Do you want to join our team and help advance Brillouin microscopy around the globe?

Specto Photonics is looking for a Microscopy Application Engineer to support the deployment of ALBA, the first fully integrated Brillouin spectrometer on a chip.

This role puts you at the centre of cutting-edge microscopy applications, combining customer demos, technical presentations, training and hands-on ALBA installation on advanced systems.

The position is based in Italy and requires frequent travel.

Excited by the prospect of supporting both the scientific impact and commercial growth of a breakthrough technology?

Apply through the LinkedIn job opening or contact Specto Photonics.

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4421114747/

#Photonics #Microscopy #Spectroscopy #Brillouin #Mechanobiology #OpticalEngineering #Hiring

Our study revealed the biomechanics of intracellular structures, such as the intracellular envelope and the enclosed nucleoli, that were previously unknown, further showing how these compartments respond to external chemical stimuli.

This demonstrated the potential of this high-resolution, three-dimensional imaging technique to map the mechanical properties of single living cells in a non-invasive way, opening a new window into how cells respond to treatment.

A decade on, the field continues to move forward, building on these early insights to better understand living systems and what lies beneath the surface.

We are proud to be among the key drivers of this progress.

Explore the article to take a closer look:  https://www.nature.com/articles/srep37217

Analytica 2026 was one to remember!

It was a packed few days in Munich, and a real pleasure to engage with so many new and familiar faces. We saw strong interest in our technologies and had many thoughtful exchanges on the possibilities unlocked by integrated Brillouin spectroscopy.

This highly attended edition shows that the conference remains a key gathering for those working at the forefront of analysis and instrumentation.

A big thank you to Mountain Photonics and Dr. Andrea Teuber for hosting us, and to everyone who made time to connect.

🔬 We were excited to showcase our advanced integrated solutions during last week’s workshop on Brillouin microscopy for life science applications hosted by EMBL in Heidelberg.

Our CEO, Giuseppe Antonacci, demonstrated how Brillouin spectral measurements can be significantly accelerated and simplified for mechanobiologists, biophysicists, and biomedical engineers entering the field, using Specto’s proprietary solutions.

Participants also had the opportunity to see our high-rejection BIPD filter in action during a live demonstration by Tzu-Lung Wang (EMBL), showcasing its ultrahigh suppression performance in Brillouin microscopy measurements of highly turbid biological samples, including fresh bone.

It is exciting to witness the continued growth of the Brillouin community and to explore how emerging technologies can empower the next wave of research.

#BrillouinMicroscopy #LifeSciences #BiomedicalEngineering #Biophysics #Mechanobiology #EMBLBrillouin #Brillouin #ScientificTraining

Full-Vibrational Spectroscopy 🔬

Our research scientist, Morteza Behrouzitabar, introduced a groundbreaking method to measure the entire vibrational spectrum last week at VISPEC in Pavia.

Harnessing our proprietary high-rejection BIPD filter, this method uniquely gives simultaneous access to three distinctive spectral regimes: Brillouin, Raman THz, and traditional Raman.

Combined together, these spectral regions cover the full-fibrational spectrum, providing fundamental information about mechanical, structural and chemical properties of materials, such as pharmaceuticals.

Stay tuned to know more!

Specto Photonics at SPIE Photonics West 2026!

It was a pleasure to exhibit as part of the Italian National Pavilion, presented for the first time at the conference, and to represent Italian photonics on a global stage.

We were excited to showcase ALBA, our fully integrated on-chip Brillouin spectrometer, and to take part in insightful discussions across mechanobiology, optics, and photonics.

Thank you to everyone who stopped by the Italian Pavilion, and to OpportunItalia, the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, and the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) for their continued support.

See you next year, San Francisco!

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.