Photonics Integrated Circuits Value ChainThis document is divided in two parts: (1) Classification of companies along the PIC value chain, and (2) Short description of each company. The purpose is to have a better understanding of the actors along the PIC value chain. Please send any corrections, improvements, suggestions to carlos.lee@epic-assoc.com – this document was updated 2 May 2015. For the latest version and for more information, please visit www.epic-assoc.com/technology/photonic-integrated-circuits

* Silicon Photonics # 3-5 Materials & Both

SoftwarePhoenix, Lumerical, Photon Design, Luceda, CST, VPI, Synopsis, Mentor Graphics, Optowave, Cadence, Keysight

DesignVLC, Bright Photonics, Luceda, Gtran

Materias - Glue, Gases, Chemicals, …SABIC

Materials - WafersSoitec*, IQE#, Sumika, Intelli Epi, VPEC, Landmark, Epiworks, Impact, AXT, JX Nippon Mining

Materials - PCBVario Optics

FoundryInfinera, SMART Photonics#, Oclaro#, HHI#, imec*, LETI*, IHP*, A-STAR, Global Foundries, Freescale, ST Microelectronics*, LioniX, VTT*, CST, CPFC, GCS

FablessEblana

CharacterizationUniversities, VLC

Packaging ServiceTechnobis IPPS, Optocap, Aifotec, Gtran, Linkra, Chiral Optics, XiO Photonics, Bay Photonics,

Packaging & Assembly EquipmentficonTEC, Nanosystec, Finetech, AEI Boston

Manufacturing EquipmentPI, EVG, Multiphoton Optics, Suss MicroTec, SET, Fiberpro, Oxford Instruments, Sentech

Test Service

Test EquipmentYelo, Newport, Tektronix, PI

Component - passive & active optical componentsOclaro, Vertilas, Effect Photonics, Alight, Optoscribe, Suss MicroOptics, …

ComponentAurrion, Luxtera, CIP (Huawei), Caliopa# (Huawei), Source Photonics, Avago, BrPhotonics#, Skorpios, Finisar*, Opnext, BB Photonics, JDSU, Avago

System IntegrationBosch, NXP, TE Connectivity, Molex, Mellanox, Samtec, Aeponyx

System Integration CommunicationIBM, Intel, HP, Alcatel-Lucent, Infinera

System Integration OtherTechnobis tft, SATRAX, (OCT companies, terahertz companies, …)

RoutersCiena, Huawei, Coriant, Adva, Bull

Application: Web 2.0Google, BT, Facebook, Deutsche Telekom, Microsoft

Application

SystemsCisco, Juniper

USA UniversitiesUCSB, IMIT, Columbia University, UCLA, UC Berkeley, GeorgiaTech

???AT&T, Verizon, Ericsson, Amicra, Corning, Fujitsu, NE, Innolume, Teraxion, BASF

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ADVA Optical Networking is a major player in the global network connectivity market providing innovative networking solutions based on Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) technology and Ethernet-optimized transport and aggregation technology. ADVA’s FSP 150 Ethernet access solution enables delivery of MEF-certified Carrier Ethernet services and its scalable optical transport products are built on Optical+Ethernet foundation that ensures unhindered future-proof data transport. ADVA’s solutions for high-speed data, storage, voice and video services have been used by hundreds of service providers and thousands of enterprises worldwide for the last 20 years. www.advaoptical.com

Automation Engineering Incorporated (AEi) has been developing, manufacturing, and offering flexible automation systems for 25 years. AEi is one of the recognized leader in PMAT (photonics module alignment and test machines) and Active Alignment camera module assembly and test systems (CMAT). AEi’s PMAT systems are used to provide precision production, assembly and testing of opto-electronics or photonics packages. Markets covered by AEi’s systems include automotive, mobile, computational, gesture recognition, 3-D, security and medical camera. AEi maintains operations in North America, Europe as well as Asia. www.aeiboston.com

AEPONYX is a telecommunications equipment manufacturer and solutions provider based in North America dedicated to helping operators of fibre optic networks capitalize on advances in networking technology. AEPONYX specializes in providing WDM-PON technology intended for various applications, including Telco-Grade Carrier Ethernet Access, Business to Private Cloud Connectivity, Wireless Cloud RAN Fronthaul, DWDM Data Center Interconnection, and Passive Optical Distribution for GPON OLT. AEPONYX also uses DWDM muxpanels with SFPs, XFPs and SFP+ to fully enable passive DWDM interconnection between data centers. AEPONYX WDM-PON systems can accommodate 40 circuits of 10 Gbps to share the same pair of dark fiber over true passive distances of up to 80 km at 10 Gbps and up to 200 km on 2.5 Gbps channels. www.aeponyx.com

