Size and weight
Multi-element assemblies burden airborne, autonomous, wearable, robotic, and distributed sensing platforms.
Platform
From ideation to validated optical systems
Coherent Photonics develops compact, scalable metasurface components and sensors supported by physics-informed design, fabrication-aware optimization, and internal prototype characterization.
The optical system constraint
Conventional architectures suffer excessive complexity and limited scalability.
Sensing and imaging systems often depend on multiple refractive lenses, mirrors, spacers, mechanical housings, precision alignment steps, and relatively large detector areas.
Conventional lens stack
vs.
Meta-optic component
Alignment cost
Precision assembly and tight mechanical tolerances increase cost and integration effort.
Environmental sensitivity
Vibration, shock, thermal drift, and mechanical changes can degrade system performance.
Manufacturing limits
Complex assemblies are difficult to translate into resilient, wafer-compatible production.
Wavefront control
Small changes in surface shape may result in significant wavefront errors.
High redesign costs
Product variants may require custom components and renewed mechanical integration.
Protected intellectual property
A broad portfolio across the optical stack.
Our intellectual property spans the core design methods, optical architectures, and compact components needed to move from beam control to sensing and imaging systems. Together, these areas support multiple applications from a common foundation in sub-wavelength photonics.
Beam control
Compact beam shaping and combining
Compact meta-optic structures for shaping, steering, and combining optical beams without the complexity of conventional multi-element assemblies.
Sensing & illumination
Miniaturized illumination and sensing
Integrated optical components that support tailored illumination, multi-beam sensing, and compact system architectures.
System architecture
Novel imaging and illumination architectures
New optical configurations for sensing, imaging, and high-power applications across demanding size, field-of-view, and performance requirements.
Design methods
Unique sub-wavelength design methodologies
Physics-informed approaches for designing engineered nano-structures and controlling the optical field at sub-wavelength scales.
Capabilities
A full-stack solution for the full development cycle.
Protected architecture
Five issued U.S. patents, 12 foundational U.S. patent applications and internal know-how.
Design engine
Computationally efficient, physics-informed AI/ML optimization with design-for-manufacturing.
Validation lab
Internal nanophotonic performance testing and prototype characterization capability.
Manufacturing path
Device layouts are developed for process runs with established nanophotonics fabricators.