# Photonics

> Photonics underpins data-center interconnects, LiDAR, imaging, and optical computing through devices that manipulate light on-chip. The field recruits optical physicists and frequently commercializes university inventions in integrated photonics and metasurfaces.

*Source: [https://selltoscientists.com/industries/photonics/](https://selltoscientists.com/industries/photonics/)*

**Market size:** $780B
**Target researcher profile:** Optical physicists and engineers in integrated photonics, metasurfaces, lasers, and optical communications

## Use cases

- Silicon-photonics R&D recruitment
- Metalens and flat-optics commercialization
- University photonics-lab partnerships
- Optical-interconnect talent pipeline
- LiDAR and sensing technology development

## Representative companies

- Lumentum
- Coherent
- Metalenz
- Voyant Photonics
- Ayar Labs
- Lightmatter
- PsiQuantum
- II-VI
- NKT Photonics
- POET Technologies

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