Institute General Objectives:

• To provide scientific grounds to be able to do research activities in the broad definition of photonics - ranging from basic physical works on lasers to quantum computations and photonics structures.
• To do research cooperation with educational and research institutes and local and foreign researchers on activities of the institute
• To help with the expansion of employing the technologies of photonics domain in the country, to develop active links with universities, industries and related institutions
• To produce knowledge and technology in line with economic sustainable development for competition at the national and international scenes
• To conduct strategic researches on new knowledge and technologies which leads to the design and construction of new tools, optimization and or applicability of them including:

• Developing computational software in plasma simulation in a reactor convertor of hydrocarbon gases, plasma interactive system with the seed and activating the water with the help of plasma
• To do research and technological projects up to the stages of a conceptual design and a finally precise design in the field of a seed breeding and reactors of converting hydrocarbon gases
• To do industrial projects in the field of a seed breeding and activating of water with the help of plasma
• To develop plasma systems with the ability to be applied in food industries and agriculture
• To do an analysis of different instabilities in the process of production of terahertz radiations, a microwave and etc. from laser interaction with plasma
• To design a high voltage electrical power for the production of plasma to activate water
• To design and optimize lasers in particular semi-conductor lasers
• To design and construct Optoelectronic devices in Nano dimensions  
• Construction and optimization of nanostructured solar cells (Perovskite Solar cell)
• To use the computations of density functional theory
• To do research on features of Nano structure in line with design and optimizing filters, sensors, drug delivery and detectors
• To construct and to find the specification of sensors in particular the optical and fluid optics sensors
• To use the optical lithography method to design sensor and micron spares
• To use the methods of optical Spectrophotometry
• Having laser direct-write to design micron spares
• To do theoretical and experimental research for optical devices including intensifiers, waveguides, sensors, and optical fibers
• To design, simulate, and construct remote sensing systems with the ability to take radar and laser imaging in the short and medium range