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Optical Fibers and Photonic Materials Group - AGH University of Science and Technology Krakow & BUT – Bialystok University of Technology
Design and technology of the luminescent materials and optical fibers
Director : Prof. DSc. Eng. Dominik DOROSZ
Email : ddorosz@agh.edu.pl
Phone : +48 12 6172936
Address : AGH University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Material Science and Ceramic Department of Silicates Chemistry and Macromolecular Compounds 2 Akademicka St., Building B8, 30-059 Kraków
Website : https:// www.ceramika.agh.edu.pl/en/
Research topics :
- Design and fabrication oxide, oxyfluoride and fluoride glasses doped/co-doped with rare-earth ions for optical fiber applications. Design, technology and analysis of the structure and optical properties of the glass-ceramics materials
Contact information:
Prof. Dominik DOROSZ
Email: ddorosz@agh.edu.pl
- Design, fabrication and analysis of the properties of rare-earth doped/co-doped silica, soft optical fibers. Fabrication of the polymeric luminescent optical fibers and bioactive glass fibers. Glass ceramic optical fibers
Contact information:
Dr. Marcin KOCHANOWICZ
Email: m.kochanowicz@pb.edu.pl
- Research studies on the glass-ceramics for photonic applications focused on the oxyfluoride and fluoride materials containing rare-earth doped nanocrystals. Fabrication, assessment, and application of glass-ceramic optical fibres and photonic systems
Contact information:
Dr. Eng. Magdalena LEŚNIAK
Email: mlesniak@agh.edu.pl
Exceptional facilities :
- HT Furnaces with gas atmosphere, Setup for fabrication fluoride glasses, setup for glass extrusion;
- MCVD preform fabrication system with chelate rare-earth doping;
- Optical fiber drawing towers for silica, soft, and polymeric fibers.
Financial support programmes :
- European funds: H2020 FETOPEN-2019-2023, Bilateral international programs, National funds: the National Science Centre of Poland: N N515 512340, DEC-2016/23/B/ST8/00706); DEC -2017/25/B/ST8/02530, DEC-2013/09/D/ST8/03987 ;Regional funds: PAED
Latest news
2025 ECerS International Ceramist Student Exchange Program – 3rd call!
In the frame of the 2025 ECerS International Student exchange program, ECerS is opening a first call to allow grants to European Students to attend the 2025 International Symposium on Green Processing for Advanced Ceramics (IGPAC 2025), organised by the Ceramic Society of Japan, from 5th to 9th October 2025 in Ise-Shima/Mie, Japan.
Next Deadline to apply to the JECS Trust for Mobility projects is 31st August 2025!
Please note that the decisions of the JECS Trust board will not be known before end of October 2025. Activities submitted for the deadline of 31st August 2025 for support from the JECS Trust should then not begin before November 2025.
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