Jan 22 2007
Nanosemiconductor, a leader in the development and commercialization of Quantum Dot semiconductor laser technology, today announced its new company name ‘Innolume’, and a number of additions to its management team to develop silicon photonics at its new premises in Santa Clara, California.
"This addition of world leading experts in silicon photonic technology, together with the recent purchase of a competing developer of Quantum Dot technology, Zia Lasers in New Mexico, will significantly augment our capability to meet the needs of the emerging optical interconnect market with our innovative solutions for high volume silicon chip manufactures. To reflect these new capabilities, we have also changed our name to 'Innolume' ", said Juergen Kurb, CEO of Innolume.
Dr. Larry West, who joins Innolume as CTO Silicon Photonics to lead the technology development in Santa Clara, commented, "We believe that silicon photonics technology is the optimal solution for optical interconnection between silicon chips as bandwidth requirements rapidly grow in the future. The time for market entry clearly depends on cost – this is driven by the cost of laser sources and their integration. Innolume, with its proprietary Quantum Dot laser technology, is uniquely positioned to deliver silicon photonic interconnect at the right price point sooner than others”. Also joining the team are Dr. Andreas Goebel as VP Photonics Integration and Dr. Gregory Wojcik as VP Engineering.
Innolume will maintain development of Quantum Dot laser technology in Dortmund, Germany with the current production of QD epitaxial wafers being augmented by the recent completion of full laser fabrication facilities including device processing and packaging.
“In addition to optical interconnect, we remain firmly committed to meeting the needs of current laser applications by offering a broad product portfolio leveraging the unique properties of quantum dot technology - especially in the wavelength range between 1.1 and 1.3 micrometers, which is unattainable with conventional quantum well technology” said Dr. Alexey Kovsh, CTO Laser Technology, at Innolume.