Halloween competition: Bat Count

October 26th 2022 Count the bats hidden on the PHIX website and win a $50 gift card! Let’s have a little Halloween themed fun! We hid some little pictures of bats all over our website. Can you tell us how many there are? From the people submitting the correct...

PHIX provides guest lesson for Day of Photonics

October 21st 2022  To celebrate the Day of Photonics, PHIX provided a guest lesson about photonics at a high school in Hengelo  Building a fascination for photonics Although integrated photonics is taking big steps toward entering our households, it is still far from...

Read our white paper on spot size converters

PHIX is pleased to offer you a free white paper about spot size converters (SSCs). By improving the mode field matching, these optional extensions to our fiber arrays greatly reduce coupling losses between optical fibers and photonic integrated circuits.  Our free...

Pull testing for wire bonding process optimization

Wire bonding is a common, but very important, process for connecting photonic integrated circuits (PICs) with their surrounding electronics. The recently acquired Royce Instruments 620 pull-shear tester allows PHIX to pinpoint weaknesses in the process and materials...

PHIX launches silicon nitride spot size converters

PHIX introduces silicon nitride spot size converters for efficiently coupling light between fiber arrays and photonic integrated circuits. They complement our existing offering of IONext spot size converters and lensed fiber arrays. Silicon nitride (SiN) spot size...

In The Spotlight: Nienke Nijenhuis

PHIX design engineer Nienke Nijenhuis is a self-proclaimed homebird within a very international team. In this column In The Spotlight we get to know her a bit better! Born and raised in the Twente region of The Netherlands, Nienke Nijenhuis never lived more than 6...