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Light Science And Technology

Photonics Changes the World

Photonics, from photon, is both the branch of science and the field of economic activity that covers all phenomena and technologies associated with the emission, transmission, manipulation, detection, and use of light.

Photonics is therefore by nature an enabling technology with high potential.

 

 

 

 

Present in all current technological advances, photonics is transforming uses and our way of life:

  • ENERGY
  • HEALTH
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • QUANTUM
  • TRANSPORT
  • ARTS AND CULTURE
  • TELECOMMUNICATIONS
  • DEFENSE
  • INSTRUMENTATION
  • LASER

Photonics is inherently hybridized with a wide spectrum of sciences and technologies: biology, medicine, digital, cognitive, signal processing, nanosciences, aeronautics, architecture, civil engineering...

The possibilities for innovation it offers are endless.

Today's Science For The World of Tomorrow

Photonics: The Cornerstone of Recent Discoveries

Photonics has played a role in most of the major scientific discoveries in recent years. Between 1997 and 2019, there were 11 Nobel Prizes in Physics and 2 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry with a strong photonic component:

  • 1997: Cooling of atoms with light
  • 1999: Femtosecond lasers for chemistry
  • 2000: Semiconductors for optoelectronics
  • 2001: Bose-Einstein condensate
  • 2005: Laser spectroscopy and frequency comb
  • 2009: Fiber optic communications and CCD sensors
  • 2012: Measurement and manipulation of quantum systems
  • 2014: Blue LEDs
  • 2014: High-resolution fluorescence microscopy
  • 2017: Detection of gravitational waves
  • 2018: Generation of ultra-short, high-intensity optical pulses
  • 2018: Optical tweezers and their application to biological systems
  • 2019: Discovery of the first exoplanet.
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