Answers to common questions about SPIO Systems - our mission of easy, scalable volume production of optical chips, our miniaturized free-space optical systems, and our foundation in polymer photonics and spectrometers.
Our mission is easy, scalable volume production of optical chips. SPIO Systems designs and manufactures optical chips - including spectrometers - and makes them simple to produce at scale, so advanced optical sensing can reach far more products.
It means turning complex optical assemblies into optical chips that can be replicated in polymer photonics on wafers and moved into volume production without re-tooling. The result is low-cost optical chips and spectrometers manufactured repeatably at high volume.
Optical chips and polymer photonics let us shrink classical free-space optics into millimeter-scale modules that are robust, affordable, and ready for volume production - opening spectrometers to markets that traditional optics cannot reach.
Chipification means replacing bulky, manually assembled optical instruments with optical chips made on wafers - much as electronic chips replaced discrete components. SPIO Systems miniaturizes free-space optics and spectrometers into passive optical chips a few millimeters in size, ready for volume production.
We take classical free-space optics and miniaturize them into optical chips. The lenses, mirrors, and gratings of an optical bench become compact polymer photonics modules - including full spectrometers.
Using Stacked Planar Integrated Optics (SPIO): we print optics in polymer on glass wafers with nanoimprint lithography, then align and stack the wafers to micrometer precision. This converts a free-space optical setup into a passive optical chip built for volume production.
A miniaturized spectrometer is a spectrometer realized as an optical chip - a full spectral-sensing instrument shrunk onto a polymer photonics chip a few millimeters in size, suitable for volume production and for embedding directly into products.
A traditional spectrometer is built from discrete free-space optics in a frame. Our miniaturized spectrometer integrates the same optical function as a chip in polymer photonics, making it smaller, more robust, and ready for volume production.
Yes. Our polymer photonics process prints hundreds of optical chip parts per wafer, so spectrometers scale from prototype to volume production cost-effectively.
SPIO Systems was founded by specialists from a branch of established optical companies in the northern Copenhagen area - including FOSS and Millpond. Our co-founder Per Ibsen is also the founder of Ibsen Photonics, bringing deep optics, polymer photonics, and spectrometer expertise into volume production.
We are based in Farum, just north of Copenhagen, Denmark - a region with a strong heritage in optics, polymer photonics, and spectrometer manufacturing.
Our founders and engineers come from leading Danish optics companies such as FOSS and Millpond, and our co-founder Per Ibsen founded Ibsen Photonics, with hands-on experience in optical design, spectrometers, polymer photonics replication, and volume production of optical chips.
Our portfolio includes a NIR spectrometer, a VIS spectrometer, and a spectrometer development kit - all built on optical chips for volume production.
Yes - volume production is core to what we do. As a turn-key OEM supplier we take optical chips and spectrometers from design and prototyping through to automated volume production. See our services and technology for details.
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