Photonics (MSc)

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.