Lumenon, patented PHASIC technology combines the best features of organic polymers and the best features of glass to produce a sophisticated hybrid material for integrated optics.

Lumenon designs, develop and manufacture integrated optical waveguide circuits using a proprietary Sol-Gel technology called PHASIC (Photonic Hybrid Active Silica Integrated Circuits). The company was created to exploit the technological breakthrough made by the two co-founders at Ecole Polythechnique and Mc Gill University. Initial investments to the company came from Canadian private investors Manitex Capital and Pintree Capital. In 1999 an agreement with Molex - a Canadian manufacturer of electronic and fiber optic connectors and switches- boost the company with fresh money and facilitate its further expansion. The company targets initially the 1.3   and 1.5 µm WDM applications with the aim to provide a low cost solution to this multi billion $ market.   
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	Low temperature sol-gel process developed   News appeared in 1997 (SPIE, OE reports) "Iraj Najafi (Ecole Polytechnique; Montreal, Canada) and Mark Andrews (McGill University, Montreal) have developed a process that can be used to mass produce integrated photonic devices, circuits and chips. ...

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