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Photonics in India

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India has long been active in the field of photonics, dating back to famous scientists such as Raman and Bose. Today, India is home to numerous research groups and telecommunications companies that own a sizeable amount of the fibre-optic links installed around the globe.

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B.P. thanks Parama Pal of the Wellman Laboratory of Photomedicine at Harvard University Medical School, Boston, for help in editing the Commentary.

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  1. Bishnu Pal is at the Physics Department, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi 110 016, India,

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