Applications
Optical Communications
As datacenters and telecom networks upgrade to 400 Gb and faster data rates, smaller and more precise micro-optical systems have become ever more critical. Atomica has broad and deep expertise in optical MEMS and wafer-level optical integration that enables higher levels of performance and integration. Below are some examples of our standard processes, platforms, and capabilities designed to advance photonic systems.
Explore Atomica’s Photonics Platforms that enable rapid prototyping and scalable production of your device.
Interposer Platform
Understand how Atomica’s Interposer platform helps customers use standard structures for rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Microlens Platform
Gain insight into how Atomica’s Microlens platform allows customers to work with standard structures, enabling rapid prototyping and scalable manufacturing.
Micromirror Platform
Explore Atomica’s Micromirror platform, which lets customers utilize standardized structures to streamline prototyping and scalable manufacturing.
Silicon Optical Bench (SiOB) Platform
Learn more about how Atomica’s SIOB platform equips customers with standardized structures for rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Through Glass Via (TGV) Platform
Examine how Atomica’s TGV platform gives customers access to standard structures, facilitating rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Through Silicon Via (TSV) Platform
Discover how Atomica’s TSV platform enables customers to leverage standard structures for rapid prototyping and scalable production.
V Groove Platform
See how Atomica’s V Groove platform empowers customers by offering standard structures for rapid prototyping and production scalability.
Waveguide Platform
Uncover how Atomica’s Waveguide platform provides customers with access to standard structures, facilitating rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Wafer Level Packaging (WLP) Platform
Find out how Atomica’s WLP platform supports customers in leveraging standard structures to accelerate prototyping and expand production scalability.
Why Atomica?
A manufacturable path from prototype to production
Atomica is a U.S.-based microfabrication foundry that turns advanced device concepts into manufacturable, scalable hardware — and its advantage is not a single process but a system that de-risks the path from first prototype to volume.
30,000 sq ft cleanroom · Class 100 · ISO 9001 certified · ITAR registered · Santa Barbara, USA
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Engineering Collaboration
Atomica works as an engineering partner across design, materials, fabrication, and testing, bringing diverse expertise together to optimize each micro-scale device. That collaboration is what yields better products, lower cost, faster time-to-market, and quicker adaptation to emerging technologies.
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Process Standardization
Standardized processes give a clear framework for fabrication, scaling, and quality control. This is what delivers the consistency, quality, and efficiency that reliable, high-performance microdevices require — while supporting regulatory compliance and continuous improvement.
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Modeling & Simulation
Atomica evaluates designs before fabrication using physics-based modeling, FEA, CFD, AI, and multiphysics simulation. Simulating first reduces prototype iterations, lowers cost, identifies risks early, and improves first-pass success across photonics, sensors, biotech devices, MEMS, and integrated microsystems.
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AI Optimization (FabOps)
Atomica’s FabOps system applies AI and advanced analytics across wafer inspection, metrology, fab control, and project execution. By integrating equipment, process flows, pricing, projects, and manufacturing — with real-time visibility, lot tracking, and change control — it reduces risk and accelerates programs from prototype to scalable production.
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Fab Technology
Atomica operates a 30,000 sq ft, class-100 cleanroom near Santa Barbara, California — ISO 9001 certified and ITAR registered. Its full in-house process suite spans photolithography, deposition, dry and wet etch, bonding, plating, metrology, testing, dicing, and planarization, purpose-built for rapid prototyping and scalable production.
Explore Atomica’s in-depth resources to navigate modeling and simulation, rapid prototyping, scalable production, and fab evaluation — all with expert insight.
Rapid Prototyping Services at Atomica
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Scaling Production with Atomica’s Expertise
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Inside Atomica’s Advanced Fab Technology
Take a detailed look at our high-tech capabilities, engineered to support complex, precision-driven microfabrication.
Selecting the Right Fab for Your Project
Our Fab Evaluation Guide outlines essential criteria, ensuring your project is matched to the best fabrication partner.
Simulation-Driven Microfabrication
See how modeling and simulation improve performance, lower cost, shorten timelines, and drive better outcomes.