Alcyon Photonics was founded in Madrid on February 14th, 2018. Alcyon is specialized in the design of high-performance integrated photonic blocks and circuits, which can transversally support a broad range of applications: telecommunications, data communications, sensing, spectrometry, etc.

Alcyon Photonics is supported by innovative integrated photonics design know-how developed by scientists working in Optics Institute of the Spanish Research Council (IO-CSIC) and the Department of Communications Engineering of the University of Malaga (UMA).

The outstanding performance and innovative functionalities from Alcyon’s designs facilitate photonics adoption, as they have a large potential for value adding in the high growing Silicon photonics market through key application fields such as Telecommunications and Sensing.