Optics and Photonics

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Photonics is the practical application of lasers, optics and electronics. Photonics is everywhere, including precision laser machining, medical device fabrication fiber-optic communications, 3D sensing, aerospace and defense, homeland security, consumer electronics, cancer research, high-speed computing, additive manufacturing, and much more!

Graduates work in local and national companies that manufactural lasers and laser systems, fiber optics, complex optical systems, or use lasers and optics in the precision manufacturing of other consumer or defense-related products. Graduates may also work in research and development or continue their studies to the four-year college level.

The Optics and Photonics Program

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STCC celebrates Engineers Week 2024
Date: Thursday, February 22, 2024

Springfield Technical Community College celebrated National Engineers Week Feb. 18-24 with events to inspire students, including a discussion about laser applications from an industry leader.
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STCC students secure internships with MIT research program
Date: Monday, June 5, 2023

Two students in the STCC Optics and Photonics program secured paid internships this summer at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, a Department of Defense research and development lab in Lexington.
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STCC graduate followed dream to career in lasers
Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Michael Lefebvre was one of five graduates in 1979 from what is now the Optics and Photonics Program. In that program, he began his journey into a laser-based technology career.
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STCC Optics and Photonics professor accepts award at conference
Date: Thursday, November 4, 2021

Nicholas Massa, a professor Optics and Photonics at Springfield Technical Community College, accepted an award recognizing him for outstanding contributions to education in optical science and engineering. Massa accepted the Esther Hoffman Beller Medal from Optica, formerly the Optical Society of America (OSA), an organization that advances optics and photonics worldwide. The society held a virtual Frontiers in Optics conference Nov. 1-4.
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