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AEPONYX announces the appointment of Annabelle Gascon as VP Engineering.


Annabelle has worked at AEPONYX for 6 years and has successively been a microfabrication engineer, team leader of the design and microfabrication of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) and director of project management.

AEPONYX to showcase its Waveguide Isolator solution for PIC integration at ECOC 2023


AEPONYX is excited to return to ECOC and present the advances we have made in our hybrid integration platform. These advances now allow us to release a new disruptive technology: the isolator waveguide (IWG). Bulky optical isolators are now a thing of the past!

R.O.C.S. 2 white paper available

Learn how the R.O.C.S.™ 2 optical circuit switch provides a solution that can tackle the biggest issues in data centers: power consumption and cooling.

This white paper explores how this solution is designed for the most demanding datacenter computing workloads as it provides an effective solution for transceivers failures that is compatible with mixed generations transceivers maintaining deployment flexibility.

EPIC AEPONYX CEO Interview

Philippe Babin is interviewed by Ivan Nikitski, EPIC’s Photonics Technology Program Manager in Optical Connections magazine. They discuss the future of photonic integrated circuits (PIC) in telecom, datacom, and life science markets.

AEPONYX Adds Industry Veteran to its Board of Directors


As AEPONYX transfers its research and development efforts into commercial products for the telecom industry and for sustainable data centers we are very excited to bring Samir Desai onto our Board of Directors. Samir provides a wealth of experience ramping revenue and expanding sales operations globally and he brings to AEPONYX relationships with suppliers of Digital Signal Processor (DSP) solutions and other physical layer electronics integrated circuits (ICs) that will allow us to expand our technologies and our product portfolio.

AEPONYX Launches High-Performance Tunable Lasers


AEPONYX  is expanding its product portfolio to include high-performance tunable lasers for dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) passive optical networks (PON), tunable transceivers (NG-PON2, G.9804.1), and coherent transceivers. 

Sensors in Medicine 2022 conference

-Video now available


Cedrik Coia, our R&D Team Leader,  gives his conference entitled Vertical integration of optical engines for POC/PON bio-sensing applications

Industry Day

2022 IEEE Photonics Society's Photonics Conference


Join our CEO Philippe Babin for the discussion panel entitled “Photonics Startup Opportunities and Challenges – A Canadian Perspective”.


Sensors in Medicine 2022 conference


Join our R&D Team Leader, Cedrik Coia for his conference entitled SIN PICS for POC/PON bio-sensing applications.

The 10th Annual Sensors in Medicine 2022 conference will highlight the newest trends in sensor technology, their medical and healthcare applications, and the most recent commercial developments.

The Sensors in Medicine 2022 Conference will take place on-line 8 to 11th November.

Learn more about the conference

AEPONYX Launches Products for Data Centers


AEPONYX has begun shipping evaluation kits for its Resource Optical Configuration System (R.O.C.S.™ 2). This product combines optical sensing and switching in an innovative and user-friendly platform for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and High-Performance Computing data centers to ensure quality of service where reliable high-speed communication direct to the servers is essential. 

AEPONYX to Showcase Technologies and Products at ECOC

AEPONYX is excited to return to the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) and show the advances we have made on our Silicon Nitride (SiN) platform. Our photonic wire bonding and hybrid integration technologies have progressed as a result of our most recent funding round of March 2021. 

Read the complete press release.

Read the press release

CLEO conference -now available

In this presentation, made by Cédrik Coia, R&D Team Leader at AEPONYX, we showcased the work of three graduate students working on optical switching and out of plane optical aligners in the context of an academic-industrial partnership between AEPONYX and the Microtechnology and Microsystems group (Micro2) from ETS.

Academic collaboration: how we innovate in MOEMS switching technology.

CLEO conference

Join our R&D Team Leader, Cedrik Coia, as he talks about our collaborative projects with the Microtechnology and microsystems (Micro2) laboratory from ETS and key results we have obtained recently in the field of MOEMS-based optical switching and out-of-plane mechano-optical actuation.

Academic collaboration is a key part of how we innovate in MOEMS switching

Stefano Genoni joins AEPONYX as

V-P of Business Development

We are excited to announce that Stefano Genoni has been appointed as AEPONYX Vice President of Business Development.

Stefano will help us further commercialization of our products in data centers, telecommunication, and next generation sensors.

A journey of collaboration


Join our CEO, Philippe Babin and discover the making of AEPONYX’s technology leadership through numerous academic and industrial collaborations, leading to the creation of an advanced photonics integrated circuit platform. 

