Light-Based Science

Azzedine Boudrioua is leading Organic Photonics and Nanostructures group of Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers (LPL) at Galilee Institute – University Paris 13 (France). After my PhD in physics at the University of Metz (1996), he conducted, for 15 years, his research in the field of integrated optics and photonic crystals as an associated professor. He is currently developing activities in the field of nanophotonics as well as nonlinear optics. He published more than 85 journal papers and 2 books and he is involved in different scientific committees and expert panels. He is the coordinator of Ib   Roshdi Rashed is the author of several books and scientific articles in History of Science. He is currently Emeritus Director of Research (special class) at CNRS (France). He was director of the Centre for History of Arab and Medieval Science and Philosophies (until 2001) Paris, and also director of the doctoral formation in epistemology and history of science, Paris Diderot University (until 2001). He is Emeritus Professor at Tokyo University, and at the Mansoura University, and also at the Paris Diderot University. He was a founder (1984) and Director (until May 1993) of the REHSEIS (Research Epistemology and History of Science and Scientific Institutions) research team, CNRS, Paris. He had several distinctions including: the CNRS Bronze medal (1977), Knight of the Honour Legion (1989), the Alexandre Koyré medal of the International Academy for History of Science (1990), the history of science medal and award of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (1990), medal and award of Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences (1999), Avicenna gold medal of UNESCO (1999), medal of CNRS (2001), medal of the Arab World Institute (2004). He had several honorary positions as Vice-President of the International Academy of the History of Science (1997), member of the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences (2002),

Preface

John Dudley

Introduction

Azzedine Boudrioua

Part One: History Guiding the Future, example of Ibn al Haytham



Chapter One: Ibn al Haytham’s Scientific Program

Roshdi Rashed



Chapter Two: Science, Philosophy and religion during the 10th century

Josef Van Ess



Chapter Three: From the Reasons of Light to the Lights of Reason: Remarks on the Nine Centuries Distant Ibn al Haytham’s and Albert Einstein’s Respective Approaches of Light as Conceived Physically

Michel Paty



Chapter Four: Translation and Studies of Ibn al Haytham’s Optics in Latin

Paul Pietquin



Chapter Five: Ibn Al-Haytham: The Founder of Scientific Pluralism

Hassan Tahiri (Portugal)



Chapter Six: The Famous Problem of Ibn al Haytham

Pierre Coullet



Chapter Seven: Ibn Al-Haytham: Founder of Physiological Optics?

Vasudevan Lakshminarayanan



Chapter Eight: Al Haytham's Influence on the Optics and Culture of Medieval Europe

Charles Falco



Part Two: Light-based technologies for the future



Chapter Nine: Photonic Technology: Recent Developments and Challenges of the 21st Century

Azzedine Boudrioua



Chapter Ten: Ibn al Haytham’s: From Basra, Earth to the Gale Crater, Mars

Noureddine Melikechi



Chapter Eleven: Modern electron optics and the search for more light: the legacy of Ibn al-Haytham

Mohamed El-Gomati



Chapter Twelve: Atomic-scale time with new light sources

Majed Chergui



Chapter Thirteen: The relevance of LED lighting for sustainable development