CORNERSTONE brings the future closer by turning your ideas into reality. We are an open source, license free Silicon Photonics rapid prototyping foundry based in the UK. Our prototyping platforms utilise industrially-compatible deep-UV projection lithography to enable seamless scaling-up of production volumes, whilst also retaining device level innovation capability using high-resolution e-beam lithography and versatility in our process flows. This process flexibility and open source model is what differentiates CORNERSTONE from other foundries.

We offer a wide range of Silicon Photonics platforms including 3 different silicon-on-insulator platforms and a 300nm thick silicon nitride platform, as well as suspended-silicon and 3 µm thick germanium-on-silicon platforms to support emerging mid-infrared applications such as sensing. All of our platforms are available via scheduled multi-project-wafer runs or bespoke fabrication batches available on-demand.

Our diverse team are part of the Silicon Photonics groups at the Universities of Southampton and Glasgow, with several decades of experience in the field. We pride ourselves on our customer service and our ability to support researchers at all stages of their career.

Visit the CORNERSTONE website to find out more: www.cornerstone.sotonfab.co.uk.

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.

At Luceda Photonics, we enable photonic IC designers to enjoy the same power as electronic IC designers.

We automate and integrate the complete photonic design flow. Our Python-based platform enables design teams to easily share and reuse their photonic design IP using a standard language.

We leverage more than 50 years of photonic experience to help our customers create manufacturable designs. Our design products bundle our expertise to enable our customers to quickly achieve their first tape-out and get their design right the first time.

If you've ever seen a rocket launch, flown on an airplane, driven a car, used a computer, touched a mobile device, crossed a bridge, or put on wearable technology, chances are you've used a product where Ansys software played a critical role in its creation. Ansys is the global leader in engineering simulation. Through our strategy of Pervasive Engineering Simulation, we help the world's most innovative companies deliver radically better products to their customers. By offering the best and broadest portfolio of engineering simulation software, we help them solve the most complex design challenges and create products limited only by imagination. Founded in 1970, Ansys is headquartered south of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Visit www.ansys.com for more information.

As the pioneer and market leader in high-precision additive manufacturing, we are your reliable partner for microfabrication systems, software, and solutions. Our 3D Microfabrication technology with high-precision alignment capabilities is driving photonic packaging by auto-aligned printing freeform microoptics directly onto optical fibers or photonic chips. Founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), we are a vibrant, award-winning company and part of the BICO Group since June 2021. With our field-proven systems, straightforward 3D printing workflows and all-in-one solutions, our more than 3,000 system users are driving future-shaping applications that are published in over 1,300 peer-reviewed journals. 

PI (Physik Instrumente), headquartered in Karlsruhe, is the market and technology leader for high-precision motion and positioning technology and piezo applications in the semiconductor industry, life sciences, photonics, and in industrial automation. In close cooperation with customers from all over the world and for more than 50 years now, PI's specialists (approx. 1,400) have been pushing, again and again, the boundaries of what is technically possible and developing customized solutions from scratch. More than 400 granted and pending patents underline the company's claim to innovation. PI has nine production sites and 15 sales and service offices in Europe, North America, and Asia.

Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) is the Silicon to Software™ partner for innovative companies developing the electronic products and software applications we rely on every day. We are accelerating the adoption of photonic IC technologies with industry's first unified platform, which includes the OptoCompiler™ electro-optical IC design solution, the OptSim™ signal level simulation solution, and Photonic Device Compiler for photonic device design and PDK development. With this seamless and unified design platform Synopsys supports IC designers and photonic engineers to develop and manufacture photonic ICs and systems for consumer, health, and industrial applications. We have 35 years of leadership in electronic design automation, combined with a legacy of photonics innovations for 25+ years. Learn more at https://www.synopsys.com/photonic-solutions.html.

VPIphotonics provides professional design software and services for integrated photonics, optoeletronics and fiber-based components, optical transmission systems and networks. VPIphotonics off-the-shelf and customized solutions are valued for their powerful and comprehensive simulation capabilities and high degree of flexibility. They are applied in research and development, product design and marketing by hundreds of companies, and for teaching and research at over 160 academic institutions worldwide.

Yole Développement (Yole) has grown to become a group of companies providing marketing, technology and strategy consulting, corporate finance services, reverse engineering and costing services and well as IP and patent analysis. With a strong focus on emerging applications using silicon and/or micro manufacturing, Yole Group of Companies has expanded to include more than 80 collaborators worldwide covering MEMS and image sensors, Compound Semiconductors, RF Electronics, Solid-state lighting, Displays, Computing & Software, Optoelectronics, Microfluidics & Medical, Advanced Packaging, Manufacturing, Nanomaterials, Power Electronics, Batteries & Energy Management, and Memory.

