantifying the amount of CO2 present in the atmosphere using absorption spectroscopy.

BEST POSTER AWARDS


From left Rui Lin, Pantera Dara, Adrian Vågberg, Martin Brunzell, and Javier Tello Marmolejo.

Best Poster award was handed over by Rui Lin, Chalmers. The best posters were awarded with 3,000 SEK, the second and third prize were awarded with 1,000 SEK each. The poster awards are sponsored by IEEE Sweden Photonics Chapter.

  • “Directional Marangoni flow induced by laser heating of amorphous silicon nano-disks” Pantera Dara, Chalmers University. 
  • “Backward Wave Optical Parametric Oscillator Targeting CO2 Absorption Lines at 2.7μm”, Adrian Vågberg and Martin Brunzell, Royal Institute of Technology. 
  • “Revealing the Fano Combs in Mie Scattering”, Javier Tello Marmolejo, University of Gothenburg