Optoelectronics has a very large scope and it can basically be defined and classified by applications in the following categories :
- High-Power /HB LED and Solid State Lighting(SSL)
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- Optoelectronics Material & Components
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Panel display components: LCD display components; LED display components; Fluorescent display and Elecroluminescent display components.
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Optoelectronic components: Luminescent diodes; Special optic plastic and Special optic crystals.
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Optoelectronic materials: Special optic glass; Special optic plastics and Special optic materials.
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- Opto information (Opto information technology) Industries
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Optical input and output equipment: Picture scanners; Form readers; Character recognizers; Barcode scanners; Digital cameras; Laser
printers and Laser fax machines.
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Optic storage: Equipment CD drives; Optic catridge drives; Optic storage media: CD, VCD, LD, CD-ROM, MO, DVD.
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- Opto Telecommunication
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Systems and equipment: Fiber optic transmission equipment; Fiber optic area network equipment ; Fiber optic communication detection and monitoring equipment; Fiber optic information engineering equipment; Terminal equipment and Fiber optic CATV systems.
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Components: Single mode, multi mode fiber couplers, optic attenuators, optic isolators, spectrometers, wavelength-division multiplexers (WDM) etc..
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- Lasers and Laser Applications
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Laser generators: Semiconductor laser generators; CO2 laser generators; Solid laser generators; Gas laser generators; Dye laser generators and Quasi molecule laser generators.
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Laser application: Laser application in industry; Laser application in medical therapy; Laser application in military; Laser application in science research and other applications.
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Tsing Ma Bridge: An FBG interrogation system developed by the Centre is being install on the bridge for strain monitoring.
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- Nano Photonics
Photonic devices in the submicro- and nano-scales. e.g. photonic crystal
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