1 National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI), Via Pietro Castellino 111, 80131 Napoli, Italy.
2 National Research Council (CNR), Institute of Applied Physics (IFAC) "Nello Carrara", Via Madonna del Piano 10, 50019 Sesto Fiorentino, Florence, Italy.
There is some incertitude on the creation of the term "photonics" and some ambiguity about its frontiers (and differences with respect to optoelectronics and electro-optics) [...].