photonics

[foh-ton-iks]

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. the study and technology of the use of light for the transmission of information.

photonics

/ fəʊˈtɒnɪks /

noun

1. (functioning as singular) the study and design of devices and systems, such as optical fibres, that depend on the transmission, modulation, or amplification of streams of photons

photonics

1. The scientific study or application of electromagnetic energy whose basic unit is the photon, incorporating optics, laser technology, electrical engineering, materials science, and information storage and processing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of photonics¹

1950–55; photonic, -ics; perhaps on the model of electronics

Example Sentences

The team's demonstration in Nature Photonics marks the first device designed with this new theory.

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"Beyond routing, this framework could also enable entirely new approaches to light management, with implications for information processing, communications, and the exploration of fundamental physics," said the study's lead author, Hediyeh M. Dinani, a PhD student in the Optics and Photonics Group lab at USC Viterbi.

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A research group from the Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering has achieved a major advance in photonics with the creation of the first optical device built on the emerging concept of optical thermodynamics.

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The research appears today in Nature Photonics.

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The study appears in the journal Laser & Photonics Review.

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