Photonics is the enabling technology of the 21st century. "In the very same way as the 20th century has been the century of the electron, the 21st century should be that of the photon" . Applications are diverse and ubiquitous.

A selection from studied applications:

• Mechanical Sensing: development and application of fiber sensors and sensor chips for integration in concrete, composites and textiles.
• Biotech Sensing: Development and application of biotech photonic integrated chips
• Environmental Sensing: Development and application of sensing photonic integrated chips
• Tactile Sensing: integrated flexible tactile sensors
• Biomedical devices: integrated OCT
• Electrophorotic microscopy: development of electrophoretic characterization system
• Datacom/Telecom: Optical interconnect technologies and all optical signal processing
• Energy: second generation sollar cells by synthesis of nanoparticles. 
• Lighting and illuminations: organic LEDs
• ...