Day of photonics – Laser Day in Pilsen

Photonics technologies are amazing, fascinating, and you find them everywhere: in communication, entertainment, medical, manufacturing, automotive, energy, lighting, agriculture, photovoltaic, security, art, … Photonics is a key enabling technology with a very bright future. Whether you are looking for a new career, a student that needs to make a choice for your studies, if you are a financial investor or a politician that influences policies, think PHOTONICS !

Video “Photonics technologies are everywhere!”

DO YOU KNOW WHY 21 OCTOBER IS DAY OF PHOTONICS?

On 21 October 1983, the General Conference of Weights And Measures adopted the value of 299,792.458 km/s for the speed of light. At the occasion of the anniversary, over 100 activities will be organized in more than 30 countries in the world and encompass all kinds of demonstrations and discussions on the impact of photonics on our day-to-day life. HiLASE is part of it and on 23rd of October we organize LASER DAY in Pilsen.

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university students are given an introduction of the problems of laser technologies and their applications in practice, both in the form of short seminars and several interactive demonstrations of various physical and optical phenomena

On 21 October 1983, the General Conference of Weights And Measures adopted the value of 299,792.458 km/s for the speed of light. At the occasion of the anniversary, over 100 activities will be organized in more than 30 countries in the world and encompass all kinds of demonstrations and discussions on the impact of photonics on our day-to-day life (see attached presentation with some examples of photonics applications).