Modular Photonics is excited to launch its latest product line the new industry-leading MCMUX series of compact and ultralow loss fan-in and fan-out devices for multicore fibres. The MCMUX devices are being offered for commercially available 4 and 7-core multicore fibre or can be customized to client supplied multicore fibre. Applications include high density data centre interconnects, fibre sensing and space-division multiplexing.
Discover how OMPlex can enhance your multimode fibre capacity by 1000X without the need for disruptive recabling to single-mode fibre.
Click the link below to access a new white paper by Belden on how OMPlex technology works, when it can be used and how it performed in a recent case study conducted by Belden on a university campus.
CEO Mick Withford represents Modular Photonics at the
2024 LESANZ conference in Sydney, Australia.
Modular Photonics will be showcasing its products at the 2023 Las Vegas BICSI Fall Exhibition from 10-14 September. Be sure to check us out at Booth # 2221
Modular Photonics is thrilled to be listed as one of Australia’s Top 50 Innovative Manufacturers for 2023.
Modular Photonics signs license deal for new low loss glass. This represents a strategic step for the company as it is the first glass to be purpose engineered for laser written 3D integrated photonic chips.
Modular Photonics will be showcasing its hyperscale data centre products at the Australia Pavilion of the Taiwan Smart City Summit and Expo, March 22-25. Our thanks to Austrade Taipei for this unique opportunity!
Fantastic to see Modular Photonics featured on the The Brilliant’s list of “10 times Aussie innovations made the world a better place.”
Full article is available at: https://thebrilliant.com.au/case-studies/10-times-aussie-innovations-made-the-world-a-better-place/
Modular Photonics is delighted to be a Silver Sponsor for today’s Connect21 event. CEO Mick Withford spoke with Patrick McLaughlin, Chief Editor of Cabling, Installation and Maintenance magazine. For the product showcase video see below:
Modular Photonics is proud to serve as a silver sponsor of the Connect 21 virtual event.
Modular Photonics will be showcasing its tech at the upcoming virtual BICSI Winter Conference (28 Feb to 4 March).
Modular Photonics is thrilled to win a 2020 Cabling Installation & Maintenance (CIM) Platinum Innovators Award. Platinum awards go to products, projects, and programs that are deemed by CIM to be superb, offering groundbreaking approaches, or establishing new levels of performance.
Only 5 days to go until BICSI Fall! Be sure to join us at our virtual booth from 27 September – 1 October.
Modular Photonics is excited to welcome Apparent Power as our new distribution partner in Dubai. In conjunction with our attendance at BICSI EMEA – it represents a concerted effort to break into the Middle East market.
Here’s a glimpse of Modular Photonics’ 2020 BICSI Fall Virtual Exhibition Booth. We look forward to showcasing our technology during the exhibition hosted September 27 – October 1 and will be available to answer any questions.
Modular Photonics’ OMPlex Pro technology has been successfully trialled at the Sydney Olympic Park and other sports venues within Sydney. Installation within hours. Enquire today to see how OMPlex Pro could extend the life of your legacy multi-mode fibre.
Modular Photonics is growing its custom photonic integrated circuit (PIC) service. Our services encompass the design, fabrication, testing and packaging of 3D photonic circuits with rapid turnaround of only a few weeks. Current applications include Telecommunications and Datacomm, Sensing, LiDAR and Quantum Computing.
Upgrading of a local school’s comms cabinets. This involved inspection, cleaning and connection of the Modular Photonics’ OMPlex modules all within a matter of a couple of hours giving new life to the old multi-mode fibre links.
Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, Modular Photonics’ fabrication facilities in Sydney, Australia have remained fully operational having implemented multiple stringent safeguards. In spite of these difficult times, Modular Photonics has been fortunate enough to see a growth in sales during the first half of 2020. We could not have achieved this without the outstanding support of our suppliers and customers. We thank you.
Modular Photonics’ CTO Dr Simon Gross will be giving an invited talk at OFC in San Diego on Wednesday 11 March. The presentation “Ultrafast Laser-written Sub-components for Space Division Multiplexing” will touch on technologies behind Modular Photonics’ products.
Modular Photonics’ CEO Mick Withford featured as a panelist at the Prism Awards Winners Panel on Thursday 6 February at the Industry Stage at Photonics West in San Francisco.
Modular Photonics’ CEO Mick Withford presents at the Leaders, Innovators & Disruptors Networking event at the Macquarie Incubator, pitched at entrepreneurs / start-ups.
Another busy day at BICSI Las Vegas with strong interest in our OMPlex solution .
Modular Photonics’ CEO pitching our products at the BICSI Fall Exhibition.
Modular Photonics is currently showcasing its products at the Las Vegas BICSI Fall Exhibition until Thursday October 3. Be sure to check us out. We look forwards to engaging with US fibre installers and network solutions providers.
Modular Photonics is very proud to announce that our CTO Dr Simon Gross has been awarded a prestigious Menzies Foundation Science Entrepreneurship Fellowship in the Future Industries category at the 2019 CSIRO ON Impact Awards night in Melbourne!
Modular Photonics will be exhibiting its latest products at Bicsi Las Vegas next month! Be sure to check us out!
Modular Photonics’ CEO Mick Withford will be presenting our products at the Data Center Dynamics Conference in Sydney on August 15.
Modular Photonics is honoured to be shortlisted as an Australian Technologies Competition Semi-finalists. Modular Photonics was one of 33 Semi-finalists selected from over 200 applicants.
Modular Photonics’ CEO Mick Withford was honoured to have the opportunity to talk about how we use light to control light at Vivid in Sydney with a talk entitled “Shaped Light – Shaping the Internet.”
