Hamamatsu products are actively used throughout the world in a wide variety of areas including medical treatment, chemical analysis, measurement, information & communications, and office automation. Here Hamamatsu provides specific examples of fundamental and applied research as well as elemental and applied technology fostered over the 60-year history that provides vital support for supplying our products. www.hamamatsu.com

Quantune Technologies is a Berlin-based start-up focused on biomedical sensors based on mid-infrared lasers. Quantune Technologies develops Tunable QCL-based Micro Spectrometers for Industrial and Medical Applications. www.quantune.com

Lumentum is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Lumentum optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in Milpitas, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. www.lumentum.com

Alpes Lasers is a one stop shop for laser sources in the mid-infrared, it is component manufacturer providing Quantum Cascade Lasers to integrators of chemical detection systems applied to markets as diverse as combustion monitoring, industrial security or medical diagnostic. The devices operate CW at room temperature with mW to W range powers single- or multi-mode and emit up to 3 to 23 microns. The company concentrates on design and quality assurance thanks to its fabless operation. www.alpeslasers.ch

Thorlabs, a vertically integrated photonics products manufacturer, was founded in 1989 to serve the laser and electro-optics research market. As that market has spawned a multitude of technical innovations, Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an effort to play an ever-increasing role serving the Photonics Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. The organization’s highly integrated and diverse manufacturing assets include semiconductor fabrication of laser diodes, optical amplifiers, lithium niobate modulators, quantum cascade/interband cascade lasers, and VCSEL lasers; fiber towers for drawing glass optical fibers (silica, fluoride, tellurite, and hollow core); MBE/MOCVD epitaxial wafer growth reactors; extensive glass and metal fabrication facilities; advanced thin film deposition capabilities; and optomechanical and optoelectronic shops. www.thorlabs.com

mirSense is a French manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers and gas spectrometers. Our clients are all over the world, from university labs to large industrial manufacturers, in diverse sectors like automotive, biogas, medical or defense. We manufacture high-power lasers delivering watt-level power in the mid-infrared (4, 4.6, 4.8 microns) and we also manufacture DFB lasers for spectroscopy applications in the [10-17] microns wavelength region. Our clients can purchase turnkey systems for lab use, OEM systems including laser + driving electronics or packaged QCL lasers and even chips on submount. www.mirsense.com

nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies is the technology leader for distributed feedback lasers for high-precision gas sensing in industry and research. We design and produce monomode DFB laser diodes (760 nm – 3000 nm), DFB interband cascade (3000 nm – 6000 nm) and quantum cascade lasers (6000 nm – 14000 nm). Based on more than 20 years of experience, we support our customers with extensive engineering know-how, OEM solutions and various technological services. Our devices operate reliably in more than 30.000 installations worldwide. Applications include industrial process optimization, oil & gas, environment, defense, safety, automotive, health and space. nanoplus is a ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified supplier.www.nanoplus.com

Hamamatsu products are actively used throughout the world in a wide variety of areas including medical treatment, chemical analysis, measurement, information & communications, and office automation. Here Hamamatsu provides specific examples of fundamental and applied research as well as elemental and applied technology fostered over the 60-year history that provides vital support for supplying our products. www.hamamatsu.com

Novae develops and commercialises high energy: and high power femtosecond and picosecond fiber lasers emitting at 1µm and 2µm for scientific, medical and industrial applications. This range of lasers, based on a patented technology, has been called “Brevity”. In addition to the business core, Novae has developed commercial relationship with FORC Photonics, specialized in optical fibre fabrication: rare earth doped, passive…. This relationship allows Novae to commercialize those specialty optical fibres to laser manufacturers or laboratories. www.novae-laser.com

NKT Photonics is the leading supplier of high performance fiber lasers, fiber optic sensing systems, and photonic crystal fibers. Our main markets are within imaging, sensing and material processing. Our products include ultrafast lasers, supercontinuum white light lasers, low noise fiber lasers, distributed temperature sensing systems and a wide range of specialty fibers. We have lasers in space and deep under the oceans and our products run in both clean rooms and on oil rigs at sea. We seed the world’s largest laser fusion experiment and power hundreds of the most advanced microscopes on the globe. We aim to make a difference in the world and we are involved in projects that will transform the way we live through life-science, renewable energy and the basic understanding of the universe. With over fifteen years of expertise, IP and experience, NKT Photonics strives to continually be the market leader in everything we do. NKT Photonics has its headquarters in Denmark with sales and service worldwide. NKT Photonics is wholly owned by NKT A/S. www.nktphotonics.com

Teem Photonics offers advanced Microlasers for OEM and Scientific applications for wavelengths: 213, 266, 355, 532, 1064, 1535 nm. Extremely rugged and cost effective, these products bring unique solutions for LIDAR, Instrumentation and sensing as well as materials processing applications. From earth sciences to biology, from security to marking, they have demonstrated an excellent reliability and lifetime over 80 khours in the infra-red and tens of thousands of hours at other wavelengths. The Single Longitudinal Modes (SLM) versions combine short pulse duration with spectral purity. Teem Photonics waveguide product range is a series of high performance interposers for Silicon Photonics. Based on the ioNext technology platform, WAFTs devices help connect arrays of up to 256 fibers to more tightly confined waveguides with 3D tapers, bringing insertion loss under 1dB while significantly reducing Si Photonics chip dimension requirements. www.teemphotonics.com

TOPTICA develops and manufactures high-end laser systems for scientific and industrial applications. The portfolio includes diode lasers, ultrafast fiber lasers, terahertz systems and frequency combs. These systems are widely used in quantum optics and spectroscopy, biophotonics and microscopy, as well as test and measurement. www.toptica.com

LEUKOS is a world-leading company, designing and commercializing supercontinuum sources (white lasers). Founded in 2006, the company was a pionneer regarding this innovative technology. Following the technological transfer from Xlim laboratory (University of Limoges), LEUKOS has continuously introduced new products during these last 10 years. In 2013, the company has expanded its activities by acquiring the company HORUS LASER, a manufacturer of compact passive q-switch microchip lasers. www.leukos-systems.com

Eblana Photonics was founded in 2001 as a spin-off from Tyndall Institute and Trinity College Dublin. Eblana specialises in the design and manufacture of “Discrete-Mode” DFB-type Laser Diodes from 650nm – 2400nm, for use in optical sensing, metrology and LIDAR and optical communications markets. Eblana’s “Discrete-Mode” lasers are idea for both niche and mass market applications, utilising standardised FP processing and surface lithography in order to manufacture single mode laser diodes – a consistent and highly customisable process. Ultra narrow linewidth devices are produced for use in metrology, LIDAR and atomic clock applications. Custom processes as well as specialised photonic devices including MMIs, SOAs, SLEDs and lasers arrays are also part of the portfolio. www.eblanaphotonics.com

APE is a worldwide trusted supplier of laser diagnostics and wavelength conversion for the ultrashort pulse (USP) laser industry. The diagnostics business covers autocorrelators for pulse width measurements, spectrometers, calibration light sources for cytometry, and other equipment for measuring and manipulating laser pulses. The business segment wavelength conversion includes optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers (OPO, OPA), frequency multiplication, as well as laser-sources for nonlinear Raman spectroscopy and label-free microscopy. www.ape-berlin.de

Quantune Technologies is a Berlin-based start-up focused on biomedical sensors based on mid-infrared lasers. Quantune Technologies develops Tunable QCL-based Micro Spectrometers for Industrial and Medical Applications. www.quantune.com

Lumentum is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of innovative optical and photonic products enabling optical networking and laser applications worldwide. Lumentum optical components and subsystems are part of virtually every type of telecom, enterprise, and data center network. Lumentum lasers enable advanced manufacturing techniques and diverse applications including next-generation 3D sensing capabilities. Lumentum is headquartered in Milpitas, California with R&D, manufacturing, and sales offices worldwide. www.lumentum.com

