["Lasers are used for cutting, drilling, ablation, and welding of materials from the nanoscale to processing centimetre-thick sheets of steel for building ships.", "Lithography is essential for producing computer chips in the semiconductor industry.", "Imaging systems such as tiny cameras for smartphones, high-resolution microscopes, and giant astronomical telescopes on ground and in space are well-known photonic technologies.", "Novel, not so well-known applications that rely on new sources of coherent light are optical atomic clocks or ultra-precise measurement techniques such as gravitational wave astronomy.", "Finally, photonics is essential for future quantum technologies, such as secure quantum communication, quantum sensing, and quantum computing."]
October
All applicants
31 May for the following winter semester