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Optics and photonics

Optics and photonics

Why optics is critical to meeting society’s grand challenges

24 Jun 2024

Jolyon De Freitas says that the ubiquity of optics and photonics in the coming decades will provide many challenges but ample opportunities too

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Lighting the way The UK-based Photonics Leadership Group estimates that by 2035 more than 60% of the UK economy will directly depend on photonics to keep it competitive. (Courtesy: iStock/MorePixels)
Over the last century, optics and photonics have transformed the world. A staggering 97% of all inte

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Jolyon De Freitas is a physicist and is chair of the Institute of Physics Optical Group, e-mail jdefreitas@physics.org
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