Photonics is a Key Enabling Technology

Photonic Challenges

• Exploring the full disruptive potential of photonics• Cross-fertilisation between various photonic technologies

Strategic

Research Areas

• Life sciences & healthcare• Manufacturing & quality control• Light harvesting & renewable energy• Lighting, electronics & displays• Information & communication• Sensors & security

Expected Impact

Revolutionise health careEnable high-volume &

low-cost manufacturingProduce energy efficient lighting with intelligent

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Societal Challenges

• Health & ageing of society• Climate change• Security• Growing need for sustainable energy• Employment generation

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European Key Enabling Technologies (KETs) are technologies most capable of improving the EU’s industrial competitiveness:• Advanced materials• Nanotechnology• Micro and nanoelectronics• Manufacturing• Biotechnology• Photonics

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Photonic Challenges

• Solid-state enabled intelligent lighting• Double the current efficiency of solar cells• Improvement in cost-performance ratio• Development of new materials• Enabling mass production

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• Solid-state lighting Ex: LEDs, OLEDs• Organic photovoltaics Ex: Solar cells, Rechargeable batteries• Display technology Ex: Laser TV, smart gadgets

Expected Impact

3 times reduction of energy consumption20-50% improved

energy savingsReduction in global CO2

emission by 1000 million tones per year

47000 new jobs in display technology alone20% share of renewable

energies in EU energy consumption by 2020

Societal Challenges

• Ever growing energy needs• Controlling green house gas emissions• Reducing impact of climate changes• Accessible domestic lighting

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• Reliable low-cost diagnosis• Mobile point-of-care • Fast and portable water and food quality control• Accurate imaging• In vivo tissue manipulation

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• Biophotonics• Clinical research • Oncology • Ophthalmology• Infectious diseases• Neuro-monitoring & imaging• Spectroscopy• Nanotechnology

Expected Impact

20% reduction in European health care costs

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Transmission capacity of several 100 Terabits

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• Fiber optics• Wireless communications• Silicon photonics• Quantum information & communication • Quantum cryptography• Photonic system design

Photonic Challenges

• Integrated optical networks • Terahertz generation• Long haul communication• Secure communication• Big data storage• Displays

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Industrial Processes and Quality Control

Expected Impact

50% reduction in emissions

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Societal Challenges

• Sustainable and green technologies• Reliable and durable manufacturing• Zero-fault and resource efficient production• Quality control• Lower industrial pollution

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Photonic Challenges

• Quality and cost benefits• New production solutions• Broadening the spectrum of applications for laser production technologies• Fabrication and laser treatment of functional surfaces and advanced material• Processing of composites and dissimilar materials

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• High power or energy lasers• Light matter interactions• Material science and coatings• Nanotechnology• Solid state physics• Quantum optics

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Photonics helps us understand and preserve our past, impacts and surrounds our present and opens endless possibilities for our future.

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