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Buying Photonic Integrated Circuits

Top-level product category: icon various devices

More general product categories: optoelectronic components and devices

Related product categories: silicon photonics devices, planar waveguides

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs), also known as planar lightwave circuits, integrate several or many optical (and often electronic) components. They are applied in telecom systems and other fields requiring compact, efficient optical integration.

Making Good Purchase Decisions

As the most professional photonics purchasing portal, RP Photonics helps you to not only to find all relevant suppliers (not limited to our advertisers), but also to make good purchasing decisions.

NEW: Structured Decision Process

Purchasing involves a lot of responsibility. We recommend that you apply best practice by using the following structured process: Go through the following expandable sections, complete the form and finally come to a purchase decision. You can then print that to a PDF for documenting the process.

Our article on best practices for purchasing and another one explaining this tool give you valuable insights.

1. Understand the technical background

It is important to sufficiently understand the technology before buying.

Use the comprehensive learning resources of RP Photonics:

encyclopedia article photonic integrated circuits integrated optics silicon photonics optical fiber communications

If you need personal help, contact RP Photonics to get technical consultancy.

2. Define your requirements

It is essential to fully understand and clearly define your requirements before you buy.

We recommend that you develop a list of clear specifications according to your specific needs, against which you can later check the suitability of found product offers:

To help you, we have already listed some aspects we recommend you consider when buying photonic integrated circuits. Of course, there may be other aspects that are relevant to your specific case.

This list is for your own preparation, and can later (possibly in modified form) be used for quotation requests to suppliers.

Otherwise, you will need to talk to your technical colleagues.

If you cannot sufficiently clarify your requirements, you may want to get technical consultancy from RP Photonics.

You find these buttons in the supplier list below or under "3. Find suitable suppliers".

3. Find suitable suppliers

We suggest three steps:

  • Below, you can find our list of suppliers for photonic integrated circuits. Use the checkboxes to mark possibly suitable suppliers.
  • The selected suppliers will appear below this list, along with your list of specifications. You can then indicate which specifications they meet according to your research. (You should finalize your specifications before doing this.)
  • Based on the results, you can finally choose a supplier that is hopefully a good enough fit.

Selected suppliers:

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Decision

The most suitable supplier you found:

Comments, e.g. reasons for your choice, or things which still need to be checked:

Suppliers for Photonic Integrated Circuits

17 suppliers for photonic integrated circuits (PIC) are listed in the RP Photonics Buyer's Guide, out of which 2 present their product descriptions. Both manufacturers and distributors can be registered.

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Composing with Light

Teem Photonics S. A.
61 chemin du Vieux Chêne
38246 Meylan
France
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See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 6384)!

photonic integrated circuits

Teem Photonics offers Photonics Integrated Circuit (PIC) solutions based on its reliable, versatile and cost effective ioNext platform. Time from design-end to chip delivery is an industry best with as short as 4 weeks turn-around time.

The specific ion-exchange process enables waveguide confinement to be varied on chip. These lead to innovative WAFT series solutions for interfacing fiber arrays with silicon photonics. The ioNext technology also allows functions such as splitters, couplers, taps, mux/demux, polarizers and custom devices which can be pigtailed to SM or PM fibers.

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Packaging foundry for PIC-based optoelectronic modules

PHIX Photonics Assembly
Hengelosestraat 525
7521 AG Enschede
The Netherlands
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See the company profile page for additional contact information.

See us at OFC 2025 in San Francisco, April 1–3 (booth 6266)!

photonic integrated circuits

PHIX has developed several packaging solutions that allow for convenient, quick and affordable prototyping of your first photonic integrated circuits (PICs). They provide a housing with electrical connections, optical interfaces, and thermal management. Hybrid assembly of auxiliary chips is also supported. Each of our standard housings have characteristics that favor certain chip dimensions and system configurations. However, if you have special requirements, we are happy to design a customized prototype package for you.

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Other Suppliers

AEPONYX Inc.
Canada
Allwave Lasers Devices Inc.
China
Bright Photonics BV
Netherlands
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Crisel Instruments s.r.l.
Italy
Dream Photonics Inc.
Canada
Profile page  Website  
EFFECT Photonics
Netherlands
Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications
Germany
Profile page  Website  
Fraunhofer-Institut für Zuverlässigkeit und Mikrointegration (IZM)
Germany
Profile page  Website  
LIGENTEC SA
Switzerland
Profile page  Website  
Lightelligence, Inc.
United States
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LioniX International BV
Netherlands
Modular Photonics
Australia
SMART Photonics
Netherlands
Vanguard Automation GmbH
Germany
VLC Photonics S.L.
Spain
Profile page  Website  

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