Shaping Light to Shape a Brighter Future
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NICOLAS BONOD Editor-in-Chief
Shaping Light to Shape a Brighter Future
What better way to spark curiosity than by exploring the fascinating properties of light? Few fields offer such a rich landscape for scientific adventure and discovery. From microscopy to astronomy, light offers a deeper understanding of our world, inviting us to explore captivating concepts such as the optical spectrum, coherence, phase, polarization, nonlinearity and quantum optics. The 2026 Nobel Prizes illustrate this richness: while the Nobel Prize in Physics recognizes the detection of high-energy cosmic neutrinos through Cherenkov light emitted by secondary charged particles, the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine celebrates optogenetics, a technique that uses light to control the activity of neurons and explore the functioning of the brain. Even the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, dedicated to asymmetric synthesis and molecular chirality, echoes fascinating concepts explored since Pasteur ' s pioneering studies on molecular chirality and optical activity. In 2007, a pioneering experiment, revisited in this issue by its two authors, demonstrated how light could be focused through a strongly scattering medium by carefully shaping the incident wavefront. This seminal experiment showed how light scattering in complex media could be harnessed by shaping the wavefront. Nearly two decades later, wavefront control has become a mature field of research, driving major advances across a widening range of scientific disciplines. The five articles of this thematic focus show some of the most remarkable results obtained in diverse areas of photonics. In this issue, we are particularly pleased to feature an article devoted to Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters in photonics, co-authored by the coordinators and representatives of these international training programmes. These initiatives deserve sustained support for the opportunities they offer to students and for their contribution to establishing international scientific collaborations and research teams. At a time when younger generations are expressing growing concerns about their future and the conditions in which they study, education and scientific research should be at the forefront of European priorities. Indeed, investing in education and research means more than developing tomorrow ' s technologies. It means giving the next generation the knowledge, inspiration and confidence to shape a brighter future.
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