A strategic partnership for Oxyn platform scale-up
Milan, Italy, 18 June 2026 – PhotonPath, European pioneer in integrated photonics, and XIVER, Europe’s only independent pure-play MEMS foundry, today announced a strategic collaboration to scale production of PhotonPath’s proprietary Oxyn platform. The partnership enables the transition of Oxyn manufacturing to XIVER’s 200 mm wafer infrastructure, expanding wafer capacity, improving lead times, and ensuring consistent, repeatable quality for high-performance photonic devices.
Oxyn is PhotonPath’s proprietary integrated photonics platform for telecom and datacom applications. It blends the strengths of Silicon Nitride and Planar Lightwave Circuit technologies (PLC), delivering ultra‑low‑loss waveguides (0.1 dB/cm), high power handling, tight bending radius down to 300 um, and low coupling losses of 0.1 dB with UHNA fibers. Standard waveguides are polarization-insensitive, eliminating the need for polarization diversity schemes, while hybrid waveguides allow controlled polarization rotation and multiplexing. Efficient thermal actuators provide precise tuning and reconfigurability to the products.
PhotonPath brings deep, specialized experience in integrated photonics design, manufacturing transfer, and platform development. Its team has built Oxyn from the ground up and has extensive know-how across multiple integrated photonic technologies, combining chip-level design, control electronics, calibration routines, and system-level integration.
XIVER provides a mature manufacturing environment that is tightly aligned with the demands of advanced photonic platforms. Building on decades of semiconductor and MEMS process development, XIVER has long supported photonics relevant technologies through extensive work in thin film deposition, complex material stacks, precision etching, and wafer level integration. With the ability to handle nonstandard materials, custom process flows combined with strong statistical process control and manufacturing discipline XIVER delivers the precision, repeatability, and robustness required for integrated photonics at scale and ensures that complex photonic designs can be reliably translated into stable, high volume manufacturing for PhotonPath’s customers.
The strategic collaboration aligns closely with the forthcoming European Chips Act 2, contributing to a stronger European integrated photonics supply chain. It also builds on the support of key ecosystem stakeholders, including PhotonDelta, NFIA, BOM and EPIC, instrumental in fostering cross-border collaboration, investment and industrial scale-up.
Emanuele Guglielmi, CTO and co‑founder of PhotonPath, said: “Scaling Oxyn at XIVER is a pivotal step in our roadmap. Our platform already delivers a unique mix of features unmatched by other technologies. Moving to a 200 mm manufacturing environment allows us to extend these capabilities to higher volumes while maintaining tight control over performance and repeatability. It also lays the foundation for our next milestones, including the integration of photodiodes directly into the platform. Customers can be confident that our solutions are built on a technology designed for both performance and scalability.”
Wil van de Wiel, CEO of Xiver, added: “We see a strong synergy with PhotonPath team and approach. XIVER’s deep expertise and advanced photonics-ready infrastructure make it a strong complement to PhotonPath’s expertise and Oxyn platform. Oxyn not only exceeds market requirements for performance and reliability, but its scalability onto XIVER’s 200 mm wafer line also makes it a highly compelling solution for high-volume photonic devices serving AI-driven data infrastructure and next-generation optical systems.”
For more information, visit http://www.photon‑path.com and http://www.xiver.com.
About PhotonPath
PhotonPath is a leader in Integrated Photonics, founded in 2019 as a Politecnico di Milano spin-off. The company develops advanced photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and patented control systems to deliver products and systems that redefine
connectivity and sensing. Its proprietary Oxyn platform, combined with heterogeneous integration capabilities, enables the efficient design and manufacturing of compact, scalable, and reconfigurable optical devices for telecom, datacom and sensing applications.
About XIVER
XIVER is a privately European owned, specialty microsystems foundry with over 40 years of experience, operating a fully qualified 200 mm wafer fab. With a team of approximately 120 people, the company specializes in advanced silicon
micromachining and Micro(opto)electromechanical systems. Leveraging deep expertise in silicon micromachining, wafer-level processing, and microsystems integration, XIVER partners closely with its customers, supporting them from early
concept through stable, high-yield manufacturing. Headquartered at its manufacturing facility in the Netherlands, XIVER serves customers in IR sensing, advanced semiconductor inspection, defense, photonics, and medtech markets that demand precision, reliability, and scalable microfabrication. www.xiver.com
Press Contact:
Emanuele Guglielmi, PhotonPath’s CTO, info@photon-path.com
Elena Beletkaia, XIVER’s Marketing and Customer Relations Manager, press@xiver.com
