Datacom / Telecom

Short and long range optical communications play a great role in our day-to-day life. High-speed networks and datacenters keep looking for new active devices to improve their performance. For instance, high-speed optical transceivers require high-speed devices with smaller active areas.

ICON Photonics can help you by making your optoelectronic components more efficient thanks to innovative wafer-level optical interconnect solutions.

Our custom-made technology helps chip foundries to shrink down the active areas and increase data-rates by a factor of 3 :

• active areas smaller than 10 µm
• bandwidth higher than 50 GHz
• from 25Gbps to more than 100Gbps
• TELCORDIA standard validated

We design and manufacture on-chip polymer micro-structures adapted to your needs, ensuring high tolerances to misalignment and enabling passive alignment.

Quantum Communications

Quantum photonics is leading a new area of scientific progress. From extremely sensitive metrology to high-performance computing and secured communications, quantum enables us to take a step forward.

In this amazing world, every photon counts and we can make sure none will get lost through the path. ICON Photonics solutions enhance the standard efficiency performances and are compatible with cryogenic environments. We can help you on several steps of your quantum project or need.

LiDAR / LiFi / 3D Sensing

On the one hand LiDAR, which measures distances and velocities with light, is the present and also the future of automation. Many sectors (automotive, robotics, navigation, aerial mapping, ect…) are currently looking to expand thanks to LiDAR solutions. On the other hand 3D sensors technology can capture for example information about the shape of a face and identify a person from a video source. Smartphones are currently making 3D sensing one of the most widening markets in photonics. Lifi technologies revolutionize the internet communications by providing the data to the user through a controlled light emission.

ICON Photonics can help you on all these applications by designing and manufacturing free-space beam-shaping solutions that will enhance the control of your light emission or reception. For both emission and reception we will make sure that your device reaches the performances you need thanks to specific on-chip micro-structures.

Terahertz

Terahertz frequencies ranges approximatively from 0.3THz to 30THz which in between microwave and infrared. This spectrum brings new possibilities in industrial or medical applications. Terahertz systems are today in huge development phases around the world, and still are composed by THz emitters and detectors.

ICON Photonics can help to enhance THz systems performances thanks to custom-made solutions adapted to the THz frequencies.