European Way of Photonics

Année: 2019 (Mars-Avril) Special EOS Issue

Le mot de la Présidente de la SFO dans ce numéro

This is now our 3rd edition of Photoniques in English, and we truly hope there will be many more to come. Photoniques is a periodic journal and newsletter for the members of the Société Française d’Optique (SFO). SFO is a member of the International Commission for Optics (ICO), and it is also the representative of the French community in optics at the European Optical Society (EOS) since the creation of EOS in the early 90s.
SFO is a non-profit organization, gathering about 800 individual members, coming from both academia and industry, and 40 corporate members. We welcome student as well as professional members. We all know optics/ photonics is a very broad and diverse field covering a wide range of applications, and our organization really reflect this diversity. We are indeed organized through 20 “topical clubs”, each of them being focused on a dedicated topic, again, as varied as nanotechnology, guided optics, quantum technology and so on… Each of this club aims at bringing advances in its field and being the vector of technological innovation for various industries. Among their activities, the organization of scientific workshops bringing together the academic and industrial stakeholders of optics and photonics. We also started a few years ago the club “Women & Physics, reaching parity in Optics”. This very active club promotes personal and professional growth for women and promotes gender diversity in the field of Optics.
Every even year, SFO has its signature event, the congress “OPTIQUE”, which is co-organized with and hosted by a French University, different each time. This congress gathers most or our “topical clubs”, and aims at fostering collaboration across the different fields of optics. This congress includes multiple sessions in parallel as well as several plenary sessions with renowned speakers in various field of optics. We have a regular attendance of 500 to 600 participants. After the success of 2018 congress, hosted in Toulouse, we are now organizing 2020 edition in Dijon. We wish this edition the same success as the previous ones, with as many inspiring and enlightening talks.
I truly hope you will enjoy reading this special Photoniques issue.

Pascale NOUCHI, President of SFO