About Us​

Pilot Photonics has a team of 24 physicists and engineers, 9 at PhD level. This team, working since 2015, has designed, produced and patented a novel comb laser following a decade of academic research produced by two Irish photonics centres of excellence, Tyndall National Institute and Dublin City University. The academic research was exclusively licensed to Pilot Photonics in 2014 and the company’s proprietary comb laser is encapsulated in Photonic Integrated Circuits designed by the company and fabricated by three European III-V foundries.

Our People

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Frank Smyth

CTO and Co-founder

Gavin Colour

Gavin King

Operations Manager

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Damian McGillivary

Sales Director

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Desi Gutierrez

Director of Photonics

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Jules Braddell

Director of Engineering

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Gaurav Jain

Research and Development Manager

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Alison Kearney

Senior Photonics Engineer

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Shane Duggan

Senior PIC Design Engineer

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Ankit Sharma

Senior Photonics Engineer

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Chris McGuinness

Photonics Technician

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Robert McKenna

PIC Design Engineer

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Caolán Murphy

Photonics Engineer

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