December 17, 2025

Santec AOC Research Fellowship 2025 — Recipient Selected

Santec AOC Corporation is pleased to announce the selection of the recipient for the "Santec AOC Research Fellowship 2025." This fellowship is designed to support researchers in advancing scientific research and development using optical technology.

Fellowship Overview

• The Santec AOC Research Fellowship is a program designed to support researchers in utilizing optical technology. The selected recipient will be provided with the Spatial Light Modulator (SLM) model of their choice free of charge.
• Researchers of all fields, nationalities, ages, and genders are eligible to apply.
• Upon selection, recipients are requested to acknowledge "Santec SLM" in any publications resulting from the use of the provided SLM, and may be asked to participate in case studies, interviews, or presentations in Santec-hosted webinars.

Recipient Selection
Following a thorough review of applications received between April 1 and September 30, 2025, one recipient has been selected.。

Recipient Information:

Vladislav Gavryusev, PhD, Assistant Professor
University of Florence, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Via Giovanni Sansone, 1 — 50019 Sesto Fiorentino (FI), Italy
Website:https://quantumgases.lens.unifi.it/exp/yb

Recipient's comment:
Self-introduction
I am a researcher in a research group working on quantum simulation with ultracold ytterbium atoms, where we use optical lattices to emulate strongly correlated electronic systems in a defect-free and highly controllable environment.

Motivation and reason for applying
We applied to the Santec Fellowship because a state-of-the-art Santec SLM is exactly the missing piece in our setup, to flexibly engineer different lattice configurations. Until now, our lattice geometries have been constrained to few simple configurations due to the use of a static optical setup. The Santec SLM-210 will let us overcome these limitations and move to a regime of fully programmable and even dynamically tunable optical potentials.

Research using the provided SLM
With the SLM we plan to generate arbitrary topologies of two-dimensional lattices (square, rectangular, triangular, hexagonal, Lieb, Kagome) and to tune their spacing from the sub-micron regime, relevant for simulating the models belonging to the Bose-Hubbard or Fermi-Hubbard Hamiltonian classes, up to larger distances that are optimal for learning the simulation outcome through high-fidelity single-atom detection.

Future plans and expectations
Its high refresh rate and excellent phase stability will also enable us to perform controlled, near-adiabatic lattice ramps and geometry changes within a single experimental run, paving the way to experiments in new regimes.

Looking Ahead
Santec will continue to offer a variety of programs to support researchers in their scientific and development activities. For more information and program details, please contact us.。