Speed & Bandwidth
Light travels faster than electrical signals and can carry vastly more data simultaneously. This means photonics could enable much quicker communication and higher capacity information transfer, essential for growing demands like high-speed internet, cloud computing, and real-time global connectivity.
Photonics generates less heat than electronics, reducing energy losses. As devices become more powerful, electronics face challenges with overheating and power consumption, whereas light-based systems could operate more efficiently at scale, benefiting data centers, AI, and large-scale computing.
Scalability & Miniaturization
As technology shrinks, electronics face physical limits (like quantum effects at tiny scales). Photonics can potentially overcome these barriers, allowing for more compact and powerful chips, sensors, and devices without the same interference issues.
Immunity to Interference
Light is less susceptible to electromagnetic interference (e.g. from power lines or radio waves), making photonics more reliable in noisy environments or critical applications like medical imaging, aerospace, and secure communications.
