The initial focus of the Centre will be on commercializing new technology discoveries related to the environment, natural resources and energy; health and related life sciences; and digital media.
Centre of Excellence for Photonics
The Centre of Excellence for Photonics helps Ontario firms and organizations
grow by finding innovative solutions for their challenges. Having everything
to
do with light, Photonics is a strategic technology that is making a significant
impact on all industrial and healthcare sectors – sectors critically
important to Ontario’s economy and prosperity. The Centre supports
the creation of new photonics knowledge and technology, fosters the
supply
of highly qualified people at all levels, enhances applications and commercialization,
and establishes regional and international collaborations.
The Centre works with industry to solve problems, engaging the brightest
minds at Ontario’s universities and colleges in the challenges faced
by businesses. We do this by co-investing in the research and development
of leading-edge, industrially relevant technologies.
A foundation technology, photonics is found in everything from new medical
treatments to the common CD player. Key application areas include: .
Medicine - including innovative imaging technologies that offer an
unprecedented view into living tissues and new minimally invasive therapies
that use lasers, or other energy sources, to destroy diseased tissue
without the need for major surgery.
Optical communications, processing and sensing - already light is
used to transfer data across networks at high speed. Ongoing research
is discovering ways to tap into photonic capabilities to better transfer,
store and process information -- at the speed of light.
Materials technology - photonic technologies can be used to induce
chemical reactions and manipulate matter to create useful materials.
Laser micromachining also allows materials to be shaped and manipulated
at the micro scale and can be used in the growing microelectromechanical
systems (MEMS) field.
The Centre of Excellence for Photonics is a knowledge, partnership
and commercialization portal for the research and development of photonic
technologies. Strengthening
the capability of Ontario industry through its support of regional photonics
clusters, it advances and promotes the province as a global hub of photonic
innovation.
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