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PhotoNext fits perfectly in the EU Photonics Work Programme, by focusing its activities on three main areas:
PhotoNext researchers have recognized expertise and international positioning on topics A1 and A3, the two being so far independently developed. The PhotoNext strategy is to combine and integrate the skills and know-how to develop advanced optical components for next generation telecommunication networks and industrial applications. Moreover, PhotoNext aims at creating a new competence centre for POLITO on topics A2 by extending its expertise on optical sensors to several applications, ranging from aerospace to environmental sensing, from structural health monitoring to biomedicine.
All PhotoNext activities are carried out by multidisciplinary research groups where engineers working in the fields of electronics, telecom, materials, transports and mechanics, and geophysics team up to achieve new outcomes which will greatly benefit the scientific community, the collaborating companies and the Society.
In 2016 the major telecommunication operators started to massively substitute the old “copper based” telephone network with new optical fibers for ultra-broadband access networks, with resulting strong social impacts in large and medium cities.
System monitoring in aerospace, railways and automotive sectors; environmental monitoring of the territory, such as for landslide and avalanche prevention; remote sensing for security and civil applications.
Planar components are experiencing the “silicon photonic” revolution, with the potential to reduce cost of photonics bringing it to the level of electronic components in silicon.