Toptical Technology

What Toptical Technology does

Toptical Technology (中禾飞阳科技有限公司) is a Chengdu-based photonics components manufacturer established in 2018 as a Sino-US joint venture, with its core engineering team drawn from Silicon Valley. The company operates an 18,000 sqm integrated facility in the Southwest Airport Economic Development Zone that combines office space, a domestic advanced wafer production line, and end-to-end packaging — running the full industrial chain from R&D through to packaged optical components.

Its product portfolio centers on passive optical components built on a proprietary Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC) platform on silica-on-silicon waveguides, including PLC splitters, arrayed waveguide gratings (AWGs), WDMs, FWDM, DWDM, CCWDM, fiber arrays, and hermetic fiber feed-throughs, plus specialty variants such as uneven-ratio splitters and VOAs. Toptical has extended into active hybrid modules (TAP-PD, WDM+PD) and offers CWDM4 AWGs targeting 100G, 200G, and 400G data center transceivers. The company also provides OEM and ODM services for custom optical designs.

The business model is direct B2B sales to telecom operators and equipment manufacturers, with components qualified to industry standards including RoHS and Telcordia GR-1209, GR-1221, and GR-468-CORE. The company employs between 251 and 500 people, holds 30M RMB in registered capital, and claims 10–20% higher wafer yields than competitors. Stated monthly capacities include 300,000 PCS of substrate cutting, 100,000 PCS of PLC packaging, 50,000 PCS of AWG packaging, and 1,000 PCS of fiber array assembly.

Name

Toptical Technology

Legal name

中禾飞阳科技有限公司

Website

https://toptical.cn

Company type

Private

Founded year

2018

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Toptical Technology is a Chengdu-based Sino-US joint venture that designs and manufactures planar lightwave circuit (PLC) optical passive and active components — including splitters, AWGs, WDMs, and hermetic feed-throughs — for telecom operators and equipment manufacturers, with OEM/ODM services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Optical Passive Components

NAICS

Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing (33441), Communications Equipment Manufacturing (3342)

SIC

Semiconductors & Related Devices (3674)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYHDAHAAAH

Optoelectronics & Photonics (LED/Laser/Optical ICs)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Semiconductors & Electronic Components/Integrated Device Manufacturers (IDMs)

SECONDARYHDAHACAG

Optoelectronic / Photonics Foundries (Silicon Photonics/LED/Laser)

Hardware, Technology & Telecom/Semiconductors & Electronic Components/Semiconductor Foundries & Wafer Fabrication

Keywords

• PLC splitter chips
• Optical passive components
• Planar lightwave circuits
• Wavelength division multiplexing
• Fiber optic components

Headquarters

HQ city

Chengdu

HQ country

China

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Optical Passive Component Sales: Revenue generated from manufacturing and selling optical passive components including PLC splitters, AWGs, WDMs, FWDM, DWDM, CCWDM devices, fiber arrays, and hermetic fiber feed-throughs. Products are sold as finished chips, wafers, and packaged devices to telecom equipment manufacturers and network operators. This is the primary revenue stream.
2. OEM&ODM Custom Manufacturing: Custom chip and device R&D and production services for other manufacturers. Includes substrate cutting (quartz, silicon, ceramic with gold plating), chip packaging and testing. Capacity of 300K PCS/month for substrate cutting and 100K PCS/month for PLC splitter packaging.
3. Technical Services and Support: Technical services including optical chip R&D, production, sales and technical support for optical integration chips, photoelectric chips, sensors, and integrated circuits. Also includes IoT technology development and technical services.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Toptical Technology is an optical telecommunications component manufacturer specializing in Planar Lightwave Circuit (PLC)-based passive and active photonic devices. The company designs, fabricates, and sells PLC splitter wafers and chips, AWG chips, WDM/DWDM/CCWDM devices, fiber arrays, hermetic fiber feed-throughs, variable optical attenuators, and PLC-based active modules. It operates a domestic advanced wafer production line covering the full industrial chain from product development to wafer fabrication, processing, and chip packaging, and provides OEM&ODM custom R&D and manufacturing services.

