Laser & optoelectronic components
Send us the constraint. We come back with a part that can be built.
Aeon Photonics is an independent U.S. company. We take sensing and ranging requirements from teams in aerospace, defense, robotics and industrial measurement, turn them into specifications a factory can actually quote, and stay on them through qualification and into production — one person, in your time zone, accountable for the answer.
What we do
The hard part is never the datasheet. It is getting a part that does not exist yet built to a spec you can defend.
A specification, not a part number
Most component conversations start at a catalogue and work backwards into your system. We start from the constraint you cannot move — mass, range, field of view, environment — and work out what has to be true of the part. Turning that into something a process engineer can price is the work.
Engineering access you would not get alone
A U.S. company approaching an overseas manufacturer at early volume is, to that manufacturer, one more enquiry in a crowded inbox. We put the request in front of the right engineer, framed the way that engineer needs it framed. A non-standard wavelength or package then gets a real answer instead of a polite one.
One accountable party, on this side of the ocean
Taiwan is twelve to thirteen hours ahead. Handled direct, every question costs you a day. Handled through us, you get an answer inside your working hours and the follow-up runs overnight in Taipei. When a spec, a revision or a lead time moves, you hear it from one person who answers to you.
Where we fit
There are three ways to buy an optoelectronic component.
Each of them is the right answer some of the time. Here is where we are the right one — and where we are not.
| Catalogue distributor | Direct to the manufacturer | Aeon Photonics | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Technical questions | Answered by a salesperson working from the same datasheet you already have. | Answered by an applications engineer — if your volume has earned their attention. | Answered by someone who has read your requirement and has the factory’s engineering team on the other line. |
| Non-standard variants | Usually a standard part with a different label on the box. | Genuinely available, at the volume and on the schedule the factory sets. | Scoped against your system first, then taken to the process engineers who would have to build it. |
| Turnaround | Fast, but limited to what is already printed. | Roughly one exchange per day across the time-zone gap. | Same working day here; the follow-up happens overnight in Taiwan. |
| After design-in | Order fulfilment. | You manage the relationship, in their hours. | One U.S. contact through qualification, revisions, documentation and volume production. |
| Best when | You need a standard part, and you need it this week. | You are large enough that the factory prioritises you by default. | The part you need does not quite exist yet, and your volume is real but not yet enormous. |
If a catalogue part will do the job, we would rather tell you that than sell you a development programme you did not need. It is a shorter conversation and a better reference.
Capabilities
Published specifications.
The standard laser sensing and ranging lines available today. Application-specific variants — wavelength, package, beam profile, drive electronics — are developed directly with the manufacturer’s engineering team.
| Product | Wavelength | Range | Mass |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drone-compatible LiDAR | 905 nm | 5–120 m | < 250 g |
| Laser rangefinder | 1.5 µm | 30–10,000 m | < 120 g |
| UAV laser altimeter | 905 nm | 2–120 m | < 25 g |
| IR laser diodes | 808–940 nm | — | — |
| Hermetically sealed TO-CAN packages | — | — | — |
Manufacturing partners
We only work with manufacturers who own their process.
Most laser module suppliers buy their die from somebody else. That is the difference between a supplier who can change your wavelength and one who can only change your label. Owning epitaxy through to module assembly is our first filter on any manufacturing partner, and it is why the customization list on this site is real rather than decorative.
Our primary manufacturing partner is Arima Lasers Corp of Taoyuan, Taiwan — founded 1998, vertically integrated from epitaxy through chip fabrication to module assembly, and certified to IATF 16949, the automotive quality standard. Its sister company Arima Communications Corp supplies the RF and SATCOM lines. Both manufacture in Taiwan, on an allied, non-PRC supply chain.
More on how we work with our partners →- PartnerArima Lasers Corp
- Founded1998 · Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Employees260
- Quality systemIATF 16949
- IntegrationEpitaxy → chip fab → module
- Supply chainTaiwan · allied · non-PRC
Certifications and figures shown are the manufacturer’s. Arima Lasers’ existing customers and partners include Honeywell, Bosch, MACOM, Leica and OSRAM.
Markets served
Where these components go.
Defense & UAV
905 nm LiDAR and laser altimeters for autonomous flight, terrain following and obstacle sensing on unmanned platforms, where mass and power budgets decide the design.
SATCOM & radar
Ku-band AESA T/R modules with 32-channel beamforming, X-band power amplifiers, and Ku/Ka-band LEO SATCOM PA/LNA.
Commercial & industrial
1.5 µm rangefinders reaching 10 km for surveying, infrastructure inspection and long-range industrial measurement.
Robotics & sensing
808–940 nm IR laser diodes and hermetically sealed TO-CAN packages for integration into proximity, ranging and detection systems.
How we work
From requirement to production line.
Define
We start from your system requirement — range, field of view, mass, power, environment — not from a part number.
Sample
Evaluation units and full published specifications, on your bench, so you can measure rather than take our word for it.
Qualify
Engineering support through your qualification cycle, with direct access to the people running the process.
Produce
Volume production on a certified, vertically integrated line, with the same part you qualified.
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
If you have a sensing or ranging problem and a set of constraints, that is enough to start. Send the requirement and we will come back with what is possible, what is not, and what it would take.