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LIGHT IS ITS OWN OPPOSITE. "Every type of matter has an antimatter partner: electrons are paired with positrons, protons have antiprotons, and for every quark there’s an antiquark." https://lnkd.in/eKC-Bei View in LinkedIn

PHOTONICS. " This discipline is identified in the European R&D roadmaps as one of the most prominent cutting-edge fields in science and technology for the 21st century." https://lnkd.in/eMtm6-n View in LinkedIn

LIGHT is a perplexing material. "A photon can best be viewed as a transaction between two atoms on the same light cone." A must-read to unsettle the smug. (Carver Mead, California Institute of Technology). https://lnkd.in/eantUWY View in LinkedIn

HOW FIBER OPTICS WORKS. https://lnkd.in/e84TmaR View in LinkedIn

2015 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF LIGHT and light based technologies. "The United Nations have proclaimed the year 2015 as the International Year of Light and Light-based Technologies." https://lnkd.in/eG77JKS View in LinkedIn

FASTER PHOTONICS. "Electric current propagates at about 10 percent of the speed of light (18,000 to 19,000 miles or 30,000 kilometers per second), while the energy in fiber optic systems travels at the speed of light. This results in shorter data-transmission delay times between the end points of a network." https://lnkd.in/eHuh2FB View in LinkedIn

PHOTON MANIPULATION is nature's finest game. Sir Isaac Newton (and others) were drawn to these phenomena out of pure intellectual curiosity, and developed the discipline of optics with huge precision and elegance. Little did they know that optics (photons), and its sister discipline electronics (electrons), would completely transform modern society. View in LinkedIn

PHOTONIC NETWORKS. "In a true photonic network, every switch and every repeater works with IR or visible-light energy and conversion to and from electrical impulses is only done at the source and destination (origin and end point)." https://lnkd.in/eHuh2FB View in LinkedIn

SEA MOUSE PHOTONIC CRYSTALS. "This optical effect is unique in nature: it is the first photonic crystal found in a living system, and much more regularly constructed than the previous example of a photonic crystal from nature (the opal)." https://lnkd.in/eakUxgP View in LinkedIn

LOW-TECH UNDERSEA FIBER CABLES. "A massive network of fiber optic cables lies deep under the seas across the Earth...Submarine data cables date back to 1850, when the first international telegraph cable (with a capacity of 10 words per minute) spanned the channel between England and France. As early as 1901, telegraph cables crisscrossed the oceans and connected all the continents except for Antarctica." https://lnkd.in/eGxMup5 View in LinkedIn