Photonics - Light Technology That Is Revolutionizing Our World
What is Photonics?
Photonics is the field of science and technology to do with detecting and controlling, as well as generating particles of light. Photonics supports daily technological life from smartphones to laptops, to the internet to lighting technology. This technology will have an even more profound effect on our lives and future generations this century, in much the same way electronics had in the last century.
Because light transfers data quicker than wires at a much lesser cost, optical fibre has long been the preferred method for telecommunications. This is revolutionizing computing as we know it. Computing systems with the aid of new types of optical chips allow computing systems to work much quicker while taking up less power which is very important as the amount of data we transmit over the internet basically runs everything in today's world.
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