Product overview

Toptical Technology (中禾飞阳科技有限公司) is an optical telecommunications component manufacturer founded in 2018, specializing in R&D, production, sales and technical services of optical telecom products. The company operates a planar optical waveguide chip engineering platform with domestic advanced industrial wafer production line, forming a complete industrial chain from product development to wafer fabrication, wafer processing, and chip packaging. The product portfolio includes: (1) Optical Passive Devices - PLC splitters (wafer, chip, module in box/bare/micro packages), AWG chips (40CH/48CH DWDM), CWDM4 chips and assemblies, DWDM, FWDM, CCWDM devices, Uneven PLC splitters, Variable Optical Attenuators (VOA), Fiber Arrays (FA), and Hermetic Fiber Feed-throughs; (2) Active Products - TAP-PD Monitors and WDM integrated with PD; (3) Services - OEM&ODM customized processing services including R&D, wafer processing, substrate cutting, and packaging/testing. The company provides highly competitive, cost-effective products and customized services with Toptical characteristics, serving FTTx, CATV, IP communications, and data center applications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• PLC Wafer/MxN PLC Wafer and Chip (PLC光分路器晶圆) Silica-on-silica planar lightwave circuit wafers (MxN where M=1,2 and N=2,4,8,16,32,64) for manufacturing PLC splitter chips. Features high coupling efficiency and RoHS compliance. Used by telecom equipment manufacturers building splitter modules.
• PLC Planar Waveguide Splitter Chip (PLC平面波导分光器芯片) PLC-based splitter chip providing uniform splitting across 1260nm-1650nm wavelength range with low insertion loss, low polarization dependent loss (PDL), and high stability. Applied in FTTx systems and optical communication equipment.
• 4x4 PLC Splitter Chip (4x4光分路器芯片) Planar optical waveguide-based 4x4 splitter chip with four ports on each end that evenly divides light energy into four parts. Provides low insertion loss, low PDL, high stability, and excellent channel uniformity across 1260nm-1650nm. Available as Nx(4x4) array chips (N=1, 4, 8 or customized). Applied in FTTx configurations and CATV connections, especially IP communication systems and three-network integration.
• Uneven PLC Splitter Chip (不等比光分路器芯片) Passive integrated chip integrating an uneven ratio coupler and even ratio optical splitter on a single PLC-based chip. Supports configurations 1x5, 1x9 or customized and split ratios 70/30, 80/20 or customized. Applied in FTTH, FTTR fiber-to-the-room, and rural fiber-to-the-home deployments.
• Variable Optical Attenuator (VOA, 可调光衰减器) Silica-based PLC variable optical attenuator using thermo-optic effect to modulate waveguide refractive index for dynamic optical power control. Available in normally-open and normally-closed types with high precision attenuation, fast response, low insertion loss, and low power consumption. Applied in wavelength division multiplexing, VMUX/DMUX, optical add-drop multiplexers, and optical network protection.
• Fiber Array (FA, 光纤阵列) N-channel fiber array (N=1,2,4,8,16,32,40,48,64 or customized) based on heat-resistant glass, quartz, and silicon technology. Couplable with PLC chips for uniform optical splitting with low insertion loss, high return loss, and high reliability. Features precise fiber positioning and customizable polishing angles. Applied in fiber-to-the-home, PLC devices, and optical device packaging.
• Hermetic Fiber Feed-Through (气密光纤节) Glass-sealed hermetic fiber feed-through enabling hermetic packaging of optical components without high-cost metallization. Multichannel configurations (1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 12, 16 channels) with insertion loss <0.2dB and leak rate <1x10-8 atm.cc/s. Alternative to polymer adhesive and metalized fiber processes. Applied in trunk-line high-speed communications, submarine communications, military defense, and aerospace.
