Taken in a broad context, technology transfer is everything related to achieving the deployment of technology, from research and development, to production, to sale and finally to installation and operations. The “intellectual property market” or “IP market” describes the transactions that occur in transferring the ability to produce goods/services. Examples of these market transactions include joint ventures, licensing, acquisitions, and joint research and development.
The science of photonics includes the generation, emission, transmission, modulation, signal processing, switching, amplification, and detectio n/sensing of light. The term photonics thereby emphasises that photons are neither particles nor waves — they have the nature of both particles and waves.
It covers all technical applications of light over the whole spectrum from ultraviolet over the visible to the near-, mid- and far-infrared.
Optics and photonics technologies are central to modern life; indeed, UNESCO has recently adopted a resolution declaring 2015 to be the International Year of Light.
These technologies enable the manufacture and inspection of all the integrated circuits in every electronic device in use. They give us displays on our smartphones and computing devices, optical fibres that carry the information in the Internet, advanced precision fabrication, and medical diagnostics tools.
People do not think of Google as an optics company, but a typical Google data centre has more than a million lasers in it.
Optics and photonics technology offers the potential for even greater societal impact over the next few decades. Solar power generation and new efficient lighting, for example, could transform the energy landscape, and new optical capabilities will be essential to support the continued exponential growth of the Internet. Optics and photonics technology development and applications have increased substantially across the globe over the past several years.
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