Photonics and optoelectronics coverage from Laser Focus World Magazine

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Welcome to Laser Focus World magazine and website, an international business-to-business resource for engineers, engineering managers, researchers, scientists, and technical professionals involved in the science of light--known as optoelectronics or photonics.

Optoelectronics and photonics is the technology of systems and devices that emit, modulate, transmit, or sense light. Optoelectronic and photonic devices include lasers and other advanced light sources (such as LEDs), optics of all types including laser optics, fiber optic components, detectors, displays and imaging devices, instrumentation, and optical design software. Related areas include photonics manufacturing and a host of applications ranging from medical lasers to laser weapons, and from industrial lasers to imaging technology.

The world market for optoelectronic and photonic components and enabled devices¿such as flat-panel displays (FPDs) , camera phones and PDAs, digital cameras, optical storage devices, and laser communications networks¿is huge and growing rapidly. Global sales reached $236 billion in 2004 and are expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2015 View article now Component sales many based on laser technology--reached $27 billion in 2004, of which diode and non diode laser sales alone represented 20% or $5.4 billion View article now

As these markets grow, it is more important than ever to track breaking news, technological advances, novel applications, market opportunities, and new products. Laser Focus World--together with its sister publications in Japan and China as well as its website and associated newsletters, (such as Optoelectronics Report : View website)--provides comprehensive in-depth global coverage of the science, technology, and applications of photonics and optoelectronics: lasers and sources, optics, detectors, imaging, instrumentation, and fiber optics.

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