Photonics platform technology

Unlocking the next generation of photonics

InPHRED's patented nanoporous DBR technology breaks a 30-year industry deadlock, enabling manufacturable VCSELs and RC-LEDs across wavelengths previously inaccessible at commercial scale.

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01/Market Opportunities

1 platform → 2 material systems → 3 markets

Our core nanoporous platform opens three multi-billion-dollar markets, staged for execution.

Beachhead Wedge · GTM 2025
Consumer Sensing
$6B TAM

SWIR VCSELs enable efficient, high-clarity, eye-safe sensors for mass-market applications including 3D LiDAR, AR/VR, and gas and materials detection.

Validated: volume manufacturable SWIR VCSEL, shipping · 2+ volume customers engaged
Greenfield Value · ’25–26
Digital Health
$20B TAM

SWIR penetration depth and visible spectral purity unlock differentiated biometric wearables, including non-invasive glucose monitoring.

Validated: lab-scale glucose prototype · Tier-1 wearable OEM in evaluation
Growth Driver · ’27+
AI Data Center Optical I/O
$29B TAM

AI fabrics of the future need efficient, dense, low-latency optical scale-up links where copper is failing fails on reach, congestion, and power.

Benchmarked: 1310 nm InP VCSEL + GaN µRC-LED · samples to leading OEMs
02/The Core Insight
Why it works
Existing InP and GaN alloy stacks only offer ~0.3% refractive-index contrast. We engineer >40% contrast for 99.9% reflectivity on a perfectly homoepitaxial, lattice-matched, nanoporous "super mirror" grown by conventional foundry MOCVD.
NANOPOROUS DBRR ≈ 99.9%
03/Fabless Business Model

From foundry epi to volume production

A simple, mature process flow built on existing foundry infrastructure — no new fab required.

END-TO-END PROCESS FLOW (SIMPLIFIED)
Mature foundry epi
Homoepitaxial InP / GaN with alternating n⁺ and undoped layers
Electrochemical etch
Selective conversion of n⁺ layers to nanoporous semiconductor
Tunable index stack
Porosity tunes Δn; reflectivity from 60% (RC-LED) to >99.5% (VCSEL)
Mature device fab
Standard wafer process; on-wafer testing in existing foundries
Volume production
High yield, commercial cost structure; we are the only manufacturable solution
04/Traction

Validated performance, reliability, and revenue

>35%
Peak power-conversion efficiency, with mW output at SWIR wavelengths.
99.9%
Mirror reflectivity from ~10 nanoporous layer pairs — Telcordia reliability passed.
20+
Patents across the core process, device architectures, and integration.
05/The Team

Decades of deep photonics expertise

JTJacob Tarn
Jacob Tarn
CEO & Chairman
Executive sponsor for strategic accounts, financing, board accountability.
JHJung Han
Jung Han
Chief Scientist
Yale University Professor, founder, core nanoporous inventor behind the platform.
RLRebecca Levonian
Rebecca Levonian
Chief Business Officer
Business executive of BD, partnerships, commercial strategy, and revenue.
JKJin-Ho Kang
Jin-Ho Kang
Director of Technology
Technical director responsible device and product roadmaps.
CLChia-Feng Lin
Chia-Feng Lin
Operations VP
NCHU Professor of Materials Science, responsible for GaN foundry processes.

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