Alpes Lasers is a one stop shop for laser sources in the mid-infrared, it is component manufacturer providing Quantum Cascade Lasers to integrators of chemical detection systems applied to markets as diverse as combustion monitoring, industrial security or medical diagnostic. The devices operate CW at room temperature with mW to W range powers single- or multi-mode and emit up to 3 to 23 microns. The company concentrates on design and quality assurance thanks to its fabless operation. www.alpeslasers.ch

Monocrom designs and manufactures low and high power diode laser devices, mainly for medicine, aesthetics, material processing, pumping, science, defense, aero-spatial, instrumentation and graphic arts industry. Monocrom has been recognized throughout the laser industry for supplying high performance products at a competitive price due to its unique and patented “clamping” technology. Monocrom’s products are alike appreciated for their custom-fit characteristics, high reliability and long lifetime. Our experience in the laser field has demonstrated the applicability of new concepts in laser physics, like our Q-Switched green solid state laser, capable of providing microseconds pulses and considered one of the most important developments in eye surgery from the last years, or our ultra-light weight and resistant green laser device designed for a Space mission to MARS (ExoMars). www.monocrom.com

Femtum is a Canadian spin-off from the Center of optics, photonics and laser (COPL) in Quebec City. Femtum was born in 2017 from a strong desire to unleash the potential of mid-infrared fiber lasers all over the world. Our mission is to help industrial manufacturers and scientific teams to solve their most demanding requirements, from selective laser microprocessing to state-of-the-art mid-IR spectroscopy. Femtum offers a range of fiber laser products including ultrafast lasers, tunable lasers and optical fiber amplifiers operating at wavelengths above 2800 nm. www.femtum.com

Thorlabs, a vertically integrated photonics products manufacturer, was founded in 1989 to serve the laser and electro-optics research market. As that market has spawned a multitude of technical innovations, Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an effort to play an ever-increasing role serving the Photonics Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. The organization’s highly integrated and diverse manufacturing assets include semiconductor fabrication of laser diodes, optical amplifiers, lithium niobate modulators, quantum cascade/interband cascade lasers, and VCSEL lasers; fiber towers for drawing glass optical fibers (silica, fluoride, tellurite, and hollow core); MBE/MOCVD epitaxial wafer growth reactors; extensive glass and metal fabrication facilities; advanced thin film deposition capabilities; and optomechanical and optoelectronic shops. www.thorlabs.com

Coherent, founded in 1966, is one of the world’s leading providers of lasers and laser-based technology for scientific, commercial and industrial customers. With headquarters in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, and offices spanning the globe, Coherent offers a unique and distinct product portfolio and services for Scientific Research, Life Sciences, Microelectronics & Semiconductor processes, and Materials Processing. In November 2016 Coherent and ROFIN merged to form the world’s largest photonics company. Coherent differentiates from other laser manufacturers by offering the broadest product portfolio available. This unsurpassed portfolio of lasers varies in wavelength, average and peak power to be subtle enough for DNA studies, precise enough for microelectronics, and powerful enough to cut the strongest steel. From continuous-wave to femtosecond lasers, from a few milli-Watts up to multi kilo-Watts of power combined with in-depth process development skills, we are the ideal partner for deployment of photonics in Science and Industry. Coherent develops and produces a large proportion of its products in Europe, including diode and fiber laser components, high repetition rate short pulse lasers, diode-pumped solid-state lasers, optically pumped semiconductor lasers, ultrafast lasers, excimer lasers up to industrial fiber, diode and CO₂ lasers as well as laser-based system solutions. We employ approximately 2,800 people in Europe. www.coherent.com

mirSense is a French manufacturer of quantum cascade lasers and gas spectrometers. Our clients are all over the world, from university labs to large industrial manufacturers, in diverse sectors like automotive, biogas, medical or defense. We manufacture high-power lasers delivering watt-level power in the mid-infrared (4, 4.6, 4.8 microns) and we also manufacture DFB lasers for spectroscopy applications in the [10-17] microns wavelength region. Our clients can purchase turnkey systems for lab use, OEM systems including laser + driving electronics or packaged QCL lasers and even chips on submount. www.mirsense.com

nanoplus Nanosystems and Technologies is the technology leader for distributed feedback lasers for high-precision gas sensing in industry and research. We design and produce monomode DFB laser diodes (760 nm – 3000 nm), DFB interband cascade (3000 nm – 6000 nm) and quantum cascade lasers (6000 nm – 14000 nm). Based on more than 20 years of experience, we support our customers with extensive engineering know-how, OEM solutions and various technological services. Our devices operate reliably in more than 30.000 installations worldwide. Applications include industrial process optimization, oil & gas, environment, defense, safety, automotive, health and space. nanoplus is a ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004 certified supplier.www.nanoplus.com

New Imaging Technologies (NIT) is a leader in SWIR imaging solutions and HDR CMOS sensors, based on innovative pixel designs and disruptive process. NIT was founded in 2007 as a spin-off from Institut-Telecom Sud-Paris. NIT develops, manufactures and sells InGaAs sensors and cameras for short wave infrared band imaging (900nm – 1700nm) and High Dynamic Range CMOS sensors for high-end visible band, with a transverse knowledge scope from IC design, material process, FPGA, electronics and mechanical engineering. NIT addresses various markets such as industry, scientific, space, aeronautics, surveillance & defense. NIT employs 20 people and is located at Verrieres le Buisson, close to Paris. www.new-imaging-technologies.com

NIREOS SRL is a fast-growing start-up and official spin-off company of Politecnico di Milano University, located in Milan (Italy). Incorporated in 2018, NIREOS is rapidly empowering its business and strategic market positioning thanks to the development of ground-breaking technologies in the spectroscopy and photonics sector. The solutions provided by NIREOS, such as interferometers, spectrometers and hyperspectral cameras, are now unlocking new applications both in the industrial and in the scientific field. NIREOS is also part of SimDOME (https://simdome.eu/), an H2020 European Project. www.nireos.com

Xenics is a pioneer of infrared technology with a proven track record of twenty years. Xenics designs and markets infrared imagers, cores and cameras of best-in-class image quality to support innovative R&D, industrial automation, machine vision, process control and high-end security applications. Xenics offers a complete portfolio of line-scan and 2-D area-scan products for the vSWIR, SWIR, MWIR and LWIR ranges. Mastering all critical steps of the manufacturing process with advanced production facilities and in-house know-how on detectors, systems and software development Xenics delivers state-of-the-art solutions and optimized custom designs. As a European vendor with a worldwide sales and service network, Xenics supports its customers with simplified export procedures. More at: www.xenics.com

IRnova, based in Kista (Sweden), is an independent company serving the OEM high-end infrared detector market and related services. IRnova’s recent breakthrough in both 15µ pitch QWIP and HOT T2SL focal plane arrays spearheads the European research and development of IR sensors. With researchers pioneering the field of infrared, state of the art production facilities that serves challenging military requirements and an excellent track record, IRnova is the obvious choice as a reliable, long term supplier of high-quality detectors. www.irnova.se

New Infrared Technologies (NIT) is a company located in Madrid (Spain), which develops and commercializes industrial solutions for real-time process monitoring and smart control of laser-based industrial processes (Additive Manufacturing, LMD, cladding, laser welding) and other technologies (WAAM, arc welding, etc). These solutions are based in self-produced infrared cameras, manufactured with a unique technology, sensitive in the medium wavelength infrared (MWIR, 1-5 microns), high-speed capabilities and uncooled operation at room temperature. www.niteurope.com

Lynred and its subsidiary US-based Lynred USA are global leaders in designing and manufacturing high quality infrared technologies for aerospace, defense and commercial markets. Their vast portfolio of infrared detectors covers the entire electromagnetic spectrum from near to very far infrared. The Group’s products are at the center of multiple military programs and applications. Its IR detectors are the key component of many top brands in commercial thermal imaging equipment sold across Europe, Asia and North America. The organization is the leading European manufacturer for IR detectors deployed in space. www.lynred.com

