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Photonics
Study program name
Photonics
Schools
Doctoral School
City
Barcelona
Duration
Undetermined
credits
Description
Photonics is the science that studies light and its generation, propagation, manipulation and interaction with matter. The discipline produces multidisciplinary technology with applications in communications, industry, nanotechnology, biology, medicine and other fields. In recent decades, photonics has given rise to a myriad of applications that have a positive impact on our lives, even at the most everyday level. Examples of photonic solutions to present-day challenges include modern fibre optics–based communications systems, optical diagnostic and therapeutic tools used in medicine, laser-based production methods, metrology and optical sensors, and photovoltaic energy.
.The doctoral programme in Photonics of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) is delivered by the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) within the framework of the UPC Doctoral School. The ICFO is a research centre dedicated to the study of light sciences and technologies and has been recognised as a Severo Ochoa Centre of Excellence. Founded in 2002 by the Government of Catalonia and the UPC, the ICFO also hosts ambitious patronage programmes funded by the Cellex and Mir-Puig foundations of Barcelona. The Institute has a threefold mission: frontier research, knowledge and technology transfer, and postgraduate training, mainly at the doctoral level. The ICFO is currently one of the leading centres in the world in its field.
Theses are completed in the four research areas at the core of the doctoral programme in Photonics: biomedical photonics, quantum optics, nonlinear optics and nanophotonics. These four research areas focus primarily on photonic applications in healthcare, renewable energies and information technologies. Research is carried out within the framework of long-term programmes and medium-term projects in a range of fields, including quantum information technologies, advanced screens, nanophotonic devices, graphene photonics, remote sensors, solar cells, optoelectronics, integrated optics, ultrafast optics, super-resolution imaging techniques, and biomedical technologies for diagnosis and therapy.