How do you make practical use of light to solve problems?
Engineers are wielding light as a tool to speed up the flow of information through fiber optic cables, study the modulation of brain circuits, detect cancer and infectious diseases, improve chips for machine learning and high-performance computing. Photonics and optical systems projects require sophisticated advances in multiple fields of research, such as laser and nonlinear optics, optoelectronics, quantum computation, and spectroscopy.