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Top 25 Photonics research labs based in France
RevenueBase identified 56 photonics research labs headquartered in France as of September 2026 and tracks 1,452 professional contacts across them, including 506 with verified work emails. Grenoble is the largest hub.
This list covers photonics research labs 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 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 photonics research labs based in France
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
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| 1 | 166 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “A non-profit higher education institution, chartered by the French Government.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 162 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 105 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Laboratoire Hubert Curien is a joint research unit of Saint-Etienne University (member of the University of Lyon), The French National Centre for Scientific Research and the…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 102 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 51 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Carnot de Bourgogne (ICB), unité mixte de recherche CNRS, Université Bourgogne Europe et Université de Technologie Belfort-Montbéliard, compte…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “PhLAM, Laboratory of Physics of Lasers, Atoms and Molecules, is a mixed research unit (UMR 8523), under the dual supervision of the CNRS and the University of Lille.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “AUREA Technology provides high-performance optical instruments for Quantum communications, Quantum networking and Quantum sensing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers est une Unité Mixte de Recherche du CNRS (UMR 7538) et de l’Université Paris13.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Laboratoire d'Optique Appliquée (LOA, UMR7639) is part of Institut Polytechnique de Paris and unites scientists from ENSTA-Paris, École Polytechnique and CNRS.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 25 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LE VERRE FLUORE, LEADER IN FLUORIDE GLASS AND IR OPTICAL FIBER TECHNOLOGY Since 1978, Le Verre Fluoré has been the undisputed leader in developing fluoride glass technologies for…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 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 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 10 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Opton Laser International, Opton is a leading player in the French Laser and Photonics industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 9 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe d’Étude de la Matière Condensée (GEMaC) est une unité de recherche (UMR8635) commune à l’Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) et au Centre National…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 8 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “EVOSENS is a leading company in integration for customized photonics systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “TRIOPTICS France, fondée le 1er avril 1996 dans le Domaine Scientifique de La Doua à Villeurbanne (69) est une filiale de la société Allemande TRIOPTICS GmbH.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 7 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Le Laboratoire Matériaux Optiques, Photonique et Systèmes est un laboratoire de l'Université de Lorraine fondé en Le LMOPS est représenté sur trois sites distincts : au sein de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 6 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Thorlabs est leader dans la fabrication et la distribution de composants pour l’industrie et la recherche dans les domaines de l’optique et de la photonique.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Pro-Lite Technology France est un fournisseur spécialisé dans la vente de matériels et de services de haute technicité dans les domaines de la photonique : Mesure de tout type de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 5 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Lumisync aims to reconcile faster data processing and lower energy consumption by developping Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for the telecom, aerospatial and defence…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 4 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since its inception two decades ago, PhaseView masters breakthrough innovation persistently as a result of its largest part of investment directed towards R&D and product…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Koheron designs, manufactures and distributes high-performance electrical engineering products to prototype photonic systems.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 3 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “NLOptics is an innovative photonics company specializing in advanced surface analysis solutions for the semiconductor industry and beyond.” 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: photonics research labs. 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 photonics research labs.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of photonics research labs, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name photonics research labs. 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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Photonics research labs based in France at a glance
As of Sep 20, 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 56 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 photonics research labs, 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 “photonics research labs”. 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 photonics research labs), 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 photonics research labs, 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, 506 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
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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 photonics research labs, 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 photonics research labs are there based in France?
RevenueBase identified 56 photonics research labs 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?
Institut D'optique Graduate School, headquartered in Palaiseau, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most photonics research labs?
Grenoble leads with 6 headquartered companies, followed by Palaiseau (5) and Lannion (3).
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 506 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 56 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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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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