title: Where is photonics going? Reflections under the sun creator: Martín Pereda, José Antonio subject: Telecommunications subject: Optics subject: Electronics description: After a short personal view of the first years of the photonics in Spain, some references about its present situation are given. As a possible future, the first steps towards a Photonics based on the study of the employed mechanisms in the visual system of the living beings are presented. publisher: E.T.S.I. Telecomunicación (UPM) rights: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ date: 1997 type: info:eu-repo/semantics/bookPart type: Book Section source: Where is photonics going? Reflections under the sun | En: Advanced photonic topics | pag. 21-45 | Universidad de Cantabria | 1997 type: PeerReviewed format: application/pdf language: eng rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess identifier: https://oa.upm.es/23265/