Yole, along with its partners System Plus Consulting, PISEO and Blumorpho, support industrial companies, investors and R&D organizations worldwide to help them understand markets and follow technology trends to grow their business. More information on www.yole.fr.

LioniX International is a leading global provider of customized microsystem solutions in scalable production volumes.

We provide customized solutions for OEM’s and System Integrators, from design to fully assembled modules, by vertical integration and in scalable production volumes. We maintain our technology leadership secured by a strong IP position.

LioniX International core competences are in Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC), customized MEMS, and opto-fluidics.

PhotonDelta is a European network consisting of researchers, chip designers, foundries and software developers. Our goal is to develop a sustainable ecosystem that can have a significant impact on our customers, in future applications and in solving social and technological challenges. PhotonDelta provides the necessary access to a.o. networks, knowledge, business development and funding.

Luna Innovations Incorporated (www.lunainc.com) is a leader in optical technology, providing unique capabilities in high-performance fiber optic test products for the telecommunications industry and distributed fiber optic sensing for the aerospace and automotive industries. Luna is organized into two business segments, which work closely together to turn ideas into products: a Technology Development segment and a Products and Licensing segment. Luna’s business model is designed to accelerate the process of bringing new and innovative technologies to market.

POET Technologies (NASDAQ: POET | TSXV: PTK) - a leading provider of integrated opto-electronic solutions based on the POET Optical Interposer™. Waveguides, mux, demux and other passive devices are formed within low-loss planar CMOS optical transport layers built on conventional 200mm silicon with metal interconnects. Chip-scale integration and wafer-level assembly produces Optical Engines in micro-scale size with maximum data density (baud/mm²) and superior energy efficiency. A simple, planar architecture combines design flexibility and scalability for a true platform approach to hybrid component integration and packaging applied to a range of end-user needs in optical transceivers, co-packaged optics, sensing, remote light sources and custom products.

POET offers Transmit and Receive Optical Engines for 100GbE CWDM4/LR4, 200GbE FR4 and 400/800GbE FR4, Remote light sources for C-band and O-band 4-channel and 8-channel laser arrays, and solutions for 800G (2X400G)/1.6Tb (4X400G), all designed for QSFP DD and OSFP modules, and a multi-layered 6.4Tbs optical chiplet (18mmx18mm).

SMART Photonics is a pure play foundry offering production services for InP based photonic components. We use our extensive knowledge of both discrete as well as integrated photonics and our many years’ experience to produce, with our dedicated toolset, the photonic components designed by our customers. We offer the full production process from Epitaxial growth, re-growth and processing up to the thinning and dicing of the wafers. Contact: e-mail: info@smartphotonics.nl tel. +31(0)40 247 54 53

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.

Imec is the world-leading research and innovation hub in nanoelectronics, energy, and digital technologies. The combination of our widely acclaimed leadership in microchip technology and profound software and ICT expertise is what makes us unique. By leveraging our world-class infrastructure and local and global ecosystem of partners across a multitude of industries, we create groundbreaking innovation in application domains such as healthcare, smart cities and mobility, logistics and manufacturing, energy and education. As a trusted partner for companies, start-ups and universities we bring together close to 3,500 brilliant minds from over 70 nationalities. Imec is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium and has distributed R&D groups in the Netherlands, Taiwan, USA, China, and offices in India and Japan. In 2016, imec's revenue (P&L) totaled 496 million euro.

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.

Founded in 2005, EazyWorks supplies a browser-based Manufacturing Execution System named EZ-MES. The focus of this system is to track production in all its aspects. The product is targeted to small to medium size high-tech companies, R&D environments and factories. It comes out of the box with simple ways to configure the environment, no programming skills are needed. It runs in the cloud as well as on premises. This makes it possible to get low cost, affordable system up and running within weeks, instead of months.

SUSS MicroOptics produces high-quality refractive and diffractive micro-optics for fiber coupling, collimation and beam homogenizing based on extensive experience in optical design, engineering, wafer-level manufacturing, metrology and packaging. SUSS MicroOptics is automotive qualified and key supplier for innovative photonic solutions in telecom, datacom, life science, laser, semiconductor equipment and automotive lighting.

