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VLC Photonics at Laser World of Photonics 2019
In: Events, Exhibits, News 11 Jun 2019 Tags: ,

LASER World of PHOTONICS, (June 24 – 27) in Munich, Germany, is the world’s leading Trade Fair with Congress for Photonics Components, Systems and Applications. It sets standards since 1973 — in size, diversity and relevance, and features the combination of research, technology and applications.

If you are attending the event, do not miss our booth #457 in Hall B1! Our team will be ready to help you out if you have any question about Photonic Integration Circuits.

If you want to visit but you have not bought your ticket yet, do not hesitate to email us at info(at)vlcphotonics.com for an invite!

 

Laser World of Photonics

 

We will be sharing our booth with other partners from SECPhO, the cluster of technological innovation that brings together companies, technology centers, research groups and experts in photonic technologies.

The focus topics for 2019:
Imaging / Sensors, test and measurement and optical measurement systems
Lasers and laser systems for production engineering
BioPhotonics and medical engineering
Optics and manufacturing technology for optics

For more information about the event and its supporting program visit the official website.

ePIXfab Silicon Photonics Summer School
In: Events, News 09 Jun 2019 Tags: , ,

After three impressive schools in Ghent University (Belgium), ePIXfab’s 4th edition of the Silicon Photonics Summer School is coming to Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (Pisa, Italy).

The school will run from the 1st July to the 5th of July 2019. See the agenda.

This edition of the summer school is tailor-made for participants to learn all the way from basics of silicon photonics science and technology to its applications in an ever-growing set of areas. Industrial and academic experts from across the globe will be delivering tutorials on hot-topics and emerging developments in this dynamically changing field.

The school provides the audience with an excellent opportunity to engage and interact with the top-notch experts in this field.

If you have not registered yet, you still have a chance! The deadline for the registration is June 15, 2019.

This school goes all the way from fundamentals to the latest developments in the science and technology of silicon PIC design, fabrication, assembly and testing for ever-growing applications of silicon photonics.

Do not miss this amazing opportunity!

EuCNC Workshop on Photonic Technologies for 5G and Beyond
In: Events, News 03 Jun 2019 Tags: , ,

EuCNC 2019, one of the most prominent communications and networking conferences in Europe, is the 28th edition of a successful series of a conference in the field of telecommunications. Sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society and the European Association for Signal Processing is supported by the European Commission.

The conference focuses on various aspects of 5G communications systems and networks, including cloud and virtualisation solutions, management technologies, and vertical application areas.

VLC Photonics, as one of the partners of PASSION H2020 Project, would like to recommend you the Workshop on Photonic Technologies for 5G and Beyond, which will take place on Tuesday, 18th June 2019, from 8:30 till 13:00 in the room R1 of the Valencia Conference Center. The workshop will address the role and relevance of photonic technologies to 5G and any future development in mobile networks.

 

Workshop on Photonics Technologies for 5G and Beyond

 

This workshop intends to attract expert speakers and audience, who will discuss the relevant photonics technology solutions – those developed by 5G-PPP projects, Photonics-PPP projects, and others – and provide complete coverage of the 5G-related topics for which optical networking and photonics can play a key role.

Such topics will include but will not be limited to optical access network solutions supporting fronthaul, photonics for mm-wave 5G, energy efficiency optimized 5G, converged optical-wireless system solutions, flexible aggregation/Metro networks and network orchestration.

The European H2020 projects involved in this event are blueSPACE, IoRL, 5G-PHOS, Metro-Haul, PASSION, 5GCAR, SPOTLIGHT, 5GSTEPFWD. More info about the workshop, the agenda and list of speakers can be found here.

If you would like to check the whole agenda, visit the official website.

Quantum Technologies in Spain Workshop
In: News 07 May 2019 Tags: ,

SECPhO, a cluster in Southern Europe that brings together companies, technology centres and research groups in the field of photonics and optics, is organizing the Workshop on Quantum Technologies.

 

Quantum technologies in Spain

WHERE? Madrid, Spain
WHEN? 8th of May, 10 am – 4 pm

If you want to find out more about the possibilities offered by quantum technologies, you still have a chance to register!

Our CEO Iñigo Artundo, as one of the speakers, will talk about integrated photonics for quantum applications.

Visit the website for further information.

We are excited to meet you in Madrid!

VLC Photonics – 2019 PIC Awards winner!
In: News 26 Mar 2019 Tags: , ,

This month is very exciting for us! Another prize rewarding excellence, innovation, and success – How amazing!

Firstly, we would like to thank you for your votes and for your support. It’s a great honour for us to see that our work is appreciated.

Founder Pascual Muñoz and CEO Iñigo Artundo collecting the prize

PIC Awards programme
PIC Awards is produced by Angel Business Communications – the organisers of PIC International Conference and PIC International Magazine. To recognise and highlight key industry achievements in advancing photonic integration through platform development, manufacturing, design, packaging and device characterisation, PIC International magazine hosts its 3rd PIC Awards programme. It is dedicated to celebrating leading lights in the industry.

