Photonics offers a wide spectrum of benefits
Examples of applications and technologies that photonics research has contributed to
- New imaging and analysis techniques for biomedicine
- Safer, simpler medical treatments and diagnoses
- Higher resolution microscopes and telescopes
- Laser eye surgery
- Accurate measurement
- Secure banknotes and credit cards
- Laser welding
- Fast telecommunications and the internet
- Flat panel TVs, computer and mobile phone displays
- Better cameras
- Cheaper, more efficient light sources
- Solar cells
- CD and DVD development
- Improved national security and defence
- Chemical and biological sensors
- Improved environmental and climate monitoring
- Power transmission
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