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A biotechnology boom in India is attracting the interest of manufacturers of imaging equipment who now recognize the country as an important emerging market.
The medical sector is one of the fastest growing segments of the optics market. As companies look to expand their efforts in this area, better-than-average growth is expected over the coming decade.
Since the drive for thin-film-transistor LCDs began in the 1980s, these devices have become kings of the display world. But hot on their tails is a whole host of alternative technologies.
The advent of bandwidth-hungry multimedia services such as video on demand and Internet-protocol-based TV is driving operators to deploy high-speed fibre-to-the-home connections.
