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Our Partner, Smart Photonics, published an animation video showing how photonic chips are made! This animation video takes you behind the scenes of our production process! From starting with an indium phosphide wafer to growing layers, etching materi

The world’s premier event for lasers, biomedical optics, biophotonic technologies, quantum, and optoelectronics took place in late January in San Francisco—and INSPIRE was there! INSPIRE is a groundbreaking technology that enables the seamless in

We are excited to announce our participation in SPIE Photonics West 2025, the world’s leading event for optics, photonics, and—new this year—quantum technologies. As a cutting-edge platform at the intersection of innovation and application, INS

The INSPIRE consortium met in Thales to assess the progress and plan for the final run to manufacture InP devices which will be printed on SiN, using micro-transfer printing technology. In INSPIRE project, the large-scale manufacturing of transfer-pr

INSPIRE consortium has successfully passed a review held in Prague. INSPIRE project aims to establish world-first platform combining low-loss waveguides with InP actives to sustain Europe’s industrial leadership in photonics and strengthen manufact

The INSPIRE project participated in the IndTech 2024 exhibition, held from 3-5 June 2024, in Namur, Belgium. IndTech 2024, a key event for European industrial technologies, provided a global platform for showcasing cutting-edge research, innovations,

On 4-9 May 2024, Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) took place in California. CLEO is the premier international forum for scientific and technical optics, uniting the fields of lasers and opto-electronics by bringing together all aspects

On 30 January 2024, at Photonics West, Guénolé Dandé from THALES presented recent achievement of INSPIRE project during a talk entitled “Micro-transfer printed III-V on silicon nitride narrow-linewidth laser with extended frequency chirp cap

On 18 December 2023, Photonics21 published a press release entitled “INSPIRE – New photonic chips to cut carbon emissions of power-hungry data centres” You can access the full press release on Photonics21 website. Furthermore, INSPIRE has a

📅 On 8 – 9 November 2023, Ruggero Loi and Martijn Heck from INSPIRE platform participated in IPSR-I meeting co-hosted by PIC Summit Europe. 🔎 The Integrated Photonics Systems Roadmap – International (IPSR-