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Top 25 Photonic chip manufacturers based in the United States

RevenueBase identified 203 photonic chip manufacturers headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 11,894 professional contacts across them, including 4,921 with verified work emails. Fremont is the largest hub.

This list covers photonic chip manufacturers 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 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.

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The 25 largest photonic chip manufacturers based in the United States

Ranked by team size
Top 25 of 203 photonic chip manufacturers based in the United States, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 17, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to photonic chip manufacturers: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#CompanyRevenueBase Smart SearchHeadquartersEmployeesContacts
1Partial evidenceSan Jose, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202610001+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 17, 2026
2Indirect evidencePittsburgh, PA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 20265,001-10,0002,117 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 17, 2026
3Strong evidenceNewton, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,0001,348 contacts →

Strong evidence

“Thorlabs is a leading designer and manufacturer of photonics equipment for research, manufacturing, and biomedical applications.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
4Partial evidenceSugar Land, TX, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000416 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Applied Optoelectronics, Inc.| NASDAQ: AAOI AOI is a leading designer and manufacturer of fiber optic networking products.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
5Partial evidenceWest Hills, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,000285 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 17, 2026
6Partial evidenceOntario, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500261 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
7Indirect evidenceMaynard, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202610001+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 17, 2026
8Indirect evidenceFremont, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,000196 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
9Partial evidenceColorado Springs, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200155 contacts →

Partial 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 17, 2026
10Indirect evidenceSunnyvale, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-500148 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Cortina Systems, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
11Indirect evidenceTemecula, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-200122 contacts →

Indirect evidence

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
12Indirect evidenceNewark, DE, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20099 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 17, 2026
13Partial evidenceRochester, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50092 contacts →

Partial evidence

“Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX) is an American optics and photonics manufacturing company located in Rochester, NY.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
14Indirect evidenceWilmington, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20090 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“At Energetiq, we understand how to achieve high-brightness light generation.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
15Partial evidenceHoboken, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026201-50087 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 17, 2026
16Indirect evidenceRedmond, WA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20082 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 17, 2026
17Partial evidenceSomerset, NJ, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 2026501-1,00082 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 17, 2026
18Indirect evidenceSunnyvale, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5076 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Semiconductor interconnects”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
19Indirect evidenceCambridge, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20071 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“The information age relies on billions of devices converting signals between electricity and light waves.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
20Partial evidenceFremont, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 20261,001-5,00067 contacts →

Partial evidence

“AXT designs, develops, manufactures and distributes high performance compound and single element semiconductor substrates comprising gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and…”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
21Partial evidenceRichmond, CA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20063 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 17, 2026
22Partial evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20057 contacts →

Partial evidence

“We’re building optical chips that empower the next generation of high-performance computing tasks.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
23Indirect evidenceEnglewood, CO, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5055 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Lightwave Logic, Inc.(NASDAQ: LWLG) develops a platform leveraging its proprietary engineered electro-optic (EO) polymers to transmit data at higher speeds with less power.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
24Indirect evidenceFrankfort, NY, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202651-20050 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Fiberdyne Labs, Inc.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026
25Indirect evidenceBoston, MA, United StatesHQ checked Sep 17, 202611-5047 contacts →

Indirect evidence

“Metalenz is the leader in metasurface optics, bringing breakthrough perception capabilities to machine vision and advanced sensing to consumer devices.”

Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 17, 2026

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Photonic chip manufacturers based in the United States at a glance

As of Sep 17, 2026
41.4%Verified-email coverage
58.6Average contacts per company
11-50Median size (employees)
5.4%Largest-city concentration · Fremont
Sep 17, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10
62
11-50
65
51-200
48
201-500
11
501-1,000
4
1,001-5,000
7
5,001-10,000
1
10001+
5

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 203 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 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 the United States whose own description of what they do matches “photonic chip 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 photonic chip 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 photonic chip manufacturers, 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, 4,921 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
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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 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 photonic chip manufacturers are there based in the United States?

RevenueBase identified 203 photonic chip manufacturers 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 manufacturers?

Fremont leads with 11 headquartered companies, followed by San Jose (7) and Goleta (6).

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 4,921 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 203 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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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.