The Tough Tech problem we are solving
The field of photonics has been advancing at light-speed, transforming technologies like quantum computing, sensing, and medical diagnostics. However, many of these innovations rely on bulky and expensive laser systems, limiting their potential for miniaturization and scalability. The titanium-doped sapphire (Ti:Sapphire) laser is one such system, and offers best-in-class performance to power applications ranging from optical atomic clocks to sub-cellular tissue imaging. Until now, the cumbersome form factor and steep cost of Ti:Sapphire lasers have prevented them from being built into scalable products – and have likewise hindered the transfer of critical quantum technologies from lab to market.
About our solution
We are taking the incredible performance of tabletop Ti:Sapphire laser systems, and putting it all on a tiny chip. Our CMOS-compatible and wafer-scale process creates these lasers and amplifiers by patterning microscale waveguides into doped sapphire material. This results in a 1000x reduction in both cost and volume, transitioning Ti:Sapphire systems from necessary components in expensive laboratory prototypes to mass-producible products with unprecedented capabilities.