EFFECT Photonics is an optical-semiconductor company headquartered at High Tech Campus 37 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, with sites in the United Kingdom, the United States and Taiwan. Spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology, it designs and manufactures coherent optical transceiver subsystems and monolithically integrated Indium Phosphide (InP) photonic integrated circuits, including its pico and nano Integrable Tunable Laser Assemblies for 100G, 400G and 800G coherent links across telecom access and metro networks, data-center interconnect and AI scale-across infrastructure. It operates no developer API programme and publishes no product, network-management or transceiver-control API, no developer portal, no SDK and no pricing. It is catalogued here because its corporate website runs a live WordPress REST API with 290 discoverable routes — including a publicly readable optical-product catalogue with hardware taxonomies (product line, form factor, output power, tuning range, operating temperature, target application, management interface) and a first-party `effect/v1` namespace — and because that same install exposes two Model Context Protocol servers guarded by an OAuth 2.1 authorization server the host advertises through RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata.
EFFECT Photonics publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network, including MCP API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Photonics, Optical Networking, Optical Transceivers, and Photonic Integrated Circuits.
EFFECT Photonics’ developer surface includes engineering blog, support, FAQ, authentication, and 28 more developer resources.
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The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the EFFECT Photonics website at effectphotonics.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site s...
Model Context Protocol servers exposed by the WordPress MCP adapter. Both servers require authentication (observed HTTP 401 anonymously); the OAuth server answers with a correct...
aid: effect-photonics
name: EFFECT Photonics
description: EFFECT Photonics is an optical-semiconductor company headquartered at High Tech Campus 37 in Eindhoven, the Netherlands,
with sites in the United Kingdom, the United States and Taiwan. Spun out of Eindhoven University of Technology, it designs
and manufactures coherent optical transceiver subsystems and monolithically integrated Indium Phosphide (InP) photonic integrated
circuits, including its pico and nano Integrable Tunable Laser Assemblies for 100G, 400G and 800G coherent links across
telecom access and metro networks, data-center interconnect and AI scale-across infrastructure. It operates no developer
API programme and publishes no product, network-management or transceiver-control API, no developer portal, no SDK and no
pricing. It is catalogued here because its corporate website runs a live WordPress REST API with 290 discoverable routes
— including a publicly readable optical-product catalogue with hardware taxonomies (product line, form factor, output power,
tuning range, operating temperature, target application, management interface) and a first-party `effect/v1` namespace —
and because that same install exposes two Model Context Protocol servers guarded by an OAuth 2.1 authorization server the
host advertises through RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 metadata.
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: true
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: high
source:
- openapi
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: self-serve
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Self-serve signup
confidence: medium
source:
- authentication
- rate-limits
- security
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: derived
image: https://effectphotonics.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/EFFECT-Photonics_logo-color.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/effect-photonics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: It operates no developer API programme and publishes no product, network-management or transceiver-control
API, no developer portal, no SDK and no pricing.
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-08-12
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Photonics
- Optical Networking
- Optical Transceivers
- Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Semiconductors
- Telecommunications
- Data Center Interconnect
- Hardware
- MCP
- WordPress
- Netherlands
tags_raw:
- Company
- Photonics
- Optical Networking
- Optical Transceivers
- Photonic Integrated Circuits
- Semiconductors
- Telecommunications
- Data Center Interconnect
- Hardware
- Model Context Protocol
- WordPress
- Netherlands
apis:
- aid: effect-photonics:effectphotonics-com-website-wordpress-rest
name: EFFECT Photonics Website (WordPress REST)
description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the EFFECT Photonics website at effectphotonics.com: the route
index of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
baseURL: https://effectphotonics.com/wp-json
tags:
- WordPress
x-surface: platform-generated
properties:
- type: Documentation
url: https://effectphotonics.com/wp-json
x-platform: wordpress
x-platform-surface: rest
- aid: effect-photonics:effect-photonics-mcp-api
name: EFFECT Photonics MCP API
description: Model Context Protocol servers exposed by the WordPress MCP adapter. Both servers require authentication (observed
HTTP 401 anonymously); the OAuth server answers with a correct RFC 9728 Bearer challenge naming the protected-resource
metadata document.
