(Uviquity: Raleigh, NC) -- Uviquity, a deep-tech company developing integrated photonics for ultraviolet wavelengths, has announced its first product: a chip-scale laser operating at 229 nm.

This laser is the first in the world at this wavelength produced from a single semiconductor chip, and delivers collimated, narrow-line width, spectrally pure output suitable for demanding analytical and inspection applications. Uviquity will begin sampling to OEM partners during the fourth quarter of 2026, supporting instrument developers in semiconductor manufacturing, pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical production, petrochemical processing, environmental monitoring, and defense applications.

The laser is built on Uviquity’s aluminum nitride (AlN) photonic integrated circuit (PIC) platform, which generates deep-UV output through second harmonic generation (SHG) in proprietary AlN waveguides and is protected by more than 20 pending patents.

Uviquity holds the shortest-wavelength SHG record demonstrated to date in AlN. The same platform supports human-safe far-UVC disinfection products under development for air, food, water, and medical applications, positioning Uviquity to address both deep-UV sensing and far-UVC disinfection markets from a single semiconductor architecture.

Deep-UV light at 229 nm enables analytical capabilities not accessible at longer wavelengths, including resonance-enhanced detection of biological and chemical signatures and a measurement window largely free of background fluorescence in most organic samples. The laser supports multiple deep-UV spectroscopic techniques within this regime, including Raman, fluorescence, photoluminescence, and absorption.

Today, instrument developers requiring deep-UV light integrate a mix of laser, lamp, and LED-based UV sources, each carrying significant trade-offs among spectral purity, brightness, lifetime, form factor, and cost that constrain instrument design. For many applications, the only sources that deliver the required performance are large, expensive benchtop systems. Uviquity delivers deep-UV laser performance from a chip in a compact optoelectronic package that runs on low-voltage electrical input. The form factor is rugged and field-deployable, suitable for handheld, in-line, and embedded instrument designs.

Application areas include semiconductor inspection and metrology, real-time industrial process analytics, continuous gas analysis, reagent-free water quality monitoring, and trace-level defense sensing.

“We’ve spent time with the scientists and engineers who work in these application spaces,” says Scott Burroughs, CEO and co-founder of Uviquity. “They know what deep-UV at these wavelengths can do. What they haven’t had is a compact, reliable source they could build a product around. That’s what we’re changing.”

Sampling allocations for Q4 2026 are now open to early-access OEM partners. To request the product brief and discuss fit with a specific instrument architecture, contact Karen Scammell, vice president of sales and business development, at sales@uviquity.com.

Uviquity’s chip-scale 229 nm deep-UV laser module