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What is photonics? In short, photonics is the scientific study and technological harnessing of light.
However, it is important to note that the term "photonics" is something of a nebulous one. That being said, it is often used today to refer to a set of emerging technologies that deal with various aspects of light. These include technologies used to store, transfer, or manipulate information, but can also be used to include methods of harvesting energy from light and/or converting it to electricity. To put it another way, photonics, in the technological sense, refers to devices that use photons to send, receive, and process information similar to modern-day electronics.
Today, one of the major applications of photonics, specifically integrated photonics, is in high-performance computing. Specific examples would be in the servers in large data server farms used by large tech companies like Google or Amazon.
Beyond computing, photonics has applications in many other fields from medical sciences to energy production.
In medical sciences, for example, photonics is used in a variety of ways including in surgery (such as eye surgery), tattoo removal, and surgical endoscopy. In the future, optical integrated circuits may well lead to the development of smaller, more compact, biosensors and other implantable medical devices freed from the limitation of electronics.
more at https://interestingengineering.com/photonics-a-story-of-our-quest-to-harness-the-power-of-light
