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Top 25 Optics and photonics manufacturers based in France
RevenueBase identified 94 optics and photonics manufacturers headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 2,472 professional contacts across them, including 743 with verified work emails. Lannion is the largest hub.
This list covers optics and photonics manufacturers headquartered in France, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 17, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest optics and photonics manufacturers based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 205 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LUMIBIRD is one of the world's leading specialists in lasers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 184 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lumibird Medical is the medical division of the Lumibird Group, an expert in fiber lasers, solid lasers, laser diodes, and medical equipment.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 2013, Cailabs designs, manufactures, and develops innovative photonic solutions for the space, industry (laser machining), telecommunications, and defense sectors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in 2007, ALPhANOV is the Optics and Laser Technology Center of the Route des Lasers cluster, located in Bordeaux, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “NIDEK S.A, filiale française du groupe, créée en 1988, emploie plus de 100 personnes.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 91 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Imagine Optic is a privately-owned technology company that develops and manufactures high-performance, versatile wavefront sensing and adaptive optics solutions.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “SEDI-ATI by Fiber Optics Group has been a subsidiary of Fiber Optics Group (FOG) since 2023.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 44 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DPSS (Diode Pumped Solid State Lasers) and Laser Diode Modules designer & manufacturer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 39 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Hamamatsu Photonics is a world leader in manufacturing optoelectronic components, modules and systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Created in January 1993, the company STIL (Industrial Sciences and Techniques of Light) offers its skills and know-how in the field of high performance optical instrumentation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 34 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “IFOTEC, c’est l’alliance entre la maîtrise des fibres optiques et des technologies électroniques de communication.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “AUREA Technology provides high-performance optical instruments for Quantum communications, Quantum networking and Quantum sensing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Almae Technologies was founded in 2016 as an industrial spin-off company from Lab (a joint Nokia, Thales and CEA-Leti industrial research laboratory).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Teem Photonics is the leader in passively Q-switched microlasers as well as PICs with the ioNext platform for Silicon Photonics and optical sensors.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “For over 25 years, APEX Technologies has been designing and manufacturing ultra-high-performance optical test and measurement instruments that push the limits of precision and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Data-Pixel is an international leader in technology for image-processing based test and measurement equipment, since 2001.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Photonics Bretagne is a Photonics innovation hub integrating a cluster supporting innovation in the field of Photonics and its applications in Brittany, and Perfos, a RTO expert…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “LEUKOS is a supercontinuum source designer and manufacturer headquartered in Limoges, France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1990, EXAVISION, an Equans ccompany, accompanies its customers in the exploration and the expertise of video solutions in extreme situations as well as in the protection of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “SEI Laser France est la filiale française du leader mondial de la technologie laser italienne, qui conçoit et fabrique des solutions intégrées spécifiques aux applications basées…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PISÉO is an independent Innovation Center specializing in the integration of cutting-edge photonic technologies, including LED, VCSEL, laser diodes, sensors, lenses…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “GLOphotonics SAS (or 'GLO' for short) is a French company based in Limoges.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opton Laser International, Opton is a leading player in the French Laser and Photonics industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: optics and photonics manufacturers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names optics and photonics manufacturers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of optics and photonics manufacturers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name optics and photonics manufacturers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Optics and photonics manufacturers based in France at a glance
As of Sep 17, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for France, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for France, over 94 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among optics and photonics manufacturers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in France whose own description of what they do matches “optics and photonics manufacturers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names optics and photonics manufacturers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among optics and photonics manufacturers, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside France are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 743 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 17, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names optics and photonics manufacturers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many optics and photonics manufacturers are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 94 optics and photonics manufacturers headquartered in France as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Lumibird The Specialist In Laser Technologies, headquartered in Lannion, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most optics and photonics manufacturers?
Lannion leads with 7 headquartered companies, followed by Paris (5) and Palaiseau (4).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 743 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 94 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 17, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.
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