IMASENIC Advanced Imaging develops and supplies custom CMOS image sensors and systems for the wide image sensor market with customers in Europe, Far East and United States. Its sensors are used for applications ranging from space to photography, from scientific to bio-medical, from industrial equipment to automotive. IMASENIC is customer-oriented and work with them from specifications, through prototyping to volume production at state-of-art CMOS foundries. IMASENIC supplies the CMOS image sensors as well as the related package and camera. IMASENIC can develop sensors with: pixel size down to 1.4µm, sensor size up a full 200 or 300 mm wafer, rolling and global shutter sensors, single photon avalanche pixels for direct time-of-flight applications, low noise (1 e- rms), high dynamic range (true 16 bit and more, linear), ultra-high speed (beyond 1 million frames per second at megapixel resolution), IR-enhanced; UV- enhanced. www.imasenic.com

Laser Components specializes in the development, manufacture, and sale of components and services in the laser and optoelectronics industry. In a nutshell, we offer anything from the creation to the transmission to the detection of light – at the components level. Our company has been serving customers since 1982 with sales branches in five different countries. We have been producing in house since 1986 with production facilities in Germany, Canada, and the United States. In-house production makes up approximately two thirds of our sales revenue. As a family-run business, we have more than 230 employees worldwide. www.lasercomponents.com

Hamamatsu products are actively used throughout the world in a wide variety of areas including medical treatment, chemical analysis, measurement, information & communications, and office automation. Here Hamamatsu provides specific examples of fundamental and applied research as well as elemental and applied technology fostered over the 60-year history that provides vital support for supplying our products. www.hamamatsu.com

III-V Lab is an industrial Research Laboratory jointly owned by Nokia, Thales and CEA. It conducts R&D activities in the field of micro/nano-electronics and photonics semiconductor components for different applications, such as telecoms, defence, security, safety, space etc. Relying on a high level of expertise and advanced facilities in III-V materials growth and processing and their integration on Silicon, III-V lab develop a wide range of components. III-V Lab has also the capacity to produce limited quantities of epitaxial wafers, components, modules or subsystems). Such capacity is particularly adapted to address in a flexible way the rapid evolution of the market, offering to its members or partner industrial companies an early access to the components for their system development and even preliminary deployment. www.3-5lab.fr

Caeleste is a full turn-key supplier of high-end, beyond state-of-the-art CMOS image sensors. Our activities include custom image sensor design, manufacture, assembly and characterization. Caeleste is the originator of many novel concepts as high-speed, low-noise image sensors, indirect X-ray detectors with photon counting, color X-ray sensors, and sub-0.5 noise electron read noise CMOS pixels. www.caeleste.be

trinamiX GmbH, with a team of 170 specialists develops cutting-edge 3D vision and IR sensing solutions for use in consumer electronics devices and industrial applications. trinamiX’s IR solution portfolio includes high-performance IR detectors and ready-to-use Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy Solutions combining powerful hardware with advanced chemometrics and cloud-connected data analysis. Our IR detectors include PbS (covering 1 to 3 µm) and PbSe chips (1 to 5 µm) with a unique encapsulation technique that enables a small footprint for integration whilst offering full spectroscopy capabilities. As a leader in NIR spectroscopy, trinamiX has been pioneering the miniaturization of near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer modules for smartphones. trinamiX sensing technology is designed to empower smartphone users to identify the molecular composition of material, enhancing their decision-making in the near future. www.trinamix.de

IRnova, based in Kista (Sweden), is an independent company serving the OEM high-end infrared detector market and related services. IRnova’s recent breakthrough in both 15µ pitch QWIP and HOT T2SL focal plane arrays spearheads the European research and development of IR sensors. With researchers pioneering the field of infrared, state of the art production facilities that serves challenging military requirements and an excellent track record, IRnova is the obvious choice as a reliable, long term supplier of high-quality detectors. www.irnova.se

Emberion designs and produces high-performance optoelectronic devices based on graphene, other nanomaterials and in-house designed CMOS integrated circuits. Our primary products are infrared detectors for VIS-SWIR and thermal imaging. Emberion’s products combine high performance with competitive cost level and thus enable new application areas for infrared imaging. Emberion is an independent SME spin-out from Nokia’s R&D based on venture capital funding from Verso Ventures and co-founded with Emberion employees. Emberion is co-located in Cambridge, UK, and Espoo, Finland and we are a member of the European Graphene Flagship program. www.emberion.com

Thorlabs, a vertically integrated photonics products manufacturer, was founded in 1989 to serve the laser and electro-optics research market. As that market has spawned a multitude of technical innovations, Thorlabs has extended its core competencies in an effort to play an ever-increasing role serving the Photonics Industry at the research end, as well as the industrial, life science, medical, and defense segments. The organization’s highly integrated and diverse manufacturing assets include semiconductor fabrication of laser diodes, optical amplifiers, lithium niobate modulators, quantum cascade/interband cascade lasers, and VCSEL lasers; fiber towers for drawing glass optical fibers (silica, fluoride, tellurite, and hollow core); MBE/MOCVD epitaxial wafer growth reactors; extensive glass and metal fabrication facilities; advanced thin film deposition capabilities; and optomechanical and optoelectronic shops. www.thorlabs.com

NLIR is spin-off from the Department of Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Fotonik) and is based on the novel patented upconversion technology invented by its founders at DTU Fotonik. The core of the upconversion technology is a non-linear crystal that converts mid infrared light to near visible light. This enables the use of fast and efficient Silicon based sensors for detection of MIR light. Our non-linear mid infrared sensors represent a revolutionary new measurement paradigm Our company is named Non-Linear InfraRed sensors (NLIR) to highlight our spectrometer products technological difference from today’s leading MIR spectrometry method of Fourier-Transform InfraRed spectroscopy (FTIR). www.nlir.com

VIGO System is the leading manufacturer of standard and customized High Operating Temperature HgCdTe detectors. The mission of VIGO System is to provide fast and convenient, easy to use IR detectors at any wavelength from 2 to 16 µm, reaching fundamental BLIP limits without cryocooling. In our offer we have detection modules consisting of an infrared detector and preamplifier integrated into a compact case. Modules are available with different spectral response ranges, time response characteristics and gains. In addition to our large variety of standard modules, we offer professional custom designed devices and complete solutions for various measurement systems and broad range of applications. www.vigo.com.pl

Laser Components specializes in the development, manufacture, and sale of components and services in the laser and optoelectronics industry. In a nutshell, we offer anything from the creation to the transmission to the detection of light – at the components level. Our company has been serving customers since 1982 with sales branches in five different countries. We have been producing in house since 1986 with production facilities in Germany, Canada, and the United States. In-house production makes up approximately two thirds of our sales revenue. As a family-run business, we have more than 230 employees worldwide. www.lasercomponents.com

Hamamatsu products are actively used throughout the world in a wide variety of areas including medical treatment, chemical analysis, measurement, information & communications, and office automation. Here Hamamatsu provides specific examples of fundamental and applied research as well as elemental and applied technology fostered over the 60-year history that provides vital support for supplying our products. www.hamamatsu.com

MIRO Analytical is a young high-tech company from Switzerland. We provide authorities, scientists and companies with powerful tools to monitor and report on air pollution and greenhouse gases and therefore enable them to act against air pollution and climate change. We use direct laser absorption spectroscopy with multiple Quantum Cascade Lasers (QCLs). Our technology has the potential to largely reduce the footprint and the cost of ownership for multicompound gas measurements. www.miro-analytical.com

Sensirion, headquartered in Staefa, Switzerland, is a leading manufacturer of digital microsensors and systems. Founded in 1998 the company today employs people in countries such as the USA, South Korea, Japan, China, Taiwan, and Germany. The product range includes gas and liquid flow sensors, differential pressure sensors and environmental sensors for the measurement of humidity and temperature, volatile organic compounds (VOC), carbon dioxide (CO2), particulate matter (PM2.5) and formaldehyde. Sensirion sensors can commonly be found in the medical, industrial and automotive sectors, analytical instruments, consumer goods and HVAC products. One of the hallmark features of Sensirion products is the use of its patented CMOSens® Technology, which permits intelligent system integration of the sensor element, logic, calibration data and a digital interface on a single chip. www.sensirion.com

