1、OPTICS&PHOTONICS2024Global Industry ReportII1Light is everywhere,playing a vital role in our daily lives.Energy comes to Earth in the form of sunlight.Light enables plants to synthesize foods.Light is the basis of the technology that enables computers and smartphones to connect over the internet.Lig

2、ht can also be a tool:focused light can cut metals or be used in medicine to perform surgery.IntroductionLight-based technology also fuels the worlds economic growth engine.Its applications affect almost every facet of modern life,from renewable energy and climate monitoring to video streaming,and f

3、rom gene therapy to artificial intelligence(AI).The total monetary value of all light-enabled products and related services(such as cloud computing,streaming,and e-commerce)comprise over 15 percent($16 trillion USD)of worldwide economic output,measured as global gross domestic product or GDP1,2,3.Ac

4、cording to the International Monetary Fund(IMF)the value of all the finished goods and services produced worldwide(global GDP)is$106 trillion(USD)in 2023.4 Accelerating innovation coupled with an incredibly diverse range of light-enabled applications and markets has enabled growth of photonics techn

5、ology revenues to consistently outpace gains in global GDP.Photonics enabled technologies and services will continue to increase their share of the global economy.Underpinning all the light-enabled products and services are core photonics components,ranging from raw materials used for lenses and dis

6、plays to image sensors,and from light-emitting diodes(LEDs)to lasers.This SPIE global industry report,now in its tenth year,provides an in-depth assessment of the global manufacturing base that produces these core components.At the reports inception in 2012,blue and green laser diodes were just beco