Modular Photonics Pty Ltd was founded in Sydney, Australia in early 2015 by leading optics and telecommunications experts Mick Withford, Simon Gross, Nicolas Riesen and John D. Love.
Modular Photonics specializes in glass micro-chip fabrication and this technology is used for developing photonics solutions for a range of applications. Modular Photonics primarily manufactures passive retrofit devices for boosting the capacity of old multi-mode fibre networks within data centres, multi-building campuses etc and caters to the photonics research community, manufacturing state-of-the-art mode multiplexers and multicore fibre fan-outs for applications such as space-division multiplexing.
Modular Photonics’ proprietary laser inscription process allows for the creation of complex 3D photonic circuits in glass circuits – suited to a variety of custom PIC applications. The mask-less process enables rapid prototyping of high-performance photonic circuits. It can be scaled from small prototyping runs of individual circuits to fabricate entire wafers full of circuits. Modular Photonics’ services encompass the design, fabrication, testing and packaging of photonic circuits. Modular Photonics is also currently expanding its compact and cost-effective ‘plug-n-play’ modules used in Telecommunications and Datacomm to several new markets including fibre security, Quantum Computing/Technologies, Sensing and LiDAR