BaySpec founded in 1999 with 100% manufacturing in the USA (San Jose, CA), is a vertically integrated spectral sensing company. The company designs, manufactures and markets advanced spectral instruments, from UV-VIS spectrometers to handheld and portable NIR and Raman analyzers, to FBG Interrogation Analyzers and OCPM Analyzers for the biomedical, pharmaceuticals, chemical, food, semiconductor, homeland security, fiber sensing and optical telecommunications industries. www.bayspec.com

STMicroelectronics is a global semiconductor company with net revenues of US$ 9.66 billion in 2018. Offering one of the industry’s broadest product portfolios, ST serves customers across the spectrum of electronics applications with innovative semiconductor solutions for Smart Driving and the Internet of Things. By getting more from technology to get more from life, ST stands for life.augmented. To keep its technology edge, ST maintains a strong commitment to innovation, with approximately 7,400 people working in R&D and product design and spending about 15 % of its revenue in R&D in 2018. Among the industry’s global technology leaders, ST owns and continuously refreshes a substantial patent library (~18,000 patents; ~9,500 patent families and ~500 new patent filings in 2018). ST delivers specialized and differentiated imaging solutions for a variety of applications, leveraging extensive expertise in optical modules and image sensors and a continuously expanding portfolio of proprietary technologies. We provide access to advanced Imaging technologies through our CMOS Image Sensor (CIS) foundry services. www.st.com

trinamiX GmbH, with a team of 170 specialists develops cutting-edge 3D vision and IR sensing solutions for use in consumer electronics devices and industrial applications. trinamiX’s IR solution portfolio includes high-performance IR detectors and ready-to-use Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy Solutions combining powerful hardware with advanced chemometrics and cloud-connected data analysis. Our IR detectors include PbS (covering 1 to 3 µm) and PbSe chips (1 to 5 µm) with a unique encapsulation technique that enables a small footprint for integration whilst offering full spectroscopy capabilities. As a leader in NIR spectroscopy, trinamiX has been pioneering the miniaturization of near-infrared (NIR) spectrometer modules for smartphones. trinamiX sensing technology is designed to empower smartphone users to identify the molecular composition of material, enhancing their decision-making in the near future. www.trinamix.de

NLIR is spin-off from the Department of Photonics Engineering at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU Fotonik) and is based on the novel patented upconversion technology invented by its founders at DTU Fotonik. The core of the upconversion technology is a non-linear crystal that converts mid infrared light to near visible light. This enables the use of fast and efficient Silicon based sensors for detection of MIR light. Our non-linear mid infrared sensors represent a revolutionary new measurement paradigm Our company is named Non-Linear InfraRed sensors (NLIR) to highlight our spectrometer products technological difference from today’s leading MIR spectrometry method of Fourier-Transform InfraRed spectroscopy (FTIR). www.nlir.com

Elforlight manufactures a range of diode pumped solid state lasers with cutting edge specifications and offers the following: Wavelengths from infrared through visible to ultraviolet; Powers from 30mW up to 10W; Single frequency and broadband; and CW, Q-Switched and pulsed systems. Elforlight also offers the facility to design and manufacture a range of optical systems, including packages of laser diodes, drivers and thermal management and pride themselves in their flexibility to tailor the product to meet the user’s needs, offering subsystems and value addition. Elforlight has a philosophy that will appeal to those seeking solutions to a problem, not just an off the shelf product. www.elforlight.com

TOPTICA develops and manufactures high-end laser systems for scientific and industrial applications. The portfolio includes diode lasers, ultrafast fiber lasers, terahertz systems and frequency combs. These systems are widely used in quantum optics and spectroscopy, biophotonics and microscopy, as well as test and measurement. www.toptica.com

IRISIOME – since 2015, is a company that is developing and manufacturing exclusive fiber Laser solutions. Our technology is capable to deliver short and tunable pulses from ten’s of ps to few ns at a repetition frequency from few MHz to few GHz. Our technology has also the capability to be wavelength tunable around 1um and 1.5um, and thanks to second harmonic generation we can generate visible laser emission. IRISIOME company is holding two brands. Irisiome Aesthetic (http://www.irisiome.com) is providing laser solutions for dermatology and Aesthetic applications and is pioneer in providing ultrashort pulses Lasers. Irisiome Solutions is providing laser solutions for scientific and industrial markets that are requiring ultrashort and highly tunable Lasers. www.irisiome-solutions.com

Femto Easy is a company specialized in ultrafast metrology. We have a strong expertise in the production and characterization of high energy ultrashort pulses and we provide robust and reliable measurement devices for ultrafast lasers, already in use in several state of the art laboratories.Our current product-line includes all the useful instruments to characterize and manage ultrafast lasers. We provide innovative devices for temporal measurement (ROC and FROG), spectral measurement (MISS spectrometer) and spatial measurement (BeamPro). They are suitable for a broad wavelength range (from UV to mid-IR) and a large pulse duration range, from 5 fs to 80 ps. Our latest addition to our range of products is an innovative, ultra compact, frequency converter for harmonic generation directly coupled to your ultrafast laser. Beside their intrinsic technical performances, our products are very easy to use, compact, portable and versatile, which make them the ideal tools for customer services. The products are associated with a high quality user-friendly software which contributes to making them easy and pleasant to use. We also make custom products upon request and provide our expertise on ultrafast metrology. www.femtoeasy.eu

Fluence is laser manufacturer based in Warsaw (Poland) that is focused on environmentally stable femtosecond fiber laser technology. The mission of the company is to deliver maintenance-free femtosecond lasers with an exceptionally long lifetime. Long years of research have led Fluence to create shock and temperature immune femtosecond lasers which can be used in various fields: from science to industrial micromachining. Fluence expertise and products extend to optical parametric amplifiers and laser pulse diagnostics equipment with a revision to the standard approach. www.fluence.pl

Laser Components specializes in the development, manufacture, and sale of components and services in the laser and optoelectronics industry. In a nutshell, we offer anything from the creation to the transmission to the detection of light – at the components level. Our company has been serving customers since 1982 with sales branches in five different countries. We have been producing in house since 1986 with production facilities in Germany, Canada, and the United States. In-house production makes up approximately two thirds of our sales revenue. As a family-run business, we have more than 230 employees worldwide. www.lasercomponents.com

CorActive is a manufacturer of advanced Specialty Optical Fibers (SOF) and OEM modules and components for customers serving the industrial, telecommunications, sensing, defense, and medical markets. CorActive uniquely offers a full line of standard and custom products, including rare-earth doped active and passive single clad and double clad fibers for fiber laser and amplifier applications, Mid-IR transmission fibers, UV sensitive and attenuating optical fibers, plus OEM modules and components for high power CW lasers. www.coractive.com

Le Verre Fluoré was established in 1977 as a spin-off of the discovery of fluoride glasses by Poulain brothers. Over 40 years of continuous R&D effort lead to outstanding pioneering achievements, among them are ZBLAN and Fluoroindate glasses, low loss optical fibers, qualified for industrial use. High reliability and low costs outline maturity of fluoride glass technology. www.leverrefluore.com

OFS is a world-leading designer, manufacturer and provider of optical fiber, fiber optic cable, connectivity, fiber-to-the-subscriber (FTTx) and specialty photonics products. We provide reliable, cost-effective solutions for a broad range of applications including telecommunications, medicine, industrial automation, sensing, government, aerospace and defense. These products help our customers meet the needs of consumers and businesses, both today and into the future. Headquartered in Norcross (near Atlanta) Georgia, U.S.A., OFS is a global provider with facilities in China, Denmark, Germany, Morocco, Russia and the United States. OFS is part of Furukawa Electric Company, a multi-billion dollar leader in optical communications. www.ofsoptics.com

art photonics was founded in Adlershof in 1998 to develop and produce specialty fibers, fiber probes, laser cables and bundles for very broad spectral range from UV to Mid IR. While FlexiRay® fiber cables and bundles are focused on applications in laser technologies and medicine, the other product line FlexiSpec® provides the best fiber solutions for process-spectroscopy in biotechnologies, in chemical, petrochemical, pharma and food industries. FlexiSpec® fiber probes enable biomedical tissue diagnostics in-vivo and can be used for environment pollution monitoring in a field. www.artphotonics.com