Aifotec offers significant and industry-proven experience in a variety of Photonic Development Services and Photonic Manufacturing Services as used in today’s CMOS photonics applications. Aifotec’s Hybrid Integration Technology experience allows packaging solutions across leading-edge process benches, such as glass, ceramic, polymer and silicon, using either laser bonding as well as different gluing technologies. In addition to this know-how, Aifotec provides the equipment for the handling as well as

packaging of material from single-die attachment, flip-chip on 6 to 8 inch wafers and pigtailed optical subassemblies. www.aifotec.com

Alcatel-Lucent is recognized as a top IP networking, ultra-broadband access, and cloud technology provider in the world. Founded in 2006, Alcatel-Lucent has a 50,000-plus strong workforce that operates in more than 130 nations, addressing various networking needs of service providers, industrial establishments and even governmental institutions. The company's main operating segments include IP Routing, IP Transport, and IP Platforms. Alcatal-Lucent is also active in communications research and development, which is carried out by its subsidiary Bell Laboratories. www.alcatel-lucent.com

Alight Technologies is a designer and developer of 1300nm Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs). Alight also patented a Photonic BandGap (PBG) technology which it has incorporated to its VCSEL platform that is under development. Its 1300nm VCSEL is expected to have 10.3125 Gbps modulation speed and is primarily intended to be used in applications for datacom and telecom markets, including LAN, optical interconnects, storage area networks as well as fiber telecom access networks. Alight’s PBG technology is generic and may be licensed for use in various applications, such as, printing, sensing, passive optical fiber and consumer electronic applications. The company is open to forging partnerships to develop its patented PBG technology for other applications outside the telecommunication and datacom markets. www.alight.dk

AMICRA Microtechnologies provides cutting-edge microelectronic solutions. The Regensburg, Germany based company manufactures high-precision die bonders and flip chip bonders, wafer inking systems, dispensing and test systems for various microelectronics applications. Amicra’s also produces active optical cable, fan-out, TSV, TCB, process development, semiconductor backend, fiber optic, LED, optoelectronics and MEMS. Amicra has a team of experienced and expert technical and manufacturing professionals that develops advanced micro assembly solutions with focus on 3D construction, concept development, software development, development of prototype systems, precision assembly, process development and process production transfer, process vision systems, image processing systems, customized machine controls, and sampling and small volume production. Through its widespread sales network, Amicra’s products are distributed not only in Europe but also throughout the US and Asia. www.amicra.com

AMO is a research service provider for nanofabrication with focused research & development, prototyping and contract manufacturing. AMO offers the entire infrastructure required for nanofabrication for semiconductor based applications and related technologies. AMO competences are nanofabrication, nanoelectronics, nanophotonics and biotechnology. Within many technical fields the employment of nanotechnology is enabling crucial improvements in product properties: Microelectronics is migrating to nanoelectronics and is creating largest storage densities and processor power – in the long term up to quantum devices. Thanks to new nanomaterials and manufacturing methods, integrated optics is developing into nanophotonics with the prospect of fast ”on chip“ optical data processing and the reduction of manufacturing costs. Nanostructures can now be manufactured in the size of biomolecules, thereby opening the possibility of highly exact analytical methods and the coupling of electronics with the biological world. The key to enter the nanocosm is the production technology for smallest structures. AMO’s tools are electrons, photons and economical printing processes (nanoimprint). www.amo.de

A-Star Photonics is specialist in the field of Projection Display Optical Elements, Crystals Material, Precision Optics & Optical Communication Components. Based in China, A-Star's main lines of production are Flat, Spherical, Crystal and Coating workshop, which it provides to clients primarily in North America, Europe, Israel, Japan and Korea. Products provided by A-Star include BBO/LBO NLO crystals,YVO4 crystal, ND:YVO4 laser chip, LN Wedge,KTP+ND:YVO4(DPM); Wave plates, High-accuracy Windows, High-precision Prism, Glan Polarizer Prism, Polarizing Beamsplitters, NPBS, Laser Mirrors & Filters; High-precision Lenses, Plano Convex and Plano Concave Lens, C-Lens, D-Lens, G-Lens, & Fiber Pigtail. www.astarphotonics.com

AT&T is an American telecommunications company providing fixed phone, mobile phone, high-speed internet, next-generation TV and security services as well as telecommunications equipment to residential and business customers. Its 120 million wireless subscribers in the US receive reliable signal through its 4G LTE network. AT&T is also leading innovations in networking through its AT&T Labs which undertakes research and development of advances in big analytics, cloud services, intelligent systems, and networking and service quality management. The company’s commitment to innovation is truly remarkable as it has been issued about one patent daily in 2014 and has been issued over 10,000 patents throughout the globe. www.att.com

