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Pilot PhotonicsDublin, Ireland

[ Founded 2011 ] [ EU funding (2025) ]

[ 01 · About ]

About Pilot Photonics

Pilot Photonics makes lasers and optical comb sources for fiber networks and data centers. An optical comb is a laser that emits many evenly spaced wavelengths at once from a single device, so one source can replace many separate lasers. The company uses a gain-switched approach and builds monolithic III-V photonic chips. Its products include tunable lasers, an integrated comb laser assembly and ExCELS, an external laser source with up to 16 wavelength channels. Target uses include coherent transceivers, co-packaged optics, FMCW LiDAR and satellite communications. The company is described as a Dublin City University spinout.

Pilot Photonics was founded in 2011 and is based in Dublin, Ireland. It is listed under Photonic Computing. Reported funding is EU funding (2025).

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[ 02 · Focus ]

What Pilot Photonics works on

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Photonic Computing

Photonic computing uses light instead of electricity to carry or process information. Photons have no charge, so light in a waveguide does not cause the resistive heating that current in a wire does, though lasers and modulators still use power, and many wavelengths can share one waveguide. The industry has two quite different parts: moving data with light, and computing with light.

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