Pilot Photonics Ltd offers unique optical comb source and photonic integrated circuit solutions that it develops as a platform technology applicable to many markets including communication, spectroscopy, sensing, and metrology.
Since its foundation the company has been developing deep IPR around optical comb generation. Through technology development and licensing has a deep portfolio of patents and know-how to several important patents in this field and based on these delivers the world’s most versatile optical comb sources.
Our sources provide a highly stable comb of coherent low linewidth wavelengths. By monolithically integrating these with additional components such as filters, splitters and couplers, we can produce dedicated and unique solutions for use in a multitude of applications.
Pilot Photonics was founded in August 2011 as a spinout company from Dublin City University’s Radio and Optical Communication Laboratory. Supported by Enterprise Ireland, AIB Seed Capital Fund, and several government funded R&D grants, it spent several years developing intellectual property around optical comb sources and a capability in photonic integration. Based in DCU Invent, the Company has launched its first commercial products and is now developing its integrated comb source technology for the European Space Agency among many other customers.