Aurrion is a leader in heterogeneous integration for silicon photonic integrated circuits (PICs). A cutting-edge integrated photonic device, Aurrion's hybrid silicon photon integration platform unites photonics and silicon based microsystems, enabling advances by leveraging the capability and low cost of silicon IC manufacturing yet retaining the performance of advanced non-silicon materials and providing a connection between traditional III-V materials used for photonics and silicon in CMOS compatible platform. The Santa Barbara, CA company is now collaborating with system integrators in order to produce systems on chips able to deliver massive ( >10x) reduction in size and weight over discretely implemented designs while providing improved power, cost, and reliability by eliminating unnecessary packaging and optical connections. www.aurrion.com

Avago Technologies designs, develops and supplies a wide variety of analog, digital, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems with a focus in III-V compound and CMOS based semiconductor design and processing. Avago's market include wireless communications, enterprise storage, wired infrastructure, and industrial. Avago fiber optic modules are available in various form factors, including SFP/SFP+, QSFP+, CFP2, CXP, MiniPOD™ and MicroPOD™. The company's optical components compose of lasers, detectors, transmitters, receivers, and modulators in various package options utilizing proprietary Indium Phosphide (InP) optical chip and packaging technologies. www.avagotech.com

AXT, Inc. is a designer, developer, manufacturer and distributor of high-performance compound and single element semiconductor substrates comprising gallium arsenide, indium phosphide and germanium. The company's products is used to fabricate integrated circuits for electronic systems that operate the latest fiber optic communications, wireless communications and lighting display applications. Clients of AXT include manufacturers of LEDs, electronic devices for switches and power amplifiers, and laser diodes. AXT is noted for pioneering VGF technology's commercialization more than two decades ago and has maintained its leadership in innovation. Currently, AXT is the only manufacturer that produces germanium substrates using VGF technology. AXT's manufacturing operations is carried out in its main facilities in Beijing, China but its headquarters is in Fremont, CA. www.axt.com

BASF is a chemical producer based in Ludwigshafen, Germany. Known as one of the biggest chemical companies in the world, BASF also offers various solutions for the electronics industry that are applied in various areas and technologies, such as, display, photovoltaics, solid state lighting, communications, computers, consumer electronics, smart wearable devices and quantum dot display. BASF, for instance, offers a number of solutions for the semiconductor processes including cleaning, etching, photolithography, chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), and wet deposition. www.basf.com

BB Photonics provides photonic integrated components for high speed data networks that employs a platform technology approach. The company was recently founded in 2014, but its objectives are clear: to develop cost-effective high-speed communication through integrated photonics that will increase efficiency, minimize power, size and deliver needed functionality to optoelectronic devices. The platform approach to the integration of photonics functions BB Photonics is currently developing can be used for various material systems to enable both routing and O/E conversion. Such technology may also be applied to wavelength multiplexing and de-multiplexing and signal routing in both vertical and horizontal directions. www.bbphotonics.com

BRIGHT Photonics is a design house for Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) and, together with its partners, is leading the European development in making PICs accessible to (small) businesses, research institutes and universities. The company typically operate as an intermediate company between foundry services and product developers. In addition to full design services, Bright Photonics can support you with advanced photonics libraries in technologies such as InP, SoI, Triplex, glass and polymers. Photonics ICs offer solutions for applications such as Interferometric devices, Transmitters & Receivers (FM, OOK, QAM,), Structural & Medical Sensing (FBG, Raman, Brillouin), Datacom & Telecom (WLAN, LAN, FTTH, WDM, OCDMA,). Contact Bright Photonics for understanding what PICs can do for your product or research. They offer Feasibility, Packaged prototypes, Design layout (libraries and support), and Product-development support and simulations. www.brightphotonics.eu

BrPhotonics Produtos Optoeletrônicos is a Brazil-based provider of advanced high-speed compoments for optical communications. Ownership of the company is split between CPqD and GigOptix. CPqD is an independent research institution in Brazil concentrating on innovation in information and communication technologies (ICTs). GigOptix is one of the foremost suppliers of high-speed semiconductor components for end-to-end information streaming over optical and wireless networks. Last 2014, BrPhotonics demonstrated at OFC2014 its 100Gbps integrated TOSA reference platform for CFP2 transceivers. www.brphotonics.com

The Bosch Group is a global supplier of technology and services, active in the fields of automotive technology, energy and building technology, industrial technology, and consumer goods. According to preliminary figures, more than 306,000 associates generated sales of 52.3 billion Euros in 2012. The Bosch Group comprises of Robert Bosch GmbH and its more than 350 subsidiaries and regional companies in some 60 countries. This worldwide development, manufacturing, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. Bosch spent some 4.5 billion Euros for research and development in 2012, and applied for more than 4,700 patents worldwide. Bosch has several photonics based systems and devices in the market, and the corresponding research and development competences available. The most prominent Bosch products are CCTV vision systems, automotive instrumentation systems, camera based sensors for automotive driver assistance, and optical distance measurement systems. www.bosch.com

