Electronics and optics-photonics research in Québec City

The INO is a world leader in optics-photonics and the field’s largest applied research centre in Canada. With the largest pool of skills in the field, it provides optics-photonics services to companies of all sizes and in all sectors all over the world.

The COPL is one of the largest optics-photonics research centres in the world because of its state-of-the-art facilities, seasoned researchers and the scope of its program. Based at l’Université Laval, it brings together researchers from different universities in the province.

The CERVO Brain Research Centre is one of the largest neuroscience and mental health centres in Canada. With its 60 researchers and their teams, it provides multidisciplinary expertise to the field, from membrane biophysics to social intervention. It includes, among other things, research chairs in biophotonics and neurophotonics.

How does it relate to optics-photonics? CERVO uses physics, engineering and optics-photonics techniques to find solutions to biological, psychiatric and clinical problems. The centre thereby facilitates great cooperation between physicists, engineers, neuroscientists and clinicians.

The DRDC, located in Valcartier, is part of a network of 8 national research centres (DRDCs) and is the largest national defence research centres in Canada.

At the CVSL, 8 professors and their teams focus on the theme of computer vision and its industrial and biomedical applications. Many projects target specific industrial or biomedical applications.

The CRVI is a technology transfer centre with state-of-the-art laboratories and a multidisciplinary team in intelligent robotics, robotic welding and machine vision. Its mission is to increase manufacturing firms’ productivity through applied research.