Uviquity builds photonic integrated circuits on aluminum nitride — the only material that spans the deep ultraviolet through the infrared, converts light between wavelengths, and modulates it at high speed on a single chip — delivering the light source quantum computing and advanced sensing and analytics need to scale.
Quantum control and analytical sensing run on precisely engineered light, and demand for each is growing. The light sources are the constraint: bulk components with short lifetimes, lasers assembled from discrete parts, optics aligned by hand.
They work. They just can't be made small enough, cheap enough, or with the consistency, repeatability, and scale that a semiconductor platform enables.
Uviquity is changing that.
Uviquity builds photonic chips on aluminum nitride, the same semiconductor material system behind the white LED. Aluminum nitride carries light across a wider range of wavelengths than any other chip platform, from the deep ultraviolet through the infrared, and converts light from one wavelength to another and modulates it directly on the chip.
A pump laser is integrated onto the same die, so the complete light engine sits on a single chip, fabricated at wafer scale, thousands at a time.
We demonstrated the platform by generating 222 nm light on a chip. No one had done it before.