Bull is a brand of Atos SE, a multinational IT services company based in France. Bull has a specialized role within Atos. Bull's products include supercomputers, cybersecurity solutions and business servers. Its bullion server is based on a reliable, powerful thus modular architecture – from two and 16 Intel® Xeon® E7 v2 processors and up to 24TB of memory – which allows it to address extreme demands. Bull's Exascale project aims at forging the bridge between HPC, Big Data and Security (including Cyber Security and Missions Critical Systems) to build computers that can process one billion billion operations per second, rivaling the complexity of the human brain. http://atos.net www.bull.com

BT Group is a leading telecom company based in London that provides communications services to the UK and to about 170 countries. BT's core activities include providing fixed-line services, broadband, mobile and TV products/services and networked IT services. Through its Technology, Service & Operations (TSO) unit, BT manages voice, data and TV networks and IT applications as well as designs and delivers large-scale global managed network services. www.btplc.com

Cadence offers EDA and semiconductor IP. Custom/analog tools by Cadence provide an invaluable tool that assist engineers in designing transistors, standard cells, and IP blocks that compose Systems-on-chips (SoCs). Cadence also offers digital tools that help in the automation of designing and verification of giga-scale, giga-hertz SoCs at the latest semiconductor processing nodes. The company's IP packaging and PCB tools allow designing of entire boards and subsystems. Cadence also offers the following: portfolio of design IP and verification IP for memories, interface protocols, analog/mixed-signal components, and specialized processors, and an integrated suite of hardware/software co-development platforms. www.cadence.com

Caliopa is a spin-off company from the Photonics Research Group of imec and Ghent University founded in 2010. It develops and markets silicon photonics based optical transceivers for the data and telecommunications markets. It was acquired by Huawei in August 2013. www.caliopa.com

Leti is an institute of CEA, a French research-and-technology organization with activities in energy, IT, healthcare, defence and security. Leti specializes in nanotechnologies and their applications, from wireless devices and systems, to biology, healthcare and photonics. NEMS and MEMS are at the core of its activities. In addition to Leti’s 1,700 employees, there are more than 250 students involved in research activities, which makes Leti a mainspring of innovation expertise. Leti’s portfolio of 1,880 families of patents helps strengthen the competitiveness of its industrial partners. www.leti.fr

Ciena is a communications network equipment and solutions manufacturer that specialises in optical and Ethernet networking, particularly Packet-Optical Transport, Packet-Optical Switching, Carrier Ethernet, and Network Support Services. Cienna's solutions are used throughout the globe by leading carriers and providers, including, AT&T, France Telecom, Korea Telecom, Tata Communications, and Telecom Argentina. Research as well as educational and healthcare institutions have also sought Cienna's range of network solutions. Ciena incorporates software-programmable hardware with common operating system plus unified service and transport management in order to enable clients to adapt and scale with changes. www.ciena.com

CIP Technologies develops optoelectronic technology for ICT applications. The company has design and fabrication capabilities for Indium Phosphide, Silica planar and hybrid integrated optical devices. In January 2012, CIP became a wholly owned subsidiary of Huawei Technologies Ltd. www.huawei.com

Chiral Photonics is a developer, producer and seller of high-performance fiber-based optical components, such as, polarizers, linear and circular; interconnects, enabling direct fiber-to-chip (waveguide) coupling and the ability to maintain polarization; and fiber optic sensors, including harsh environment temperature sensors that can withstand 1000 °C. Chiral Photonics was created in 1999 after its founders' discovery of lasing in cholesteric liquid crystals. The company is producing and developing devices through its unique glass microforming capabilities and its pioneering activities

related to chiral fiber gratings and polarization control within fibers. Chiral Photonics' devices are formed directly within fibers and are as powerful as the fibers themselves, enabling them to endure the most exacting applications and standards (e.g. Telcordia standards). www.chiralphotonics.com

Cisco Systems is a leading designer, manufacturer and seller of networking equipment. Cisco's hardware and software systems help form Internet solutions that enable accessible networking. As a recognized world leader in IT, Cisco has a 65,000 strong global workforce that helps in the continuance of the company's initial commitment to innovation. Cisco is active in development of routing and switching solutions, home networking, IP telephony, optical networking, security, storage area networking, and wireless technology. www.cisco.com

CMC Microsystems works with leading suppliers in both commercial and academic environments to provide support for the entire design, make, and test cycle – from design, layout and verification to prototype fabrication and characterization. Photonic manufacturing includes III-V epitaxy and processing on GaAs and InP substrates and SOI-based silicon photonic technologies. CMC also offers packaging and assembly services to integrate multiple technologies. CMC Microsystems enables access to industrial-class technologies for designing, prototyping and testing microfabricated devices, circuits and systems, and supports multi-sectoral use of advanced technologies where advantage can be gained from integrated microsystems. www.cmc.ca

