SPIE CEO: Photonics Industry Growing
HONG KONG, Dec. 7, 2011 — The demand for photonics is large and on the way to becoming "enormous," yet the ubiquitous technology remains nearly invisible to the general public, SPIE CEO Eugene Arthurs told participants last month at the Hong Kong Optical Engineering International Conference (HKOEIC 2011). Consumer products using or manufactured with optics are everywhere — computers, flat-panel televisions and monitors, tablets, smartphones, MP3 players, broadband Internet, security and defense systems, medical...