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Photobiology Research Division

A new world
of photobiology.

The science of how specific wavelengths of light shape the human brain — sleep, pain, mood, alertness, memory. We engineer the optical filters that translate this science into clinical relief.

380 nm 450 500 560 620 700 780 nm
The visible spectrum · Where biology meets optics
07
Peer-indexed
publications
01
Granted
Indian patent
03
Pending
patent filings
04
Spectral
technologies

Eyewear, reframed as medicine for the photic system.

For a hundred years, glasses have done one thing: bend light to the retina. We work in the second register — which wavelengths reach the brain. By selectively attenuating the bands that drive migraine, suppress melatonin, or destabilise the circadian clock, while preserving the bands the visual system needs, we are designing a generation of lenses that are clinical instruments first and accessories second.

Four lines of active inquiry.

Each stream is grounded in published photobiology and validated against in-house spectral measurement. None of this is marketing.

01 / Neural pathway

ipRGC & melanopsin signalling

Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells regulate circadian timing, melatonin synthesis, pupillary response, and a documented migraine pain pathway. Our work characterises subtype-specific wavelength sensitivity and translates it into lens specifications.

2 publications · Open access
02 / Migraine optics

Dual-band selective attenuation

FL-41 evolved. Granted Indian Patent IN 587746 describes a dual-notch lens addressing both the 460–490 nm melanopsin pathway and the 585–600 nm cone-driven pathway identified by Noseda et al. (Brain, 2016) — while preserving the 520–560 nm green band shown to reduce migraine severity.

Patent granted · Apr 2026
03 / Circadian engineering

Sub-560 nm cutoff lenses

A complete short-wavelength cutoff for the post-sunset window, engineered to maximise melanopic protection without the perceptual penalty of conventional amber lenses. The technology is the subject of pending application IN 202521120977.

Patent pending · FER under response
04 / Instrumentation

Portable spectral measurement

Most clinical environments cannot quantify the light their patients are actually exposed to. We are building VYLO — a portable, sub-second photobiological light scanner reporting CIE S026 melanopic EDI, CCT, flicker, and circadian-stress metrics in real time.

Patent filed · IN 202621047220

Founded and led by Suraj Dubey — Senior Optometrist, inventor of NeuroCalm FLX+™, Circadian560™, Chrome Assist™, and the VYLO spectral instrument. Clinical advisory chaired by Dr. Monica Choudhary, Director MCVI, formerly Faculty AIIMS.

ORCID 0009-0003-7510-9254 · Wikidata Q138837663 · Mumbai, India