Riga Photonics Centre Information

Riga Photonics Centre is an association of research organizations, educational institutions, government functions and individuals involved with photonics in Latvia and more broadly the Baltic Sea Region. Photonics can be defined as the study and practice of controlling photons to meet human needs. Photons are quanta of light. As such photonics is involved in all devices that use light across the full spectrum including optical devices, lasers, fiber optics, spectroscopy, telescopes, microscopes and numerous other technologies and devices. Photonics is involved in research as well as in manufacturing as well as in everyday devices such as mobile telephones. Photonics frames fields such as quantum sciences, space sciences and related technologies and is an important component of research conducted in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia comprising approximately 45% of research output in peer reviewed journals from the three Baltic Sea states.