EMCORE Corp.

Company Overview

Emcore Corp. is a significant provider of advanced mixed-signal products catering to the aerospace & defense, and broadband communications markets. The company operates through a single reporting segment called Inertial Navigation, which encompasses product technology categories such as FOG, QMEMS, and RLG, all serving the aerospace and defense market. Emcore’s primary business revolves around fiber optics and semiconductor-based components, along with the global marketing of specialty photonics products. Notable products offered by Emcore include 1,310-nm and 1,550-nm optical transmitters, Optiva optical delay lines, and Optiva redundancy switches, among others.

Emcore’s Fiber Optic Gyroscope (FOG) and Ring Laser Gyro (RLG) technology, combined with their expertise in quartz MEMS navigation products, aims to achieve high performance with lower cost, size, weight, and power than competing units and legacy designs. The company offers a full product suite from tactical to navigational and strategic grade. Emcore’s products for the aerospace & defense market include fiber optic, MEMS, and RLG-based components and systems for land, sea, air, and space guidance and navigation applications. The company specializes in high-performance FOG- and MEMS-based gyroscopes, multi-axis sensors, and inertial measurement units (IMU), as well as FOG, RLG, and mems inertial navigation systems (INS) systems.