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Photonics Briefing #9
Integrated Photonics
April 25, 2001
Boston University Photonics Center, Boston, MA
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Chairman: TBA
Integrated Photonics
Photonics Briefing Objective
Over the past several years, there has been a great deal of interest from the research standpoint in "optical integrated circuits" similar to "semiconductor integrated circuits." However, there was no market driving the technology. Now, with the overdemand in the optical networks business, there is an actual need to increase production. One method is to improve the automation of discrete components which has several limitations including the heavy need for manpower. The second approach is to integrate the discrete functions onto a single chip with the goal of integrating as many optical functions as possible on the same substrate. Optical integration offers many advantages over automating existing manual processes in the form of higher yield, consistent quality, higher production volumes, less people and lower cost to name a few.
The objective of the Photonics Briefing on "Integrated photonics" will be to explore the market and technologies for "photonics integration." There are many material possibilities for manufacturing "integrated photonics" such as InP, Silica, GaAs, LN and polymers. The advantages, disadvantages and applications of each will be presented as well as presentations by several start-ups that are using different approaches.
Busy executives from the telecommunications service and manufacturing sectors will be able to assess in one highly focused day the present state-of-the-art of the "integrated photonics" business markets, technologies and applications.
Who should be interested:
Executives from the following companies
- CLECs
- Component Suppliers
- Competitive Local exchange carriers
- Long Distance Carriers
- Telephone Companies
- Systems Suppliers
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- Entrepreneurs
- Consultants
- Venture Capitalists
- Investors
- CATV Companies
- Integrated Service
- Providers
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- Overview of Optical Networks and Integrated Photonics Markets -
Dr. Paul Polishuk, President and CEO, IGI Consulting
- Overview of Integrated Photonics -
Louay Eldada, CTO, Vice-Chairman, Telephotonics Inc.
- Lithium Niobate Planar Waveguide Integrated Photonics -
Jeff Schoenwald, Lynx Photonics Networks
- Polymer Integrated Photonics -
Louay Eldada, CTO, Vice-Chairman, Telephotonics Inc.
- Silicon Integrated Photonics Circuits -
Steffen Koehler, Marketing Director, Kymata
- InP Integrated Photonics -
Dave Freihofer, Director of Marketing, Telephotonics Inc.
Photonics Center at Boston University
The Photonics Center was launched by Boston University in 1994 as a new model for university-industry collaboration. The Center accelerates the development of new products and companies enabled by emerging photonics technologies, from both within and outside Boston University, by forging business partnerships with new and existing companies. It has created an infrastructure that provides its partners access to seventeen fully permitted laboratories containing more than $25 million in state-of-the-art capital equipment in an $85 million, fully-permitted facility. Partners also have access to a full-time technical staff, and the expertise of more than 50 affiliated faculty with a wide range of technical and business expertise. The Photonics Centers combined education, research, and commercialization mission positions it to anticipate the impact and timing of photonics technologies on major markets such as telecommunications.
BU Photonics Center
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