Laser Components specializes in the development, manufacture, and sale of components and services in the laser and optoelectronics industry. In a nutshell, we offer anything from the creation to the transmission to the detection of light – at the components level. Our company has been serving customers since 1982 with sales branches in five different countries. We have been producing in house since 1986 with production facilities in Germany, Canada, and the United States. In-house production makes up approximately two thirds of our sales revenue. As a family-run business, we have more than 230 employees worldwide. www.lasercomponents.com

Spectrogon is a full service independent manufacturer of optical components based in Taby, Sweden. The company serves customers in the automotive, space, medical, defense and process control industries. Our main technologies are Thin Film Optical Coatings and Holographic Diffraction Gratings. We design and manufacture thin film filters and windows for a wide range of requirements from high end imaging systems, through precision filters for gas detection and in filter wheels, to filters “diced on tape” for commercial volume applications. We also manufacture coatings and filters on wafer level optics and IR detectors. Our Filters span the full range from the UV, through the visible and Near Infrared, and out to approximately 20 microns in the IR. The vast majority of our production is custom manufacture for sale to OEMs. Additional services linked to main products are quality testing and documentation, low chipping dicing (sapphire, germanium, silicon, quartz and glass), environmental testing and parts assembly. Spectrogon is certified to ISO 9001:2015 and ISO14001:2015. www.spectrogon.com

CAILabs was founded in 2013. Cailabs is a French deep tech company which designs, manufactures and distributes innovative photonic products for telecommunications, free space transmission, industrial lasers, and LANs. A global leader in complex light shaping, its technology is currently protected by 19 patent families. Its innovative optical components are used in a variety of sectors and have contributed to several world records (notably the optical fiber bandwidth record achieved by the Japanese operator KDDI). Since 2016, Cailabs has obtained numerous innovation awards worldwide. www.cailabs.com

Vortex Optical Coatings Ltd, located in the middle of the UK in Hinckley, was founded in 2008. We design and manufacture optical coatings and filters for scientific instrumentatios. A particular area of expertise is infra-red filters for applications such as gas detection and industrial process monitoring. The company also manufactures a range of infra-red Linear Variable Filters (LVF), the current focus is to make this a volume and affordable technology. The company has a vast understanding of optical systems evident in a ‘rapid prototype shop’ where it can design and manufacture brand new filters in as little as 2 weeks. Ian Reilly is the current Managing Director. www.vortexopticalcoatings.co.uk

Iridian Spectral Technologies designs and manufactures custom optical thin film filter solutions from the UV (300nm) into the LWIR (10+um). Our wavelength selective dielectric thin-film filters provide “More Signal and Less Background” to our customers’ systems with long term durability and reliability combined with industry leading optical performance at affordable prices. We tailor our optical filter solutions for use in spectroscopic applications, tele/datacom systems, space and satellite (earth observation, satcom, and astronomy), remote sensing including LiDAR, 3D entertainment, and many more applications. Our capabilities include single and multi bandpass/edgepass/notch filters and multi-spectral filter arrays. We support our customers from initial prototype development through to high volume production all from our facility in Ottawa, Canada. www.iridian.ca

Materion Balzers Optics is the innovative and independent industry partner for the development and production of coated optical components and subassemblies.The company possesses a broad and in-depth knowhow in optical thin-film coating processes, complemented by sophisticated patterning, glass bonding and sealing, and further processing capabilities necessary for producing optical thin-film coated components up to optical subassemblies.Highly experienced and skilled development and engineering teams collaborate closely with customers to develop innovative solutions meeting their specific requirements. The combination of these capabilities and skills places Materion Balzers Optics at the forefront of markets in the photonics industry such as Life Science, Industry, Consumer, Space, Automotive, and Lighting. www.opticsbalzers.com

ACM Coatings (a subsidiary of Acktar) is the German subsidiary of Acktar Ltd. (Israel) and your production and distribution partner for Acktar products in Germany and Europe. Acktar Ltd. is the world leader in deep black, light absorbing coatings and materials. ACKTAR absorbing coatings and foils enhance the performance of an optical system, e.g. by reducing the signal-to-noise ratio and increasing the contrast. The coatings are completely inorganic, non-toxic and non-outgassing. ACKTAR coatings are applicable to a large number of substrates, have a high level of temperature stability (-269°C to +450°C) and are working in a wide spectral range (UV to IR). Applications for these deep black coatings are: Stray light absorption in optical systems, such as: portable devices, cameras for mobile phones, automotive applications, sensors and receivers, gauges, pyrometers, spectrometers as well as high-emissivity applications in the technical optics. We serve for example the industries aerospace, laser technology, technical optics, sensor technology, medical technology, biotechnology and industrial image processing. www.acm-coatings.de

LightPath Technologies (NASDAQ: LPTH) is a leading global, vertically integrated provider of optics, photonics and infrared solutions for the industrial, defense, telecommunications, testing and measurement, and medical industries. LightPath designs, manufactures, and distributes proprietary optical and infrared components including molded glass aspheric lenses and assemblies, infrared lenses and thermal imaging assemblies, and fused fiber collimators. LightPath also offers custom optical assemblies, including full engineering design support. Thru its wholly-owned subsidiary ISP Optics Corporation, LightPath manufactures and offers a full range of infrared products from high performance MWIR and LWIR lenses and lens assemblies. LightPath’s optics processes allow it to manufacture its products from all important types of infrared materials and crystals. Manufacturing processes include CNC grinding and CNC polishing, diamond turning, continuous and conventional polishing, optical contacting and advanced coating technologies. The Company is headquartered in Orlando, Florida, with manufacturing and sales offices in Riga, Latvia and Zhenjiang and Shanghai, China. www.lightpath.com

OPTOMAN designs, develops, and manufactures advanced, high accuracy and repeatability IBS thin film coatings and laser optics since 2017. R&D driven attitude forces our team to improve performance and reliability of thin film coatings that our partners and customers eventually can enjoy a lower total cost of ownership (TCO). OPTOMAN as your sidekick is always willing and ready to help you with finding optimized solutions (ultra)fast and back you up in critical situations and finally get the job done as was promised. Do not forget that with great laser power comes great responsibility for coaters! www.optoman.com

asphericon has the passion for revolutionizing the manufacturing of optical elements with new technologies, which is changing the degree of precision and quality that is possible. By combining a worldwide unique CNC control technology with high-end manufacturing processes, we routinely achieve unique levels of dimensional precision for optical components, assemblies and systems. www.asphericon.com

PHABULOuS offers a unique one-stop shop for all requests for prototyping and manufacturing of free-form micro-optics services: from pilot to full-scale production. PHABULOuS’s goal is the industrial manufacturing of innovative and highly demanded micro-optical components for various photonics applications, with a clear roadmap for high volume production in Europe at a competitive cost. www.phabulous.eu

OptoSigma Inc., a subsidiary of Japanese based SIGMAKOKI Group, was established in the California, USA in 1995 and opened a new subsidiary in France to mark its presence in Europe in early 2014. The SIGMAKOKI Group possesses more than 43 years of experience in manufacturing high quality optics components, optomechanical components and optoelectronics systems. Thanks to the rich Japanese know-how we have cultivated over the years, high reliability products at an affordable price. Our optics portfolio includes all kind of optics such as high power laser mirrors, beamsplitters, lenses, polarizers, filters among others. Our portfolio also includes a wide variety of opto-mechanics products to hold all kind of optics, as well as motorized and manual stages, optical tables and most of the building blocks for photonics applications. Visit www.optosigma.com for 24/7 order online, catch up with us on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

SUSS MicroOptics SA manufactures high-quality refractive and diffractive micro-optics on 200mm wafers for applications in automotive, photolithography, fiber optics, silicon photonics and more. Our production facilities in Neuchatel, Switzerland, exemplify excellence and our new volume production line imprints micro-optics for automotive lighting. Suss MicroOptics is ISO 9001:2015 and IATF 16949:2016 certified and is a subsidiary of Suss MicroTec SE. www.suss.ch

