Today we held the final online meeting for BIPD4Space, a collaborative project funded by the European Space Agency (ESA), focused on advancing Brillouin spectroscopy for space and terrestrial applications.

The project addressed key requirements in Space-compatible instrumentation: size, mass, and optical throughput. Together with our partner BBT (in collaboration with Ondrej and team), we developed an ultra-compact Birefringence-Induced Phase Delay (BIPD) filter based on highly birefringent halide crystals, targeting high suppression of Rayleigh background light with significantly reduced volume and mass.

This first step supports future directions such as on-site planetary material analysis and fundamental biological investigations during space missions.

We’re grateful to ESA for the support and to BBT for the strong technical collaboration throughout the project.

#Photonics #Brillouin #SpaceResearch #ESA #Optics #SpectoPhotonics

The 9th International BioBrillouin Conference marked an important milestone for us: we officially revealed ALBA – our fully integrated on-chip Brillouin spectrometer.

Designed for researchers in mechanobiology and materials science, ALBA combines compact design, alignment-free operation, and sub-GHz spectral precision on a small photonics chip — redefining Brillouin spectroscopy.

The BioBrillouin Conference was the perfect stage for ALBA’s debut, and we were delighted to present it to the community. We’d like to thank everyone who visited our booth and attended Giuseppe Antonacci’s invited talk, where he introduced ALBA and its vision for the future of Brillouin research.

A special thank-you as well to the organisers at the International BioBrillouin Society for hosting an exceptional meeting and bringing this vibrant community together.

We look forward to continuing the journey with ALBA and sharing more exciting updates soon.

Our team was thrilled to take part with several talks and a live demonstration of our #BIPD optical filter. We had the chance to showcase to students and researchers how our filter effectively removes the parasitic background from Rayleigh scattering, a key step in extending #Brillouin #microscopy to the analysis of turbid biological samples.

It was a real pleasure to connect with so many passionate young scientists eager to explore this exciting field. At Spectō Photonics, we’re committed to making their work easier, helping researchers from diverse backgrounds extract fundamental #mechanical #properties of materials. Weeks like this remind us why we do what we do.

🔬✨ Thanks to LAB ICS for the organization and all participants for the amazing feedback and discussions!

Come talking with us at booth 12 to discover our groundbreaking #spectroscopy solutions and see how noncontact #Brillouin #microscopy is reshaping the way to measure tissue and cellular 3D #biomechanics.

🦴 If you’re interested in hashtag#bone biomechanics, don’t miss the poster by Morteza Behrouzitabar, showing insights on the biomechanical changes occurring in the rare #osteopetrosis disease.

A consensus statement on #Brillouin #microscopy, coordinated by our co-founder Kareem Elsayad and co-authored by the leading experts in the field — including our CEO Giuseppe Antonacci — has just been published. This landmark article presents a unified vision for Brillouin light scattering, outlining its current status, key scientific and technological challenges, and the exciting opportunities that lie ahead.

At Spectō Photonics, we bring a longstanding commitment and deep expertise to this field. As pioneers of Brillouin-based technologies, we are actively tackling key limitations through disruptive innovations, such as high-rejection optical filters and miniaturized #spectrometers, making the technology more #accessible, #scalable, and #impactful.

🔗 Read the full article here link

It’s been an intense and exciting week here in #Munich, where Spectō Photonics showcased its latest high-rejection #BIPD optical filter for background removal in #Brillouin #spectroscopy.

We’ve had a packed schedule with talks, poster presentations, and countless inspiring conversations with people and companies from all over the world. The enthusiasm and curiosity around our technology have been truly energizing.

🎉 To top it all off, we’re incredibly honored to be recognized by Hamamatsu Photonics Europe as one of the top 3 #photonics #innovation companies at the show!

If you’re still around, don’t miss your last chance to visit us at booth A3.146—we’d love to connect!

#BrillouinSpectroscopy #LaserWorldOfPhotonics #Specto #optics #BIPDfilter

Our high-rejection #BIPD filters are packed and heading to new labs around the World. With this latest shipment, we’re excited to add a fourth continent to our customer base: after the United States, Europe, and Oceania, we’re now shipping to Asia, with our first delivery to China 🇨🇳

🌟 A major milestone for Specto and another sign of the growing global interest in our groundbreaking solutions for #Brillouin #spectroscopy.

🔬 Stay tuned — more innovations are on the way!

#Specto #BrillouinSpectroscopy #Photonics #MadeInItaly #Optics #Microscopy