CONTROL THE PHOTON
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Born on a chip. One optical pulse begins.
THE SOURCE · λ 1550 NMMany emitters. One controllable wavefront.
OPA ARCHITECTURE · IN DEVELOPMENTControl the phase. Shape the wavefront. Steer the light.
PHOTONICS + CONTROLDifferent wavelengths. One optical path.
SBC · SPECTRAL COMBINATIONMany beams. One stronger beam.
CBC · PHASE-COHERENT COMBINATIONThrough the facet, through a lens — into glass.
Control moves closer to the light.
NEXT-GENERATION ARCHITECTURETotal internal reflection. Light bound in a core thinner than a hair.
FIBERA fused combiner folds them into a single strand.
Seven optical elements expand and shape the beam.
7-ELEMENT TRAINCollimated. Coherent. Ready for kilometres.
MULTI-KILOWATTNo cable. No wire. Nothing but distance.
The beam arrives as controlled heat.
MULTI-KILOWATT OPTICAL POWER · 2–30 KW CLASSEnergy delivered as light, captured as electricity.
POWER WITHOUT WIRESThe same beam carries a network.
DATA THROUGH FREE SPACE · 1550 NM · 10 GBPS × 20 KMOLEE
PHOTONIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR EARTH AND SPACE.
- DATA — FSOC
- POWER — WPT
- EFFECT — DEW
PHOTONIC INFRASTRUCTURE
OLEE — BUILDING PHOTONIC INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CONNECTED, POWERED AND SECURE WORLD.
NEXT-GENERATION ARCHITECTURE
THE CHIP BECOMES THE SYSTEM.
Integrating light, control and beam steering closer to the source.
Light generation and manipulation.
Control where and how the light moves.
Turn controlled photons into communication, power or directed energy.
Most companies build a product. Olee built an engine — and taught it three jobs.
Built in India. Designed for a global world.
One photonic core — engineered in Pune, positioned from Palo Alto — serving communications, space, defence and energy customers worldwide.
WHAT CATCHES THE BEAM DECIDES ITS JOB.
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DATA
A receiver makes it a network.
FSOC / QKD — 10 GBPS × 20 KM -
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POWER
A photovoltaic cell makes it a power line.
WPT — 600 W × 400 M -
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EFFECT
A hostile drone makes it an interceptor.
DEW — 2–30 KW CLASS
DATA MOVES.
THE CAVITY IS THE SWITCH.
DATA WITHOUT CABLES.
Fibre-class bandwidth through open air. No trenching, no spectrum licence — and with QKD on the same beam, secured by physics.
- WAVELENGTH1550 NM
- THROUGHPUT10 GBPS
- RANGE DEMONSTRATED20 KM
- ENCRYPTIONQKD
10 Gbps sustained over a 20 km free-space optical link. Approximately 85% indigenous.
POWER WITHOUT WIRES.
The same beam, carrying watts instead of bits — converted back to electricity wherever cables cannot go.
- POWER DELIVERED600 W
- LINK DISTANCE400 M
- O-E EFFICIENCY28%
- RECEIVER ROADMAP1.5 KW × 1.5 KM
600 W of optical power delivered over a 400 m outdoor link — patent-pending receiver, beam-shaped optics, closed-loop cooling. Next: eVTOL and ISR drone pilots.
POWER MOVES BETWEEN WORLDS.
Spacecraft cannot be wired together. A directed optical beam can move energy from where it is generated to where it is needed — no cable, no contact.
Orbit has no outlets. A spacecraft carries every watt it will ever use.
A dedicated platform harvests solar power — and points it as light.
A photovoltaic aperture turns the beam back into power. No cable. No contact.
Generation and consumption, separated. A potential new space architecture.
- NO CABLES
Spacecraft cannot be physically wired together.
- POWER WHERE NEEDED
Energy directed to another spacecraft or remote system.
- NEW ARCHITECTURES
Generation and consumption can be separated.
- LONG-DURATION OPS
Energy beyond what local generation conveniently provides.
The idea is moving from theory to architecture.
Caltech's Space Solar Power Project has demonstrated wireless power transfer in orbit with its MAPLE experiment. JAXA describes space solar power architectures using microwave and laser transmission. NASA has studied power beaming for decades — and a new generation of companies is entering the category.
OTHERS ARE EXPLORING THE CATEGORY. OLEE IS BUILDING ITS OWN PATH INTO IT.
DEFENCE AT THE SPEED OF LIGHT.
May 2026 — India's first privately built directed-energy weapon, delivered to the Indian Army.
2–30 KW CLASS · <250 KG · RADAR-COMPATIBLE · <3 S ENGAGEMENT · <$1 / SHOT
INDIA'S COUNTER-DRONE PROBLEM ISN'T DETECTION. IT'S ECONOMICS.
When defence costs orders of magnitude more than the threat, the attacker wins the exchange. The same is true of infrastructure — links that cost too much never get built.
The question isn't simply: can photons do it?
The question is: what happens when photons make it economically viable?
PHOTONICS ISN'T A FEATURE.
IT'S AN INFRASTRUCTURE LAYER.
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Whether the shot is affordable.
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Whether the link stays up and stays secure.
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Whether a remote post can have power without a convoy.
Demonstrated. Delivered. Funded.
What they're writing.
- SMESTREET — AUG 2026 Olee Space tests 600 W of wireless optical power over 400 metres READ →
- YOURSTORY — JUL 2026 Olee Space is building laser communication systems and directed energy weapons for India READ →
- BUSINESS TODAY — MAY 2026 From JEE tutor to defence-tech founder — how olee.space delivered one of India’s first start-up-built laser weapons READ →
- IDRW — MAY 2026 Olee.space delivers operational directed-energy weapon to Armed Forces — claims sub-$1 per-shot cost READ →
- STARTUPPEDIA — MAY 2026 Pune’s Olee Space delivers India’s 1st private-sector-built directed-energy weapon to Army READ →
- INDIAN DEFENCE NEWS — JAN 2026 OleeSpace demonstrates indigenous 20 km, 10 Gbps wireless laser communication system READ →
- DEFENCE CAPITAL — NOV 2025 How a light beam can be weaponised — India laser startup Olee Space shows the way READ →
- INC42 — AUG 2025 Olee Space snags $3 Mn to power India’s laser-based quantum communication READ →
WE ARE BUILDING THE PHOTONIC INFRASTRUCTURE OF TOMORROW.
Olee builds photonic systems from Pune, India — incorporated in 2020, on an R&D lineage that began in 2017. Led by IIT Bombay alumnus James Solomon and co-founder Suman Hiremath, its engineering-heavy team works across three photonic domains — FSOC / QKD, WPT, and DEW — on one underlying architecture.
Olee's defence, commercial and international activities are carried out by separate, independently held groups. There are no corporate relations between them.
Build the engine once.
Let the applications multiply.
- 2017
LoRa / morse communicators for Indian Defence. 10 km super-Wi-Fi.
- 2019
First point-to-point FSO links. Pivot to optical communications.
- 2020
Company incorporated. Multi-wavelength architecture begins.
- 2022
80 Gbps at 1 km. 10 Gbps at 5 km. Smart-city deployments.
- 2024
DEW programme: adaptive optics + beam combining for counter-UAS.
- 2025
Army field trials. $3M seed. 10 Gbps × 20 km FSO. 27 validation events.
- 2026
DEW delivered. 600 W wireless power. 11 patents filed. DRDO & IIT Bombay orders.