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

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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.