 

We have been rewarded in the “BEST ACHIEVEMENT IN PIC DEVELOPMENT” category.

This category celebrates the efforts of foundry service providers, fabless companies, equipment manufacturers, and packaging and test centres enabling the future production of Photonic Integrated Circuits, PIC-enabled products, enabling innovative applications to the field on photonic integration.

 

Nominees in our category

Nominees in our category

The winners in each of the seven categories received their awards at Awards Ceremony the PIC International Conference (26th March 2019) in Brussels in front of over 250 senior industry professionals.

 

All the winners – PIC Awards 2019

VLC Photonics also in PIC Magazine Issue 14 – May 2019 

“The company has designed and taped-out photonic integrated circuits at 20 different foundries on all the main material platforms, including silicon photonics, silicon nitride, indium phosphide and PLC. Many photonic building blocks have been developed and validated into proprietary libraries and Process Design Kits (PDKs), including arrayed waveguide gratings, multi-mode interference couplers, Echelle gratings, ring filters, tunable lasers, etc. Its designs are now enabling commercial optical transceivers and interconnects, fiber sensor interrogators, quantum cryptography devices and many more.”

Read the whole article

VPIphotonics, LIGENTEC, and VLC Photonics streamline the design process for SiN Photonic Integrated Circuits
In: News, Press Releases 25 Mar 2019 Tags:

Designers that use LIGENTEC All-Nitride (AN) technology will now benefit from a workflow that starts from a graphical photonic integrated circuit design and system simulation environment, which seamlessly couples to layout design tools for scripted layout design and DRC capabilities. The new workflow is based on LIGENTEC and VLC Photonics verified reference designs with the simulation software by VPIphotonics using verified measurements of fabricated chips.

This workflow is enabled by the new VPItoolkit PDK LIGENTEC – a pluggable toolkit extension to VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits by adding the support of the 800 nm Silicon Nitride process “AN800” offered by LIGENTEC for dedicated shuttle runs and Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) runs.

 

the design process for SiN Photonic Integrated Circuits

 

With the mode fully confined in the waveguide the thick Silicon Nitride waveguides supported by the AN800 process with 800 nm LPCVD silicon nitride offer very tight bending radius (< 0.005 dB for 10 turns), very low coupling losses (< 1.5 dB/facet), very low propagation losses (< 0.1 dB/cm) and very high power handling (up to 10 W tested).
VPIcomponentMaker Photonic Circuits is a professional simulation and design environment for large-scale photonic integrated circuits that offers a large mix of general-purpose photonic, electrical and optoelectronic device models, together with the advanced circuit optimization and yield analysis capabilities. The library extension VPItoolkit PDK LIGENTEC adds foundry-certified simulation compact models for the standard building blocks supported by the AN800 process and enables a layout-aware schematic-driven PIC design workflow, including chip layout optimization according to
its required optical functionality. Importantly, it allows designers to construct their own hierarchical and custom building blocks, effectively expanding the foundry PDK to fit individual needs. The layout for the designed photonic integrated circuits can be automatically exported to either IPKISS by Luceda Photonics or OptoDesigner by Synopsys for DRC verification and GDS mask generation.

The mature library of photonic building blocks, available at the Process Design Kit (PDK), has been developed by LIGENTEC and VLC Photonics over several iterations to obtain mature devices with repeatable performance. The capability of embedding these blocks into the VPIphotonics software framework enables the simulation and modeling of complex photonic integrated circuits with a high degree of reliability.

 

About VPIphotonics
VPIphotonics sets the industry standard for end-to-end photonic design automation comprising design, analysis and optimization of components, systems and networks. We provide professional simulation software addressing demands in integrated photonics and fiber optics, optical transmission links and networks. Our team of experts performs design services addressing customer-specific requirements, and delivers training courses on adequate modelling techniques and advanced software capabilities. Our award-winning off-the-shelf and customized solutions are used extensively in research and development, and by product design and marketing teams at hundreds of corporations worldwide. Over 160 academic institutions joined our University Program enabling students, educators and researchers an easy access to VPIphotonics’ latest modeling and design innovations.
Contact: Vera Hilt
Email: vera.hilt(at)vpiphotonics.com
Phone: +49 30 398 058-41
www.VPIphotonics.com

About LIGENTEC SA
LIGENTEC is a foundry service manufacturing Photonic Integrated Circuits for customers in high-tech areas such as integrated quantum optics, LiDAR, sensors and microwave photonics. LIGENTEC commercializes all-nitride-core technology awarded with the PIC award at PIC International 2018. The technology uses thick film optical grade LPCVD deposited silicon nitride and optimized cladding to provide guaranteed performance in propagation loss. With the all-nitride-core technology LIGENTEC enables the customers to develop their products in the industrial revolution 4.0. The customers benefit from a clear path to volume production while obtaining the small quantities of wafers with the performance, short turn around of 2 month and high yield required at the early stage of proof of concept.
Contact
Email: info(at)ligentec.com
www.ligentec.com

VLC Photonics at PIC international
In: News 06 Mar 2019

The PIC International Conference will be held from the 26th to the 27th March 2019 in Brussels, Belgium. The event will provide timely and comprehensive coverage of every important sector within the photonics integrated circuits industry.

