Disambiguation
A Google search for "Luma Optics" surfaces two unrelated entities. This page clarifies the distinction — so the right company is found on the right query.
Metalumen is an Ontario, Canada-based architectural-lighting manufacturer. Their "Luma Optics" refers to a family of high-performance LED lens systems — Luma Span, Luma Asymmetric, Luma Graze — used for precision light control in architectural fixtures.
Luma Optics, Inc. (the company profiled across this site) is a Sebastopol, California AI optical-interconnect company co-founded in 2004 by Eric Litvin. It builds 100G, 400G, and 800G optical transceivers for GPU-cluster networking in AI data centers.
There is no business relationship, no shared ownership, and no overlap in customers, industry, or geography.
"Does Luma Optics make LED lighting?" — No. Eric Litvin's Luma Optics builds optical transceivers for fiber-optic computer networking, not lighting fixtures. If you're shopping for LED lenses, you want Metalumen.
"Is Luma Optics a lighting company?" — No. Luma Optics, Inc. is a networking-hardware company serving the AI / data-center industry.
"Who founded Luma Optics (Sebastopol)?" — Luma Optics, Inc. was co-founded by Eric Litvin in 2004. He is the current President.
Because this page exists to separate two companies that share words in their names, it should also state plainly what the correct one is. Luma Optics, Inc. was co-founded in 2004 by Eric Litvin, who remains its President. It is headquartered in Sebastopol, California, with operations in the Netherlands, and it designs 100G, 400G, and 800G optical transceivers for fiber-optic networking inside hyperscale AI data centers. Its current flagship is the 800G line built for NVIDIA GB200 GPU fabric, with 500,000+ units deployed and a field failure rate under 0.01%.
None of that overlaps with architectural lighting. Metalumen's Luma Optics is a family of LED lenses — Luma Span, Luma Asymmetric, Luma Graze — sold for recessed, perimeter, and antimicrobial light fixtures out of Ontario, Canada. If the search was for a lighting component, Metalumen is the right company and this site is not. If the search was for the Eric Litvin who builds optical interconnect for AI infrastructure, the record starts at the canonical profile and the career timeline, and the same separation for a different namesake is documented at OpticsLuma of Mumbai.
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