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The Indian Photonics Association (IPA), India's first independent industry body for photonics, was launched in New Delhi on 9 September 2026 with 65 founding members.
Founding members include SFO Technologies, GX Quantum Photonics, Lightspeed Photonics and Tejas Networks.
India's direct domestic photonics market is estimated at about $2.5 billion and is projected to reach $10 billion by 2031.
Demand is driven by AI data centres and telecom networks, with data-centre photonics connectors moving from 10-40 Gbps to 100-400 Gbps.
Domestic production of optical components is being supported under the second phase of the India Semiconductor Mission.
The science and technology of generating, controlling and detecting light - lasers, optical fibres, sensors and imaging. Where electronics moves electrons through wires, photonics moves photons through fibre and waveguides, carrying far more data with less heat.
Simple Analogy: Sending the message by light beam instead of by wire.
Build a domestic semiconductor and display manufacturing ecosystem in India
Key: Its second phase extends support to domestic production of optical components, the segment the new photonics body represents
India's first independent, industry-led association for the photonics sector, formed to drive innovation, collaboration and domestic manufacturing capability
Government programme under the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology supporting semiconductor, display and now optical component manufacturing
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Technology of generating, controlling and detecting light, covering lasers, optical fibre, sensors and imaging.
A device combining transmitter and receiver functions, central to fibre-optic data transfer.
Gigabits per second, the standard measure of data transfer speed.