The PIONEAR consortium successfully convened for its 4th General Assembly Meeting from April 1–3, 2025, hosted by the IMP Institute at OST Campus in Buchs, Switzerland. The event brought together 19 participants from 7 consortium partners to share progress, discuss challenges, and outline future directions for the ambitious research project.

In the rapidly evolving world of technology, the PIONEAR project stands at the forefront of technological innovation, with the goal of creating long-lasting change in the way sound is detected, allowing for an overall better sound quality for our day-to-day-use devices.  Under the guidance of the PIONEAR partners Lumiary and

The PIONEAR project is introducing abreakthrough in microphone technologywith a unique design that redefines soundmeasurement. At the core of thisinnovation is a laser-based microphonecapsule, where the laser itself serves asthe sensing element. Unlike traditionallasers that emit light at a fixed colour, thelaser in PIONEAR’s microphone is highlyresponsive to environmental influences.When

PIONEAR is delighted to introduce its project newsletter, designed to share valuable insights, updates, and information about our pioneering work in developing a photonic microphone with sound quality surpassing that of the human ear. In this first issue, we offer an in-depth overview of the PIONEAR project, its mission, and

From October 1st to 3rd, 2024, the partners of the PIONEAR project will gather in Warsaw, Poland, for the third General Assembly (GA). Hosted by the Łukasiewicz – Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics (Ł-IMIF), the event will bring together around 20 participants representing the seven consortium partners. The event will

Imagine having the ability to unleash the fullpower of acoustics with a radically newtechnology for detecting sounds! Imaginethe endless possibilities that this could bringwith an enhancement of studio-soundquality of music and sound recordings orthe improved-quality conversations wecould have through video calls or using oursmartphones. To make this vision a reality,