Light Control Metasurface™

The LCM™ Programmable Optics Platform

Software-defined light control, built on optical semiconductor technology.

Groundbreaking Physics Meets Mature Manufacturing

LCM chips use engineered metasurfaces to control light at the surface of a semiconductor. Scalable, mature manufacturing: standard, well-established CMOS nodes and LCoS packaging.

Light Control Metasurface™ Optical Beamforming Technology

Traditional Optics

Fixed lenses, bulk components, mechanical steering.

LCM™ Platform

Programmable optical phase control on a semiconductor chip.

Programmable Optical Functions

One chip. Many optical capabilities.

Beamforming in one and two dimensions

From 1D to 2D Beamforming

Our LM10 and LS20 chips steer light along one axis, reaching any angle in 40 µs, with up to 160° native field of view. That is the foundation of today’s LCM-based lidar.

We have demonstrated the world’s first programmable 2D photonic beamforming chip: one semiconductor device that forms and steers beams across two axes, with no moving parts. The same chip can take on the work of mirrors, lenses, and beam splitters.

2D beamforming opens a path to high-port-count optical circuit switching, optical communications, optical computing, and advanced 3D sensing.

“An important milestone for the field.”
Dr. David R. Smith, Duke University

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Change the phase pattern across the metasurface and watch the beam steer, split, and focus.

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Unparalleled flexibility and programmability

Dynamic Scanning for a Dynamic World

Optical beamforming with Lumotive LCMs lights the way for the future of lidar and 3D sensing. Unconstrained by the motion and reliability of mechanical parts, a sensor can adjust its scanning behavior instantaneously, in real time, to respond to the situation.

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