Company

About Innolume
Innovation, precision and reliability – this is what has made Innolume the premier manufacturer of GaAs-based laser diodes covering 780nm-1340nm spectral window since 2005.

With a combination of wavelength coverage with Quantum Dots Technology and advanced chip design, we enable our clients to develop cutting-edge industrial, medical and communications applications. Using highly reliable single mode fiber coupling technology we focus mainly on chip production – our current output exceeding 10M chips/year.

Many years of experience, technical know-how and a full vertically integrated fab are the key to fast turnarounds in the product development and modification – not just of standard items, but also of custom orders.

Be part of
our Team

Take the next step and start your career at Innolume! Whether you are new to the field or an experienced employee: We are always searching for new talents to train and integrate into our team of experts. We offer full time positions as well as various internships.

Career development

Our team of experts is always there to help you learn and hone your skills. We offer plenty of opportunities and room for personal and professional development.

Competitive salary

Fairness is important to us – especially when it comes to our salary policies. You can expect competitive pay for your work.

Work internationally

Innolume is an internationally operating specialist for GaAs-, InAs- & InP-based laser diodes. As part of our team you will be able to work on innovative projects from all over the world.

Familial work culture

We want to work in a motivating, social environment – which is why we take great care to provide it. A familial work culture and frequent team events are central to this.

Have a look at our facilities!
Our facilities – the necessary technical infrastructure for high quality solutions

We offer a completely integrated solution for fabrication of broad assortment of GaAs-based optoelectronic devices in the wavelength range of 780-1330nm.

Two production scale MBE reactors allow for design flexibility and material choice of (In,Al)GaAs(P,N)/GaAs system. Conventional (In, Al) GaAs quantum well structures cover the standard wavelength range of 780-1180nm whereas proprietary InAs quantum dot technology extends the attainable range all the way up to 1350nm.

Full in-house wafer processing ensures smooth production of wide variety of standard products and fast development cycles for customized solutions.

Proprietary surface passivation technology applied to the cleaved facets ensures outstanding lifetime figures for a complete spectrum of our high power products. Finely controlled optical layers deposition allows attaining of extremely deep (<0.01% reflection) antireflection coating on cleaved facets, which is crucially important for low nose performance of our Gain Chips in external cavity and for low spectral ripples of our SOA and SLD products.

In-house bonding and packaging capabilities allow for fast prototyping and low-scale production of wide range of products from bare chips or chip-on different types of carrier all the way up to complex packaging solutions like fiber-coupled butterfly package with free-space output.

We have all the necessary equipment for chips and modules testing in concordance with a variety of applications:

  • RIN and Eye-diagram for communications (COMB, DFB, DBR lasers)
  • Linewidth for single-frequency devices (FBG, DFB, DBR lasers)
  • Gain and ASE spectra for optical amplifiers (SOA, RSOA, Gain-chips)
  • Tunability in external cavity for Gain-chips and RSOA
  • Full characterization of High-power laser diodes (HPLD) for optical frequency doubling (SHG) and Raman-pumping
  • Pulse characteristics for pulsed lasers
Why Innolume – what makes us the perfect partner for you

With a broad product range, specialized technical expertise and a reliable and fast production infrastructure, we are your partner when it comes to GaAs-based laser diodes. Offering high-quality products, custom solutions as well as personal and professional service, we are able to provide full support for your project.

You can rely on:

  • Experience, expertise and professional commitment
  • High-quality products made to fit your needs
  • Personal and comprehensive service
  • Flexible and innovative custom solutions

Key People

Sven Rüger

CEO

Sven joined Innolume in 2008. After finalizing his commercial apprenticeship at multinational Speciality Chemical Company Hoechst AG in 1980, Sven was selected for a corporate scholarship at the University for Applied Sciences in Mainz and obtained his degree in business administration, specializing in accounting, taxation and general management. He assumed office of Managing Director of Innolume GmbH in 2020.

During his carrier of over 30 years at Hoechst AG, Aventis Corporate Research and Technology and Clariant International, Corak Consulting ltd. and various interims positions as CFO/managing Director in VC financed companies he gained extensive commercial and technical experience within the areas of sales and marketing, logistics, management accounting, controlling, treasury, corporate planning, change management, commercial IT systems, research and development as well as spin off and merger activities. He acquired profound business management know how in specialty chemicals, laser as well as life science/biotech and also worked for over seven years in India as well as the US. Part of his family is American.