Grant: College and Community Innovation Program - Entry Level

Today's microelectronics industry pushes miniaturization to its limits and faces important challenges. Analternative is to use light to control and transfer information, like in fiber-optics telecommunication.Nanophotonics - the science that studies the interactions of light with matter on the nanometric scale - is at theheart of on-chip optical devices to interface and replace traditional electronics. Nanophotonic quantum dotlasers and resonators are key technologies to build photonic integrated circuits. Applied research innanophotonics at the Cégep de l'Outaouais will focus on adapting these technologies - initially developed fortelecommunications applications - to biomedical instrumentation, with possible applications in photodynamictherapy and biosensing (parallel DNA sequencing, real-time pathogen detection, ...). This research is part of aglobal initiative at Cégep de l'Outaouais to increase its contribution to applied research, entrepreneurship, andspecialized technical education in the Outaouais region. The inauguration of its new research and innovationcenter in the Winter 2018 will help and support collaborations with local industrial partners, a key aspect ofthis research.