PlanOpSim Featured in Optics & Photonics Magazine !

We’re honored to see PlanOpSim Lieven Penninck Jonas Vandewalle featured in Optics & Photonics News! 🎉 The article, metaoptics Comes of Age, highlights the growing impact of metasurfaces and the role our simulation and design tools play in pushing this field forward.

We’re honored to see PlanOpSim Lieven Penninck Jonas Vandewalle featured in Optics & Photonics News! 🎉 The article, metaoptics Comes of Age, highlights the growing impact of metasurfaces and the role our simulation and design tools play in pushing this field forward.
Ecosystems always win!

A huge thank you to Optica and the incredible metaoptics community—from researchers to engineers—who continue to innovate and inspire.

We’re proud to support the continuing breakthroughs by providing powerful software that bridges the gap between nanostructure modeling, component design, and system integration.

This is just the beginning! We look forward to shaping the future of optics together. 🚀🔬

📖Find a podcast Interview with Lieven Penninck & Olga Raz in the first comment about this and much more

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