ASIA-PACIFIC SILICON PHOTONICS MARKET FORECAST 2023-2032

The Asia-Pacific silicon photonics market growth analysis entails the assessment of India, South Korea, Japan, China, Australia, and Rest of Asia-Pacific. Japan holds a significant share of the silicon photonics market and is becoming more open to collaborations. Big corporations want to stay on top and look for investments to fuel growth. The dynamic industry, emerging openness, and market size can surely benefit innovative companies in Japan, thereby driving the market’s growth in Japan. The country has a large number of universities and institutes related to photonics. For instance, the Photonics Advanced Research Center (PARC) at Osaka University in Japan emerged as a leading scientific and industrial research center for Japan’s photonics.

On the other hand, the Indian silicon photonics market is largely driven by increasing urbanization and the growing telecommunication sector. India has a diverse economy and a large population, which increases the demand for photonic goods with industrial applications and consumer-end goods. The major areas in India’s photonics business are skin treatment, biomedical optics, endoscopy, microscopy, and photovoltaics.

South Korea is an industrialized nation among the world’s largest economies. Systems for machine vision systems, visible-infrared optical components, satellite cameras, mobile phones, and medical instruments dominate the photonics market. Further, one of the major reasons for the silicon photonics market’s growth in South Korea is industrialization.

The Asia-Pacific silicon photonics market growth evaluation entails segmentation by product type, component, waveguide, and application. Market by product type covers transceivers, variable optical attenuators, switches, cables, sensors, etc.

The electrical power dissipation is high in conventional electrical transmitters and receiver circuits made of copper interconnects and semiconductor devices. In silicon photonics, the transceivers are made independently of frequency and external interferences, such as thermal radiation, resulting in low power-dissipating devices. The transmission length provided by electrical transceivers is approximately 10 meters. 

When there is a need for an increase in transmission length, electrical systems take the help of amplifiers and modulators. This has added to the cost and complexity of the systems. With the help of silicon photonics transceivers, the transmission distance can be increased by just increasing the capacity of driver or amplifier circuits.

Some leading companies operating in the global silicon photonics market are Acacia Communications, Hamamatsu Photonics, etc.

Hamamatsu Photonics is engaged in manufacturing and selling photomultiplier tubes, imaging devices, light sources, imaging, and analyzing systems. The company offers products such as scintillator plates, stealth dicing engines, photo-integrated circuit (IC) components, silicon photodiodes, position-sensitive detectors, infrared detectors, image sensors for low-light-level imaging, X-ray imaging, etc. Hamamatsu operates in Europe, Asia, and the United States. It is headquartered in Hamamatsu City, Japan.

The S12497 from Hamamatsu is a silicone photodiode suitable for non-destructive inspection of baggage and the like and general industrial measurement. As it is a back-illuminated photodiode, the photosensitive area does not have wires, and therefore a scintillator can be mounted directly on the photodiode.