FISBA, founded in 1957, is a worldwide leading supplier of customized optical components, systems and microsystems for high-performance applications. Our highly qualified lens designers and engineers are always on the lookout for perfectly tailored solutions for customers in life sciences, diode laser integration, machine vision, optical communications and defense & security. From micro-optics for FAC and SAC laser diodes to raw lenses for fully assembled optical systems and prototypes for complex optics in large-scale production, we offer everything from a single source. Full service from initial feasibility studies and design, as well as serial production and assembly, has enabled FISBA to become one of the most trusted optical manufacturers in the industry today. FISBA operates from facilities across Europe (St. Gallen, Switzerland and Berlin, Germany), in China (Shanghai) and in the USA (Tucson, Arizona). www.fisba.com

SCHOTT is a leading international technology group in the areas of specialty glass, glass-ceramics and related high-tech materials. With over 130 years of experience, the company is an innovative partner to many industries, including the home appliance, pharma, electronics, optics, life sciences, automotive and aviation industries. SCHOTT has a global presence with production sites and sales offices in 34 countries. In fiscal year 2018/2019, the Group generated sales of EUR 2.2 billion with its 16,200 employees. SCHOTT AG has its headquarters in Mainz (Germany) and is solely owned by the Carl Zeiss Foundation. This is one of the oldest private and largest science-promoting foundations in Germany. As a foundation company, SCHOTT assumes special responsibility for its employees, society and the environment. www.schott.com

IQE uses advanced crystal growth technology – epitaxy – to manufacture and supply bespoke semiconductor wafers: ‘epi-wafers’ to the major chip manufacturing companies, who utilise these wafers to make the chips which form the key components of virtually all high technology systems. IQE is unique in supplying wafers using all of the leading crystal growth technology platforms – MOCVD, MBE & CVD. IQE’s products are found in consumer, communication, computing and industrial applications, including in mobile handsets and wireless infrastructure: Wi-Fi, WiMAX, base stations, GPS, and satellite communications, optical communications & optical storage: CD, DVD, laser optical mouse, laser printers & photocopiers, thermal imagers, leading-edge medical products, barcode, high efficiency LEDs and a variety of advanced silicon based systems. www.iqep.com

Materion Balzers Optics is the innovative and independent industry partner for the development and production of coated optical components and subassemblies.The company possesses a broad and in-depth knowhow in optical thin-film coating processes, complemented by sophisticated patterning, glass bonding and sealing, and further processing capabilities necessary for producing optical thin-film coated components up to optical subassemblies.Highly experienced and skilled development and engineering teams collaborate closely with customers to develop innovative solutions meeting their specific requirements. The combination of these capabilities and skills places Materion Balzers Optics at the forefront of markets in the photonics industry such as Life Science, Industry, Consumer, Space, Automotive, and Lighting. www.opticsbalzers.com

LioniX International is a leading global provider of customized microsystem solutions, in particular integrated photonics-based, in scalable production volumes. We provide customized solutions for OEM’s and System Integrators, from design to device, by vertical integration in scalable production volumes and maintaining technology leadership secured by strong IP position. As LioniX International we focus on Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) enabled modules based on our proprietary waveguide technology (TriPleX™), in addition to our other core competences micro-fluidics, opto-fluidics and MEMS. As vertically integrated company we deliver a complete solution to our OEM customers: from initial design through volume manufacturing of products. www.lionix-international.com

Rockley Photonics is a fabless supplier of silicon photonics chipsets, IP, and design for high-volume optics applications. Rockley Photonics represents the commercialization of silicon photonics technology in its most exciting form yet. There is strong demand in the market for the speed and integration capabilities that silicon photonics can provide, and we aim to apply our experience to enable accelerated adoption of higher bandwidth networks for a faster and more productive internet experience. As a startup, we represent a unique multidisciplinary nature of team and culture. Rockley is focused on sales of chipsets plus customer-specific design of photonics chips and custom integrated packaged products. In this way, the company leverages its investment in photonics platform research and process development across broader market applications. The result is economies of scale that extend beyond applications in networking and data communications. www.rockleyphotonics.com

LIGENTEC is a Swiss based manufacturing partner, offering low loss SiN Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for industries such as quantum technologies, LiDAR, communications, space and sensors. Due to its high confinement, the thick nitride waveguides and resonators have low bending losses and excel even in high power applications from the visible to the mid-IR. The main application areas for this advanced silicon photonics low loss technology include coherent telecommunication, LiDAR, metrology, supercontinuum generation, spectroscopy, sensing and microwave photonics. Ligentec’s All Nitride Core Technology platform is fully CMOS compatible, thus allowing us to offer ramping up to high volumes benefiting from the scale of the semiconductor industry. www.ligentec.com

VLC Photonics is a world leading photonic design house, offering several solutions in the field of integrated optics: techno-economical feasibility studies and consultancy, in-house PIC design, characterization and test, and full PIC prototyping through external manufacturing and packaging/assembly partners. VLC Photonics, as a pure-play fabless design house, works with multiple foundries embracing the generic integration model, and makes use of these fabrication platforms to always chose the most suited substrate material (Silicon-on-insulator, Silica/PLC, SiN/TripleX, InP/GaAs) for the application at hand. VLC Photonics also works closely with foundries to contribute in the building of their Process Design Kits (PDKs), allowing external users to easily access their manufacturing capabilities. www.vlcphotonics.com

Applied Materials is the leader in materials engineering solutions used to produce virtually every new chip and advanced display in the world. Their expertise in modifying materials at atomic levels and on an industrial scale enables customers to transform possibilities into reality. Innovations by Applied Materials make possible the technology shaping the future. www.appliedmaterials.com

TEGEMA is a multidisciplinary Industry 4.0 system integrator specialized in precision accuracy production systems with over 100 passionate engineers and business consultants. Founded in 1976, we have over 40 years of experience in the field of customised precision mechanics and mechatronics and combine this experience with the latest assembly technologies, bonding and joining technologies, robotics, software and big data. Over the years, we have developed a passion for developing and optimising production processes. The shift towards mass customisation, digitisation and increasing innovation rates makes our work technologically challenging. And we thrive on doing cool technical projects! We enjoy working in innovative industries. Our market focus is on Photonics, Semiconductor, Medical, Mobility, Electronics, and Energy. We prefer long-term relationships; the better we know you, the more value we can provide. Not only do we design and engineer the right production solutions, we also build and maintain these for you. In our workshop and cleanroom, we build and test your solutions and deliver them, on time. www.tegema.nl

AIXEMTEC is a provider of high-precision assembly solutions for optical systems. We focus on the requirements of our customers. For this purpose, we offer machines and components for precision assembly as well as assembly services for optical systems. The combination of both business units is our strength. We are experts on assembly processes and know the challenges of every day production and based on that experience we develop standardized and competitive solutions. Our core competency comprises high-end assembly technology for highest precision in optics. Based on that expertise, we offer a wide spectrum of products and services in order to design and realize competitive production solutions for our customers. AIXEMTEC was founded in 2016 as a spin-off out of the Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology IPT. AIXEMTEC is exclusive licensee of high-end Fraunhofer assembly technology. We combine our know-how regarding the assembly of optical systems with a customer-oriented business model. This business model allows us to look for the most economic production solution for our customers. www.aixemtec.com

EV Group (EVG) is a leading supplier of high-volume production equipment and process solutions for the manufacture of semiconductors, MEMS, compound semiconductors, power devices and nanotechnology devices. A recognized market and technology leader in wafer-level bonding and lithography for advanced packaging and nanotechnology, EVG’s key products include wafer bonding, thin-wafer processing and lithography/nanoimprint lithography (NIL) equipment, photoresist coaters, as well as cleaning and inspection/metrology systems. With state-of-the-art application labs and cleanrooms at its headquarters in Austria, as well as in the U.S. and Japan, EVG is focused on delivering superior process expertise to its global R&D and production customer and partner base – from the initial development through to the final integration at the customer’s site. Founded in 1980, EVG services and supports an elaborate network of global customers and partners all over the world, with more than 900 employees worldwide and fully-owned subsidiaries in the U.S., Japan, South Korea, China and Taiwan. www.EVGroup.com

