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Top 25 Photonic chip companies based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 244 photonic chip companies headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 14,767 professional contacts across them, including 6,148 with verified work emails. San Jose is the largest hub.
This list covers photonic chip companies headquartered in the United States, 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 20, 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 photonic chip companies based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2,257 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lumentum (NASDAQ: LITE) is a global leader in optical and photonic technologies that power the networks and infrastructure behind AI, cloud computing, and next-generation…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 2,117 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Excelitas is the leading provider of advanced, life-enriching technologies that make a difference, serving global market leaders in the life sciences, advanced industrial…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,651 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MACOM designs and manufactures RF, microwave, millimeter wave solutions and optoelectronics for Data Center, Telecommunication, Industrial and Aerospace and Defense applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 1,348 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thorlabs is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 416 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.| NASDAQ: AAOI AOI is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optic networking products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 359 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Quantum computing will be a world-changing technology with the potential to unlock powerful advances in medicine, energy, finance and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 285 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Source Photonics is a leading global provider of innovative and reliable technology that enables communications and data connectivity, in next-generation mobile and fixed-line…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 261 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “America's largest optics manufacturer, Optimax is on the cutting edge of future applications in space, high-energy lasers, and semiconductor.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Acacia is an optical networking strategy and technology company that empowers cloud and service providers to meet the fast-growing consumer demands for data.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 196 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “InnovaFlex® Foundry is a nontraditional semiconductor, design and manufacturer that has capabilities to create a variety of electronics on both glass and flexible substrates.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cortina Systems, Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 137 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DRS Daylight Solutions, a line of business under Leonardo DRS, provides photonics solutions to researchers, industry allies, and system manufacturers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 122 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 99 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Phase Sensitive Innovations (PSI) is a privately owned company specializing in millimeter wave (mmW) imaging technology, systems, and components.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX) is an American optics and photonics manufacturing company located in Rochester, NY.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Energetiq, we understand how to achieve high-brightness light generation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Quantum Computing Inc.(Nasdaq: QUBT) is a quantum optics and integrated photonics company focused on delivering accessible, scalable, and cost-effective quantum machines and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Lumotive is pioneering the era of programmable optics, where light is controlled as intelligently and flexibly as software.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Based in the USA with teams around the world, Go!Foton is at the forefront of advanced optical and photonics innovation.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Semiconductor interconnects” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Moog | Cotsworks designs and manufactures rugged optical components and subsystems to operate in harsh environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 71 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The information age relies on billions of devices converting signals between electricity and light waves.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 68 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AI is transforming industries at an unprecedented scale - but today’s data center infrastructure wasn’t built to keep up.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “DiCon Fiberoptics, Inc, is a well-established photonics technology company based in the San Francisco Bay Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 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: photonic chip companies. 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 photonic chip companies.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photonic chip companies, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photonic chip companies. 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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Photonic chip companies based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 244 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 photonic chip companies, 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “photonic chip companies”. 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 photonic chip companies), 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 photonic chip companies, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States 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, 6,148 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 20, 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 photonic chip companies, 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 photonic chip companies are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 244 photonic chip companies headquartered in the United States 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?
Lumentum, headquartered in San Jose, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most photonic chip companies?
San Jose leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by Fremont (10) and Cambridge (7).
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 6,148 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 244 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 20, 2026.
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About this data
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.