Optiwave recently attended the EPIC Technology Meeting on Photonics for Defense: Securing the Future, hosted at Exosens. The event brought together global industry leaders to discuss the critical and expanding role of photonics in modern security and defense strategies.
Following productive discussions with various European defense technology organizations, we are excited to share key industry trends and highlight how our simulation suite is supporting these next-generation applications.
Key Defense Industry Trends
As defense architectures evolve, the demand for secure, high-capacity, and precise optical technologies is accelerating. Two major areas of focus stood out at the meeting:
High-Power Fiber Lasers for Directed Energy: There is a significant and growing effort to develop high-power fiber lasers designed to neutralize airborne threats, including drones and missiles. Designing these robust systems requires precise modeling of laser dynamics and thermal effects.
Tactical Free-Space Optics (FSO) Communications: FSO is becoming essential for establishing secure, high-bandwidth, and interception-proof communication links in the field. This includes critical, ultra-fast data transmission for missile-to-missile and launcher-to-missile communication networks.
How Optiwave Supports the Defense Sector
During the event, we saw strong interest from European companies looking to implement our software for these exact use cases.
OptiSystem is fully equipped to help defense contractors and research agencies model and optimize these specialized applications. Whether engineers are designing complex high-power fiber laser systems for directed energy applications or simulating secure FSO communication links under varying atmospheric conditions, OptiSystem provides the reliable, high-fidelity simulation environment required to ensure mission-critical success.
We are currently setting up software evaluations for several organizations we connected with at the event, specifically focusing on our FSO simulation capabilities.
Interested in evaluating OptiSystem for your defense applications?
Contact our team today to request a free evaluation and discuss your specific engineering bottlenecks.