fotonikai
Fotonikai is the interdisciplinary field devoted to the generation, manipulation, and detection of light for information processing, sensing, and imaging. Photonic technologies use photons instead of electrons to carry, process, or detect signals, enabling high bandwidth, low loss communication and precise measurements across a range of wavelengths, from visible to infrared.
Historically, the foundation of fotonikai lies in the invention of lasers, the development of optical fibers,
Core topics include optical communications (fiber optics, multiplexing), light sources (lasers, LEDs), detectors and receivers, photonic
Applications are widespread: telecommunications and data centers, medical imaging and therapy, industrial metrology and sensing, consumer
Technologies in fotonikai include optical fibers, waveguides, photonic crystals, modulators, detectors, light sources, and chip-scale photonic
Education and research in fotonikai are typically multidisciplinary, spanning physics, electrical engineering, materials science, and computer