Custom
Engineering.
Optical Engines solves photonics problems that don’t have existing solutions. From concept through production, our engineering team turns unmet needs into fielded systems. The common thread: fiber mastery that no one else can match.
What We Engineer
Application-Specific Laser Systems
Complete photonic systems designed around your mission. Clean-sheet designs from seed to output, optimized for your wavelength, power, environment, and integration constraints.
OEM Modules and Subsystems
Production-ready laser modules built for embedding into your platform. Standardized interfaces, qualified for your environment, manufactured at scale in our Colorado Springs facility.
Software and Control Systems
LaserCtrl firmware, adaptive sensing, and AI-enhanced tuning. Systems that learn from the application and optimize over time. Remote monitoring, diagnostics, and predictive maintenance built in.
Solutions We’ve Built
Every Optical Engines product started as a customer engineering challenge. These are examples of what happens when fiber mastery meets an unsolved problem.
Next-Generation Data Storage
Microsoft
High-power, scalable laser systems for petabyte-level archival storage. Engineering a solution for a problem no existing laser could address.
Medical Device Manufacturing
Medtronic
Precision plastic welding lasers for high-volume medical device production. Repeatable, regulatory-grade welds at production scale.
Directed Energy and Space Systems
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon
Compact, high-power directed energy subsystems for counter-drone defense and space-based applications. LaserBlade architecture delivers 2.5 kW per channel in an ultra-low SWaP package.
Semiconductor Microfabrication
DISCO
Ultrafast laser systems for wafer dicing and advanced material processing. Polarian platform engineered specifically for semiconductor manufacturing throughput.
Fiber Mastery
Most companies avoid fiber. At Optical Engines, it is second nature. Cleaving, splicing, tapering, end cap fabrication, mode field adaptation, cladding light stripping, and advanced photonic assembly. Over 100 years of cumulative experience. 18 patents. Every component fabricated in-house for cost control, quality, and speed.
18
Patents with active pipeline
100+
Years cumulative photonics
experience
$2B+
Product revenue driven by founder-developed technology
From Engineering to Product
Every Optical Engines product line started as a customer engineering project. The Polarian platform, CPTEC Amplifiers, and LaserBlade directed energy systems all originated from solving a specific customer problem, then productizing the solution for broader markets. This is Optical Engines’s flywheel: engineering creates products, products create scale.
Programs range from rapid prototyping to production-ready subsystems. Optical Engines currently manufactures 50+ units per month with capacity to grow.
Discuss Your Program
Engage Optical Engines engineering early to reduce integration risk, accelerate development timelines,
and ensure performance stability at scale.