The ETSi hosts the XIII Optoelectronics Meeting, OPTOEL 2023

The Higher Technical School of Engineering of the University of Seville, ETSi, is hosting from today, June 14 to 16, the XIII Meeting of the Optoelectronics Committee, OPTOEL 2023, a biennial event designed as a meeting point for researchers and professionals linked to Photonics and Optoelectronics in Spain, with the motto "Connecting Academia and Industry".

For three days, OPTOEL 2023 will analyze, update and discuss the latest scientific advances and developments in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.

In this respect, the European photonics and optoelectronics sector, as an enabling technology, faces significant challenges, including the ever-increasing demand for connectivity and information in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector, which continues its exponential growth. Photonic technologies are responsible for providing the successive increase in channel capacity. Similarly, the increased productivity and efficiency of industrial manufacturing processes, where photonics is already a strategic capability, offers the possibility of carrying out production processes in an automated and more flexible manner, with higher quality results.

Furthermore, the aging of the population and the increase in age-related diseases in the Life and Health Sciences sector, where photonic technology will help in carrying out preventive diagnoses at the molecular level as well as the development of non-invasive surgical methods.

Another area where photonic technology plays an absolute leading role is in the Lighting and Displays sector, and specifically the development of LEDs (inorganic light emitting diodes) and OLEDs (organic light emitting diodes) to be able to achieve improvements in image quality, energy efficiency, thickness, size, weight, and all this with a lower production cost.

Finally, new photonics techniques are playing a leading role in the development of the Optical Components and Sensors sector to improve safety and well-being in various areas of daily life such as food, environment, water, recycling, waste treatment, and traffic.

OPTOEL2023 aims to offer a platform comprised of researchers, entrepreneurs, investors and large companies that will connect academia and industry to drive solutions to these global problems.