Experimental Biophotonics research group 

Advanced light microscopy R&D especially on holographic and two‑photon microscopy, and applications in cell biology, cancer and nanotechnology.


Experimental Biophotonics Facility

Open access services in advanced light microscopy, especially holographic quantitative phase imaging with incoherent light source and laser scanning confocal microscopy.








Czech-BioImaging is a national research infrastructure for biological and medical imaging. It is a distributed infrastructure of leading imaging facilities in the Czech Republic. The infrastructure provides an open access to a wide range of imaging technologies and expertise to all scientists in the Czech Republic and from abroad by a unified and coordinated logistics approach.

NEWS

10.10.2025

Graphene Takes Photonics to the Next Level

We demonstrate theoretically that the plasmonic resonance in hybrid photonic waveguides with graphene can be significantly enhanced by employing a graphene nanoribbon with a deep subwavelength width…
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09.10.2025

Young Scientist CSMS Scholarship for Ivana Michalkova

We are delighted to announce that our PhD student, Ivana Michalková supervised by prof. Chmelik, has received the Young Scientist Scholarship awarded by the Czechoslovak Microscopy Society
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21.05.2025

Potato starch as a lens

Ordinary potato starch surpasses even nanomaterials in its optical properties. Thanks to its structure, a starch grain functions as a microlens, which can simultaneously focus an optical beam, change…
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