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Our aluminum nitride chip platform

Uviquity builds photonic integrated circuits on aluminum nitride, the only material that carries light from the deep ultraviolet through the mid-infrared and converts it from one wavelength to another and modulates it on a single semiconductor chip.

HOW IT WORKS

Why aluminum nitride works

Wide bandgap

Most semiconductors absorb ultraviolet light. AlN's wide bandgap makes it transparent down to 200 nm, so it can carry the deepest UV wavelengths on a chip.

Strong optical nonlinearity

The crystal structure natively supports second-order nonlinear optics, so light can be converted from one wavelength to another on the chip itself.

Electro-optic response

The same structure responds to electric fields — the Pockels effect — so light can be modulated and switched at high speed.

Our semiconductor platform unlocks engineered wavelengths across quantum and advanced sensing applications

Broad wavelength range from 200 nm to 5.5 µm on a single platform.

How it works

Integrated laser

Light generated directly on the chip.

Wavelength tuning

Precise control of the output wavelength.

Loopback mirror

On-chip mirror for precise laser wavelength control.

Detector

Converts light into an electrical signal.

On-chip modulator

Switches and shapes light at high speed.

Mode converter

Matches light between different waveguide geometries.

Wavelength conversion

Converts light between wavelengths on the chip.

Single semiconductor chip

One aluminum nitride chip replaces a system of discrete optical components.

Built to scale

Aluminum nitride belongs to the same material system as the white LED, an industry that drove dramatic cost reductions through wafer-scale manufacturing and volume production.

Uviquity's chips follow the same path: wafer-scale processing, thousands of chips per wafer, and established foundries with high-volume capacity.

Solid-state design delivers higher efficiency, smaller size, longer lifetime, and a steep cost reduction curve.

Standard photonic packaging

Uviquity's PIC is housed in industry-standard photonic packages, making our light engine ready to deploy.

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