Let there be light!
Photonics for the XXIst century will be like electronics for the XXth century! There is no need to be a soothsayer to predict the future of this science of light that will once again revolutionise digital technologies. Provence has a good start at the heart of this movement! The activity has been represented in Provence since 2000 with the POPsud network, has been selected as a cluster, and has already made the region one of its future bastions. An avant-garde position that could earn it many laurels since, as Emmanuelle Rouan, leader of the OPTITEC specialty centre explains "it is a science for which France has not yet become fully aware of the potential": it is applicable in health, space, defence, the environment, industries, and no activity will be able to remain unaffected by this specialty.
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