Axetris is a leading manufacturer of customized micro-optics and diffractive optical elements used in high-speed data/telecom transceivers/switches, 3D sensing and Lidar, both in discrete and integrated photonics approaches. We also offer wafer-level micro-fabrication and MEMS processes, which allow to add features for assembly and integration or as post-processing on customer CMOS wafers. We will support you with highest quality from prototypes to high volumes out of our own fab in Switzerland.

Lightwave Logic, Inc. (NASDAQ: LWLG) is developing a platform leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power. The Company's high-activity and high-stability organic polymers allow Lightwave Logic to create next-generation photonic EO devices, which convert data from electrical signals into optical signals, for applications in data communications and telecommunications markets. For more information, please visit the Company's website at lightwavelogic.com.

Optiwave is the emerging leader in the development of innovative software tools for the design, simulation, and optimization of components, links, systems and networks for the dynamically growing fields in photonics nanotechnology, optoelectronics, optical networks and other photonic applications.

Since its inception in 1994, Optiwave’s software has been licensed to more than 1000 industry-leading corporations and universities in over 70 countries worldwide. Today, Optiwave’s cutting-edge photonic design automation software and customized engineering design services offer its customers a distinct competitive advantage, by vastly shortening their time to market while dramatically improving quality, productivity and cost-effectiveness.

C&D Semiconductor is a USA based capital equipment supplier. As a customer focused company, systems are built optimized to customer requirements. This can include optimized configurations, foot print and software. Additionally, C&D has the expertise and capability to develop customer specific features or tool sets.

Having a broad international customer base, C&D systems are deployed with a wide range of customers: semiconductor device manufacturers; compound semiconductor device manufacturers; MEMS and LED suppliers; biosensor manufacturers; high volume manufactures; low volume high dollar value manufactures. Wafer sizes range from 2” to 300 mm wafers and wafers on tape frames and HOOPs.

Common applications for C&D products are: photoresist coat & develop; planarized spin coating; metal lift-off; laminate photoresist develop; alloy or low temperature anneal; dice protect layers.

The main product platform is the C&D P9000 which is a cluster type system built around a central wafer handling robot. All of C&D’s process modules can be incorporated into the P9000 due to the flexible design. This enables customers to design systems for optimized performance at the lowest cost-of-ownership. Additionally, C&D continues to support linear track customers with its P8000 product and spare parts for the large installed base of linear tracks.

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.

GoPhotonics.com is a website for the Photonics Industry. It is the largest searchable database of Photonics products on the internet. GoPhotonics have developed a product search tool for the industry enabling engineers to find products from the leading manufacturers by specifications. In addition to this, it also keep users up to date with the latest Industry news, new product releases and upcoming events.

Fibre Systems is a trusted information source for the optical communications industry, aimed at component and subsystem vendors; network equipment manufacturers; planners, installers, and systems integrators; as well as operators and end users of fibre-optic networks worldwide. Subscribe for free to keep up to date with the latest industry news and features: www.fibre-systems.com/subscription

Electro Optics is the leading resource for engineers involved in photonics business, technology and applications. Readers have access to news and features of the latest technological developments, trends and opinions in the photonics industry as well as independent, in-depth editorial content. Subscribe for free to keep up to date with the latest industry news and features: www.electrooptics.com/subscription

Based in France, SET is a world leading supplier of Flip-Chip Bonders excelling in high-end, demanding applications.

Since 1975, we have accompanied laboratories and industries, which look for a high precision and an important reliability in the assembly of their components. We accelerate their developments of the chips of future thanks to our robust and precise Flip-Chip Bonders.

With Flip-Chip Bonders installed worldwide, we are globally renowned for the high post-bond sub-micron accuracy and the high flexibility of our equipment.

Ranging from manual loading version to fully automated version, our systems cover a wide range of applications and offer the unique ability to handle both fragile and small components onto substrates and wafers up to 300 mm.

EXFO develops smarter test, monitoring and analytics solutions for fixed and mobile network operators, webscale companies and equipment manufacturers in the global communications industry. EXFO has spent over 30 years earning the trust of its customers, and today 1,900 EXFO employees in over 25 countries work side by side with them in the lab, field, data center and beyond.

Part of its activities, EXFO is a manufacturer of laboratory-type fiber optic test instrumentation, not limited to, but primarily used in telecom type applications. Applications range from PIC design, research and development to manufacturing and production. EXFO’s product portfolio consists of high dynamic range tunable laser sources, automated wavelength dependent passive optical component testers, optical spectrum analyzers, tunable filters, and multipurpose modular test platform OSICS with modules ranging from tunable laser sources to switches, attenuators, DFB sources and more.