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Exail is a leading high-tech industrial company specializing in cutting-edge robotics, maritime, navigation, aerospace and photonics technologies. With a strong entrepreneurial culture, Exail delivers unrivaled performance, reliability and safety to its civil and defense clients operating in severe environments.

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The CARIOQA-PMP ultracompact laser system engineering model developed by Exail comprises a compact optical module (white box left) and a compact control unit (grey box right). Each module is approximately the size of an airline cabin suitcase. The optical module has reached TRL 5, and the control unit is fully programmable.

Modulators

Exail delivers a space-grade laser source to CNES for Europe’s CARIOQA quantum pathfinder mission

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, September 3, 2026 - Exail has delivered the engineering model of its ultracompact, space-grade laser source to the French Space...

ITER’s blanket (left) and divertor (right) will be equipped with a mechanical monitoring system featuring 12 km of specialized optical fiber developed by Exail and Photonics Bretagne. The blanket protects the reactor walls and magnets from heat and neutron flux, while the divertor extracts heat and fusion by-products from the plasma.

Modulators

Exail selected to equip ITER’s fusion reactor with diagnostic fibers

Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France, June 11, 2026 - Exail has reached a major milestone in the fusion energy sector: the ITER Organization has ordered its radiation-resistant,...

Articles

FIGURE 1. LISA will use three spacecraft separated by ~2.5 million kilometers to exchange laser beams and detect low-frequency gravitational waves.

Optics

High-performance electro-optic modulators enable laser metrology onboard LISA space mission

NASA selected Exail’s flight-proven lithium-niobate phase modulators for its Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) space mission, which highlights how industrialized electro...

Exail’s Er-doped and Er:Yb-doped optical fibers enable the development of low-noise optical amplifiers and high-power optical amplifiers for flying payloads and for optical feeder links in OGSs.

Optics

Future of space connectivity: Advanced optical technologies enable space laser communications

Exail is providing advanced optical technologies for SOLiS—a space laser communications demonstrator launched by the French government—to demonstrate the viability of an optical...

The full process of fabrication of Exail’s micro-optical assembly in free space—from active optical alignment to gluing and assembling process—is based on technologies proven for the constraints of space deployment.

Fiber Optics

Optical transceivers enable complex space optical communications

Exail recently helped demonstrate ultrahigh-speed (10 Gbps) optical downlink and uplink transmissions between the TELecoms on all Earth Orbits (TELEO) geostationary in-orbit demonstrato...

Deployed on the top of Mount Etna since 2020 by the Italian National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV), Exail’s Absolute Quantum Gravimeter has demonstrated its capability to detect minute gravity variations induced by magmatic activities.

Test & Measurement

Expanding quantum technology capabilities

Exail, a global industrial company within the field of photonics and quantum technologies, was the first to commercialize industry-grade quantum gravity sensors. Its success in...

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Fiber-optic & Optoelectronic Components, Equipment, & Systems

Fiber & cable manufacturing equipment

Fiber Bragg gratings

Micro-optics

Laser Sources

Lasers, fiber (non-telecom)

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