Posts Tagged ‘photonics’
$240 billion of green photonics by 2021
As more than 400 international experts gather at the University of Southampton today for one of the largest optics and photonics conference in Europe, Photon10, the latest developments in ‘green photonics’ will be shared. A survey of green photonic technologies undertaken by the United States’ Optoelectronics Development Association (OIDA) suggests that the portion of optoelectronic [...]
Light at the speed of a bicycle and much more
The speed of light, 300 million metres per second, was long thought an immutable constant and has defined our understanding of matter and energy but recent research in the area of optics and photonics is proving that we can manipulate light to some ingenious and hugely lucrative ends. From the use of adaptive optics to [...]
