• ACS Sensors 2024
    Check out the new contribution of the team of Prof. Jacques Albert (Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada) with Efrain Villatoro, Médéric Loyez, Joel Villatoro and Christophe Caucheteur! This collaborative ACS Sensors article is entitled Dual-Mode Comb Plasmonic Optical Fiber Sensing. Surface plasmon (SP) excitation in metal-coated tilted fiber Bragg gratings (TFBGs) has been a focal point for highly sensitive surface biosensing. Previous efforts focused on uniform…
  • METAMORPHOSE 2024
    The APS-unit is present at the Belgian thematic doctoral school “METAMORPHOSE” organized at UMONS this year! This event gathers researchers working on Experimental and theoretical methods: atoms, molecules and supramolecules, photons, spectra and electrons.🕵 Hadrien Fasseaux and Médéric Loyez presented their studies based on plasmonic tilted fiber Bragg gratings and discussed about the insights of this technology! Thanks for this nice and interesting day ! Ruddy…
  • Biosensing Technology 2024
    It was nice to see the many interesting prospects in biosensors at the 8th conference on Bio-sensing Technology in Seville, Spain! Our postdoc researcher, Médéric Loyez, presented our latest research works about insulin detection and benchmarking with the SPR Biacore setup, conducted with Hadrien Fasseaux, Maxime Lobry, Ruddy Wattiez and Christophe Caucheteur ! 🤝 Great networking! See you for the next edition! F.R.S. – FNRS UMONS
  • SPIE Photonics Europe
    This week was intense at the conference! Hadrien Fasseaux, Mateo Tunon de lara and Médéric Loyez were presenting our latest works at SPIE Photonics Europe conference! It was a great opportunity to meet with our collaborators et create new connections for our future projects!
  • TFBGs VS. Biacore X100
    We are happy to share our latest publication about a benchmark analysis for insulin detection. In this article published in Biosensors and Bioelectronics, Médéric Loyez, Hadrien Fasseaux, Maxime Lobry, Ruddy Wattiez and Christophe Caucheteur demonstrate the possibility to achieve similar performances for bio-detection using a commercial device, namely the Biacore X100 from Cytiva (Formerly Ge Healthcare). This reference equipment has many assets and a very powerful…
  • Communications Engineering
    Check out our latest publication in Communications Engineering (Nature Portfolio) The article is entitled “Machine learning unveils surface refractive index dynamics in comb-like plasmonic optical fiber biosensors” This work was conducted by Hadrien Fasseaux, Médéric Loyez and Christophe Caucheteur and shows how Machine Learning can improve the implementation of TFBGs as practical biosensors https://www.nature.com/articles/s44172-024-00181-9 The precise measurement of surface refractive index changes is crucial in biosensing,…
  • New website
    Here we are! See the launch of our new website, highlighting our main expertises, current projects and collaborations. Thanks to this new platform, stay with us to follow our news, publications, and activities.
  • Our book is available!
    Good news for our Advanced Photonic Sensors unit!Our book on plasmonic optical fibers is still available (ed. Artech House)! Christophe Caucheteur Médéric LoyezThank you all for your positive feedback and your opinions regarding our book, so many challenges and projects to come on this technology!Soon, we will announce the finalization of our new website and share our latest publications,… exciting prospects!Stay tuned!