ALPHAPHOTONICS

Government contracting · Aerospace & defense

Optical engineering.
System performance.

Alpha Photonics connects optical design, laser sources, custom fiber components, sensing, and control to develop and produce efficient optical subsystems for government customers and prime contractors.

EngineeringResearchProduction
Visible light in a fiber-laser laboratory setup
Fiber-laser development · team heritage
Optical engineering / Fiber lasers / Nonlinear optics / Lidar / Modal controlExplore the company

A system view

Optical engineering.
From physics to performance.

Source, fiber, optics, receiver, controls, and packaging shape performance together.

Alpha Photonics works across these layers to improve system efficiency and resolve the limits that matter to the application. A change at the glass, component, or measurement level is evaluated for its effect on the complete subsystem.

Build · Package · Test

Production

Fiber-laser builds, lidar subassemblies, and butterfly packages for fiber-coupled devices. Assembly, laser-welded packaging, and acceptance testing connect the design to repeatable hardware.

Fiber lasersLidarFiber components
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Components & packaging

From glass to packaged hardware.

Fiber processing, custom components, and the interfaces that make an optical assembly usable.

Capabilities in development

Sources. Sensing.
New uses for light.

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Fiber lasersDARPA award

Very high power development

Fiber-laser and amplifier architectures, high-power fiber connectors, nonlinear limits, and thermal management. A DARPA program win supports Alpha Photonics’ source-design and modeling capability.

Fiber-laser capabilities
Nonlinear opticsNavy work ongoing

Novel wavelength generation

Nonlinear optical conversion and laser-source development for wavelengths beyond the available source. A U.S. Navy program win supports this ongoing work.

Nonlinear-optics capabilities
LidarDevelopment example

Cognitive lidar

Use each return to update the scene estimate and select the next useful measurement. Alpha Photonics develops adaptive transmitter and receiver control, physics-informed sensing models, and measurement algorithms.

Adaptive-sensing approach
Modal controlDevelopment examples

Engineering the spatial modes of light

Shape, transform, launch, and recover optical modes. Development examples include spatial-channel fiber interconnects and quantum photon-pair source concepts.

Modal-control capabilities

How the work moves forward

Keep the system in view.

Model the performance. Resolve the limiting interfaces. Build and measure.

  1. 01

    Define

    System objectives and interfaces

  2. 02

    Model

    Optical, thermal, and system behavior

  3. 03

    Build

    Glass processing, assemblies, and packaging

  4. 04

    Integrate

    Sources, receivers, and controls

  5. 05

    Verify

    Characterization and system testing

The people behind the work

Experience across
lasers and sensing.

The team brings experience in high-power fiber lasers, nonlinear optics, lidar, rugged packaging, and end-to-end optical systems.

Meet the team
Jeffrey Perkins, PhDCEO & FounderKevin F. Wall, PhDLaser science & nonlinear opticsPatrick Perkins, PhDSenior Contributor · Remote sensing & systems

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Bring the optical problem.

Discuss a laser source, sensing requirement, component, or system that needs a focused engineering approach.

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