Size and weight
Multi-element assemblies place a disproportionate burden on airborne, autonomous, wearable, robotic, and distributed sensing platforms.
Meta-optics for Compact and Scalable Photonics
Metasurface-Enabled Photonics for Compact, Scalable Optical Systems
Coherent Photonics develops innovative photonics solutions based on disruptive, scalable, cost-effective, and compact architectures.
The Optical System Constraint
Conventional optical architectures suffer excessive complexity and limited scalability.
Sensing and imaging systems often depend on multiple refractive lenses, mirrors, spacers, mechanical housings, precision alignment steps, and relatively large detector areas. Each additional element carries consequences beyond optical performance.
Alignment cost
Multiple optical surfaces require precision assembly and tight mechanical tolerances, increasing both cost and integration effort.
Environmental sensitivity
Vibration, shock, thermal drift, and long-term mechanical changes can shift alignment and degrade system performance.
Manufacturing limits
Complex optical assemblies are difficult to translate into resilient, high-volume, wafer-compatible production.
Wavefront control
Small changes in surface shape may result in significant wavefront errors affecting system performance.
High redesign costs
Product variants may require custom optical components followed by renewed mechanical integration and alignment.
Platform
From ideation to validated solutions
Coherent Photonics develops compact, scalable metasurface components and metasurface sensors supported by physics-informed design, fabrication-aware optimization, and internal prototype characterization.
Protected architecture
Five issued U.S. patents, 12 foundational U.S. patent applications and internal know-how.
Design engine
Computationally efficient, physics-informed AI/ML optimization with design-for-manufacturing.
Validation lab
Internal nanophotonic performance testing and prototype characterization capability.
Manufacturing path
Device layouts are developed for process runs with established nanophotonics fabricators.
Design Methods
Controlling the optical field, not only the optical surface
Coherent Photonics works across the development cycle—from conceptual definition and detailed design through tolerance analysis, characterization, and fabrication support.
Coherent Field Transformations
Shape an optical system’s response
Coherent Field Transformations form optical fields with specified spatial properties and provide direct control over focal-spot shape, size, and point-spread function.
- Custom spatial field distributions
- Point-spread-function engineering
- Focal-spot shape and size control
Metasurface Components
Coordinated field routing and sensing
- Multiple optical paths within a common structure
- Distributed transformations along the propagation path
- Controlled field formation at the output
Product Concepts
Tools, components, and wafer-level modules
Meta-Optics Creator
A computational toolset for designing efficient, high-numerical-aperture meta-optics.
Polarization Structures
Meta-optical polarization-converting and polarizing structures based on engineered ensembles of nano-atoms.
Metasurface Components
Low-profile, scalable wafer-level components for sensing, imaging, industrial, defense, and advanced photonics systems.
MEMOSA
A metasurface monocentric systems architecture for extra-wide-field-of-view panoramic sensing modules.
Applications
One nanophotonic stack, multiple optical systems
A common meta-optics platform supports different applications and products across a variety of operating wavelengths.
Sensors & Imaging
Pixel-level meta-optics combine tailored illumination, multiband routing, polarization sorting, and point-spread-function control in compact sensing formats.
Laser Beam Engineering
Non-mechanical beam steering/shaping with OPA and coherent field transformation concepts for agile optical control.
Free-Space Communications & LiDAR
Beam combining and compensation of atmospheric perturbations complement directional links, multibeam operation, and tunable beam control.
High-Power Optical Systems
Components and subsystems for high-power optical paths with scalable inorganic material platforms.
Data Centers & Optical Interconnects
Passive components address compact routing and packaging needs; the same architecture extends toward optical switches, routers, and reconfigurable interconnect fabrics.
Autonomous Navigation & Physical AI
Intelligent multi-beam scanning supports compact sensing, illumination, and directional optical control for robotics, drones, and autonomous platforms.
Explore Applications
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Meta-optics beam-shaping components can address defined laser specifications before integration into compact illumination and scanning modules.
Technology Lanes
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Materials Diversity
Reduces dependence on difficult-to-procure IR materials by moving to scalable silicon-centric fabrication paths.
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Integrated Packaging
Wafer-bonded monolithic options for robust systems with lower alignment burden than free-space assemblies.
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Spectral Flexibility
Architectures can be tailored across visible and IR ranges and adapted for multiple application modalities.
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Dynamic Output Control
Beam number, directionality, and peak power can be actively tuned through phase-controlled designs.
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