Polymer Photonics

last updated 2026-05-04

Physics / mechanism

Competitive landscape

The primary competition is silicon photonics (mature ecosystem, CMOS fabs, dense integration) and lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI, high r₃₃, low loss, but expensive and hard to integrate). Polymer sits between them on cost/performance.

Companies using

Connected ideas

Sources

Frontier (open questions)