What Is Photonics and How Does It Involve Manipulating Photons?

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I have read a lot of articles on photonics, but this field is very board.

How would you classify what photonics is?
 

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Photonics is the science of light, of manipulating photons (much how electronics is the science of manipulating electrons).

Claude.
 

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