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Jose Capmany distinguished by the Chinese Academy of Sciences

In: Media Appearances, News 06 May 2015

Jose Capmany, one of the founders of VLC Photonics and currently the director of the iTEAM R&D institute at the Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, has been awarded a professorship under the CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Distinguished Scientists in 2015, by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. This has come as a recognition to his work in the microwave photonics, optical telecommunications and photonic integration fields.

VLC Photonics is very proud of such distinction and intends to strengthen its links towards the Chinese market thanks to the bilateral research projects that will be enabled by this initiative.

VLC Photonics at OFC 2015 & PIC Workshop

In: Events, Exhibits 18 Mar 2015

The Optical Fiber Conference is a world class exposition with over 550 exhibitors introducing the latest advances and products in several fields like 100G and 400G optical networks, silicon photonics and integrated optics, space division multiplexing, wavelength agile access networks, high speed coherent detection, and many more.

VLC Photonics CEO Inigo Artundo will be introducing our latest developments and activities at the booth 2641. If you are interested in photonic integration, do not hesitate and contact him at inigo.artundo(at)vlcphotonics.com to arrange a meeting at the exhibit.

Additionally, VLC Photonics sponsors a special OFC workshop that will focus on providing practical information regarding the design considerations, material choices, and manufacturing processes needed to create Photonic Integrated Circuits. Special attention is given to Multi Project Wafers (MPW) in combination with Process Design Kits (PDK), since these have proven to significantly lower the cost and barrier to entry for PICs. The workshop will be held on Wednesday, March 25, 2015, from 6 pm to 9 pm, in conjunction with OFC at Los Angeles Convention Center in Room #502A.

New photonic integration platform available, combining InP and TriPleX TM technologies

In: Exhibits, Press Releases 02 Feb 2015

A consortium of six international companies has demonstrated a new photonic integration platform that allows to embed complex optical systems into a miniaturized assembly. This platform combines the best features of two photonic IC (PIC) technologies: the low-loss and wide spectral range of TriPleX TM , with the active functionalities of indium phosphide (InP).

The consortium is composed of several Dutch and Spanish companies covering the whole value chain for photonic integrated circuit prototyping: from software tools and Process Design Kits or PDKs (PhoeniX Software), to photonic chip design services (VLC Photonics and BRIGHT Photonics), TriPleX TM and InP manufacturing foundries (LioniX and SMART Photonics respectively), and optical assembly and packaging (XiO Photonics).

This new heterogeneous integration platform presents several advantages versus single-material monolithic approaches. It adds the versatility of optical devices like lasers, high-speed modulators, amplifiers or photodiodes on InP, to the very low propagation loss of the waveguides in TriPleX TM . The platform allows for high-density and
high-port-count coupling between both material platforms, and the low-loss optical fiber matched spot-size converters in TriPleX TM . These advantages prove to be critical for certain applications like sensing, biophotonics, telecom/datacom, or microwave photonics.

The platform, already available for external users to access, has been demonstrated through a combined assembly of several test structures. The demo will be presented at the Photonics West 2015 exhibition next February 10-12, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, USA. Users will be able to see the wide range of offerings provided by the consortium, from the design tools and standard building blocks included in the platform’s PDK, to custom designs and packaging options available too. The event is scheduled on Thursday 12th February at 01:30 PM in the Demo Area 2 of Hall D.

About BRIGHT Photonics B.V.
BRIGHT Photonics is a design house for photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Our mission is making Photonic ICs accessible to business and research, whether you are already experienced in PIC technology or not. Customize our assistance to where you need it: PIC Prototyping for companies, PDK development for foundries (custom and MPW), or design software and assistance for academic and other researchers. We support photonic technologies in over 15 foundries in Silicon, InP and SiN.
Contact: Ronald Broeke
email: ronald.broeke(at)brightphotonics.eu
Phone: +31 64 67 22 099

