NEWS REVIEW
TeraXion and Canadia unite on InP telecom research
TERAXION, a designer and manufacturer of optical components and modules, and the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) have formed a strategic partnership.
This will lead to the development and fabrication of TeraXion’s new modulator products family and covers its next- generation InP high-speed modulators for coherent transmission systems at 100 Gb/s and beyond. Work will take place at NRC’s Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre in Ottawa. “Today’s announcement is another important milestone supporting our strategy for
rapidly delivering state-of-the-art high- speed modulators to our customers,” says lain-Jacques Simard, President and CEO of TeraXion Inc. “The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre’s proven track record for bringing products to a commercialization level has been a key factor in our decision to rely on this partner”.
“We are proud of this partnership with TeraXion and believe that combining our world-class process capabilities along with TeraXion’s design expertise will deliver results in the marketplace,” continues François Cordeau, General Manager of the Information and Communications Technologies portfolio at the National Research Council of Canada.
“The new modulator concept will use a proprietary design to achieve world record low power consumption as well as reaching very high modulation speeds necessary for 100 Gb/s and above transmission,” adds Ian Woods, Vice-President InP Platform at TeraXion Inc. “In addition, the form factor of this modulator will be ten times smaller than
the competing technologies available today. The new modulator design takes advantage of the unique process capabilities existing at the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre,” explained Frank Shepherd, the Centre’s Technical Manager.
TeraXion’s team has previously demonstrated qualified products and so have a strong pedigree and credibility when it comes to modulator product development. Among the catalysts for this TeraXion-NRC partnership are the close geographical location of both partners and the strong photonic eco- system present in the Ottawa region which will contribute to forging a strong and highly effective partnership. TeraXion designs, manufactures and markets optical components and modules for high-speed fibre-optic transmission networks, fibre lasers and optical sensing applications. The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre provides engineering and manufacturing services, commercial grade prototyping and pilot- run production facilities for III-V semiconductors.
Kyma’s AlN template production ramps up
KYMA TECHNOLOGIES has provided an update on its AlN template manufacturing capability.
The company is a domestic supplier of crystalline GaN and AlN template materials, as well as bulk GaN substrates.
Most of these products are fabricated beginning using Kyma’s patent protected plasma vapour deposition of nanocolumns (PVDNC) crystal growth process which is implemented on Kyma’s patented and proprietary PVDNC crystal growth tools.
The AlN templates are produced both for commercial sale and for use internally for fabricating GaN templates, bulk GaN substrates, and related products.
Until 2011 Kyma’s PVDNC effort relied on early-generation PVDNC crystal growth
tools which were especially useful for the company’s R&D stage but were not designed for high volumes.
To keep up with growing demand for Kyma’s AlN and GaN products and the growing interest in larger diameter products, in 2011 Kyma designed and built their first PVDNC production tool which featured a larger diameter platter and much faster growth cycle time.
Related company announcements made in 2011 and 2012 include those of 1) the expansion of AlN template manufacturing capacity, 2) the demonstration of a 12” AlN on silicon template, and 3) the demonstration of a 10” AlN on sapphire template.
Primary applications for Kyma’s AlN templates are for visible LEDs and power switching electronics. Recently demand
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has also grown for ultra-violet (UV) LED applications. Customers are interested in both AlN on sapphire and AlN on silicon for the LED applications; power electronics customers are focused mostly on AlN on silicon.
Ed Preble, Kyma’s Chief Marketing Officer, and Tamara Stephenson, Kyma’s Technical Sales Engineer, just completed a sales and marketing trip in the Asian Pacific focusing on application of Kyma’s materials for LED applications.
Preble notes, “Over the past two weeks we were told by multiple customers in multiple nations that we have by far the best AlN templates on the market. Such customer input validates our PVDNC process as the technology of choice for creating a high quality nucleation surface for our customers’ device wafer epitaxy processes.”
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