• PLC Splitter Modules (Bare/Box/Micro Package, PLC光分路器) Quartz-based integrated optical waveguide power distribution devices offered in bare fiber, box, and micro package formats. Features small size, broad working wavelength range, high reliability, and good splitting uniformity. Applied in FTTx systems, digital voice systems, and cable television systems.
• Wavelength Insensitive Coupler (WINC, 波分复用耦合器) Planar optical waveguide-based wavelength insensitive coupler that splits optical power into two ports at a fixed ratio across 1260nm-1650nm broad wavelength range. Provides Nx(2x2) array chips with TAP ratios from 5%-50%. Compliant with Telcordia GR-1221 and RoHS requirements.
• 40CH/48CH AWG Chip (Arrayed Waveguide Grating Chip) High-performance DWDM wavelength division multiplexer chip operating on C and L band ITU grid with 100GHz channel spacing. Based on silica planar processing on silicon chips. Low insertion loss, excellent channel isolation, long-term reliability, and Gaussian or Flat-Top passband options.
• CWDM4 AWG Mux & Demux Chip CWDM4 AWG mux and demux chip replacing Thin Film Filter (TFF) for use in TOSA and ROSA of QSFP+ 40G LR4 and QSFP28 100G LR4 transceivers. 4 optical ports, 20nm channel spacing, low insertion loss, high stability, and high reliability.
• TAP-PD Monitor PLC-based TAP-PD device for optical power monitoring. Integrates dual-fiber splitter, broadband thin-film splitter, and high-responsivity InGaAs photodetector. Applied in wavelength division multiplexing systems, reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer modules, and EDFA modules.
• WDM integrated with PD PLC-based WDM+PD device combining dual-fiber collimator, high-isolation WDM filter, and high-linearity high-responsivity analog InGaAs photodetector. Used in CATV and FTTx networks. When combined with a Diplexer achieves Triplexer functionality. Compliant with GR-468-CORE and RoHS standards.
• DWDM (Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer) Dense wavelength division multiplexer device for combining and transmitting different wavelengths simultaneously on a single optical fiber. 100GHz ITU channel spacing, low insertion loss, broadband transmission, and high channel isolation. Applied in channel mux/demux, DWDM systems, routers, and optical amplifiers.
• FWDM (Filter WDM) Filter WDM component designed for CATV and FTTx applications. Integrates pigtail collimator and high-isolation WDM filter. When combined with a Diplexer achieves triplexer functionality. Compliant with GR-468-CORE and RoHS standards.
• 8CH CCWDM Device Compact CCWDM device for metropolitan networks, CATV, and FTTx passive optical networks. Composed of free-space optical splitter for optical signal combination and separation. Compliant with GR-468-CORE and RoHS standards.
• PLC Splitter (1xN/2xN) Quartz-based integrated optical waveguide optical power distribution device suitable for FTTx systems and cable television systems. Compliant with Telcordia GR-1221 and GR-1209 standards.
• CWDM4 MUX&DEMUX Assembly CWDM4 AWG Mux & Demux product offering high stability and reliability with low insertion loss for 100G, 200G, and 400G high-speed optical transceivers.
• 40CH AWG (Arrayed Waveguide Grating) 40/48CH AWG arrayed waveguide grating, cost-effective high-performance DWDM wavelength division multiplexer operating on C and L band ITU grid.
• Three-Port CWDM CWDM device designed for PON systems and FTTx networks. Integrates pigtail+Grin lens collimator and high-isolation CWDM filter. Compliant with GR-1209/1221-CORE and RoHS standards.
• Uneven PLC Splitter (不等比光分路器) Planar optical waveguide PLC-based two-in-one integrated device providing both uneven ratio and even ratio optical splitting functions. Configurations 1x5, 1x9 or customized with split ratios 80/20, 70/30 or other ratios.
• OEM&ODM Custom Processing Service Customized OEM and ODM services including planar optical waveguide-based R&D and 6-inch wafer processing, substrate cutting (quartz, silicon, ceramic with gold plating), chip packaging, and testing. Production capacity: 300K PCS/month substrate cutting and 100K PCS/month PLC splitter packaging. Provided to other manufacturers needing PLC-based optical chips and devices manufactured to their specifications.