About LioniX B.V.
LioniX is a leading co-developer, manufacturer and provider of products and components based on cutting-edge micro/nano technology for its original equipment manufacturer (OEM) customers. The main focus markets include Life Sciences, Telecom, Datacom, Industrial Process Control and Space. LioniX provides design to manufacturing and ‘horizontal integration’ by partnering with foundries, suppliers of complementary technologies and R&D institutes. The company specializes in applications of integrated optics, microfluidics and optofluidics including surface functionalization. LioniX offers small volume manufacturing, second sourcing as well as transfer to medium and high volume manufacturing.
Contact: Arne Leinse
email: a.leinse(at)lionixbv.nl
Phone: +31 53 20 30 053

About PhoeniX Software
PhoeniX Software is an independent high-tech company headquartered in Enschede (the Netherlands) developing, supplying and supporting world class software solutions for micro and nano technology corporations and institutes. PhoeniX Software is offering a unique fully integrated mask layout, process flow design and simulation environment
and the only dedicated Manufacturing Execution System and Technology Knowledge Base for the industry. Furthermore PhoeniX Software is supporting Multi Project Wafer runs at various foundries with process design kits for InP, TriPleX and silicon photonics.
Contact: Twan Korthorst
email: twan.korthorst(at)phoenixbv.com
Phone: +31 53 48 36 460

About SMART Photonics B.V.
SMART Photonics, located in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, is a Pure Play Foundry offering III-V production services for Indium Phosphide (InP) based photonic components. We use our extensive photonics knowledge, many years of experience in III-V production and dedicated equipment to create and produce the photonic designs of our customers.
We offer the complete creation process from Epitaxial growth, wafer processing, re-growth, polishing of wafers up to dicing and coating of the chip facets, from single process steps up to full production services. Fast prototyping of PICs in InP on MPW runs. SMART Photonics has further developed its generic integration technology for integration of InP based photonic components. For this new technology, free access to the SMART Photonics design manual is offered to customers to design their own PICs. Designs can be easily, and cost effectively, tested in the SMART Photonics MPW runs which are offered on a quarterly basis.
Contact: Richard Visser
E-Mail: Richard.Visser(at)SMARTPhotonics.nl
Phone: +31 40 247 5453

About VLC Photonics S.L.
VLC Photonics is a fabless design house which provides optical integration solutions and services. Its expertise in design of photonic components in multiple technology platforms, like silicon photonics, indium phosphide, PLC or TriPleXTM, together with more than a decade long expertise in optical telecom and sensing systems, guarantee the
optimal implementation of any photonic functionality on chip. VLC Photonics counts with an extensive network of foundries and packagers, and this experience with its partners allows VLC Photonics to lower the development time, cost and risk of any integration project.
Contact: Iñigo Artundo
email: inigo.artundo(at)vlcphotonics.com
Phone: +34 96 133 78 84

About XiO Photonics B.V.
At XiO Photonics we design and manufacture optical devices based on Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) for visible light and near infrared applications. Our capabilities are in optical chip design (for TriPleXTM technology) and in optical chip packaging solutions. The packaging solutions include fiber-chip coupling, chip-chip coupling and
electronic integration concepts.
Contact: Joost van Kerkhof
email: j.vankerkhof(at)xiophotonics.com
Phone: +31 53 483 6688

Full press release in PDF.

VLC Photonics introduces Multi-Project Wafer Standard Design Services

In: Press Releases 15 Jan 2015

Valencia (Spain), January 15th 2015 – VLC Photonics provides different solutions in the field of optical integration, including photonic integrated circuit (PIC) design or in-house chip characterization and test, together with fabless manufacturing and packaging services. As part of its offering, VLC Photonics offers access to Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) shuttle runs on different generic technology manufacturing platforms, such as Silicon-on-Insulator, PLC, TriPleX and Indium Phosphide. Currently MPW manufacturers offer a set of fabrication cells with different area and price. Hence, VLC Photonics introduces a new concept on custom PIC design, “MPW Standard Design”, where VLC’s services cost for each manufacturer and cell size are fixed. VLC’s MPW Standard Design services can be accessed through https://www.vlcphotonics.com/mpw

“After severals years in market, by serving customers and performing our own R&D using all the MPW manufacturers around the globe, we are ready to offer a frozen price, independent of the chip functionality” – Pascual Muñoz, VLC Founder explained. “This is the equivalent to generic manufacturing, where costs are fixed by chip area indepedently of its content and end functionality, but at a design level” he added.

