Electronics and optics/photonics

Québec City is turning out technologies and approaches that are revolutionizing a number of fields. It has the highest concentration of optics/photonics experts in Canada, to name but one example. This prolific sector receives support from renowned research centres, succeeds in a competitive business environment, and is powered by an abundance of highly skilled workers. Global players established in the area include ABB, Optel, Exfo, Olympus, Gentec, Eddyfi.

Main research centres

Visit Québec International's website to learn more on Québec's electronics and optics/photonics' industry.

Electronics events held in Québec City

2022: 20^thIEEE International New Circuits and Systems Conference (NEWCAS)
2019: NAFEMS World Congress, International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation Community
2018: 15^th Canadian Number Theory Association Conference (CNTA XV)
2018: International Design Engineering Technical Conference and Computer and Information in Engineering Conference (IDETC/CIE)
2017: 20^th ISMAR Conference - International Society of Magnetic Resonance
2017: 12^th IWA Specialized Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Automation
2015: International Conference on Image Processing
2014: IEEE-International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Optics/photonics events held in Québec City

2023: 10^th International Optical Design Conference (IODC)
2019: Education and Training in Optics and Photonics (ETOP)
2019: Photonics North
2019: Adaptive Optics for Extremely Large Telescopes (A04ELT6)
2018: Workshop on Information Optics
2018: International Symposium on Non-Oxide and New Optical Glasses (ISNOG)
2016: 12^th International Conference on Optical Probes of Organic and Hybrid Semi Conductors

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