Biophotonics
The term Biophotonics refers to a interdisciplinary combination of biology and photonics, with photonics being the science and technology of generation, manipulation, and detection of photons, quantum units of light. Photonics is related to electronics and photons. Photons play a central role in information technologies, such as fiber optics, the way electrons do in electronics.
Biophotonics has therefore become the established general term for all techniques that deal with the interaction between biological structures, such as molecules, cells, and tissues and photons. This includes emission, detection, absorption, reflection, modification, and creation of radiation from biomolecular, cells, tissues, organisms, and biomaterials.
Areas of application are life science, medicine, agriculture, and environmental science. Biophotonics refers to the use of light to study biological systems and processes , as an example, in diagnostics, or the application of light to elicit certain biological changes or responses, as in phototherapy.