“The wide range of integration technologies and fabrication platforms makes selecting the best manufacturing approach for each application and device quite difficult for our customers” – emphasizes Iñigo Artundo, CEO of the company. “We learned our customers value an easy and straight-forward solution that allows to directly choose the most suited way to prototype their PICs”. Artundo assures that any company with some basic experience on photonic integration will be able to access through VLC’s to navigate all the MPW design and manufacturing options currently offered by VLC Photonics. “Customers will also be able to get approximate costs and manufacturing times to configure their own projects immediately. Furthermore, they will directly interface our engineers one click after, to clear out any hurdles they may find when facing any integration project”.

About VLC Photonics S.L.
VLC Photonics is a fabless design house which provides optical integration solutions and services. Its expertise in design of photonic components in multiple technology platforms, like Silicon photonics, Indium Phosphide, PLC or TriPleX™, together with more than a decade long expertise in optical telecom and sensing systems, guarantee the optimal implementation of any photonic functionality on chip. VLC Photonics counts with an extensive network of foundries and packagers, and this experience with its partners allows VLC Photonics to lower the development time, cost and risk of any integration project.

Contact: Iñigo Artundo
email: inigo.artundo(at)vlcphotonics.com
Phone: +34 644 513 310

Download press release in PDF format.

TriPleX photonic integration platform promotion during Photonics West 2015!

In: Press Releases 15 Jan 2015

Valencia (Spain), January 15th 2015 – VLC Photonics, through its partnership with the dutch photonic chip manufacturer LioniX, is promoting the manufacturing of photonic integrated circuits (PICs) in the TriPleXTM technology platform. As part of this promotion, industrial customers will get a 100% price discount on VLC’s design service for deals developed during Photonics West 2015 and February, for PIC designs to be included in LioniX’s next Multi-Project Wafer (MPW) run scheduled on May 2015. Companies interested in this offering should contact VLC Photonics directly through their MPW Standard Design Service at https://www.vlcphotonics.com/mpw with Special Promotion Code “PW2015”, or visit VLC Photonics and LioniX at the Dutch Pavilion booth 5001 on the North Hall D during Photonics West 2015!

Optical integration allows for the miniaturization of any optical system into a photonic chip, with the corresponding gains in size and weight. Moreover, it allows for a drastic increase in complexity, as tens or hundreds of optical components can be embedded to work reliably together without caring for a precise alignment or strict cleanliness. Additionally, the cost of any optical integrated system also scales down with the number of produced units, allowing for similar cost reductions as those achieved with integrated electronics.

VLC Photonics has partnered with LioniX to offer an easy and straight-forward way to access their TripleX integration platform. This technology, composed of a monolithic dielectric substrate, allows for very low-loss propagation (< 0.5 dB/cm at 1550 nm) and spot-size converters to interface with optical fibers. The waveguides are designed for single polarization (TE) applications to operate from 405 nm to 2350 nm, making them very suited candidates not only for telecoms, but also for biophotonic and sensing applications. Moreover, the platform also includes specialty devices like heaters (allowing for tuning or modulation functionality), or proprietary building blocks developed by VLC Photonics, like arrayed waveguide gratings for wavelength filtering and multiplexing, multimode interference couplers, delay lines, etc. "LioniX's technology offers low loss and wide spectrum. VLC's promotion is to raise awareness on such an amazing technology with unprecedented performance, enabling myriads of applications" Iñigo Artundo, CEO for VLC Photonics said. About VLC Photonics S.L.
VLC Photonics is a fabless design house which provides optical integration solutions and services. Its expertise in design of photonic components in multiple technology platforms, like Silicon photonics, Indium Phosphide, PLC or TriPleX™, together with more than a decade long expertise in optical telecoms and sensing systems, guarantee the optimal implementation of any photonic functionality on chip. VLC Photonics counts with an extensive network of foundries and packagers, and this experience with its partners allows VLC Photonics to lower the development time, cost and risk of any integration project.