CEO Mick Withford presents at BICSI Canberra on 22 May. Modular Photonics appreciates this opportunity especially given the large amounts of outdated multi-mode LANs in our nations capital city and the strong need for ever increasing data speeds using retrofit technologies such as our OMPlex single-mode emulators.
Modular Photonics has been honored as a Lightwave Innovation Reviews High-Score Recipient in the category Optical Components. Judges noting that “the [OMPlex] product can be used in legacy LAN infrastructures in SMBs and enterprises that have large installed base of MMF. It is a unique way to upgrade the network without having to recable with every upgrade – saving the end-user loads of money.”
Modular Photonics is proud to become a corporate member of the Building Industry Consulting Service International (BICSI) body.
Modular Photonics wins the international SPIE and Photonics Media 2019 Prism Award for Photonics Innovation – Optics and Optomechatronics category! There were a total of 170 applicants, 30 finalists and 10 category winners. Finalists included large multinationals and 2 startups, of which we were one. The award was collected by CEO Mick Withford at a gala at Photonics West in San Francisco. Our OMPlex product range, enables the education and health sectors to upgrade their fibre networks, at low cost, without having to recable.
This is planned to form the basis of a new product family for Modular Photonics.
OMPlex Retrofit Devices – Now with less than 1dB loss! OMPlex are retrofit devices boosting the data speeds of existing multi-mode fibre 40G (MMF) networks, supporting 1G, 10G and 40G over 2 km of MMF overcoming the need to recable to single-mode fibre.
They will explore the possibilities of using OMPlex in defence applications.
Modular Photonics is honoured to be selected as one of the 2019 Prism Award finalists in the category Optics & Optomechanics. Click here for more details.
Modular Photonics exhibits its latest technology at the Macquarie Park Innovation District (MPID) showcase in Sydney.
Modular Photonics CEO Mick Withford will be presenting at the “What’s New, What does it do?” BICSI Fall (San Antonio, Texas) session on Tuesday the 11th September., discussing Modular Photonics’ latest products.
Congratulations to Modular Photonics’ CTO Dr Simon Gross for winning a NSW Tall Poppy Science Award for his contributions to photonics.
Modular Photonics is honoured to win an award at the Engineers Australia’s Australian Engineering Excellence Awards (AEEA).
Modular Photonics is proud to announce that it is the 2018 Winner of the NSW State iAwards for Consumer Markets.
The iAwards honours both companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation and leading professionals across the digital economy in Australia. Most importantly, the iAwards recognises the achievements of home-grown Australian innovators.
Modular Photonics exhibits the OMPlex technology at CeBIT Australia in Sydney.
Modular Photonics’ OFC booth which featured its OMPlex retrofit technology for increasing the capacity of multi-mode fibre networks gained significant interest at this year’s Exhibition in San Diego, USA.
Modular Photonics is honoured to have received 2 awards at the recent Tech23 event in Sydney including the Austrade Going Global Award.
CEO Michael Withford will be showcasing Modular Photonics at the Spark Festival in Sydney on Monday 16th October.
Modular Photonics hosted a showcase event with industry leaders in Sydney on August 9 to formally launch its new technology which enables a 100x boost in data transmission rates (40G) over legacy multi-mode fibre networks.
Modular Photonics announces OMPlex, a compact device connecting to the ends of OM1-4 multi-mode fibre that allows for single-mode performance extending the transmission length to several kilometres for 10G, 40G and beyond. The technology relies on the exclusive excitation of the fundamental mode in multi-mode fibre. OMPlex future proofs multi-mode fibre networks without requiring fibre recabling, building works or major service interruptions.
Modular Photonics’ Chief Technical Officer Dr Simon Gross has been honoured as one of the MIT Technology Review EmTech Asia top 10 Innovators Under 35. This award recognises superb technical work which promises to change the world. As an honouree Dr Gross has been invited to present a 3-minute elevator pitch at EmTech Asia in February.
As a finalist Dr Gross also automatically qualifies for the 2017 Global List of the world’s top Innovators Under 35 – of which Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Tesla’s JB Straubel and Google’s Sergey Brin have all been included in previous years.
Modular Photonics will be showcasing their technology at the upcoming Photonics West Exhibition in the Moscone Center, San Francisco. Come along and check out our technology at the North Hall Booth # 4361/4363 from 31 January to 2 February.
Modular Photonics co-founder Dr. Nicolas Riesen is awarded the Australian Optical Society (AOS) Technical Optics Prize for 2016.
Please join us in paying tribute to the late Professor John D. Love (1942-2016) at the Photonics and Fibre Technology Conference in Sydney, Australia.
Dr. Nicolas Riesen will give a talk about John’s life and career on 06 September. Professor John Love was instrumental in the founding of Modular Photonics. He will be greatly missed.
Dr. Nicolas Riesen will be presenting our latest research, “Femtosecond Laser Written Integrated Spatial Multiplexers for Few-Mode Multicore Fibre,” at the 42nd European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) which is held during 18-22 September in Düsseldorf, Germany. For further information or to meet Dr. Riesen at ECOC to discuss Modular Photonics products or potential partnerships contact nriesen@modularphotonics.com.
Come along to our distributor ArchNext’s booth B26 at the Optoelectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) Exhibition at the Toki Messe Niigata Convention Centre, Japan.
The latest LPMUX-3-1550 nm will be on display from 4-6 July.
The technology behind our ultra-broadband integrated mode multiplexers will be presented at the upcoming 2015 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO-Europe). Dr. Simon Gross will be presenting the paper “Femtosecond laser written integrated passive mode-multiplexers,” on Sunday 21 June at 9:45 am. Presentation: CI-1.5.
The technology used in the Modular Photonics LPMUX3 will be discussed in an upcoming presentation at the Optical Fiber Communication Conference (OFC) 2015. Feel free to come along to the presentation on Wednesday 25 March (W3B.2 – 14:00).
