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iXblue Annnounces Acquisition of Kylia (Optical Components) & Muquans (Integrated Quantum Instruments)

By IQT News posted 20 May 2021

(PRNewswire) iXblue, a high-tech company in the fields of navigation, photonics and space, and maritime autonomy, announces the acquisition of Kylia (optical components and instruments) and Muquans (integrated quantum instruments).
Kylia, founded in 2003 and located in Pessac in the New Aquitaine region of France and in Paris, develops and manufactures optical components and instruments based on ultra-precise assembly technology. The products marketed by Kylia are used by industrial manufacturers in the fields of fiber-optic telecommunications, metrology and space.
Muquans, founded in 2011 and based in Talence, also in the New Aquitaine region, specialises in very high performance instrumentation and is the first company in the world to exploit laser-cooled quantum manipulation techniques on an industrial scale. It offers a complete range of solutions based on this breakthrough technology, including a quantum gravimeter, an atomic clock, frequency transfer systems over fiber, and very high performance laser systems.
Bruno Desruelle, CEO of Muquans confirms: “We have discovered that there are countless bridges between the world of photonics, iXblue’s fiber-optic inertial systems and Muquans’ gravimeters, laser sources and atomic clocks. This union is one of the results of iXblue’s presence at the Institut d’Optique d’Aquitaine. This proximity on this site for more than five years has been, in a logical way, the opportunity to share a common vision of the potential of cold atom quantum sensors for ultimate metrology.”
Founded in 2000, iXblue employs around 750 people, including 350 engineers and doctors,  with a turnover of €150 million, 80% of which is generated internationally. It has 9 industrial sites in France and its headquarters are in Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The photonics branch within iXblue is designed to address the space, sensors and metrology, geosciences, fiber lasers and intense lasers, communications and quantum technologies markets.

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