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Supporting this year’s Photonics100 list

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The fifth year of the Photonics100 would not have been possible without the support of its sponsors. Our sincere thanks to Chroma Technology for its leading partnership again on this exciting project, which aims to showcase the very best of our industry. Electro Optics is proud to collaborate with all of its strategic partners listed on these pages. Here, we give them a chance to share details of what they do:

Chroma Technology Corporation

  • 10 Imtec Lane, Bellows Falls, VT 05101, USA
  • Toll-free phone: +1 800 824 7662 (800-8CHROMA)
  • Phone: +1 802 428 2500
  • Fax: +1 802 428 2525
  • sales@chroma.com
  • www.chroma.com


Chroma Technology designs and manufactures high-performance optical filters spanning 200 to 5000nm, built for spectral precision and long-term durability. Its filters support work in fluorescence microscopy, astronomy, machine vision, and spectroscopy. The range includes longpass, shortpass, bandpass, and multi-bandpass filters, notch filters, neutral density filters, beamsplitters, and metal mirrors.

Chroma offers off-the-shelf, custom, and high-volume production, from one-time projects to large-scale OEM programs. With locations in the USA, Europe, and Asia, the company provides consistent quality and on-time delivery worldwide, backed by technical and application support from a team of scientists and engineers who will really understand your application's demands.

Avantes

With more than 30 years of experience, Avantes is the leading innovator in the development of fibre-optic spectroscopy instruments and systems, offering spectrometers, light sources, fibre-optic cables, accessories and software.

Serving diverse industries and applications, Avantes combines technical expertise with a flexible, collaborative approach. From standard instruments to customised OEM configurations, Avantes delivers solutions tailored to customers’ applications, research and integration needs. Avantes spectroscopy solutions facilitate ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared measurements, from chemical composition analysis and quantification to colour measurement and radiometry, backed by in-house application support and development.

CeNing Optics Company

Founded in 2004, CeNing Optics is a company specialising in manufacturing high-precision optical components including optical lenses, prisms, beamsplitters, waveplates, polarisers, interference filters, laser mirrors, BBO crystal, achromatic lenses, cylindrical lenses, and CaF2 window.

CeNing Optics produces optical components in both customised design and standard design at a fair cost. It supplies its customers with quality products that fully meet their needs on time. Whatever industry you may be in, CeNing Optics is committed to being a long-term and reliable supplier of yours.

DIAMOND SA 

DIAMOND SA develops and manufactures high-precision fibre optic interconnects in Switzerland. Its portfolio includes standard products, such as the E-2000® connector invented by DIAMOND, and application-specific solutions for photonics, quantum, space, defense, industrial and medical applications. Core technologies include ultra-low-loss connections, polarisation-maintaining and high-power solutions, and proprietary Active Core Alignment. In-house ceramic, metal and plastic manufacturing, fibre assembly, cleanroom processing and testing give DIAMOND direct control over critical production steps, ensuring consistently high quality from individual components to finished assemblies.

ficonTEC

ficonTEC Service GmbH develops and manufactures automated production systems for photonic and optoelectronic devices, supporting customers from product development and process engineering through high-volume manufacturing. Its solutions cover precision assembly, active alignment, fibre attachment and electro-optical tests for applications including silicon photonics, co-packaged optics, communications, sensing and other advanced photonic systems. With operations and customer support across Europe, North America and Asia, ficonTEC works with semiconductor, photonics and technology companies to industrialise photonic manufacturing and move production from lab to fab.

Edmund Optics

Edmund Optics is a leading provider of high-quality optical components and solutions. Since 1942, the company has served industries such as life sciences, biomedical, industrial inspection, semiconductor and R&D. Today, Edmund Optics operates across 19 global locations through a dual business model: Marketplace – a one-stop shop offering over 34,000 off-the-shelf products with more than 40 top-tier brands and three million items in stock for fast, reliable delivery. Customers benefit from 24/7 support via chat, as well as technical assistance by phone or email. Advanced Manufacturing – specialising in custom design, prototyping, volume production and assembly, Edmund Optics manufactures more than two million components and 175,000 assemblies annually. With four design centres and nine specialised factories, the company supports scalable volume and custom manufacturing needs.

EPIC 

EPIC (European Photonics Industry Consortium) is the world’s leading photonics industry association, representing more than 800 member companies. EPIC connects the entire photonics value chain, fostering business opportunities, technological innovation and strategic partnerships. Through 70+ annual events, technology meetings, CEO networking, market intelligence, advocacy, and talent development initiatives, EPIC helps companies grow and strengthen their global competitiveness. From lasers and optics to integrated photonics, quantum technologies, semiconductors and imaging, EPIC brings industry leaders together to accelerate collaboration and drive the sustainable growth of photonics.

HÜBNER Photonics

HÜBNER Photonics is committed to supplying high performance and innovative lasers that meet or exceed the market's expectation concerning quality, reliability and robustness. HÜBNER Photonics offers the full range of high-performance single and multiline Cobolt lasers, CW tunable C-WAVE Series lasers, VALO Femtosecond Series lasers, Ampheia fibre laser systems along with a full selection of C-FLEX laser combiners. Through continuous technology development, customer orientation and an ISO-certified quality management system, HÜBNER Photonics supplies lasers to major instrument manufacturers and leading research labs for cutting-edge applications in the areas of fluorescence microscopy, multiphoton microscopy, flow cytometry, Raman spectroscopy, metrology, holography, nanophononics and quantum research.

