The LightPort:Edu, a photonic chip training module, in action outside the lab.

LightPort:Edu

Teach photonics with the platform of the future

Powered by a photonic chip, the LightPort:Edu offers students the chance to build and program photonic systems using integrated photonic components.

Equipped with an intuitive GUI for seamless learning, and complimentary lesson plans spanning from beginner to advanced, students can dive right in, familiarising themselves with programmable integrated photonics whilst learning core photonic concepts such as interference.

Key Benefits

  • Hands-on learning

    The LightPort:Edu allows students to learn key photonic concepts, such as waveguiding, polarisation, interferometry, dispersion, and reflectometry, while building and programming circuits.

  • Designed for the future

    The LightPort:Edu has been designed to teach students about the subtleties of building photonic systems with integrated photonic components to help provide the most relevant skills set for the future.

  • Exposure to integrated photonics

    The LightPort:Edu provides students with a chance to not only programme a photonic chip, but to actually see one in action.

  • Evolves to suit your needs

    Purchase of the LightPort:Edu comes with discounted access to new components via an upgrade to help your course keep up with the latest developments in the field.

  • Free course content

    Purchase of the LightPort:Edu comes with free access to our standard lesson plan pack that includes 10 lesson plans based on the LightPort:Edu.

  • Play and play

    The LightPort:Edu allows for quick and easy reconfiguration of circuits for optimal learning.

What’s inside?

  • Variable reflectors

  • Phase shifters

  • Tuneable delay lines

  • Tuneable beamsplitters

  • Variable optical attenuators

  • Polarisation beamsplitters

  • Tuneable bandpass filters

  • Frequency splitters

  • Photodiodes

The LightPort:Edu is powered by a core integrated photonic processor

Plug and play with these components to learn photonics concepts including:

  • Waveguide mode theory

  • Coupled mode theory

  • Photodetection

  • Polarisation

  • Dispersion & loss mechanisms

  • Thermo-optics

  • Signal processing

  • Interferometry

  • Pulse shaping & filtering

  • Reflectometry

  • Multiplexing

    … and much more!