India’s MeitY Sanctions ₹99.94 Crore ($10.3 Million USD) for IIT Madras and izmo Microsystems Silicon Photonics Program

India’s MeitY has sanctioned ₹99.94 crore (approx. $10.3 million USD) for Phase II of the SPECTRA program at IIT Madras, in partnership with izmo Microsystems. This five-year initiative focuses on developing silicon photonics for high-bandwidth data centers, AI compute clusters, and quantum communications, including chip-scale QRNG and integrated QKD photonic circuits. The collaboration aims to establish an end-to-end solution for photonic integrated circuits from fabrication to system integration.

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