photonic.

Relating to photons or technologies that use light to carry or process information.

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Words that belong together

• photonic circuit
• photonic device

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The photonic circuit routed the signal through light-guiding channels.

Engineers replaced the electrical link with a photonic device.

Usage notes

Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.