Photonics in the Lille metropolitan area

This article highlights some areas of research, know-how and remarkable tools, valuable for French research in photonics. Beyond their individual value, it is indeed their grouping together on the same site which gives an incomparable added value to the Lille site and which allows the emergence of new subjects at the border between different themes, different communities, in connection with the industrial tissue. This dynamic, which is clearly visible today, is reflected in the strong involvement of Lille photonics players in the PEPR and PIA4 programs, such as the programs around post-5G or the networks of the future. Laurent BIGOT and Alberto AMO (Univ. Lille, CNRS, UMR 8523 - PhLAM - Physics of Atomic and Molecular Lasers, F-59000 Lille, France) Guillaume DUCOURNAU, (Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Junia, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, UMR 8520 - IEMN - Institute of Electronics, Microelectronics and Nanotechnology, F-59000 Lille, France)