# Integrated Photonics: From Fundamentals to Business Impact

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# Integrated Photonics: From Fundamentals to Business Impact

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- ### Start date: 22 June 2026
- ### Language: English
- ### Location: TU/e campus, Eindhoven
- ### Certification: Microcredential

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### Why this program?

Integrated photonics is rapidly becoming a key enabling technology for next-generation communication systems, sensing solutions, medical diagnostics, and advanced manufacturing. As chips become smaller, faster, and more energy-efficient, companies across industries face an important strategic question: How and when should we adopt integrated photonics to strengthen our products, services, and innovation roadmap?

This module for industry professionals helps technology-driven companies navigate that question. You will gain a clear, accessible overview of integrated photonics, understand the business and strategic implications, and learn how this technology can create value in your own organization.

Designed and taught by experts from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) and industry partners, the module combines technical insight with real-world application. You will also be introduced to the internationally recognized Eindhoven photonics ecosystem, one of Europe’s strongest innovation clusters in this field.

## What you will learn

After completing this module, you will be able to:

- Understand the fundamentals, platforms, and capabilities of integrated photonics
- Navigate core application areas such as telecom/datacom, healthcare, automotive, industrial sensing, and agrifood
- Evaluate the strategic relevance of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for your company
- Identify opportunities and limitations of the technology from a business perspective
- Gain insight into the Eindhoven photonics ecosystem, including key players such as PhotonDelta, SMART Photonics, LioniX International, JePPIX, and Bright Photonics
- Collaborate on a challenge-based assignment, translating your new knowledge to a real-world organizational context

The module enables managers and technical leaders to make informed decisions about adoption, investment, and collaboration within the emerging integrated photonics landscape.

## Program setup

This is a 4-day executive module consisting of:

- Lectures and masterclasses by TU/e teachers and industry experts
- Hands-on sessions and demonstrations to translate concepts into practice
- Challenge-based learning, where you work in teams on a real industrial case
- Ecosystem exposure, including perspectives from leading photonics companies and innovation hubs
- Networking opportunities with peers across the EuroTeQ universities and industry

Teaching methods include interactive lectures, discussions, case studies, and guided teamwork.

## For whom?

We invite professionals from engineering, STEM and technical business backgrounds to apply for this module within the European Leadership Program for Industrial Science (ELPIS).

Participants in this module will form an interdisciplinary group representing engineering, science, technology, and business roles across industries where innovation, digitalization, high-tech manufacturing and advanced sensing or communication technologies are becoming increasingly important.

This module is particularly relevant for engineering professionals, STEM specialists, and business-oriented technology leaders in mid- to senior-level roles who are responsible for driving innovation, identifying new product and service opportunities, and exploring how emerging technologies—such as integrated photonics—can strengthen the competitiveness of their company.

In their current positions participants typically play a crucial role in shaping technological innovation, fostering industrial research, and driving future-oriented product development. They are responsible for identifying strategic opportunities in rapidly evolving technology landscapes—such as integrated photonics—and securing the long-term growth and competitiveness of their company.

Example job titles of potential participants:

- Middle managers and technical leaders responsible for R&D, innovation strategy, technology adoption, or product development
- Professionals with a technical background (not necessarily in photonics or optics) who want to understand how integrated photonics can benefit their organization
- Decision makers evaluating emerging technologies and their implementation potential

No prior photonics knowledge is required; familiarity with engineering or scientific concepts is sufficient.

## Admission requirements

Participants should have a good general understanding of technology, and a desire to broaden their perspective across disciplines and industries.

We welcome professionals who are eager to explore how integrated photonics and other critical technologies will shape future products, business models and industrial competitiveness—and who value learning in an interdisciplinary, collaborative environment.

## Start date and application

- Program start: 22 June 2026\*
- Application deadline: 1 May 2026

To register your interest, contact us via the “Sign up to stay informed and receive a 15% discount” button below.

\*start date will be 22 or 23 June 2026

## Language

The program is taught in English.

## Certificate

Upon successful completion (including the challenge evaluation) you will earn a [microcredential](https://www.tue.nl/en/education/professional-education/current-programs/microcredentials), contributing to your lifelong learning portfolio and signaling your commitment to future-ready technologies.

## Meet our teachers

[Full Professor

### Andrea Fiore

Photonics and Semiconductor Nanophysics](https://www.tue.nl/en/research/researchers/andrea-fiore)

## Join a European Community of practice

This course is just the beginning. By attending, you will join a European community of practice across industries and the best technical universities in Europe with deep experts from the following fields: advanced manufacturing, advanced materials, life-science technologies, micro/nano-electronics and photonics, AI, security, and e-connectivity.

Read more about EuroTeQ here: [I am a Professional Learner](https://euroteq.eurotech-universities.eu/get-involved/learner/) and “[ELPIS Program](https://euroteq.eurotech-universities.eu/initiatives/lifelong-learning/euroteq-executive-program/)”.

The EuroTeQ University Alliance offers standalone executive courses that will eventually form a full Executive Certificate Program ELPIS consisting of a Leadership for Industrial Science: A Premier Leadership Program for European Innovation wrapped up by a Capstone Project.

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