Enabling every chip to interact through light
Our products enable chips to interact using light in the most efficient way, facilitating sustainable growth of the information technology industry, and ultimately transforming computing, networking, and sensing.

Our vision

Lumiphase aims to facilitate the convergence of computing, networking, and sensing by allowing the seamless integration of electronic and photonic functions.

Connect

Our society always expects more connectivity with faster and better services.

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Compute

The frontiers between local and remote computing resources have vanished as the world broadly transitions to a multi-hybrid cloud.

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Accelerate

Artificial intelligence and quantum computing are becoming the new standard to accelerate computing workloads.

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Digitalize

Digitalizing our world allows us to make better informed data-driven decisions to better understand and control our environment.

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These major trends are converging as different facets of the same system require massive connectivity to sense, move, compute, and store information about our world.

Our value proposition

Optical engines tailored to our client's needs

BTO enhanced

Unique technology for controlling light

Best supplier of BTO enhanced silicon photonics

Silicon photonics

Leverage all benefits and ecosystem

Scalable, high-volume and low-cost

Unique partner

Customer application-centric

Strategic partnership for volume manufacturing and fast ramp-up

We design and manufacture optical engines based on our proprietary technology delivering leading-edge efficiency and scalability.

Our industry verticals

Addressing applications in need of ultra-compact, low-power, and cost-efficient light control engines.

  • High-speed transceivers
  • Co-packaged optics
  • Optical switches
  • Coherent transponders
  • ROADMs
  • RF over fiber
  • Inter-satellite communication
  • New architectures and topologies
  • New computing paradigms
  • Autonomous driving
  • 3D scene imaging
  • Beam steering
  • Molecular fingerprint

Our technology

The material - BTO

At the core of all Lumiphase products lies a unique material – Barium Titanate (BTO) – featuring:

  • Largest electro-optical effect on silicon
  • Unprecedented piezo- and ferroelectric properties on silicon

Lumiphase is the world’s leading supplier of BTO-enabled engines.

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The platform - Silicon photonics

Lumiphase technology is directly integrated into a large-scale CMOS platform providing:

  • Scalability
  • Cost-efficiency
  • Reliability
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The result - Disruptive chips

Lumiphase adds value to standard building blocks available in the silicon photonics ecosystem.

A mature platform combined with revolutionary technology, enabling unmatched capabilities to manipulate light.

Our company

Our roots

Our roots are anchored in 10 years of research and collaboration between IBM, ETH, and many academic and industrial partners in Europe and North America with financial support from European Union FP7 and Horizon 2020 programs.

Our mindset

Our mindset is to win in the marketplace with best-in-class products and customer support sustained by scalable innovations that break the status quo.

Our operation

We operate at a world-class 1000 m² cleanroom and run an R&D laboratory and production facility in Switzerland enabling fundamental research programs up to high-quality production.

Lumiphase was founded upon the realization that our fundamental innovation solves an industry-wide problem and benefits from the exponential scalability of semiconductors.

We are committed to delivering cutting-edge innovative products with strong support from our research network.

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Join us

Join our fast-growing team to build products that transform the way we conceive IT systems.

We are currently looking for part-time or full-time positions and students with the following backgrounds: 

Reliability, RF, Photonic, Automation, Materials, and Business Development