Laser World of Photonics

Laser World of Photonics is the world's leading trade fair for photonics components, systems and applications. From June 22 to 25 2027, Munich will once again become the global meeting point for industry leaders, innovators and researchers. Covering the entire photonics value chain, the event showcases cutting-edge technologies and applications, from lasers and optics to integrated photonics, biophotonics and optical sensing. The accompanying World of Photonics Congress (June 20 to 25) connects pioneering research with industrial innovation. Together with World of Quantum and automatica, the event offers unique opportunities for cross-industry exchange, networking and new business.

Light Conversion 

Light Conversion is a global leader in ultrafast technology, designing and manufacturing femtosecond lasers, wavelength-tunable sources, optical parametric chirped-pulse amplifiers, microscopy sources, and spectroscopy systems. The comprehensive portfolio represents the best-in-class lasers tailored for industry, science, and medicine.

Since its founding in 1994, Light Conversion has installed more than 11,000 systems worldwide and grown to a team of 850 employees, 15% of whom focus on R&D. The company’s lasers are used by all of the world's top 50 universities, highlighting its commitment to state-of-the-art research, while also ensuring reliability and performance in 24/7 industrial applications. With international offices in the US, China, and Korea, along with a global representative network, the company ensures worldwide sales and service.

Lumencor 

Lumencor fosters innovation. It thrives on technical lighting challenges and exists to show what’s possible when light is used to its fullest potential. From bright, dependable light engines to completely custom scanners, it does more than simple LEDs. Its tools illuminate life, clinical, and materials science, advancing life-changing research and development. Only Lumencor integrates a unique and proprietary mix of LEDs, light pipes and lasers in its best-in-class illumination products. Lumencor’s light engines are designed and tailored for the analytical instruments they support, providing high optical power and brightness, colour specificity, fast switching speeds, reproducibility, and precise photon dosage. Lumencor supports instrument manufacturers, engineers, resellers, and end-users with 21st Century lighting tools to generate best-quality data and support clean, mercury-free laboratories.

Midwest Optical Systems

MidOpt produces the highest quality optical filters. Optical filters maximise contrast, improve colour, enhance subject recognition and control the light reflected from the object being inspected. It’s the company’s goal to educate the industry on: (one) the different filter types, what applications they’re best used for, and the most important design features; (two) how to reduce the effects of angular short shifting with its unique StablEDGE® design; (three) the benefits of filters that emulate the bell-shaped spectral output curve of the LED illumination being used; (four) the importance of an innovative inspection process that limits the possibility of imperfections and enhances system performance.

OSI Optoelectronics 

OSI Optoelectronics provides advanced photonics, optoelectronics, and electronic
solutions for applications where performance and reliability are critical. Its portfolio includes high-performance photodetectors and optical sensors, semiconductor laser diodes, advanced packaging, and customised assemblies supporting sensing, imaging, monitoring, communications, and test and measurement. It serves aerospace & defense, medical & life sciences, industrial & automation, and commercial markets, and combines engineering and manufacturing expertise to support its customers from component-level requirements through integrated solutions.

OpenLight

OpenLight is advancing silicon photonics with a differentiated heterogeneous integration platform that brings III-V active devices – including lasers, optical amplifiers, modulators and photodetectors – together with silicon photonics on a single chip. By combining advanced photonic integration with an open PDK and foundry ecosystem, OpenLight helps customers simplify design and develop highly integrated photonic solutions for AI infrastructure, data centres, telecommunications and emerging applications.

photonicSENS

photonicSENS designs and manufactures industrial light field 3D cameras in Valencia, Spain. The company’s cameras capture a 2D image and a 3D depth map in a single shot, through a single optical path: one camera, one lens, no projector, laser or scanning. Optimised for short working distances and high-precision inspection, they reach 0.4 µm repeatable depth precision and see past tall features without occlusions. Typical applications include wire bond, TGV, BGA and PCB inspection, glue beads, threads and holes. Every camera is assembled and calibrated in the company’s own cleanroom and configured around the customer’s application. photonicSENS won the VISION Award 2026 for bringing light field imaging to the wider machine vision industry.


 

VIAVI Solutions

VIAVI Solutions is a global leader in test and measurement and optical technologies. The company's test and measurement and resilient position, navigation and timing solutions enable and secure critical infrastructure, ranging from data centre ecosystems and communication networks to military, aerospace, railway and first responder communications.

5V Tech

5V Tech is a multi-award-winning deep-tech recruitment specialist and the Official Talent Partner of The Photonics100 FOR 2027. Its dedicated Optics & Photonics practice supports companies across the US, UK and Europe, with permanent hires, contractors and staff augmentation. It covers the full photonics landscape, from silicon photonics, co-packaged optics and lasers to quantum photonics, LiDAR and sensing, optical design, imaging and AR/VR, across design, test, manufacturing and leadership. Every candidate is reference-checked through the 5V Verified process, with shortlists in 96 working hours.

Part of the 5Values Consulting Group, 5V Tech has built engineering teams since 2016 and has been featured in The Times and Forbes.

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