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From analysis and design to prototyping and manufacturing, through a single point of contact

LightBridge sells and supports simulation software for optics and photonics, and supports prototyping and manufacturing through foundries. Analysis, design workflow, manufacturing: we join the three layers together.

01Analysis and simulation

Sales and technical support for Ansys Lumerical, Zemax OpticStudio and Ansys Speos

02Design workflow

Photonica, our own photonics design workflow platform

03Manufacturing access

Support for prototyping and manufacturing through MPW and Dedicated Runs

Company overview

A company of engineers supporting engineers

We understand what you are designing and the constraints you work under, then propose the software, workflow and manufacturing route to suit. Our work does not end at deployment: supporting how you use it afterwards is part of the job.

Company name

LightBridge, Ltd.

Founded

27 April 2015

Capital

10 million yen

Address

Room 512, Expert Office Nakano CP, Nakano Central Park South 2F, 4-10-2 Nakano, Nakano-ku, Tokyo 164-0001, Japan

Representative

Redouane Katouf, Ph.D. (Engineering), Representative Director

Bank

Resona Bank, Ogikubo Branch

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OUR STORY

Bridging research and industry with light.

Redouane Katouf, Representative Director, LightBridge, Ltd.

Redouane Katouf, Ph.D. (Engineering), Representative Director

LightBridge was founded from the perspective of a researcher who had worked in optical communications and photonic integrated circuits. In research, good results often stop at the paper and never reach design, prototyping or manufacturing. Closing that gap was the starting point for the company.

The other motivation was a sense that Japan needed someone handling these products with real technical grounding: taking advanced photonics technology developed overseas and delivering it to researchers and engineers in Japan with an understanding of their design targets and constraints, and with the technical reasoning shown. The name LightBridge expresses that: bridging technology and practice with light.

The scope of the business has grown from selling and supporting simulation software. Today it covers support for building PIC design workflows, prototyping and manufacturing access by MPW in partnership with foundries, and Photonica, our own photonics design workflow platform. The idea of joining analysis through to manufacturing at a single point of contact has not changed since the company was founded.

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The foundations of the business

More than ten years in optics and photonics

With LightBridge as the point of contact, we connect the technology and partners needed for analysis, design and manufacturing.

April 2015Company founded
Ansys OpticsSales and technical support for Lumerical, OpticStudio and Speos
SiPh/SiN/InPFoundry access and MPW support
PhotonicaOur own design workflow platform

Ansys Lumerical, Zemax OpticStudio and Ansys Speos are Ansys products. LightBridge handles sales and technical support for these Ansys Optics products in Japan.

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Partners

Partnerships that link technology and manufacturing

We support the route from analysis to prototyping and manufacturing in partnership with software vendors and photonics foundries. MPW services on the silicon photonics, SiN and InP platforms are provided through those partnerships.

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Careers

Work in optics and photonics, with us

Simulation, design automation, foundry partnership. Because we work across three technically different layers, there is more than one place to contribute. Open roles are listed on the careers page.

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Products and services

What we do

The products we handle and how to choose between them are covered under Products; support for prototyping and manufacturing under Foundry.

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Support

How we support you

From pre-purchase enquiries to technical support and training, all covered under Support.

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Products, technical support, foundry, partnership, careers: whatever you need, the right person will get back to you.

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