OFC 2023

Modular Photonics is excited to be showcasing its latest products at OFC in San Diego, California, next week from 7-9 March. Be sure to come by the booth #6305 next week!

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The Brilliant – Top 10 List

Fantastic to see Modular Photonics featured on the The Brilliant’s list of “10 times Aussie innovations made the world a better place.”

Full article is available at: https://thebrilliant.com.au/case-studies/10-times-aussie-innovations-made-the-world-a-better-place/

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CIM Platinum Award

Modular Photonics is thrilled to win a 2020 Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CIM) Platinum Innovators Award. Platinum awards go to products, projects, and programs that are deemed by CIM to be superb, offering groundbreaking approaches, or establishing new levels of performance.

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BICSI Fall

Here’s a glimpse of Modular Photonics’ 2020 BICSI Fall Virtual Exhibition Booth. We look forward to showcasing our technology during the exhibition hosted September 27 – October 1 and will be available to answer any questions.

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Sydney Olympic Park

Modular Photonics’ OMPlex Pro technology has been successfully trialled at the Sydney Olympic Park and other sports venues within Sydney. Installation within hours. Enquire today to see how OMPlex Pro could extend the life of your legacy multi-mode fibre.

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Custom PICs

Modular Photonics is growing its custom photonic integrated circuit (PIC) service. Our services encompass the design, fabrication, testing and packaging of 3D photonic circuits with rapid turnaround of only a few weeks. Current applications include Telecommunications and Datacomm, Sensing, LiDAR and Quantum Computing.

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School Upgrades

Upgrading of a local school’s comms cabinets. This involved inspection, cleaning and connection of the Modular Photonics’ OMPlex modules all within a matter of a couple of hours giving new life to the old multi-mode fibre links.

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COVID-19 Update

Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Modular Photonics’ fabrication facilities in Sydney, Australia have remained fully operational having implemented multiple stringent safeguards. In spite of these difficult times, Modular Photonics has been fortunate enough to see a growth in sales during the first half of 2020. We could not have achieved this without the outstanding support of our suppliers and customers. We thank you.

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OFC Presentation

Modular Photonics’ CTO Dr Simon Gross will be giving an invited talk at OFC in San Diego on Wednesday 11 March. The presentation “Ultrafast Laser-written Sub-components for Space Division Multiplexing” will touch on technologies behind Modular Photonics’ products.

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BICSI Fall Exhibition

Modular Photonics is currently showcasing its products at the Las Vegas BICSI Fall Exhibition until Thursday October 3. Be sure to check us out. We look forwards to engaging with US fibre installers and network solutions providers.

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CTO Wins Menzies Fellowship

Modular Photonics is very proud to announce that our CTO Dr Simon Gross has been awarded a prestigious Menzies Foundation Science Entrepreneurship Fellowship in the Future Industries category at the 2019 CSIRO ON Impact Awards night in Melbourne!

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BICSI Canberra Presentation

CEO Mick Withford presents at BICSI Canberra on 22 May. Modular Photonics appreciates this opportunity especially given the large amounts of outdated multi-mode LANs in our nations capital city and the strong need for ever increasing data speeds using retrofit technologies such as our OMPlex single-mode emulators.

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Lightwave Innovation Reviews High-Score Recipient

Modular Photonics has been honored as a Lightwave Innovation Reviews High-Score Recipient in the category Optical Components. Judges noting that “the [OMPlex] product can be used in legacy LAN infrastructures in SMBs and enterprises that have large installed base of MMF. It is a unique way to upgrade the network without having to recable with every upgrade – saving the end-user loads of money.”

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Modular Photonics wins the international SPIE and Photonics Media 2019 Prism Award for Photonics Innovation

Modular Photonics wins the international SPIE and Photonics Media 2019 Prism Award for Photonics Innovation – Optics and Optomechatronics category! There were a total of 170 applicants, 30 finalists and 10 category winners. Finalists included large multinationals and 2 startups, of which we were one. The award was collected by CEO Mick Withford at a gala at Photonics West in San Francisco. Our OMPlex product range, enables the education and health sectors to upgrade their fibre networks, at low cost, without having to recable.

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Winner of NSW State iAward

Modular Photonics is proud to announce that it is the 2018 Winner of the NSW State iAwards for Consumer Markets.

The iAwards honours both companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation and leading professionals across the digital economy in Australia. Most importantly, the iAwards recognises the achievements of home-grown Australian innovators.

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OFC Exhibition 2018

Modular Photonics’ OFC booth which featured its OMPlex retrofit technology for increasing the capacity of multi-mode fibre networks gained significant interest at this year’s Exhibition in San Diego, USA.

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ECOC 2017

Modular Photonics’ ECOC booth which included a live 40G demo over 2 km of OM1 fibre using its OMPlex retrofit technology gained significant interest at this year’s Exhibition in Goteburg, Sweden.

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OMPlex Devices Launched

Modular Photonics announces OMPlex, a compact device connecting to the ends of OM1-4 multi-mode fibre that allows for single-mode performance extending the transmission length to several kilometres for 10G, 40G and beyond. The technology relies on the exclusive excitation of the fundamental mode in multi-mode fibre. OMPlex future proofs multi-mode fibre networks without requiring fibre recabling, building works or major service interruptions.

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CTO wins International Award

Modular Photonics’ Chief Technical Officer Dr Simon Gross has been honoured as one of the MIT Technology Review EmTech Asia top 10 Innovators Under 35. This award recognises superb technical work which promises to change the world. As an honouree Dr Gross has been invited to present a 3-minute elevator pitch at EmTech Asia in February.

As a finalist Dr Gross also automatically qualifies for the 2017 Global List of the world’s top Innovators Under 35 – of which Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla’s JB Straubel and Google’s Sergey Brin have all been included in previous years.

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Photonics West Exhibition

Modular Photonics will be showcasing their technology at the upcoming Photonics West Exhibition in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Come along and check out our technology at the North Hall Booth # 4361/4363 from 31 January to 2 February.

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Professor John Love

Please join us in paying tribute to the late Professor John D. Love (1942-2016) at the Photonics and Fibre Technology Conference in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Nicolas Riesen will give a talk about John’s life and career on 06 September. Professor John Love was instrumental in the founding of Modular Photonics. He will be greatly missed.

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ECOC Presentation

Dr. Nicolas Riesen will be presenting our latest research, “Femtosecond Laser Written Integrated Spatial Multiplexers for Few-Mode Multicore Fibre,” at the 42nd European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) which is held during 18-22 September in Düsseldorf, Germany. For further information or to meet Dr. Riesen at ECOC to discuss Modular Photonics products or potential partnerships contact nriesen@modularphotonics.com.

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LPMUX3

LPMUX Exhibition

Come along to our distributor ArchNext’s booth B26 at the Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) Exhibition at the Toki Messe Niigata Convention Centre, Japan.
The latest LPMUX-3-1550 nm will be on display from 4-6 July.

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E-CLEO Presentation

The technology behind our ultra-broadband integrated mode multiplexers will be presented at the upcoming 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-Europe). Dr. Simon Gross will be presenting the paper “Femtosecond laser written integrated passive mode-multiplexers,” on Sunday 21 June at 9:45 am. Presentation: CI-1.5.

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OFC Presentation

The technology used in the Modular Photonics LPMUX3 will be discussed in an upcoming presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2015. Feel free to come along to the presentation on Wednesday 25 March (W3B.2 – 14:00).

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