COBRA, founded in 1994, is the Inter-University Research School on Communication Technologies Basic Research and Applications. In COBRA, research groups from the disciplines of physics, electrical engineering and chemistry from Eindhoven University of Technology and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in The Netherlands come together, combining their efforts in education and research. The activities range from basic research in physics on novel materials and devices to research on communication systems and system applications. w3.ele.tue.nl/en/cobra/home

Columbia University Lightwave Research Laboratory is a research group that investigates the realization of dynamic optical data routing in transparent optical interconnection networks, developing potentially disruptive technology solutions with ultra-high throughput, minimal access latencies, and low power dissipation that remains independent of data capacity, ultimately capitalizing on the enormous bandwidth advantage enabled by dense wavelength division multiplexing. The research group is headed by Professor Keren Bergman and has a partnership with various institutions and agencies. lightwave.ee.columbia.edu

Corning manufactures glass, ceramics, and similar materials, mainly for application in the scientific and industrial settings. The products of Corning are essential in enabling a broad range of industries, including transportation, consumer electronics, telecommunications as well as the life sciences. Among Corning's main products are optical fiber, wireless technologies, and solutions connectivity for high-speed communications networks. Corning is known for pioneering commercialization of low-loss optical fiber back in 1970 and has continued its passion for R&D to come up with innovative products. www.corning.com

Coriant is a leader in the supply of dynamic metro-to-core transport solutions. Founded as an independent company in 2013, Coriant has a global presence spread through 48 countries and services 90 per cent of the 50 biggest service providers in the world and more than 500 clients worldwide. Coriant's packet optical, edge router and Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions allow mobile and fixed line operators to decrease network complexity, increase service velocity, and improve resource utilization as transport networks scale in response to a new generation of high-bandwidth services and applications. www.coriant.com

The Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre (CPFC) fabricates devices in a wide range of materials. CPFC, which is one of the programs of the National Research Council (NRC) of Canada, also provides single-step foundry services or end-to-end fabrication of photonic devices, photonic integrated circuits and gallium nitride electronics. Among the technical offerings of CPFC are foundry services, design and modelling, and test and characterization. The centre has a 40,000 square foot facility with 11,000 square feet of class 1000/100 clean room space. http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca

Computer Simulation Technology (CST) develops high-performance software for the simulation of electromagnetic fields in all frequency bands. CST serves a broad spectrum of industries among which are Telecommunications, Defense, Automotive, Electronics, and Medical Equipment. Solutions delivered by CST are able to suit various electromagnetic design tasks and can simulate many components and systems. Devices that products of CST have been used to simulate include couplers, filters, connectors,

antennas, inductors, capacitors, PCBs, waveguides, travelling wave tubes, optical devices, sensors, actuators, electrical machines, SAR, MRI coils and cable harnesses. www.cst.com

DAS Photonics is a spin-off company from the Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Center at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia in Spain. DAS develops innovative products using proprietary photonics technology for several high-performance industries (Defence and security, Avionics/Aeronautics, Space, Telecom). DAS Photonics leads product development using a double approach: designing photonics integrated circuits (PICs - chips that process optical signals) as well as integrating COTS devices and devices built by DAS for specific uses (microwave photonic systems, optical interconnects, etc.). Nearly two decades of university research experience - combined with the ability to handle highly specialised product development - has enabled DAS Photonics to establish a leading role in Europe. www.dasphotonics.com

Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company based in Germany. As one of Europe's leading telcos, Deutsche Telekom provides fixed-network/broadband, mobile communications, Internet, and IPTV products and services for consumers, and information and communication technology (ICT) solutions. It has representations in more than 50 countries and employs 228,000 staff worldwide. Known for its dedication to innovation, Deutsche Telekom is also focused on the development of Web 2.0 solutions. www.telekom.com

Eblana Photonics is a designer and manufacturer of single wavelength DFB-like Laser Diodes. Eblana’s products are applied mainly in Optical Sensing, Metrology and Communications, from 689 - 2150nm. Eblana's single mode diode lasers exhibit superior linewidth properties. Among the areas of concentration of Eblana are the following: deliver advanced lasers for communications, sensing & measurement; enable new volume markets through mass deployment of disruptive technology; utilize their versatile technology to provide quickly complete custom solutions; and to invest in research and development. www.eblanaphotonics.com

EFFECT Photonics provides highly integrated optical communications solutions based on its Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) optical System-on-Chip technology. EFFECT Photonics was formed as a spin-off of COBRA. The company's highly integrated optical products are used to create efficient laser light sources, waveguides, modulators, and photodiodes applied in optical communication systems worldwide. http://effectphotonics.nl

