OIDA Membership Update

OIDA News - December 2007

 

Welcome to New OIDA Associate and University Affiliate Members

OIDA has added the following seven new members since our last newsletter, bringing OIDA membership to historic levels.

 

• Luxtera (http://www.luxtera.com) developed a Silicon Photonics technology platform that enables a new breed of monolithic opto-electronic devices manufactured in a low cost CMOS process. Its vision is to deliver economic optical connectivity everywhere, from network level to intra-system level, and eventually chip-to-chip. Today, the com-pany is applying this technology to single chip transceiver products that aim to deliver optical performance at cost points associated with legacy copper solutions.

 

• Lumera (http://www.lumera.com) was founded in October of 2000 to develop high-performance optical network components using electro-optic polymer materials. As the company progressed, Lumera was able to get initial funding which eventually led to a successful IPO in July of 2004. Today, Lumera is a company of about 60 people – one third of whom are PhDs – and has intellectual property consisting of over 70 patents.

 

• Fraunhofer’s Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (http://www.hhi.fraunhofer.de/english). Innova-tions for the digital future are at the heart of research and development work carried out by the HHI. The Institute is concentrated to develop the principles of information tech-nology and to demonstrate new applications for new products in partnership with the in-dustry. The core competencies of HHI are in the areas of Photonic Networks and Systems, Mobile Broadband Systems, Photonic Components and Electronic Imaging.

• Lamina (http://www.laminaceramics.com) was founded in 2001 and defines the state of technology in the development and manufacture of super-bright LED light engines. The company's leading edge LED packaging technology and design, and its proprietary multi-layer ceramic on metal packaging solution provides unsurpassed thermal management and interconnectivity. Lamina's technology emerged from 12 years of research and de-velopment at the Sarnoff Corporation.

 

• Veeco Instruments (http://www.veeco.com) provides the tools to make, measure and visualize today's world-changing technologies. From data storage, semiconductor, LED, and wireless to the frontiers of life science, materials science and nanotechnology, Veeco drives the tiny changes that change everything.

 

• Arizona State University’s Center for Nanophotonics (http://www.asu.edu/aine/nanophotonics.htm) gathers a large group of faculty members from various disciplines to foster new ideas and to carry out collaborative research with enhanced inspiration. It integrates a broad spectrum of research topics ranging from fun-damental study of photon-matter interactions to practical optical sensors for medical and biological applications. The center coherently merges education and research by embed-ding one in the other.

• Mintera Corporation (http://www.mintera.com) is a global leader in high speed trans-mission systems. Mintera’s solutions enable easy deployment of next generation 40 Gbps optical transport in metro-core, regional, long- haul and ultra long-haul optical networks. With products ready for deployment today, we are the company to turn to when you need help implementing 40 Gigabit per second (Gbps) solutions.