"Photonic devices include optoelectronic devices such as lasers and photodetectors, as well as optical fiber, photonic crystals, planar waveguides, and other optical elements. Silicon photonics relates to the production of optical switching electronic devices using integrated circuit manufacturing technology. Photonic applications include light detection, telecommunications, information processing, illumination, metrology, spectroscopy, holography, medicine, laser material processing and robotics. The advantage of silicon photonics is the promise of affordable optical communications"-- Provided by publisher.
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