EpiWorks is a provider of advanced III-V epitaxial wafers that are tailored for optimal performance in multiple next generation applications. The epitaxial devices offered by EpiWorks are essential to enable higher performance photonic and RF components for semiconductor-reliant products, such as, tablets, smartphones, datacenters, displays and fiberoptic networks. In addition, EpiWorks is a next-generation semiconductor technology and manufacturing company that brings expertise with epitaxy, device design, and manufacturing in a single operating unit. EpiWorks is also active in research and development, particularly in development of new materials, deposition technology, device technology and fabrication solutions. www.epiworks.com

Ericsson is a leading communications technology company based in Sweden providing equipment, software and services to enable transformation through mobility. With a presence in 180 countries, Ericsson has a truly global presence supplying networks for about 40 per cent of the world's mobile traffic. Ericsson is also a powerhouse in the development and deployment of LTE systems and has been researching solutions for GSM, WCDMA, and CDMA. Other areas in networking wherein Ericsson is a significant contributor are core networks, microwave transport, Internet Protocol (IP) networks and fixed-access solutions for copper and fiber. Ericsson also maintains networks performing efficiently with its portfolio of operations support systems (OSS). www.ericsson.com

EV Group (EVG) is a world leader in wafer-processing solutions for semiconductor, MEMS and nanotechnology applications. Through close collaboration with its global customers, the company implements its flexible manufacturing model to develop reliable, high-quality, low-cost-of-ownership systems that are easily integrated into customers’ fab lines. Key products include wafer bonding, lithography/nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and metrology equipment, as well as photoresist coaters, cleaners and inspection systems. Founded in 1980, EVG employs more than 700 people worldwide. Headquartered in St. Florian, Austria, EVG operates via a global customer support network, with subsidiaries in Tempe, AZ.; Albany, NY; Yokohama and Fukuoka, Japan; Seoul, Korea; Chung-Li, Taiwan and Shanghai, China. www.EVGroup.com

Launched in 2004, Facebook is one of the biggest social networking services in the world. Through its website, Facebook carries out its objective to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected. Facebook provides various products and services, including platforms for

communications and advertising, to achieve its goals of connecting people. As per its last published data, the number of people using Facebook’s website per month is at 1.44 billion. www.facebook.com

FIBERPRO manufactures fiber optics solutions for telecommunications and fiber optic sensor Interrogation. FIBERPRO develops products and technologies to contribute to fiber optics sensor industry. FIBERPRO has the technology to analyze optical properties that delivers any specific requirements of customers on every product with the enabling technology. As a market leader in Test & Measurement field, FIBERPRO has been issued many patents. Its main location is in Korea, but FIBERPRO also has a presence in the US and China and provides customer service worldwide. www.fiberpro.com

ficonTEC is a premier supplier of semi- and fully-automated optical device assembly and testing systems for the optical industry, including HPLD manufacturing, fiber-optics and opto-electronics, medical technology, security and military applications, R&D, telecommunications, and others. ficonTEC's automation solutions are based on its expertise in process technology and systems engineering where each solution is appropriately customized from a proven line of system platforms. www.ficontec.com

Finetech manufactures cutting-edge high-accuracy equipment for leading-edge bonding, micro assembly and rework challenges. Finetech's bonders are highly suitable to R&D, lab, and prototype environment. The company also offers automated systems for high-mix and/or more fully-automated production with higher volumes. Solutions by Finetech are applied in various industries, such as, research departments of major OEMs, aerospace & defense, consumer electronics, semiconductor, optoelectronics, government-funded labs and academic institutions, to support precise and complex applications: flip chip, laser bars, photonics packaging, VCSELs, MEMS, sensors, chip to wafer, and much more. Its rework products deliver the key benefits needed for reworking advanced devices – such as precise temperature and convection flow control, outstanding placement accuracy, extensive recipe libraries, large board handling, non-contact residual solder removal, and solder paste or flux dispensing. Headquarters is in Berlin, Germany but the company also has centers in the US, UK, China, Malaysia and Japan. www.finetech.de www.finetechusa.com

Finisar is a supplier of fiber optic subsystems and components. Its products are applied in high-speed voice, video and data communications for networking, storage, wireless, and cable TV. Finisar has been active in the industry for about three decades and has lead in creating innovations in optics technology. Products offered include: optical transceivers, optical engines, active optical cables, optical components,

optical instrumentation, ROADMs & wavelength management, optical amplifiers and RF-over-Fiber. www.finisar.com

The Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute is a world leader in the development of mobile and fixed broadband communication networks and multimedia systems. From photonic components and systems to fiber optic sensors and high-speed hardware architectures, the Heinrich Hertz Institute works together with its international partners from research and industry on building the infrastructure for the future Gigabit Society. Fraunhofer HHI is your competent partner for 3D TV, 3D displays, HDTV, gesture controlled man-machine interaction, image processing and transmission and use of interactive media. www.hhi.fraunhofer.de

