Photonics applications for measurements, communications and computers

Summary form only given. Photonic devices and systems are becoming pervasive in many applications in measurements, communications and computers. The use of optoelectronic, fiber-optic, integrated-optic, and micro-optic components in sensors, instruments, process monitoring and control, telecom transceivers, datacom transceivers, automobile instrumentation and control circuitry, displays, computer interconnections, and optical memories and switching elements are examples of the importance of photonics to the information age of the 21st Century.