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Canada’s Leading Industrial Innovation Lab
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Accelerating the transition from ideas to industrialization by helping companies design, test, and deploy critical technologies

Formed through the merger of the National Optics Institute (INO) and the Computer Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM), Luqia is a new industrial innovation lab at the intersection of academia and industry, bringing together expertise in artificial intelligence, advanced photonics, and quantum technologies within a single organization.

It offers a unique capacity for R&D and pre-commercial prototyping to transform discoveries in AI and photonics into market-ready products, generating significant socioeconomic benefits for businesses while also contributing to national security.

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Sectors and Expertise
Solutions in Advanced Photonics, Quantum Technologies, and AI

Luqia develops, qualifies, and manufactures optical components and subsystems, as well as products ready for industrialization. Its experts accelerate the maturation of critical systems based on optical, quantum, and artificial intelligence technologies to validate and deploy reliable systems suited to demanding environments. Its teams in artificial intelligence, custom sensors, multimodal analysis, quantum communications, and imaging develop solutions to better perceive the environment, detect threats, and support decision-making in complex contexts, such as Arctic surveillance.

Luqia works with organizations in the space and aeronautics sectors to develop technology solutions designed for environments where reliability, precision, and compliance are essential. By combining their expertise in photonics, quantum technologies, and trustworthy artificial intelligence, its experts design systems that can perceive, analyze, and support decision-making in mission-critical applications. From Earth observation and satellite data analysis to embedded sensors, highly reliable conversational agents, and prototype industrialization, Luqia helps turn scientific concepts into operational solutions that are space-ready or tailored to aeronautics requirements.

The team develops medical devices from concept through short-run production. ISO 13485 certified, Luqia helps its clients accelerate time to market and meet regulatory requirements. By combining their expertise in photonics, instrumentation, and artificial intelligence, its experts turn scientific discoveries into reliable, production-ready solutions. Their AI expertise makes it possible to better characterize instrument behaviour, analyze the data generated, and support faster, more precise, and better-informed decisions.

Luqia improves quality control, automates processes, and optimizes operational performance. Its experts leverage data and develop vision systems, optical sensors, smart cameras, 3D scanners, and artificial intelligence algorithms to support automation, inspection, sorting, and decision support. Luqia mitigates technology risk, protects data use, and promotes the responsible integration of optical technologies and AI in industry.

Luqia offers optical components designed for demanding integrations in photonics and advanced imaging. Its portfolio includes ytterbium-doped FastFBR optical fibers, LaserNGN amplification modules for high-power applications, as well as terahertz imaging solutions and thermal imaging cameras.

Luqia supports organizations looking to improve productivity and strengthen their competitiveness through AI. Its service offering covers the adoption, experimentation, and industrialization phases. Drawing on its expertise in machine learning, generative artificial intelligence, data science, natural language processing, and computer vision, the team reduces technology risk and accelerates the path from idea to market.

Luqia contributes to integrated photonics to support the semiconductor, telecommunications, datacom, and quantum sectors. Through its thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) foundry services, Luqia helps companies, universities, and organizations develop photonic integrated circuits, from design and manufacturing to testing and packaging. Its artificial intelligence experts help improve communication network performance, particularly through anomaly detection, optimized corrective actions, and greater system reliability in the event of a failure.

Luqia works with public-sector and professional organizations to develop and deploy artificial intelligence solutions tailored to their operational realities. Its approach helps close the gap between AI’s potential and its large-scale adoption. From needs analysis to real-world integration, its experts help teams design reliable, practical solutions that are ready to support service delivery.

Luqia works with organizations that want to leverage data from sensors and connected devices to improve decision-making. By combining its expertise in artificial intelligence, particularly time-series analysis, with its ability to develop custom sensors, Luqia helps design solutions tailored to real-world operating conditions. From precision agriculture and infrastructure monitoring to smart cities and the environment, its experts turn data into practical drivers of efficiency, sustainability, and performance.

Luqia at a Glance

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