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From Single Photons to Continuous Variables: 40 Years of Quantum Optics

📍 Institut d’ Optique, Palaiseau

📅 June 4, 2026— 8:30 AM – 6:30 PM

A one-day event honoring Philippe Grangier, CNRS Research Director Emeritus, and his major contributions to quantum optics— from squeezed light and quantum non-demolition measurements to quantum communications and simulations.

Free registration( mandatory)

Tour de France of Photonics at OPTIQUE BFC 2026

An initiative of the SFO Early-Career Researchers Club

From Bordeaux to Paris, from Nice to Rouen, and all the way to Dijon, French photonics unfolds as a scientific journey shaped by successive stages. On the occasion of OPTIQUE BFC 2026, the largest congress of the SFO, to be held in Dijon from July 6 to 10, the SFO Early-Career Researchers Club is launching a“ Tour de France” initiative to highlight the diversity of actors, themes, and dynamics structuring the field today.

Through this initiative, the Club offers an original perspective on French photonics, structured around three complementary dimensions: territories, themes, and career paths. Based on a series of interviews conducted during the congress, the project gives voice to researchers, academics, engineers, and industry representatives. Each contribution becomes a“ stage,” illustrating a field of expertise or a local ecosystem and contributing to a broader vision of the photonics landscape. The initiative will culminate in a round-table discussion bringing together leading women researchers, offering a cross-cutting and dynamic perspective spanning fundamental science to industrial applications. Held in Dijon in collaboration with ICB and Institut FEMTO-ST, the congress represents the point of convergence of this initiative, bringing together the different actors of the field in a shared space for exchange. Through this“ Tour de France,” the SFO Early-Career Researchers Club aims to enhance the visibility of photonics and foster dialogue across generations, disciplines, and territories, and local innovation and research ecosystems. With our warmest thanks to the commitment of early-career researchers leading this initiative with creativity and strong community roots, led by Mathis Fauchart( IMASOLIA), Julien Guise( IES, University of Montpellier, CNRS), Rémi Kieber( Institut FEMTO-ST, Besançon), and Arnaud Rogemont( Institut Carnot de Bourgogne, Dijon). Register now to take part in OPTIQUE BFC 2026 and join this collective journey across French photonics. www. sfoptique. org

OPTIQUE BFC 2026

📍 Dijon- Palais des congrès

📅 06- 10 july 2026

+ 670 participants expected

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Photonics & Artificial Intelligence

📍 The Houches Physics School, France

📅 04- 09 April 2027 70 attendees expected

Training through Experimentation: LumiForm and the Challenge MP

Through the 2026 Challenge in Physical Measurements( Challenge MP), the LumiForm programme highlights the already central, yet often implicit, role of photonics within Physical Measurements curricula. Here, these approaches are brought to the forefront as structuring elements, contributing to the recognition of photonics as a field in its own right. Within this framework, as part of the LumiForm programme, the French Optical Society is developing a national initiative to strengthen and structure photonics training in France by connecting existing efforts and fostering new synergies between academia, research and industry. Under the theme“ Like a Taste of Summer”, 15 student teams from across France and Québec gathered on March 20 – 21, 2026, at IUT Montpellier-Sète. The event illustrates a hands-on approach to learning, where students design and implement their own measurement systems. Drawing on four key optical techniques, transmittance for syrup classification, refractometry for honey moisture, spectrophotometry for olive oil acidity, and light-beam interruption for counting objects, the projects illustrate both the diversity and the tangible nature of optical approaches to physical measurement. To address these challenges, students relied on a broad set of photonic tools, lasers, LEDs, photodiodes and prisms, combining experimental approaches depending on the problem. More than a competition, the Challenge acts as a revealer: it highlights pedagogical practices that are already widely implemented, while contributing to the structuring of photonics as a discipline in its own right. In this dynamic, the next edition of the Challenge MP will take place in 2027 at IUT de Schiltigheim, continuing to build momentum across the national network. LUMIFORM is a national programme supported by the France 2030 plan( Skills and Occupations of the Future).

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