Research axes

Quantum Photonics Biophotonics Optical Communications Photonic systems and microsystems Fiber-Optics and Guided-Wave Optics Photonic Materials Lasers and Ultra-fast Phenomena

Infrastructures and laboratories

COPL researchers have at their disposal an impressive array of optics-photonics equipment, in addition to a state-of-the-art research infrastructure that is in many ways unique in the world and allows them to work in synergy.

Our installations

Achievements

COPL's teams are responsible for achievements that have redefined the boundaries of scientific knowledge, led to the development of new technologies and even to the creation of companies or the development of innovative methods. Discover some of them here.

Success profiles Collaborations

Biophotonics

This sector is experiencing strong growth and has become one of the most rapidly developing axes at our research center. The main activities underway target the development of analytical tools, imaging and diagnosis, therapeutic and intervention methods for applications in medicine (neuroscience, surgery and microsurgery, detection of genetic material, pathogens or bacteria).

Work in this sector is supported by various partnerships with hospital-based research centers, in particular the Quebec University Institute of Mental Health, the organization that collaborated with the COPL in obtaining a second Canada Excellence Research Chair, this one in neurophotonics. The Chairholder is Dr. Pierre Marquet who joined the COPL in 2015.

Diversité Optique
by Valérie Pineau Noël and DCCLab, Université Laval

Head of research

Daniel Côté

Professeur titulaire, Université Laval

Members

Yves Bérubé Lauzière

Caroline Boudoux

Denis Boudreau

Paul Charette

Daniel Côté

Yves De Koninck

Michèle Desjardins

Tigran Galstian

Antoine Godin

Benoit Gosselin

Research Themes

THÈME 1

Diagnostic

Endoscopy
Imaging fiber probes
Multimodal microprobes
Fluorescence imaging
Raman imaging
Coherent Raman imaging
Coherent Raman spectroscopy
Biomarker tracking

THÈME 2

Therapeutics and intervention

Surgery and microsurgery
Optogenetics
Optical monitoring of neuronal activity
Longitudinal imaging
Stem cell migration
Parkinson’s disease

THÈME 3

Analytical tools

Molecular contrast
Spatial resolution
Cellular hyper-resolution
Microscopy
Microscopy
Genetic material detection
Pathogen detection
Bacterial detection
Specific fluorescent optical probes
Cell capture
Optical tweezers
Micro-fluidic systems
In-vivo structural and functional imaging
Neural and synaptic imaging
Holographic imaging

Professor-researchers
COPL members

The COPL brings together talented scientists who are distinguished by the excellence of their research and by their dedication to the training of the next generation of highly qualified personnel in optics-photonics. 

Our members