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Photonics industry forms trade group in Montana – The Montana Photonics Industry Alliance

Another industry tabbed by the city of Bozeman and the state of Montana as having high-growth potential has formed a trade group.

Leaders in the local photonics industry — identified a year ago by the city as an industry poised to create new jobs and strengthen the local economy — met last October to create the Montana Photonics Industry Alliance. http://www.montanaphotonics.org/

JASON BACAJ, Chronicle Staff Writer

Full Story: http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/news/economy/article_aba42716-7d7e-11e3-8d4a-001a4bcf887a.html

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The science of photonics[1] includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detection/sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasizes that photons are neither particles nor waves — they have both particle and wave nature.

It covers all technical applications of light over the whole spectrum from ultraviolet over the visible to the near-, mid- and far-infrared. Most applications, however, are in the range of the visible and near infrared light. The term photonics developed as an outgrowth of the first practical semiconductor light emitters invented in the early 1960s and optical fibers developed in the 1970s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photonics

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