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Company Name: Chiral Photonics
Company Type: Provider of in-fiber photonics
Company Profile
Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI) is developing products that exploit the unique
concurrence of spectral and polarization selectivity that chiral structures
offer. The structures are self-assembling or are manufactured via low cost
continuous processes that deliver both cost and performance advantages over
present technologies.
Chiral Photonics is committed to creating a work environment that fosters synergies between experts in different disciplines. This multidisciplinary approach has allowed us to develop innovative products and a fundamental intellectual property position. This has also produced a broader understanding of the challenges that must be addressed to most effectively meet the needs of many photonics markets, including telecommunications, sensing, display and medicine. In order to accelerate the development process and the time-to-market while maintaining an entrepreneurial spirit at all levels of the organization, we are seeking imaginative and talented individuals to help meet those challenges:
Technician
- Enthusiastic, motivated individual interested in learning new processes and methodologies
- Experience in fabrication of fiber optic devices, including hands-on experience with fiber, connectors, splices and active and passive components is a strong plus
Optical Device Engineer
- Individual who enjoys moving exciting technologies out of the lab and into the market
- Experienced in design and fabrication of complex fiber optic devices, including extensive hands-on experience with fiber, connectors, splices and active and passive components
- Knowledge of industry standards (Bellcore, Telcordia, ITU) is a plus
- Project management is a plus
Glass Chemistry / Glass Forming Chemist or Engineer
- Especially interested in those with hands-on experience in drawing optical fiber and knowledge of the mechanical, thermal and chemical properties of glasses
- Experience with EDFAs, doping of glasses, glass preform design and fabrication is a plus
LCD (liquid crystal display) Process Engineering
- Requires experience in designing process and equipment for liquid crystal cell fabrication
About Company
Chiral Photonics, Inc. (CPI) is developing products that exploit the unique concurrence of spectral and polarization selectivity that chiral structures offer. The structures are self-assembling or are manufactured via low cost continuous processes that deliver both cost and performance advantages over present technologies.
CPI’s work has centered on expanding our understanding of the photophysics of one-dimensional, periodic, chiral structures and applying it to solve the device needs of the display, optical telecommunications and sensing industries. In this effort, CPI has extended its fabrication capabilities from its ongoing development of self-assembling polymeric thin films to also include glass fiber and glass capillary structures. The company has an expansive array of patents pending in this field and regularly publishes its research and
developments.
Chiral Photonics’ development effort can be divided along materials lines focusing on different market needs:
Chiral Thin Film Structures: These efforts are focused on developing an organic, self-assembling thin film laser based on the photonic band gap properties of cholesteric liquid crystals that we have pioneered over the last few years. Chiral Photonics has demonstrated an optically pumped Chiral Thin Film Laser and is working towards an electronically pumped organic laser for which this chiral structure is an ideal feedback system. This development work addresses display, lighting and sensor applications.
Chiral Fibers: Chiral Photonics has discovered that the chiral structure responsible for the photonic band gap behavior in its thin film technology can be abstractly applied to optical fibers for a variety of applications ranging from telecommunications to surgical lasers to biological and chemical analysis to remote sensing. These chiral fiber gratings (CFGs) do not require coherent irradiation of photosensitive glass as in presently used fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) but rather are created in a continuous versatile process from specially prepared preforms.
CFGs made with a grating period comparable to the optical wavelength, make possible the production of strongly modulated periodic structures exhibiting the favorable optical characteristics found in photonic band gap (PBG) materials. These CFGs form an ideal laser feedback structure and when appropriately doped will overcome the barriers that have inhibited the commercial development of single longitudinal and polarization mode fiber lasers. Appropriately varying the pitch of these gratings changes their operational characteristics and determines the products targeted.
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