Freescale is a global provider of embedded processors. Among the main markets of Freescale are the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets. Freescale's products enable microprocessors, controllers and sensors. Products include 8- and 16-bit microcontrollers, 32-bit microcontrollers & processors, digital signal processors & controllers, analog & power management, customer specific ICs & custom SOCs, RF and sensors. Based in Austin, Texas, the company has design, R&D, and manufacturing functions spread throughout the globe. www.freescale.com

Fujitsu is a leader in information and communication technology (ICT). Based in Japan, Fujitsu has presence throughout the world and its 162,000 employees provide support in over 100 countries. Its main products include computing products (server, storage, integrated systems, etc.), software, networking solutions, electronic devices (PBCs & IC substrates and more). Fujitsu Semiconductor Europe (FSEU) leads in designing and supplying semiconductor devices and systems for automotive, communications, multimedia and industrial segments in Europe. www.fujitsu.com

Global Communication Semiconductors (GCS) provides pure-play compound (III-V) semiconductor (GaAs, InP and GaN) wafer foundry service. GCS manufactures high-performance and high-quality semiconductor devices. Solutions by GCS include Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits (RFIC) and millimeter wave integrated circuits for the wireless markets, power devices for power electronics, and Photodetectors and Lasers for optical communications markets. www.gcsincorp.com

Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is one of the world’s leading research university. Georgia Tech maintains several activities in photonics research. Its Optics and Photonics Technical Interest Group is engaged in a range of basic and applied research projects in these major areas: Optical Communication Networks, Nonlinear Optics, Photonics and optoelectronics, and Diffractive and holographic optics. Georgia Tech's Center for Organic Photonics and Electronics (COPE), on the other hand, develops flexible organic photonic and electronic materials and devices which are applied in information technology, telecommunications, energy, and defense sectors. COPE creates the opportunity for disruptive technologies by developing new materials with emergent properties and by providing new paradigms for device design and fabrication. www.ece.gatech.edu/research/tigs/info.php?id=8 www.cope.gatech.edu

GlobalFoundries is a full-service semiconductor foundry founded in 2009 that manufactures integrated circuits in high volume for semiconductor companies. With a headquarters in Silicon Valley, GlobalFoundries has operations spread throughout North America, Europe and Asia facilitated by more than 13,000 employees. Its three 300mm fabrication facilities and five 200mm fabrication facilities provide the full range of process technologies from mainstream to the leading edge. The company is also active in developing semiconductors through collaboration with technology partners as well as customers. www.globalfoundries.com

Google is a world-leading technology company. Google provides a variety of products and services, including search engine services (Google Search), productivity tools (Gmail, Hangouts, Google Calendar, Drive, Docs, etc.), enterprise products (Google Search Appliance), advertising (Google Analytics, AdWords, AdSense) and more. Google also launched in 2011 its Google+ social networking service to connect people who share similar interests. www.google.com

GTRAN is a high-speed transponders, transceivers, components and ICs provider and designer. Its high-performance broadband connectivity products are applied throughout the long haul, metro and access networks. GTRAN's products include 10G 300 Pin Transponders, XFP Transceivers, and SFP+ Transceivers; 40G 300 Pin Transponders, Intergrated Circuits, and Recievers; 100G Integrated Circuits; and Specialty Optics, including High Performance InGaAs Photodiodes (950-1650 nm), Fabry-Perot (FP) Lasers, Super Luminescent Diodes (SLDs) and ELEDs. www.gtran.com

Hewlett-Packard Company is an information technology and services company from the US with a global presence that delivers hardware, software as well as services to a wide range of clientele ranging from consumers to SMBs and big enterprises. Known for providing system integration communication services, HP provide end-to-end enterprise integration solutions, combining HP products and services with software from leading application providers, such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Adobe. Implementation and Enterprise Integration services offered by HP include: infrastructure services, assessment, deployment, and HP Output Management Solution Production Readiness Review (PRR). www.hp.com

Huawei, founded in 1987, is an entirely employee-owned private company and a leading global information and communications technology: ICT solutions provider with a vision to enrich life through communication. Through the company’s 150,000 employees and dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, Huawei has established end-to-end capabilities across the carrier networks, enterprise and consumer markets by providing competitive solutions and services, which have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one-third of the world’s population. www.huawei.com

International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is recognised as a leader in manufacturing and marketing of hardware and software for computers. IBM is the world's largest technology and consulting company, having a world-wide presence in about 170 countries and empowered by 400,000 employees. IBM is known for providing enterprise application integration services that help clients design, develop and implement scalable, extensible, structured enterprise architect integration (EAI) framework designed to run on the Windows Server platforms. www.ibm.com

