IMEC

The 2026 paper lists IMEC in Leuven among its affiliations, and the electrical backend derives from Neuropixels 1.0 with separately integrated photonics. The fetched sources do not name an IMEC lab or assign particular circuits or photonic components to IMEC, so none is inferred here. See the Allen Institute and University College London, Carandini lab entries for the supervising team.

Prototype status

The 2026 Neuropixels Opto prototype is a prototype, not a product release. UCL expects availability to the community in 2028; that is a forecast, not current availability or a price. Applications: paper overview, cortical activation and inhibition, parallel optotagging.

Sources

• 2026 paper and author information.
• UCL Neuropixels Opto program page.