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Bright Silicon Technologies

Bright Silicon Technologies is a Pleasanton, California photonics and semiconductor company, founded in 2020 out of work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, that builds solid-state optical beam control. Its Lightfield Directing Array (LDA) is a chip-scale segmented micromirror array — described by the company as "400 micro-gimbals on a chip" — that steers light with no moving parts, offering a plus-or-minus 30 degree optical field of regard at sub-microradian precision, a 350k degrees/second slew rate and 100ns settling time. The company positions the LDA as a replacement for bulky mechanical gimbals and conventional MEMS mirrors in free-space optical communication terminals, LIDAR, counter-UAS tracking, adaptive optics and metal 3D printing. The product is silicon and optical hardware sold to aerospace, defense and datacenter customers; the company publishes no public developer program, API, or SDK.

Bright Silicon Technologies is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Photonics, Semiconductors, Optical Communications, and Beam Steering.

3.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
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CompanyPhotonicsSemiconductorsOptical CommunicationsBeam SteeringMEMSLiDARHardwareAerospace and Defense

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: bright-silicon-technologies
name: Bright Silicon Technologies
description: Bright Silicon Technologies is a Pleasanton, California photonics and semiconductor company, founded in 2020
  out of work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, that builds solid-state optical beam control. Its Lightfield Directing
  Array (LDA) is a chip-scale segmented micromirror array — described by the company as "400 micro-gimbals on a chip" — that
  steers light with no moving parts, offering a plus-or-minus 30 degree optical field of regard at sub-microradian precision,
  a 350k degrees/second slew rate and 100ns settling time. The company positions the LDA as a replacement for bulky mechanical
  gimbals and conventional MEMS mirrors in free-space optical communication terminals, LIDAR, counter-UAS tracking, adaptive
  optics and metal 3D printing. The product is silicon and optical hardware sold to aerospace, defense and datacenter customers;
  the company publishes no public developer program, API, or SDK.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bright-silicon-technologies/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://media.base44.com/images/public/69f2bc7be8bc1a13a0f66e49/68798cfdb_Bright_Logo_20.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-source-url: https://forgeglobal.com/bright-silicon-technologies_stock/
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-08'
modified: '2026-08-08'
tags:
- Company
- Photonics
- Semiconductors
- Optical Communications
- Beam Steering
- MEMS
- LiDAR
- Hardware
- Aerospace and Defense
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bright-silicon-technologies-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.bright-si-tech.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bright-silicon-technologies/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/BrightSiTech
- type: Email
  url: mailto:Contact@Bright-Si-Tech.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-08'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Bright Silicon sells a silicon micromirror chip and optical terminals, not software — its entire site is a single-route
    base44 SPA whose JavaScript bundle contains only Home, About, Technology, Team, Careers and Contact pages, with no developer,
    API, SDK or docs page anywhere in it.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.bright-si-tech.com/
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.bright-si-tech.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.bright-si-tech.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://docs.bright-si-tech.com/
    status: 525
  checked: '2026-08-08'

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