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

Quantum Photonics

This research axis is characterized by work on the development of smart photonic devices for optical and quantum data processing. Research teams explore themes such as quantum sources, detectors and devices; quantum communications and interconnects; and quantum photonic sensors for scientific advances in telecommunications, computing and sensing.

Flocon de hBN
by Guillaume Beaudoin, Mathieu Massicotte, Université de Sherbrooke

Head of research

Roberto Morandotti

Professeur, INRS - ÉMT

Members

Claudine Allen

Yves Bérubé Lauzière

Fabio Boschini

Sébastien Francoeur

Jérôme Genest

Nicolas Godbout

Mathieu Juan

Raman Kashyap

Roberto Morandotti

Denis Morris

Thanh-Tung Nguyen-Dang

Juan Nicolas Quesada

Denis Seletskiy

Research Themes

THÈME 1

Quantum sources, detectors and devices

THÈME 2

Quantum communications and interconnects

THÈME 3

Quantum photonic sensors

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