Quantifiable outcome

• PLC wafer yields 10-20% more effective chips per wafer compared to industry standard

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

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Feature9 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Chengdu Municipal Party Committee (成都市委)notableOthers · 24 October 2012On October 24, 2012, Huang Xinchu, Secretary of the Chengdu Municipal Party Committee, and the leadership of the Standing Committee visited Toptical Technology for inspection and guidance. The company chairman Wu Xiongfei introduced the company to Secretary Huang Xinchu. Secretary Huang Xinchu stated that as a key enterprise in the opto-electronic industry, the government should provide more support in economy, politics, and technology to promote Toptical's development.

Scale indicators8 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Accelink Technologies: Accelink (光迅科技) is China's largest optical components and modules maker, directly producing PLC splitters, AWGs, WDMs, and transceivers that compete head-to-head with Toptical in FTTx and datacenter markets. Comparable PLC wafer-to-packaged-chip vertical integration and product portfolio overlap make it the closest publicly listed Chinese peer.
• Innolight Technology: Innolight is a leading Chinese maker of high-speed optical transceivers (100G/400G/800G), which integrate CWDM4 AWG and WDM components supplied by companies like Toptical. While a customer/buyer for some component categories, it is also a competing component supplier and a comparable Chinese optical technology company with similar end-market exposure.
• Hisense Broadband: Hisense Broadband is a major Chinese optical transceiver and component maker, producing PLC-based AWG, WDM, and splitter components for telecom operators and hyperscaler datacenters. Comparable customer base and product overlap with Toptical's CWDM4 and AWG offerings make it a strong direct peer.
• O-Net Communications: O-Net (昂纳科技) manufactures PLC splitters, optical amplifiers, and active optical components for telecom and datacenter markets. It competes directly with Toptical's passive product lines in FTTH and high-speed transceiver supply chains, with comparable product depth in PLC and WDM components.
• Broadex Technologies: Broadex (博创科技) is a Chinese optical component manufacturer specializing in PLC splitters, AWGs, and optical sub-assemblies for telecom and datacenter customers. Its PLC splitter wafer business and Shenzhen-based scale overlap directly with Toptical's passive optical product offering.

Broad incumbents

• Furukawa Electric: Furukawa Electric is a Japanese manufacturer of optical fibers, PLC splitters, and WDM components with global reach across FTTH and datacenter markets. Its established PLC splitter technology and fiber array production compete directly with Toptical's product lines, particularly for tier-1 telecom customers.
• Coherent Corp (formerly II-VI): Coherent (formerly II-VI) is one of the largest global photonics and compound semiconductor companies, producing optical components including PLC splitters, AWGs, and transceivers. Its portfolio breadth, scale, and vertical integration exceed Toptical's, but its passive optical components division targets the same customers and end-markets.
• Lumentum Holdings: Lumentum is a US-headquartered leader in photonic and optical components, with a broad portfolio spanning AWGs, WDM components, and active optical modules. While significantly larger and more diversified, its PLC and silica-based passive product lines compete in the same FTTx and datacenter transceiver markets as Toptical.
• Sumitomo Electric Industries: Sumitomo Electric is a Japanese industrial conglomerate with a substantial optical communications division producing PLC splitters, fiber arrays, and hermetic feed-throughs. Its global scale and technology leadership in PLC wafers overlap with Toptical's core product portfolio in FTTx and high-reliability optical packaging.

Regional players

• Wuxi Taclink Optoelectronic Technology: Taclink is a Chinese optical component manufacturer focused on PLC splitters, WDM, and fiber array products for FTTH and datacenter applications. Comparable in scale and product specialization, it is a regional Chinese competitor targeting overlapping telecom operator and OEM customers.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Profiles8 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

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