Bringing Photonic R&D to actual product development
VLC Photonics SL. is a photonic Design and Testing house based in Valencia, Spain, devoted to providing turn-key engineering services related to developing photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for multiple application fields.
Founded in July 2011 as a spin-off from the Polytechnical University of Valencia, VLC Photonics has evolved into a global leader in photonic integration solutions, becoming a large company as part of the Hitachi High-Tech group by November 2020. With roots in optical communication systems and photonic integrated circuits, our journey has been marked by innovation, adaptability, and a commitment to excellence.
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation, Headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, a multinational conglomerate, offers extensive solutions to multiple markets.
The main business areas are Healthcare instruments, Semiconductor process equipment, and Industrial Solutions (providing high value-added solutions in the fields of social & industrial infrastructures and mobility, etc.).
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Contact: Hitachi High-Tech Corporation
Innovative-Photonics Dept., Business Integration Div.,
Value Chain Solution Business Group
Hitachi High-Tech Corporation (Contact: Shunsuke Goto)
Phone: +81 3 3504 7111
Our values
Mission
To deliver reliable photonic design and test solutions that help our customers unlock the benefits of photonic integration.
We provide engineering excellence aligned with evolving project needs.
Vision
We aim to strengthen our position as a global reference in photonic integration, driving innovation and supporting the evolution of this technology from research to advanced development.
As part of Hitachi High-Tech, we embrace trust, teamwork, and social responsibility to foster synergies across the ecosystem and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Our management
Received the B.Sc. degree in Telecommunications and the M.Sc. degree in Technologies, Systems and Networks of Communication from the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV, Valencia, Spain) in 2006 and 2008 respectively. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in optics at the Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications Institute (iTEAM) from UPV, inside the Optical and Quantum Communications Group, focusing his research in the use of integrated ring resonators for microwave photonics applications.
Since 2006, he has been working on the design of integrated optic circuits in Indium-Phosphide/Silicon Nitride/SOI technologies within several European and national research projects. On 2011 he co-founded VLC Photonics and since then works as the CTO. In 2012 he was awarded with the Intel PhD Honor Programme award.
Shunsuke Goto joined Hitachi High-Tech Corporation in 2015. He has engaged to grow the optical component business of Japanese providers to the oversee customers, mainly in the fibre optics field for 7 years. In parallel, he was involved the project to expand the portfolio of the company by the acquisition of VLC Photonics and established the growth plan in photonics field with VLC management since 2020. He has moved to Valencia in 2022 . Managing sales & marketing team, active business development and creating collaboration with Hitachi group.
Telecommunication Engineer with a PhD in Telecommunication obtained at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia. More than 10 years working in optics and photonics. His fields of expertise are: Fiber Bragg grating inscription, structural health monitoring using optical fiber sensors, characterization of optical devices, programming and synchronization of optical and electrical devices, task automation and prototyping. Multidisciplinary work on national and international projects in Spain, at Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, and in Belgium, at Université de Mons and B-SENS company, concerning optical communication and sensors. Working and studying in multicultural work environments allowed him to develop a collaborative and open-minded profile. He is currently the characterization department manager.
M.Sc degree in Physics of Vilnius University in Lithuania with extensive experience in optics industry including manufacturing sites in Lithuania, Spain and UK where he launched couple of the products into market and lead the design of numerous amounts of prototypes for Industrial, Academic, Space and Military applications.
Obtained the M.Sc in Engineering Physics at the university of Politencnico di Milano (Polimi) with a thesis, carried on in the Photonic Devices Group, on the design and control of photonic integrated circuits for light beam manipulation part of H2020 Super-Pixels FET project.
He is co-authored of conference papers spanning analog photonic computing and optical beam manipulation with a great diversity of actuators as optical MEMS, graphene modulators and Phase-Change materials. He is currently attending an industrial Ph.D., hosted by VLC Photonics S.L., working in the POST-DIGITAL project where his research focuses on the photonic device integration of neuromorphic computing, spanning from reservoir to convolutional neural network schemes, defining an efficient approach for harnessing and suppressing nonlinear optical processes.
Eduardo Selma received a degree in Economics from the University of Valencia in 2010 with a stage in University of Bristol and obtained two master’s degrees. One in Business Management from the Chamber of Commerce of Valencia and Université Paris 1 Pantheon- Sorbonne in 2011. The second master was on International Trade from the International University Menéndez Pelayo in 2014. Furthermore, he has international work experience in the United Kingdom as Business Analyst and Ghana as trade advisor in the Spanish Embassy.
Joan Felip was born in Valencia, Spain, on 1992. He received the B.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) in 2014, and the M.Sc degree in Telecommunication Engineering in 2016 from UPV too. His final master thesis was focused on integrated tunable lasers in Indium Phosphide technology under the supervision of Dr. Pascual Muñoz. He has been working as an expert characterization engineer of photonic integrated circuits in the company VLC Photonics since September 2016.
Obtained the Ingeniero de Telecomunicacion degree from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) in 1987 and the Licenciado en Ciencias Físicas. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from UPM (1991) and a PhD in Quantum Physics from the Universidad de Vigo. Since 1991 he is with the Departamento de Comunicaciones, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (UPV), where he started the activities on optical communications and photonics, founding the Photonics Research Labs Group. Since 1996 he is a Full Professor. From 2005-16, he was the Director of the Research Institute of Telecommunications and Multimedia (iTEAM) at UPV. He has published over 550 papers in international refereed journals and conferences. He is the author of 15 patents. He has been a member of the Technical Program Committees of over 50 international conferences in the field of photonics including ECOC, OFC, IOOC, CLEO Europe, and OECC. Prof. Capmany is a Fellow of the IEEE, a Fellow of the OSA. He was a member of the IEEE Photonics Society Board of Governors (2008-10), distinguished lecturer (2013-14), associate Editor of Photonics Technology Letters (2010-16) and the Journal of Lightwave Technology (2016-18), and current Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics. He is also a founder and chief innovation officer of the spin-off companies VLC Photonics, EPHOOX and iPronics.
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Awards & Recognitions
2019 PIC Award for the “BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PIC DEVELOPMENT”
IDEAS Upv recognition for VLCs outstanding business track in 2019
