The PhotoNext Lab, a 300 sqm laboratory run in collaboration with Turin Polytechnic, has state-of-the-art equipment for the study of fibre optic communication systems and for the design of optical sensors and components for industrial and biomedical applications.

The main research areas are:

• simulation and testing of broadband and long-range optical communication systems;
• study of new and more efficient coherent optical transmission techniques;
• use of machine learning techniques for control and management of a fibre transportation network;
• transmission on multimodal fibre links that use VCSEL as a data source;
• optical quantum information processing e quantum key distribution;
• design and characterisation of bioresorbable fibres for tumour diagnosis and therapy.