30 years of PCRL!

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It was Monday the 21st of June 1993 when Hercules Avramopoulos received Digital Photonic Technology Research Equipment, as a generous donation from AT&T Bell Laboratories, USA.

With this equipment the Photonics Communications Research Laboratory was established in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering – NTUA. PCRL officially opened in September 1995, but the idea of its creation goes even before 1993.

👉 Visit Our Team section, with the current personnel and the Alumni. Until today, 35 young engineers and physicists have obtained their PhDs from PCRL and check where they are now:

https://photonics.ntua.gr/pcrl-alumni/

 

 

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