Photonics Maintaining Competitiveness in the Information Era (1988) / Chapter Skim
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1. Introduction
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These applications have been developed and are all now key elements of our technology, but the field is still a rapidly developing one with many new applications and improvements in existing applications possible. Recent rates of change are especially remarkable in employing light in communications and information processing, which is often referred to as "photonics." This study is concerned with that field.
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It thus seems likely that photonics and electronics will be complementary and that optoelectronic circuits, which combine the advantages of photons with electrons, will be important for the foreseeable future. Of the policy issues considered by the panel, international competition in this field is clearly the most important to this country.
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Although the NRC, the National Academies of Science and Engineering, and various government agencies have studied the competitiveness issue, a resolution of the issue has been elusive and it remains a critical matter. For photonics, the United States has been a leader in research and invention but is already a follower -- or worse, an observer -- in developing many of the commercial products of the field.
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