humanURL: https://effectphotonics.com/wp-json/mcp
baseURL: https://effectphotonics.com/wp-json/
tags:
- MCP
tags_raw:
- mcp
properties:
- type: OpenAPI
url: openapi/effect-photonics-mcp-api-openapi.yml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/effect-photonics-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
url: mcp/effect-photonics-tool-crosswalk.yml
x-surface: platform-generated
x-platform: wordpress
x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://effectphotonics.com/
- type: About
url: https://effectphotonics.com/about/
- type: Products
url: https://effectphotonics.com/products/
- type: Solutions
url: https://effectphotonics.com/solutions/
- type: Newsroom
url: https://effectphotonics.com/newsroom/
- type: Blog
url: https://effectphotonics.com/newsroom/
- type: BlogRSS
url: https://effectphotonics.com/feed/
- type: Support
url: https://effectphotonics.com/get-in-touch/support/
- type: Contact
url: https://effectphotonics.com/get-in-touch/
- type: FAQ
url: https://effectphotonics.com/faq/
- type: Careers
url: https://effectphotonics.com/careers/
- type: Investors
url: https://effectphotonics.com/investors/
- type: Events
url: https://effectphotonics.com/events/
- type: Partners
url: https://effectphotonics.com/find-a-partner/
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://effectphotonics.com/terms-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://effectphotonics.com/privacy-policy/
- type: CookiePolicy
url: https://effectphotonics.com/cookie-policy/
- type: Compliance
url: https://effectphotonics.com/newsroom/iso-9001-certification-reaffirms-effect-photonics-commitment-to-quality-across-operations/
- type: SecondaryMarket
url: https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/
- type: Overlay
url: overlays/effect-photonics-wp-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: MCPServer
url: mcp/effect-photonics-mcp.yml
- type: ToolCrosswalk
url: mcp/effect-photonics-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/effect-photonics-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
url: well-known/effect-photonics-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/effect-photonics-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
url: scopes/effect-photonics-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/effect-photonics-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/effect-photonics-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/effect-photonics-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/effect-photonics-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/effect-photonics-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/effect-photonics-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-12'
status: enriched
artifacts_added: 30
pass: local-v1
x-enrichment-notes: 'Contract discovery (STEP 0b) is what made this profile: effectphotonics.com/openapi.json, /swagger.json,
/api-docs, /docs and /graphql all 404, but /wp-json/ returned a live 290-route WordPress discovery document whose namespaces
include `mcp`, `wp-abilities/v1` and a first-party `effect/v1`. Deliberately absent, each a verified negative on 2026-08-12:
AgentCard (/.well-known/agent-card.json and /.well-known/agent.json both 404, so nothing was written); SecurityTxt and Security
(/.well-known/security.txt 404, no disclosure page, no bug bounty); TrustCenter (trust.effectphotonics.com answers a wildcard
A record but fails TLS, curl exit 60); StatusPage (same wildcard/TLS failure on status.effectphotonics.com, no third-party
status page); Deprecation (no policy, no RFC 8594 headers); Idempotency (no idempotency contract exists on this surface);
SDKs and Packages (nothing first-party on npm, PyPI or any other registry, and no GitHub organisation under effectphotonics,
effect-photonics or EffectPhotonics — all three 404 on the GitHub API); AsyncAPI and Webhooks (no event surface); ChangeLog
(the newsroom is company news, not a change record); and Postman, Pricing, SignUp, Roadmap, Documentation, DeveloperPortal,
APIReference, GettingStarted, CLI, Sandbox and Components. plans/ and rate-limits/ are written with plan_count 0 and limit_count
0 and are intentionally NOT wired as pointers, because a zero is a recorded absence, not a published surface. The Compliance
pointer is the company''s ISO 9001 quality certification announcement plus its published RoHS/REACH/IEC 60825-1 declarations
— product compliance, not a security attestation. repair-api-bases.py reports `marketing-base-present` for this repo; it
was reviewed and left alone, because the derived specs deliberately use the origin https://effectphotonics.com as servers[]
with /wp-json carried in every path, so rewriting the base to https://effectphotonics.com/wp-json would double the prefix
on all 439 operations.'
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