Innovative Optical Engineering Solutions

Hand off the busywork of lens design.

From spec to toleranced export, inside the tools you already use.

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Screen capture: text spec → first-pass design

Zemax · CODE V · our own engineNative .ZMX in / outOptimization + tolerancing

01/Software

Photonium Insight

Insight takes an optical system from a written spec or an existing design file to a working design. It proposes starting points, explores several design paths in parallel, runs the analyses and optimization in Zemax, CODE V, or our own ray tracer, and identifies what’s limiting performance. Suggested changes are applied after approval, and results export back to your tools’ native formats.

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Industries we serve

02/Consulting

Consulting Services

Photonium connects you with the world's best optical engineers. Our network of experts spans industries and every stage of the design process.

Engineers from

KLA CorpMetaGoogleApplied MaterialsAppleStanford
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03/About us

We create systems for satellites, drones, AR/VR, flow cytometry, quantum computing, UV lighting, and consumer electronics.

Automation helps us explore configurations and optimize workflows, but all design choices undergo expert review.

Stacked optical lens elements

Advised By

Philip Johnston

Founder, CEO Starcloud

Prof. Lambertus Hesselink

Stanford

Prof. Sitan Chen

Harvard

Prof. Ioannis Gkioulekas

CMU

Photonium is backed by Y Combinator and part of the NVIDIA Inception Program.

Y CombinatorNVIDIA

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Build the next generation of optical engineering infrastructure with us. We're hiring founding MLEs, SWEs, and optical engineers/consultants to bridge simulation, software, and real hardware across the full optical stack.