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Castor Optics

Semiconductors & PhotonicsSaint-Laurent, QC

Saint-Laurent designer and manufacturer of low-loss fused fibre-optic components, including couplers, mode converters, multiplexers and assemblies, for biomedical imaging, aerospace, defence, quantum and remote sensing.

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Castor Optics states that it was founded in 2013 by Caroline Boudoux and Nicolas Godbout from Polytechnique Montreal, together with Alex Cable, founder of Thorlabs, and Normand Brais, founder of Sanuvox, and that the company has licensed several technologies from university laboratories. It describes its work as the research, development, design and manufacture of low-loss fused fibre-optic components, including couplers, mode converters, multiplexers and custom assemblies, serving biomedical imaging such as optical coherence tomography, aerospace, defence, quantum and remote sensing.

  • States it was founded in 2013 by Caroline Boudoux and Nicolas Godbout of Polytechnique Montreal, with Thorlabs founder Alex Cable and Sanuvox founder Normand Brais. castoroptics.com

  • States it has licensed several technologies from university laboratories. castoroptics.com

  • Describes its work as the research, development, design and manufacture of low-loss fibre components. castoroptics.com

  • Maintains a distribution relationship with Thorlabs and states collaborations with Polytechnique Montreal and COPL. castoroptics.com

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Caroline Boudoux

Co-Founder

Nicolas Godbout

Co-Founder

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Company site: castoroptics.com

Terms the company uses about its own work.

Fused fibre componentsLow-loss couplersMode convertersMultiplexersDouble-clad fibre couplersOptical coherence tomography

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