Contact: Iñigo Artundo
email: inigo.artundo(at)vlcphotonics.com

Phone: +34 644 513 310

Download press release document in PDF format.

Photonics West 2015

In: Exhibits 15 Jan 2015

Celebrating the begining of 2015 the international year of light, SPIE Photonics West will be held on the 7-12th February at the Moscone Center, San Francisco (California, United States). With more than 1,250 companies at the Main and BiOS exhibits, and 4700 papers to be presented at the technical conferences (Biomedical Optics + Biophotonics, Lasers and Sources, Optoelectronic Devices and Materials, MOEMS-MEMS, Green Photonics), Photonics West represents one of the largest events in the world of Optics and Photonics.

VLC Photonics CEO Inigo Artundo and CTO David Domenech will be introducing our latest developments and activities at the Dutch Pavilion booth 5001 on the North Hall D. If you are interested in photonic integration, do not hesitate and contact them at inigo.artundo(at)vlcphotonics.com and david.domenech(at)vlcphotonics.com to arrange a meeting at the exhibit.

ACP 2014

In: News 05 Nov 2014

Asia Communications and Photonics Conference (ACP) is now the largest conference in the Asia-Pacific region on optical communication, photonics and relevant technologies. ACP has been held annually, tracing back to 2001, and jointly sponsored by OSA, SPIE, IEEE Photonics Society, COS and CIC. ACP 2014 will be held in Shanghai International Convention Center, Shanghai, China, on November 11-14, 2014.

VLC Photonics’s founder Jose Capmany will be attending ACP 2014 and presenting the talk “Graphene Integrated Microwave Photonics” on Tuesday 11th between 13:30-18:30 at the “Workshop 1: Microwave Photonics: Devices, Applications and Prospects”. If you would like to talk to him or arrange a meeting at the event, please write an email to jose.capmany(at)vlcphotonics.com.

IEEE Photonics Benelux 2014

In: News 27 Oct 2014

The 19th Annual Symposium of the IEEE Photonics Benelux Chapter is held this year on the 3-4th November in Enschede, The Netherlands, and organized by the local committee of the MESA+ Institute at University of Twente (UT).

VLC Photonics’s founder Pascual Muñoz will be attending the meeting and giving the invited talk “Integrated Microwave Photonics”. If you would like to talk to him or arrange a meeting at the event, please write an email to pascual.munoz(at)vlcphotonics.com.

European Microwave Week 2014

In: News 05 Sep 2014

The European Microwave Week is a large conference and exhibit that encompass a wide range of subject areas including wireless and optical telecommunication technologies for microwave, millimetre-wave and submillimetre-wave systems, antennas, ICs, Radar or sensors. EuMW 2014 will be held during 5-10th October in Rome, Italy, gathering an estimated 1700-2000 conference delegates, over 5000 visitors and in excess of 250 exhibitors.

VLC Photonics’s founder Jose Capmany will be attending EuMW 2014 and presenting the talk “General Purpose Integrated Microwave Photonic Processors” on Friday 10th at 11:20 at the “Photonics for RADAR Systems” workshop. If you would like to talk to him or arrange a meeting at the event, please write an email to jose.capmany(at)vlcphotonics.com.

ECOC 2014

In: News 02 Sep 2014

The European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC 2014) is the largest conference on optical communication in Europe, and one of the most prestigious and long-standing events in this field. ECOC 2014 will be the 40th edition, to be held in Cannes, France, during 21-25th September 2014.

VLC Photonics’s founders Pascual Muñoz and Jose Capmany will be attending ECOC 2014 and participating in several workshops. If you would like to talk to them or arrange a meeting at the event, please write an email to pascual.munoz(at)vlcphotonics.com and jose.capmany(at)vlcphotonics.com.