Download or read book Advances in Photonic Materials and Devices written by Suhas Bhandarkar and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photonics is a critically important technology. It complements maturing micro-electronics to create new directions that impacts a wide-ranging array of other industries. From a materials standpoint, this technology uses essentially all the classes of materials and seeks to hybridize them to create new devices. These proceedings showcase the transformation of photonics from a telecom-aligned technology to a much wider sphere of applications.