Macquarie University spinout making glass photonic chips that boost capacity of existing optical fibre
Modular Photonics is a Sydney-based photonics hardware company spun out of Macquarie University. It uses laser-inscribed glass photonic chips to build passive optical-fibre components: the OMPlex series lets data centres, campuses and other sites run single-mode transceivers over legacy multimode fibre to raise data rates without recabling, and the MCMUX series provides compact, low-loss fan-in and fan-out devices for 4- and 7-core multicore fibre. In July 2025 it signed a licence agreement with SCHOTT for Aldente Glass for ultra-low-loss photonic chips. In October 2026 it was reported to have raised an undisclosed amount from deep tech investor Main Sequence (This Week in Australian Startups).
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