ASML is a world leader in the manufacture of the most advanced lithography systems for the semiconductor industry. ASML designs, develops, integrates, markets and services advanced systems used by customers – the major global semiconductor manufacturers – to create chips that power a wide array of electronic, communications and information technology products. With every generation, the complexity of producing integrated circuits with more functionality increases, and ASML is committed to providing customers with leading edge technology that is production-ready at the earliest possible date. ASML recently enforced the collaboration with TU/e and SmartPhotonics in Eindhoven, willing to support the Photonic market and its potential. www.asml.com

Plasma-Therm is a U.S. manufacturer of advanced plasma-processing equipment, providing etch, deposition, and plasma dicing technologies used in semiconductor packaging, solid-state lighting, power, data storage, renewable energy, MEMS, nanotechnology, photonics, and wireless communication markets. Plasma-Therm’s VERSALINE platform is the workhorse for a variety of applications in specialty semiconductor markets. The platform’s modular design allows flexible configuration of substrate handling and technologies that address the wide range of customer requirements. Plasma-Therm’s Singulator® systems bring the precision and speed of plasma dicing to chip-packaging applications. Manufacturers, academic and governmental institutions depend on Plasma-Therm equipment, designed with “lab-to-fab” flexibility to meet the requirements of both R&D and volume production. Plasma-Therm’s products have been adopted globally and have earned their reputation for value, reliability, and world-class support. www.plasmatherm.com

Philips Innovation Services – Our MEMS & Micro Devices expertise We design, develop and manufacture custom microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and assemble micro devices. Our 140 experts working at the MEMS Foundry and Micro Devices Facility follow a phase-gated approach to demonstrate the feasibility and give proof of concept, develop the process to the required maturity level and manufacture your devices with the right quality. Prototyping, process development and manufacturing At our facilities we offer MEMS prototyping, MEMS process development, MEMS manufacturing, as well as Micro Devices services. We follow our qualified way of making prototypes, systematically developing your idea into a prototype or device according to your requirements. We work with proven processes, methods and tools, making innovation work. We use a phase-gated approach, using design for excellence principles to address critical-to-quality parameters and new, critical processes. We do this in close cooperation with our customers. We strongly believe that robust integral design and quality is achieved in co-development with you. www.innovationservices.philips.com

Phasics offers metrology and imaging solutions to laser engineers, lens manufacturers and microscopists. With a range covering UV to far infrared, Phasics’ high resolution wavefront sensing solutions – based on the patented Quadriwave Lateral Shearing Interferometry technology – combine high accuracy, best-in-class dynamic range and ease of use. A modular product range including wavefront sensors, automated instruments, expert software and accessories provides insightful analysis for R&D and manufacturing in 3 major domains:

• LASER: Laser beam testing and correction, adaptive optics with any deformable mirror;
• OPTICS: Lens testing (MTF, aberrations, comparison to design) for production quality control, lens benchmark before integration and R&D;
• MICROSCOPY: Quantitative Phase Imaging, label-free cell imaging, refractive index mapping.

www.phasics.com

Imagine Optic is a provider of Shack-Hartmann wavefront sensing hardware and software, adaptive optics technologies and professional services in applied optics. The company works with scientists and industrials in domains including pure science, industrial quality control, space and defense, semiconductors and many others. From X-EUV to NIR wavelengths, we develop, manufacture, distribute and support a very large range of wavefront measurement and correction technologies. From augmenting resolution in bioimaging applications to improving beam shape and propagation for ultra-high intensity lasers, we have the hardware and software to meet customer needs. www.imagine-optic.com

SEDI-ATI Fibres Optiques, bringing light to your customized, complex or extreme environment is our challenge! Since 1951, our mission is to design and build turn-key solutions to enable our customers to bring light in any environment, whatever their constraints are! SEDI-ATI offers achromatic multimode couplers, multimode wavelength division multiplexers, fiber optic hermetic feedthroughs, bundles & arrays, and medical probes. Our fiber assemblies are used in applications in extremely aggressive and hazardous environments such as those found in the oil and gas industry, in nuclear plants, in electric utilities, in the military and aerospace, or in the medical field. The applications of our products and solutions are as diverse as optical sensors, opto-pyrotechnics, cryogenics, or high-power lasers that can cut and weld steel. www.sedi-ati.com

EssentOptics design and manufacture spectrophotometers for coaters of flats and lenses. The company is strategically focused to provide tailored solutions for UV-VIS-MWIR measurement of optical coatings – transmission and absolute reflection at variable angles and polarizations, fully unattended. During the last years we have gradually expanded our wavelength range and became now the only company on the world market offering unsurpassed 185-5200 nm measurement capability in a single spectrophotometer. The use of our instruments directly addresses the need of sophisticated, broadband and knowledge–intensive thin film measurements. Our technologies empower our customers worldwide to design and produce better coatings with confirmed performance from UV to MWIR, enabling them to advance their researches in space exploration, lasers, biology, night vision, AR/VR and everywhere where optical coatings play a vital role as an inherent part of the photonics products. Currently, we are regarded as one the most competent providers of thin film optical metrology solutions on the market. www.essentoptics.com

Specac is a 50 year old design and manufacture company based in South East England, providing IR accessories into the lab sector, as well as XRF presses and dies and cells for the process environment. We are also a solutions provider, keen to work with partners to help them commercialise their ideas, especially under our Specac Analytics brand. We have strong relationships with all of the IR instrument manufacturers and our products can be used with any of them. www.specac.com

Brolis Semiconductors develops advanced infrared optoelectronic devices and electro-optic systems for defense, medical and research application. Company specializes in custom R&D with a special focus on unique applications at long infrared wavelengths beyond telecom window (> 1.5 micron) such as SWIR, DIRCM, tunable spectroscopy and medical sensing. https://brolis-semicon.com/old/mid-infrared-components-systems/

Diafir, created in June 2011, has designed an innovative diagnostic system as an alternative to biopsy. Ensued from the results of the Glass and Ceramic Lab of the Rennes 1 University and INSERM, the diagnostic system is based on a patented IR sensor which enables identifying a sound or pathological environment by a simple contact. It aims at an early detection of chronic or infectious diseases, as well as cancerous tumors. www.diafir.com

NEO Monitors is the world leading provider of instrumentation based on Tunable Diode Laser Absorption Spectroscopy (TDLAS). Our innovative products are used for a variety of industrial gas and dust concentration measurements. With our headquarters in Norway, our sales offices in China and the US, and a worldwide network of distributors, we provide tailored solutions for various industries such as oil & gas, petrochemical, metal and power plants. NEO Monitors offers the broadest application portfolio with the best detection limits and the lowest total-cost-of-ownership on the market. In addition to this, we have the largest install-base worldwide and hold status as the only supplier offering products using near- as well as mid-infrared lasers for gas measurements. www.neomonitors.com

DiaMonTech is a Berlin-based company that aims to help millions of people suffering from diabetes worldwide. Professor Mäntele and his team developed Photothermal detection over 10-15 years and the company adapted it to create medical devices. Our technology is based on well-established physical methods in the field of spectroscopy. We expanded on these methods to be able to detect glucose in the human body. Our newly developed medical devices check your blood glucose level more conveniently with the help of invisible infrared light beam. www.diamontech.de

ASE Optics Europe specializes in optical design, engineering and development of custom optical systems. In addition to designing and developing advanced systems we have production capabilities to meet prototyping and low range production needs. We can assembly, produce and test the final systems, offering a full service: systems manufacturing, quality control and validation tests. Our expertise and core values allow us to serve and cover the needs in optical design, engineering and manufacturing across a broad range of applications areas: optics and laser systems for medical devices and medical technologies, scientific instruments, life science applications, defense and aerospace optics and optronics, laser systems for industrial applications. www.aseoptics.com

