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Optics
Driving product excellence through optics capabilities
The growing demand for high-performance optical products is driving the need for faster, smaller, and more cost-effective solutions. Development teams face increasing pressure to meet tight timelines and rising expectations for precision and reliability, all while navigating complex design requirements, material selection, and scalable manufacturing.
Jabil’s optics capabilities are built to meet these challenges.
With decades of experience in optical systems, Jabil provides end-to-end support across design, engineering, and production. Our tailored manufacturing solutions help customers overcome complexity, accelerate development, and scale confidently. Through our global footprint, we enable consistent execution and collaboration, backed by advanced tools, specialized talent, and proven technologies.
Our optics engineers operate within Jabil’s broader engineering, supply chain, and manufacturing ecosystem, giving them direct access to cutting-edge equipment, advanced processes, and cross-functional expertise. This integration allows us to support customers from early-stage innovation through mass production, ensuring speed, scalability, and quality at every step.
How We Deliver Optical Excellence
Jabil combines world-class engineering with in-house verification, testing, and manufacturing capabilities to bring optical products to full maturity. Our agile development approach adapts to your specific requirements and is backed by Jabil's global supply chain, logistics, and quality infrastructure.
Trusted by leading brands across the consumer electronics, automotive and transportation, building infrastructure, smart home and appliance, and healthcare sectors, we deliver high-performance optical solutions for applications like LiDAR, 3D sensing, projection, imaging, and more.
Our Capabilities
Jabil’s optics capabilities lead the industry in complex opto-mechanical design for miniaturized optical systems across consumer electronics, automotive and transportation, healthcare, and industrial applications. With deep domain expertise and a culture of innovation, we deliver precision-engineered solutions that push the boundaries of what's possible in optics.
Our specialized design capabilities include:
Optical Design
We design high-performing optical systems with a strong focus on cost and manufacturability. Backed by our long-standing history in optics, our world-class optical design delivers innovative solutions that ensure stable production processes and exceptional value. This gives you precise projection and image capturing systems, along with light-efficient illumination technologies that differentiate your brand and set you apart in the market.
Mechanical Design
We specialize in precision mechanical design optimized for cost, manufacturability, environmental resilience, and quality. Our experts bring deep experience in miniaturized opto-electronic modules, chassis, mountings and housings, and thermal-mechanical and electronic interfaces. Always at the cutting edge, our mechanical design team leverages emerging technologies and advanced materials to deliver reliable solutions.
Electrical Design
We power up your optical systems with the right electronics, custom-designed for your unique device. Even the most advanced optical and mechanical designs require precise, product-specific electrical engineering to perform at their best. Our team evaluates every detail, from durability and cost-efficiency to performance and integration, ensuring a perfect fit and optimal functionality.
Product Verification
Every Jabil customer benefits from our hands-on team of measurement experts, dedicated to quality control, process development, and failure analysis. With deep expertise in environmental testing and product verification across automotive, medical and consumer applications, we ensure your product meets the highest standards. Our proven, iterative verification process identifies potential weaknesses early, so your customers experience only satisfaction. Trust in our people, processes, and precision to deliver stable, cost-effective, and reliable mass production.
Engineering Services
Jabil’s optics engineering team develops manufacturing processes specifically designed for high-volume production of complex opto-electronic modules. Leveraging extensive experience in industrialization, the team manages the full transition from design through to mass production, ensuring consistency, efficiency, and quality at every stage.
Our Technologies
3D Sensing and Gesture Recognition
Jabil develops customized 3D sensing solutions that enhance human-machine interaction across a wide range of applications. Our expertise spans three core technologies — stereoscopic vision, structured lights, and time-of-flight (ToF) — allowing us to create hardware using existing platforms or engineer modules from the ground up. This includes integration of SWIR (Short-Wave Infrared) 3D cameras, which offer improved depth sensing accuracy and maintain performance in challenging lighting conditions.
Active Alignment
We provide cost-effective active alignment for optical modules in up to six degrees of freedom. Our proprietary processes ensure precise optical performance and consistent quality, supporting high-volume production requirements.
Augmented & Virtual Reality
Jabil’s optical design for AR/VR devices delivers immersive digital experiences with high resolution, wide field of view, low latency, and minimal distortion. We apply advanced design principles, specialized materials, and rigorous testing to ensure optimal integration into device systems.
LiDAR
Jabil offers end-to-end development and production of LiDAR systems, all from a single, in-house source. We customize prototypes to meet specific requirements, then industrialize and transfer them to the most suitable Jabil mass production site. Whether supporting leading global brands or emerging startups, our team delivers reliable, high-performance LiDAR solutions. With Jabil as your technology partner, you can count on expert support throughout the entire product lifecycle.
Omnidirectional Sensors
Our award-winning omnidirectional sensors are compact, energy-efficient solutions designed for autonomous mobile robotics and intelligent platforms. These sensors provide 360-degree awareness, enabling real-time navigation, obstacle detection, and spatial mapping. Their low power consumption and cost-effective design make them ideal for scalable deployment across a wide range of robotic applications.
Markets We Serve
Automotive and Transportation
As a world-class automotive supplier, Jabil designs and manufactures optics and sensor systems for autonomous platforms used by leading brands across connected vehicles, agricultural machinery, and commercial fleets.
Our expertise across the entire product development lifecycle enables customers to respond quickly to key industry shifts like software-defined vehicles, automation, and intelligent mobility.
Building Infrastructure
Jabil’s optics capabilities support the evolving needs of the building infrastructure sector by enabling precise, reliable, and integrated solutions.
Our expertise in optical design, industrialization, and manufacturing contributes to a wide range of applications, including optical sensors for environmental monitoring, vision systems for industrial automation, and illumination modules for smart infrastructure. These technologies play a critical role in enhancing safety, efficiency, and connectivity across systems such as smart grids, energy storage, and building automation.
Digital Commerce & Robotics
Jabil empowers the design, development, and delivery of next-generation retail technologies that redefine operations and elevate shopping experiences with optics capabilities. These solutions include warehouse automation with optical sensors for robotic systems like AGVs and AMRs, automated storage and retrieval systems, in-store cameras, and retail robotics that support pricing accuracy and planogram compliance.
Healthcare
Jabil is the largest global provider of healthcare manufacturing solutions in the industry, trusted by leading brands to bring innovative medical technologies to life.
Our expertise spans the full product lifecycle, from design and engineering to regulatory compliance and high-volume production. We deliver critical optical components for advanced medical devices, surgical robotics, diagnostics, and personal health monitors.
Smart Home & Appliances
Jabil’s optics capabilities support the development of smart, connected home products by enabling high-quality sensors and imaging systems. These technologies help power features like gesture control, environmental sensing, and embedded vision, making appliances more intuitive and responsive.
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