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Electronics for light: same job as electrons, but faster and they don't heat your laptop.
means The science and technology of generating, controlling, and detecting light (photons) to carry information or do work, much as electronics does with electrons.
from Built from 'photon' (the light particle, itself from Greek 'phos/photos,' light) plus the suffix '-onics,' lifted straight from 'electronics.' The term crystallized in the second half of the 20th century as lasers, optical fibers, and photodetectors matured into a field that needed a name parallel to its electron-based cousin — light doing an electron's job, so it got an electron's kind of word.
- speed edge
- data moves at light speed, not electron shuffle speed
- everyday use
- fiber optic cables carry your internet as pulses of light
- chip future
- photonic chips could replace copper wires inside computers
- laser power
- same field that gives you lasers, LEDs, and eye surgery