Ottawa designer and manufacturer of planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical chips on silicon — CWDM, DWDM and LWDM multiplexers, switching fabrics and star couplers — sold to transceiver makers serving data centre, telecom and AI markets.
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Enablence states that it "designs and manufactures optical chips used by world-leading transceiver companies", bringing customer designs to reality "though rapid design, fabrication, and packaging of photonic semiconductors", and that its specialized optical team produces designs resulting in reduced insertion loss, increased bandwidth and improved crosstalk. Its own release boilerplate describes the company as designing, marketing and selling optical chips and sub systems, primarily in the form of planar lightwave circuits (PLC) on silicon-based chips, for datacom, telecom, automotive and artificial intelligence applications, with a customer base focused today on data centre and other rapidly growing end markets.
Announced a C$25 million strategic investment from Collingwood Investments — 3,226,000 shares at C$7.75 — expected to close at the end of September 2026, subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance. newsfilecorp.com
Announced a $5.3 million order in June 2026 for FR8 wavelength-management chips used in 800G and 1.6T transceivers, which the CEO described as the company's largest order to date. newsfilecorp.com
Q3 FY2026 revenue was US$2,247K against US$1,248K a year earlier, and the company reported its first positive gross margin quarter, at 13%. newsfilecorp.com
With partner ShunYun Technology, completed volume production readiness at a Vietnam assembly facility and released qualified samples to North American customers. newsfilecorp.com
Joined Sivers Semiconductors and O-Net on a co-packaged optics collaboration, contributing its NxN Star Coupler to an eight-channel external light source module. newsfilecorp.com
Products Enablence Technologies publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Optical multiplexer chips
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing demultiplexer combining an arrayed waveguide grating design with high quality fabrication. The multiplexer is offered in Enablence's proprietary Vortex design.
Learn moreDense multiplexer chips
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing chips built on an arrayed waveguide grating design with low loss over the industrial temperature range, available in 100/75/50 GHz pitch and Gaussian or flat-top lineshape.
Learn moreOptical multiplexer chips
LAN-Wavelength Division Multiplexing demultiplexer combining an arrayed waveguide grating design with quality fabrication. The multiplexer uses Enablence's proprietary Vortex design.
Learn moreOptical switching
A platform allowing the integration of active tuning capabilities to achieve phase shifting as a key building block for a variety of switching applications in telecom and sensing.
Learn morePublicly announced partnerships.
Assembly and packaging partner whose Vietnam facility was qualified for volume production of Enablence passive optical components.
Co-packaged optics collaboration in which Enablence supplies the NxN Star Coupler, Sivers the DFB laser arrays and O-Net integrates the module.
Enablence agreed to issue 3,226,000 shares at C$7.75 to Collingwood Investments for C$25 million, a premium to the previous close. Proceeds are for fab capacity in Silicon Valley and Vietnam and for working capital, with closing expected by the end of September 2026 subject to TSX Venture Exchange acceptance.
All production-line equipment was qualified at ShunYun's Vietnam facility and qualified samples were released to key North American customers. Initial lines cover CWDM MUX/DEMUX and AAWG products.
A $5.3 million order for FR8 wavelength-management chips used in 800G and 1.6T transceivers, beginning to ship in Q4FY26. The CEO described it as the company's largest order to date.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Todd Haugen
Chief Executive Officer
Ashok Balakrishnan
Chief Technology Officer
Steve Cohn
Chief Financial Officer
Derek J. Burney
Chairman
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