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appointment of Trevor Ness as Vice President of Asian Operations.
With the hiring of Ness, IPG seeks to continue the Company’s momentum, accelerate growth and expand its geographic reach in the region. The Asian market has become increasingly important to IPG, representing 42% of its total revenue in the first three quarters of 2010.
Nesshas a wealth of management experience in the laser and photonics field. Working out of IPG’s Beijing facility, he will support IPG’s growth momentum in Asia, and build the Company’s business across the region. Trevor Ness joins IPG with more than 15 years of experience in Asia working with lasers and precision motion technologies in positions spanning sales, service and operations. Prior to joining IPG, he was the Director of GSI Precision Technologies China, a part of GSI Group.
“Trevor’s appointment as VP of Asian Operations marks the beginning of an enhanced corporate presence for IPG in Asia,” stated Chairman and CEO Valentin P. Gapontsev. “Asia sales have grown rapidly and we have made an important decision to establish a corporate presence in Asia. As head of the newly opened Asian corporate office, Trevor will be working with our country managers to ensure we capitalize on the existing opportunities in Asia and continue to leverage IPG’s strong competitive position with fiber lasers.”
Nesssaid, “The Asian markets continue to offer significant growth potential. IPG’s fiber lasers have superior beam quality, higher electrical efficiency and lower maintenance costs than other laser sources. The dramatically lower costs of ownership will aid our continued growth in Asia. I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work with IPG’s talented and highly engaged team in the region.”
VI Systems Completes National Project on 40 Gbit/s VCSEL Components
The small size and power consumption levels of the new GaAs based prototype modules allows their integration into QSFP transceivers with Serializer / De-serializer (SerDes ) ICs.
German firm, VI Systems has successfully completed a local research project funded by the German bank IBB in Berlin. The project´s aim is to produce ultrahigh-speed vertical cavity surface emitting laser-based optical transmitters and PIN photodetector (PD) receivers for up to 40 Gbit/s short reach data transmission.
VI Systems GmbH, a leader in ultrahigh speed engines for data and telecommunications reported the successful realization of the challenging goals of the “HiTrans Project” that was supported and managed by one of the major banks in Berlin (IBB).
In this project VI Systems coordinated and led the efforts to develop serial 40 Gbit/s fiber-coupled small form-factor TO-can receiver and transmitter modules including several related electro-optic components.
The research consortium included national and international companies with particular expertise in their technical fields: one of Europe’s leading GaAs epi-wafer foundries, a leading foundry for silicon- germanium-based BiCMOS integrated circuits, a high volume manufacturing partner with expertise in flip-chip and wire bonding process steps, and the German technical universities of Berlin (TUB) and Dresden TUD)
Within the project driver integrated circuits (ICs) for current or electro-optically modulated lasers, and limiting transimpedance amplifier ICs for the PDs have been developed and prototyped. High frequency (40 GHz) transmitter and receiver packaging (TO-can form factor) based on the proprietary integrated-packaging approach of VI Systems for flip-chip and wirebond sub-assemblies was completed.
The characterization of data transmission at ultrahigh data bit rates by using the latest high
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