EPIC Online Technology Meeting on Mid-IR Technologies for Environmental Monitoring

Photonic developments on the Mid-IR region (2.5–15 µm) have demonstrated high potential for gas sensing and spectroscopy providing the environmental monitoring industry with a large range of new and exciting applications. Air quality analysis to fight climate change, real-time water quality control to identify contaminants before it is consumed, and detection of harmful leaks are some of the possibilities of this technology. Regulation of the concentration of greenhouse gases, such as CO₂ and CH₄, particularly released from vehicles and industrial exhausts as well as from the livestock sector is becoming more important due to the climate emergency, existing a consensus about the use of Mid-IR technologies to monitor them. In this meeting, the entire supply chain for the development of Mid-IR based sensor will answer the requests and challenges coming from the end-users of the technology, focusing on new applications for the environmental sector.