AMS Technologies is a leading solution provider and distributor of high-tech, leading-edge components, systems and equipment, with almost 30 years of experience to date and currently serving more than 1000 European customers. Optical Technologies is our key competency field with the broadest and most widely varying product offering, ranging from optical components and systems for the most differing of applications, over cameras for machine vision and on to capital equipment for fiber optic applications. Coupled with our Thermal Management Engineering team focusing on Photonics cooling and temperature stabilization and our Power Technologies focus on Laser Drivers, TEC controllers and Power Supplies, we enable and create custom Photonics Solutions. www.amstechnologies.com

INTEC, the Department of Information Technology of Ghent University, is a large department (approximately 300 people) covering many fields related to photonics: photonic integration, high speed electronics for photonic systems, photonic networks and network protocols. INTEC’s Photonics Research Group has a focus on photonic integration and silicon photonics and works closely with imec, Belgium, in developing photonic integrated circuits for telecom, datacom, sensing and biosensing. The Electronics Design group of INTEC has a focus on custom design of high speed electronic circuitry for advanced photonics systems. The Broadband Communication Networks group works closely with iMinds in its research on network architectures and protocols. INTEC is strongly involved in the European Master of Science in Photonics program, a joint degree offered by Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel. www.intec.ugent.be

Universitat Politècnica de València – Photonics Research Labs have their origins in the former Optical and Quantum Communications Group, initially hosted from 1991 to 2005 at the Communications Department. From an optical telecom core, the group has evolved to the application of the photonic technology to a wide range of diverse applications where the optical and photonic technology together with microwave photonics brings its added value. The group is structured in different Research Labs that focus in different related technologies with different fields of applications, such as: antenna beamforming, surveillance radar systems, and optical sensors; photonic integrated circuits and micro-fabrication technologies; and biophotonic sensors, automobilism and robotics. Nowadays, the PRL is currently formed by more than 30 young telecom engineers and physicists and is part of the Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications (iTEAM) of the Universitat Politècnica de València. The mission is to produce high-quality scientific knowledge in the field of optics, quantum optics and photonics, through research projects, R&D contracts and collaboration agreements with the private sector. The PRL research activity is focused on several applications of photonics, mainly on optical communications of analog and digital signals, and radio-over-fiber systems. Part of the research is also performed in the field of fiber optic sensor and industrial photonics. www.prl.upv.es

The Integrated Photonic Technologies Center is part of the INPHOTEC Foundation of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, a no-profit legal entity created according to the Italian Law 388/2000. Its mission is to provide fabrication facilities and technology platforms for research, prototyping and production of high added-value components and circuits to academics and industrial SME. The major areas where INPHOTEC can provide innovative front-end and back-end processes and technologies are:

• Photonic integrated circuits and optoelectronics
• Bio photonics and medical applications
• Sensors and MEMS, MOEMS

The center started its activity in January 2015 as a part of the TeCIP Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, and from February 1, 2018 is a structure of the INPHOTEC Foundation. Since its birth in 2015, it has signed contracts with major industries as well as with European public Institutions and it is currently participating in several European and national projects. INPHOTEC has four different technology platforms:

• “Silicon Photonics” platform
• “Glass on Silicon” platform
• “Hybrid Integration” platform
• “Advanced Packaging” platform

www.inphotec.it

ICFO, the Institute of Photonic Sciences, hosts over 350 researchers organized in 25 research groups working in 60 state-of-the-art research laboratories, equipped with the latest experimental facilities and supported by a range of cutting-edge facilities for nanofabrication, characterization, imaging and engineering. It is located in a specially designed, 14.000m2-building situated in the Mediterranean Technology Park in the metropolitan area of Barcelona, Spain. The institute hosts an active Corporate Liaison Program that aims at creating collaborations between all types of national and international industries and ICFO researchers. It is also proactive in fostering entrepreneurial activities and spin-off creation among ICFOnians. www.icfo.eu

HiLASE Centre, established in 2011, a part of the Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, is a new technological infrastructure in the field of application-oriented laser research and development, commissioned in 2016. The main mission of HiLASE is to serve as a bridge between the academic world and hi-tech industry. Under one roof at HiLASE we develop the next generation of high-power Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers, while at the same time, exploit these unique light sources for a wide range of hi-tech industrial applications such as Laser Shock Peening, Laser Induced Damage Threshold testing, and Laser Micro-Machining. Our most important facilities include the world record-breaking superlaser “Bivoj”, delivering over 1 kW of average power, and the compact picosecond thin-disk lasers delivering high power laser beams at wavelengths from mid-infrared to deep ultraviolet. It makes HiLASE facility the perfect partner for hi-tech companies, bringing an unmatched opportunity for research excellence, technological innovation and industrial exploitation. www.hilase.cz

Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Micro-integration specializes in applied and industrial contract research on packaging technology and the integration of multifunctional photonics and electronics into systems. The institute covers all the competencies needed for advanced photonic packaging, such as, process development and qualification, and reliability and failure analysis with specific links to 3D wafer level packaging, silicon and glass interposer and 3D heterogeneous integration. Optical interconnection technologies, such as, photonic design, fiber optics, PIC integration, electrical-optical printed circuit boards and laser module assembly, system test are fields of excellence. The institute has a staff of more than 300 and earns 90% of the turnover through contract research. www.izm.fraunhofer.de

Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics IAF is one of a small number of world-leading research institutes with expertise encompassing the entire value chain in the field of III/V compound semiconductors and synthetic diamonds. Based on these semiconductors, IAF develops electronic and optoelectronic devices as well as integrated circuits and systems. In a clean room of 1000 m² and additional laboratory space covering 3000 m2, epitaxy and processing equipment along with measurement technologies are available to realize high frequency circuits for communication technology, voltage converter modules for electrical engineering, infrared and UV detectors for safety and security applications, infrared laser systems for spectroscopy applications, and diamond devices for innovative applications in the field of quantum sensor systems. www.iaf.fraunhofer.de

CSEM: Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, founded in 1984, is a private applied R&D center. Our 400-strong workforce specializes in micro- and nanotechnologies, systems and surface engineering, low-power information and communications technologies, and photonics. The main focus of CSEM’s photonics program is the development of optoelectronics components and their optimal integration into innovative products. Our technologies are able to address the needs of a very wide range of fields, from healthcare, watch-making, aerospace, security and medical, to consumer electronics and cleantech. www.csem.ch

Chalmers University of Technology conducts leading research in photonics through its Photonics Laboratory. Optical communication is a major area of research, with efforts on system and device technologies for applications spanning from long haul transmission to short reach interconnects. The research in fibre optical communication is coordinated within the research centre FORCE www.chalmers.se/mc2/force-en.

CEA-Leti is an applied-research Institute located in Grenoble-France and specialized in micro and nano technologies. The ‘Optic and Photonic Department’ develops technologies in the field of lighting, display, sensing, imaging and communications. The department is integrated over the whole development cycle (Design, Fabrication and Tests), from the material (Si, Ge, III-V) to devices and circuit fabrication (200mm/8’’ CMOS fab, 100mm/4’’ III-V fab), packaging and test. In addition to Leti’s 1,700 employees, there are more than 250 students involved in research activities, which makes Leti a mainspring of innovation expertise. Leti’s portfolio of 1,880 families of patents helps strengthen the competitiveness of its industrial partners. www.leti.fr

VIGO Ventures is an investment group with a strong focus on photonics and hardware projects. We invest in the seed/pre round A stage and provide business and technological support. One of our strategic partners is VIGO System (https://www.vigo.com.pl/en) a joint stock company and a global leader in production of high operating temperature IR detectors. VIGO System supplies unique products, manufactured with the use of internally developed technology and the aid of its 120+ team. Our second strategic partner is Warsaw Equity Group (http://warsawequity.com/?lang=en) a privately held investment company with over 20 years track record of successfully supporting business ventures and entrepreneurial DNA. As we are a part of a larger ecosystem, we offer long term support for our portfolio companies which includes possible next round financing. www.vigo.ventures

Tematys provides a complete range of services to companies and public organizations in the fields of optics, photonics, sensors and material Engineering. Our clients are companies of any size, from international groups to SMEs and start-up. We have also developed a special expertise in R&D valorization and marketing of emerging technologies for Research Organizations and Laboratories. We provide strategic views on optics and photonics markets for publics for clusters and publics agencies. www.tematys.com