What we do and a brief company history

ficonTEC is an innovative high-tech company that has rapidly established itself in a highly-specialized market. With continued growth and innovative development since 2001, we are the recognized market leader when it comes to automated assembly and testing of opto-electronic components and (hybrid) photonic devices.

The core team at ficonTEC consists primarily of development engineers from the specialist fields of optics and photonics, from electrical, mechanical and mechatronic engineering, as well as from software development. These developers are supported by experienced technicians possessing a wide variety of skills.

Our technical competence, global customer base, and – importantly – the will to understand our customer’s needs and to find individual and optimum solutions, together make us a competent business and development partner.

LIGENTEC is a B2B company manufacturing Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC) for customers in high-tech areas such as communication on ground and space, Quantum technologies, LiDAR and Biosensors. LIGENTEC commercialises the all-nitride-core technology. With the all-nitride-core technology LIGENTEC enables the customers to develop their products in the industrial revolution 4.0.

Luceda Photonics wants photonic IC engineers to enjoy the same first-time-right design experience as electronic IC designers. Our tools and services are rooted in over 50 years of experience in photonic integrated circuit (PIC) and PDK (process design kit) design. The team’s expertise is used by several research institutes and industrial R&D teams worldwide.

Synopsys is accelerating the adoption of photonic and PIC technologies with software to design energy efficient, high-performance photonic devices, systems, and integrated circuits. Our Photonic Solutions portfolio includes the RSoft™ Photonic Device Tools, the Photonic System Tools, and the PIC Design Suite. Offering the industry's only seamless design flow, the Synopsys Photonic Solutions portfolio enables innovations in consumer and industrial communication, sensing, and imaging applications – from concept to manufacturing.

JePPIX Pilot Line democratizes access to industrial prototyping and pre-production of high-performance InP photonic integrated circuits (PIC). JePPIX Pilot Line has the ambition to transform business practices from vertical integration – where design, fabrication and product development are all in-house and inaccessible to new entrants, to horizontal where fabless and lab less businesses share the same manufacturing infrastructure. JePPIX Pilot Line provides a low entry barrier access to low and medium production volumes of InP PICs.
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 824980. www.photonics21.org

EPIC is the industry association that promotes the sustainable development of organisations working in the field of photonics in Europe. We foster a vibrant photonics ecosystem by maintaining a strong network and acting as a catalyst and facilitator for technological and commercial advancement. EPIC publishes market and technology reports, organizes technical workshops and B2B roundtables, coordinates EU funding proposals, advocacy and lobbying, education and training activities, standards and roadmaps and pavilions at exhibitions.

Fraunhofer HHI does research on communications since nearly 90 years. Nowadays, about every second bit transported in the internet touches HHI technology on its way to the receiver. With a strong focus on InP, we also develop polymer waveguide based hybrid integration and silicon photonics. We focus on Telecom and Datacom, with strongly increasing activities in sensor systems. HHI offers foundry services with or without design support in InP, and custom designed Polymer Hybrid PICs.

Brolis Sensor Technology develops unique GaSb/Si based spectroscopic sensor technology for a large variety of real-time sensing applications for industrial, biochemical, biomedical, agriculture and consumer applications. We develop both final sensor solutions as well as OEM spectrometers on chip. Our products feature in-house made all-semiconductor tunable laser technology based spectroscopic platform on-chip with a footprint of < 1 mm^2 for 1800-2500 nm spectral band. Our technology includes laser sources, photodetectors and photonic integrated circuit technology.