Over 140 representatives from more than 115 manufacturing companies and scientific organizations participated in the Technopolis Moscow Special Economic Zone (SEZ) Technoclub dedicated to the prospects of photonics development in Russia. The participants discussed the problems of new materials and technologies. Today more than 20 companies of the special economic zone of the capital are engaged in the development and production of photonics products. This was reported by Gennady Degtev, Director General of SEZ Technopolis Moscow. Photonics produces products and technologies that use light rather than electric signals to transmit information or energy, which allows increasing the speed of data processing and transmission more than 100 times. This will ensure the development of dozens of useful services, such as next-generation telecommunications, unmanned public transport, telemedicine with the possibility of remote robotic operations, and global automation of production. "Last year, Moscow created a cluster of photonics and microelectronics, which included more than 50 leading companies, of which 24 are residents and tenants of SEZ "Technopolis Moscow." The cluster's products are in demand on the market, but for the accelerated development of photonics it is important to establish links between scientists, engineers, business representatives and the state. Organization of such discussion platforms as Technoclub allows the market to join efforts in search of trendy, commercially successful directions, as well as to set the tone for new research", - said Gennady Degtev, Director General of SEZ Technopolis Moscow. The Technoclub on photonics of the special economic zone of the capital was attended by representatives of over 115 Moscow and federal organizations. The speakers of the discussion were leading experts and specialists of the industry - Director of the Institute of Physics of Herzen State Pedagogical University Alexander Kolobov, Head of the Laboratory of FIAN Sergey Kudryashov, Chief Researcher of IONKh RAS Sergey Kozyukhin, Deputy Head of IPLIT RAS Andrey Lotin, Head of the Laboratory of MISIS Vadim Kovalyuk, Associate Professor of Skoltech Sergey Dyakov and others. Technoclub participants came to the conclusion that the main world photonics trend, which has commercial success today, is optical telecommunications, allowing to dramatically increase the speed of information transmission, as well as quantum encryption. The experts supported the opinion of business representatives that the development of photonics requires government support, following the example of offset contracts, which Moscow began to conclude with pharmaceutical companies during the pandemic. This form of cooperation is also very interesting for microelectronics manufacturers. "Photonics in Russia is in a growing state - the main market players have been involved in this area for the last eight to nine years, which is a very short period of time by the standards of basic science. Many researchers and developers have started to move into the applied part of photonics, developing photonic integrated circuits and various optical devices. However, the level of localization in these developments is not always high. Now, under the guidance of the Moscow government, a plant for the production of photonic integrated circuits is being built in Zelenograd, and this will become a driver of the domestic photonics market," said Evgeny Goldenberg, head of the Moscow Photonics Center. The partner of the Technoclub was the National Research University MIET - Russia's leading technical university in the field of high technologies, a leader in training specialists in the field of micro- and nanoelectronics, telecommunications and information technologies. "Russia has a unique chance to take one of the leading positions in the field of photonics. The promising developments and successful examples of implementations discussed within the Technoclub give hope that our country will make a photonic technological leap into the future. Cryptography, high-speed telecommunications, photonic computing and memory, lasers, sensorics, materials processing and many other things are waiting for us in the coming years", - summarized the moderator of the event, Head of the Development Program Directorate of MIET Alexey Dronov. The next Technoclub meeting will be held on September 26, participation is free upon registration. __________________ Press service of the SEZ Technopolis Moscow Phone: +7 916 516-15-46 Mail: pr@technomoscow.ru [ mailto:pr@technomoscow.ru ] Subscribe to the SEZ "Technopolis Moscow" in social networks, follow the main news of the SEZ in telegram-channel [ https://t.me/technopolismoscow ] and receive all the most important news delivered to your mail in our weekly newsletter [ http://events.technomoscow.ru/subscribe/?utm_source=site_technomoscow ] .