Our colleagues Iñigo and Louis-Olivier will be attending, in case you want to schedule a meeting with them.

Additionally, we are really honored to be nominated for the 2019 PIC Awards in the “Best Achievement in PIC Development”category for our efforts providing services that enable the production of Photonic Integrated Circuits, as well as promoting innovative applications to the field on photonic integration.

VLC Photonics honored in 2019 Lightwave Innovation Reviews Program
In: News 26 Feb 2019

We have been recognized as a honoree in the 2019 Lightwave Innovation Reviews program.

Presented annually by Lightwave, the Lightwave Innovation Reviews program distinguishes as determined by a stellar panel of third-party judges. Judges include industry executives and analysts from a wide variety of service providers, technology developers, industry analysts, and journalists. “On behalf of the Lightwave Innovation Reviews, I would like to congratulate our honorees,” said Lightwave Group Publisher Alan Bergstein. “This prestigious program allows Lightwave to celebrate and recognize the most innovative products and solutions in the optical networking industry. Our 2019 Honorees are an outstanding example of companies who are making an impact.”
We are proud to be nominated in “Communications Semiconductors and Electrical ICs” category.

Judge’s comment: “I do think this idea has merit and is how the industry needs to move forward.”

 

The Innovation Reviews are judged based on the following criteria:
• Originality
• Innovation
• Positive impact on the customer
• How well it addresses a new or existing requirement
• Novelty of approach
• Cost-effectiveness

The winners will be announced on March 4 at the 2019 Lightwave Awards Reception during OFC 2019 (San Diego, California, USA).

About Lightwave
For more than 30 years, Lightwave (www.lightwaveonline.com) has delivered trusted technical, application and business insights to senior-level decision makers for optical communications worldwide. Lightwave serves technology vendors, communications carriers and major enterprises with a complete and nuanced picture of the optical communications business environment. Lightwave is a valued information source for information related to FTTx, networking, equipment design, MSO optics, and test and measurement for corporate executives, department heads, project managers, network engineers and others making strategic decisions that are critical to the success of their businesses. Lightwave is a unit of PennWell Corporation.

About The 2019 Lightwave Innovation Reviews program
The Lightwave Innovation Reviews is in its fourth year of recognizing and celebrating the industry’s most unique products and solutions that help optical communications professionals worldwide drive improvements and innovation in optical technology. Executives at Ciena, Intel, Lumentum, LightCounting Market Research, and Adva were among the third-party judges for the 2019 Innovation Reviews. Criteria used in the Innovation Reviews rankings include, first and foremost, unique technology or application thereof, innovation, ease of use, efficiency, reliability and contribution to profitability.

VLC Photonics at OFC 2019
In: News 15 Feb 2019

From the 3rd to 7th of March, The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition is being held in San Diego Convention Center, San Diego.

This trade show is the largest global conference and exhibition for optical communications and networking professionals.

Pass by our booth #5424 where our team will be delighted to meet you and discuss about any photonic integration needs you might have.

In the framework of OFC, VLC Photonics will be participating in two main events:

 

  • The OIDA Workshop on Manufacturing and Building the Supply Chain for Integrated Photonics brings together many of the main stakeholders of the photonic integration industry. The workshop will take place the 3rd of March at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. It consists of 5 sessions focusing on the supply chain to manufacture integrated photonics. Our CEO, Iñigo Artundo will participate on the session #2 at 10:30 talking about the Integrated photonics supply chain.
  • The PIC Workshop OFC 2019 will take place the 6th of March. The workshop aims to create a one-stop-shop for everyone interested in photonic integration, as it brings together all the key players offering solutions: foundries, simulation software, design houses, packaging, test & measurement, and turn-key solutions. As in previous editions, Iñigo Artundo will be giving a presentation on Friday about PIC Design Houses, introducing their evolution and trends, advantages and need for test houses too.

 

We are attending Photonics West 2019
In: News 24 Jan 2019

Like every year, SPIE Photonics West, one of the world´s largest photonics technologies events, will take place in San Francisco from 2nd to 7th February at the Moscone Center.

A place, where the industry comes to learn and network with leaders, researchers, and engineers creating new possibilities for collaboration and generating business. Except for the exhibition itself, this week is full of appealing conferences, workshops and courses covering many relevant topics.

We would love to see you at our booth #4679!

Also, make sure you don’t miss any of the following PIC-related sessions and events:

OPTO conference, specially the Photonic Integration session

Photonic Integration courses

Silicon Photonics and Photonic Integrated Circuits: 2019 Industry Perspective