About
Independent, U.S.-based, and accountable to you.
Aeon Photonics is not a factory’s sales office. We are a U.S. company that sits between system builders here and manufacturers who own their production process abroad — carrying requirements in one direction and engineering reality back in the other.
What Aeon is
A U.S. company, not a sales office.
Aeon Photonics is an independent U.S. company, operating as Aeon Innovations. It is not owned by, part of, or a branch of any manufacturer it represents.
That distinction matters in practice, not just on paper. It means the person you deal with is accountable to you rather than to a factory sales quota — and that when a requirement is a poor fit for a partner’s process, you get told so instead of being sold the nearest thing.
What we provide is engineering translation, direct access into our partners’ technical teams, and support integrating the resulting components into your system — from first requirement through qualification to volume production.
Who you work with
One person, start to finish.
Aeon Photonics is run by Peter Chen. When you send a requirement, he is the person who reads it, and the person who takes it to the manufacturer’s engineering team. There is no account manager layer, no ticket queue, and no handoff between the person who quoted you and the person who has to make it work.
For a component decision that will sit inside your product for years, knowing exactly who is on the other end is worth more than a slicker sales process.
Manufacturing partners
Chosen for one reason: they own their process.
Most laser module suppliers buy their die from somebody else, which caps what they can change for you. Vertical integration is our first filter on any manufacturing partner. Two entities cover what we supply today; both manufacture in Taiwan.
Arima Lasers Corp
- Role Primary partner
- Founded 1998
- Location Taoyuan, Taiwan
- Employees 260
- Quality IATF 16949
A vertically integrated laser diode manufacturer. Arima Lasers runs its own epitaxy, fabricates its own chips, and assembles its own modules — which is unusual, and is the reason a custom wavelength request is a process question rather than a procurement question.
Product lines include drone-compatible LiDAR, laser rangefinders, UAV laser altimeters, infrared laser diodes and hermetically sealed TO-CAN packages.
Arima Communications Corp
- Role RF & SATCOM
- Founded 1999
- Shipped 220M+ devices
- Model ODM
An original design manufacturer with volume history behind it. The lines relevant here are RF and SATCOM hardware: Ku-band AESA T/R modules with 32-channel beamforming, X-band power amplifiers, Ku- and Ka-band LEO SATCOM PA/LNA, SATCOM front-end modules and mmWave radar.
We expect this list to grow. Where a requirement is better served by a manufacturer we do not currently represent, we will say so.
Quality & supply chain
Certified to an automotive standard, sourced from an allied country.
IATF 16949 is the quality management standard the automotive industry uses, and it is a harder bar than a general-purpose system: it demands documented process control, traceability and defect-prevention discipline rather than end-of-line inspection.
Manufacturing is in Taoyuan, Taiwan. For programmes working to reduce exposure to Chinese-origin optoelectronic components, that is the relevant fact about where these parts come from.
- QualityIATF 16949
- QualityISO 9001
- EnvironmentalISO 14001
- ManufacturingTaoyuan, Taiwan
- Supply chainAllied · non-PRC
- IntegrationEpitaxy → chip fab → module
Certifications listed are held by Arima Lasers Corp, not by Aeon Photonics. Its existing customers and partners include Honeywell, Bosch, MACOM, Leica and OSRAM.
Contact
Tell us what you are building.
If you have a sensing or ranging problem and a set of constraints, that is enough to start. Send the requirement and we will come back with what is possible, what is not, and what it would take.