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Photonics Engineering

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Photonics engineering is behind the invention of the LED, which earned the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics, and it powers technologies ranging from barcode scanners to LIDAR in self-driving cars.

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Have you ever wondered how a tiny glass fiber can carry the entire internet across oceans, or how a laser can perform delicate eye surgery with no scalpel? The answer lies in photonics engineering—the art and science of taming light itself.