Learn about the Silicon Nitride with MEMS circuits and the complete optical packaging capabilities from AEPONYX.

This virtual seminar hosted by LAB2FAB is held on April 17th.

Lightwave webinar -now available


With the rapid growth of Photonic Integrated Circuits comes the need for developers to innovate faster.

Photonic Wire Bonding is an innovation that makes this accelerated innovation possible.

If you missed the live webinar, you can watch it here  and learn about this breakthrough.

Innovation webinar


Learn how we innovate faster in PIC development by attending this webinar with our partners Vanguard Automation and C2MI.

Join us at Lightwave's webinar where we discuss the what, how, and why of Photonic Wire Bonding for PIC innovation.

Quantum talk


Join our CEO, Philippe Babin, as he speaks at the PhotonsCanada Quantum event. Learn about how your Quantum needs can be met by AEPONYX.

January 14th is when Philippe speaks.

Learn about our advanced Silicon Nitride PIC capabilities that advance Quantum Computing & Sensors.

AEPONYX wins an ADRIQ award


We are delighted to have won the ADRIQ award in the Corporate Partnership category!

And thank you to our partners.

Corporate Partnership Award

A wonderful evening of great awards. And what an honor to win the Corporate Partnership category with the C2MI.

Watch the awards

Cadence CONNECT talk


Join our CEO, Philippe Babin, for his CadenceCONNECT talk. He will provide insights into SIlicon Nitride and show many of its uses.

Attend the talk and learn more about Silicon Nitride Photonics. You will also gain useful insights into the design and collaboration processes.

IEEE presentation


Join our CEO, Philippe Babin, for his IEEE Photonics Society Industry talk. Philippe will talk to Silicon Nitride leadership in Canada.

October 18th is the date for Philippe's Industry talk. He devels into the realm of the collaborations that have made our leadership in Silicon Nitride possible.

AEPONYX is an ADRIQ finalist


AEPONYX has been chosen as a finalist in the Corporate Partnership category for the ADRIQ 2021 Innovation Gala.

Corporate partnership award


AEPONYX has had a longstanding and fruitful collaboration with C2MI.

C2MI is an international reference in scientific research and commercialization in the fields of packaging and testing of complex microsystems and MEMS.

Learn more

Webinar on silicon nitride


Join our CEO, Philippe Babin, for his Photonics Media webinar. A fascinating discussion on Silicon Nitride, design strategies, and example applications.

Learn about silicon nitride
Watch it here

AEPONYX joins CXL


Compute eXpress Link is a cache coherent protocol. Designed to help hyperscale data centers grow efficiently, especially as PCIe 5 comes alive. 

Helping Hyperscalers Grow

As hyperscaler compute density continues to grow, the resources needed for compute must to be physically broken apart. Photonics can play a key role in making this happen.

CTO speaks at Test Talk


Our CTO, Francois Menard, spoke with industry collegues from EXFO, Maple Leaf Photonics, and EPIC, on the future of photonic product testing.

How to future-proofing PIC testing

The panel was moderated by Anna Gonzalez from EPI.

Learn how you can improve your PIC testing.

Replay video

AEPONYX closes a 10M$ round


AEPONYX successfully closed it's  $10M funding round. We thank the investors for the confidence they have in AEPONYX.

Our investors:
BDC, Fonds Ecofuel, Fonds Innovexport, and Investissement Québec.


AEPONYX joins EPIC


We are delighted to join EPIC, the European Photonics Industry Consortium. This provides us with a great partnership and a strong network.

As we are a company that develops integrated photonics with MEMS, this is a great partnership and well aligned with EPIC’s mission. EPIC provides so much for the advancement of photonics."

Philippe Babin, CEO of AEPONYX

Podcast from AEPONYX's CEO


Philippe Babin speaks on the Market Hunt podcast on "Understanding Your Value In The Supply Chain". An engaging talk on business.

Philippe's talk is available on iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts, and IE-Knowledge Hub. You can find these podcasts by using the link  below.

Listen in

AEPONYX receives ETS award


AEPONYX received the 2019 Excellence, Research and Innovation Partner Award from École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), Université du Québec.New Paragraph

An Honor

Partnerships, such as the one with AEPONYX, enable research to transcend the boundaries of university labs and to create tangible innovation.

Charles Despins, Director  Industrial Innovation at ÉTS.


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