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Photonics
Enabling deep tech innovations
Photonic technologies, which generate, detect, and control light, are revolutionizing various industries by opening up a world of opportunities and novel applications.
© CSEM – Processed TFLN wafer and singulated photonic integrated circuit (PIC)
Photonics is a pivotal 21st-century technology, essential for advancements in quantum technologies, digital infrastructure, AI, LiDAR, aerospace, or next-generation life sciences. With decades of experience, CSEM excels in transferring cutting-edge technologies to the industrial sector. Our expertise includes nanoscale optical structures, micro-optical components, photonic integrated circuits (PICs), laser sources, optical instruments for metrology and sensing, as well as intelligent imaging systems.
Our innovative photonic solutions are applied across many domains, such as healthcare diagnostics, datacom, precision metrology, quantum computing, or modern mobility.
Research and development in Photonics
Our photonic expertise enables you to leverage the immense potential of light. Here are some examples:
Micro- and nano-optics
- Innovative micro-optical components: Developing free-form micro-optical components without restrictions in rotational or translational symmetry, empowering optical designers and engineers.
- Miniaturization and performance boost: Advancing device miniaturization and performance, creating new functionalities, and reducing manufacturing costs for various optical systems, from life sciences to space and datacom.
- Nano and meta-optics design and fabrication: Utilizing light-matter interaction with nanostructures to enable unique optical functionalities and effects, such as for custom filters, metalenses, and optical metamaterials.
Photonic-integrated circuits (PICs)
- Industrial applications: Combining small footprint, scalability, and reduced costs for industrial applications such as sensing, LiDAR, telecommunications, metrology, and quantum technologies.
- TFLN Platform: Focusing on thin film lithium niobate on insulator (TFLN/LNOI) platform for PICs, including high-speed modulators, phase shifters, and nonlinear photonic capabilities.
- Comprehensive services: Offering PIC design, foundry, test, and integration services.
Laser sources and laser-based systems
- Versatile tools: Creating modern tools for machining, polishing, soldering, cutting, measuring, detecting, and identifying compounds.
- Advanced laser sources: Pushing the limits of short pulse laser sources in terms of frequency and amplitude stability, pulse duration, pulse energy, beam quality, compactness, cost efficiency, and more.
- System engineering: Engineering laser-based instruments for gas sensing, distance measurement, low-phase noise microwave generation, atomic clocks, and microwave photonics.
- Laser metrology: Delivering precise laser metrology solutions.
Intelligent vision systems
- AI Vision: Combining smart vision systems such as multispectral imaging with AI to enable novel solutions for complex decision-making.
- Edge processing: Embedding processes at the edge to ensure data privacy, security, and ultra-fast processing.
- State-of-the-art vision sensors: Providing high-speed, high-dynamic range, event-based sensing, and ultra-low-power image sensors.
Tailored services in photonics
> TFLN PIC foundry services: Looking for the best Thin-Film Lithium Niobate (TFLN) Photonic Integrated Circuit (PIC) foundry services in Europe? Contact us today to bring your next-generation photonic system to life.
> On-chip microlens array engineering & foundry services: Whether you require complete development and pilot series production, design inputs, or microlens masters/tools, we provide customized solutions to meet your needs.
> MOEMS foundry services: Our state-of-the-art MEMS foundry and characterization lab delivers the entire development cycle from conceptualization to medium-volume production of optical MEMS. The European Space Agency accredits our lab for the toughest tests. We combine a deep understanding of materials science with rigorous testing to deliver the best results to our clients.
Want to get involved?
Whether you are set on space exploration, creating innovative lighting concepts, developing new PIC-based systems, novel image sensors or even cutting-edge lasers, we have the right photonics solution for you.
CSEM photonics in action
Meet our happy customers
Julien Steinbrunn
Advanced Research Project Manager
The MEDILIGHT partners have shown the potential of blue light in patient care – and the story is just beginning.
Jonas Reinhardt
Director of U-NICA Micronics AG
By measuring fluorescence lifetime, U-NICA is able to offer its customers an additional verification parameter, which is unique for each fluorescent dye. This leads to a much higher security and opens new possibilities for unique customer codes.
Fabrice Schertenleib
Managing Director
Working with CSEM has been very helpful technically and also geographically, with our proximity and the advantages of an all-Swiss partnership adding to the project's overall value.
Mikkel Heuck
Research Scientist Quantum Photonics Laboratory
We are strong supporters of CSEM’s efforts to build up a foundry service for lithium niobate integrated photonics since we believe it will have a major impact on both industry and the scientific community. It is really a fortunate situation for us to get in early and work with CSEM as their capabilities expand and accelerate our research in integrated quantum photonics.
Cornel Marxer
CEO
CSEM offers us a professional service for both manufacturing and development, which keeps us at the top of this high-tech field. We are very happy with this partnership.
Thierry Dreyfus
Head of Technology
CSEM and Regent share a passion for innovative lighting solutions and products. From the very beginning, we established an excellent relationship based on mutual trust and respect. In turn, this has led to many follow-up collaborations. We have recently completed a project closely related to RUN+ and hopefully, this will soon materialize in another innovative product release from Regent.
Scott Hovland
ISS Programme & Exploration Department, ESTEC, Directorate of Human Spaceflight and Operations
The spirit of collaboration that CSEM has shown has been excellent and I would specifically like to commend the center.
Richard Phelan
Head of laser design
We’ve had several projects with CSEM, which have advanced our semiconductor laser products substantially and opened up new commercial opportunities in the area of low linewidth lasers for lidar applications. The discussions with the experts at CSEM have provided us with many new ideas as well as valuable feedback for different applications such as metrology and sensing.
Augustinas Vizbaras
CTO
CSEM has a fantastic understanding and knowledge of using optical systems to measure vital signs, and bringing this know-how into our use case has allowed us to make huge improvements in our OptiBP software—and potentially in the global management of hypertension.