IHP performs R&D in the fields of silicon-based systems, highest-frequency integrated circuits, and technologies for wireless and broadband communication. The focus of research at the institute is oriented towards issues relevant for business, resulting in applications for telecommunications, semiconductor and automotive industries, aerospace, telemedicine, and automation technologies. The institute has developed into a competence center for silicon-germanium technologies. In recent years, IHP is dedicating considerable efforts to photonic frontend integration with its high-performance BiCMOS technology. The objective is to provide high-performing BiCMOS electronics co-integrated with

photonics building blocks such as SOI-waveguides, Germanium photo-detectors, and modulators to academic and industrial users. www.ihp-microelectronics.com

imec is a world leader in nano-electronics and nano-technology research. imec's research is focused on application in healthcare, smart electronics, sustainable energy, and safer transport. imec offers a platform with integrated silicon photonics (ISIPP25G) targeted at the telecom, datacom and medical diagnostics industries. imec's platform allows development of cost-effective silicon photonic ICs for: High-performance optical transceivers (25Gb/s and beyond) for telecom and access networks; Optical sensing (gas, pressure, strain) and read-out ICs; Biomolecule detection, drug development, point-of-care diagnostics. Several spin-offs were also formed based on imec expertise, including Caliopa, Luceda Photonics, and Trinean. Based in Leuven, Belgium, the research center also has offices spread in the Netherlands, USA, Taiwan, India, Japan and China. Its 2,000-plus staff include a roster of more than 600 industrial residents and guest researchers. www.imec.be

InPACT is a manufacturer and seller of InP single crystal wafers for the use in telecommunications and microelectronics fields known as one of the biggest Western InP wafer producer. Applications include: fiber optics network components including DWDM lasers, VCSELs, pump lasers, PIN and APD diodes, and amplifiers; high speed electronics circuit using HBT, HEMT for fiber optics, wireless and space communication and automotive applications. Through its proprietary Epiready technology (EPICLEAN), the company is strategically positioned to be a dominant supplier of InP substrates. With a headquarters in the French Alps, InPACT's production facility is in Moûtiers (near Grenoble). www.inpactsemicon.com

Intel Corporation is the largest maker of semiconductor chip in the world. The multinational company was founded in 1968 and has 107,600 employees worldwide. Intel currently manufactures devices applied in communications and computing, including processors, boards, chipsets, solid-state drivers, server products, networking and communications devices. Intel designs platforms to enable optimized user computing solution. Intel is also active in innovation and has been collaborating with academic communities throughout the world to foster research and development. www.intel.com

Intelligent Epitaxy Technology, Inc. (IntelliEPI) is a supplier of epitaxy-based compound semiconductor epi-wafers to the electronics and optoelectronics industries. IntelliEPI uses a patented real-time in situ growth monitoring technology on molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) systems for the manufacturing of epi-

wafers on GaAs and InP substrates. IntelliEPI's proprietary in-growth sensor technology and MBE growth experience makes it unique. The company performs in situ analysis on growth parameters, such as, layer thickness, composition, and growth rates to optimize each growth run to supply customers with best quality and inexpensive epi-wafers. IntelliEPI is also active in collaborating with clients in order to develop for them next-generation products. http://intelliepi.com

INNOLUME is the world-leading provider of quantum dots based optoelectronic devices. The company’s industry-proven product range covers diode lasers, LEDs, Gain Chips and SOAs in the quantum dot specific wavelength range around 1064nm-1320nm for numerous applications in the communications: e.g. Raman Amplification, medical: e.g. physio-therapy and instrumentation: e.g. confocal microscopes/frequency doubling. Additionally the company offers a revolutionary Comb-Laser, a single-laser WDM source in the O-band region for use in hi-speed datacom applications. www.innolume.com

Recognised as a pioneer in Intelligent Transport Networks, Infinera offers a number of optical networking solutions. The company was founded in 2000 and has gained the reputation as the first to commercialize large-scale Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs). Infinera Intelligent Transport Networks enable network operators to create rich end-user experiences based on efficient, high-capacity transport. Its 100G and 500G Photonic Integrated Circuit technology has received various awards. www.infinera.com

IQE uses advanced crystal growth technology: epitaxy to manufacture and supply bespoke semiconductor wafers: 'epi-wafers' to the major chip manufacturing companies, who then use these wafers to make the chips which form the key components of virtually all high technology systems. IQE is unique in being able to supply wafers using all of the leading crystal growth technology platforms. IQE's products are found in consumer, communication, computing and industrial applications, including a complete range of wafer products for the wireless industry, such as mobile handsets and wireless infrastructure, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, base stations, GPS, and satellite communications, optical communications, optical storage: CD, DVD, laser optical mouse, laser printers & photocopiers, thermal imagers, leading-edge medical products, barcode, high efficiency LEDs and a variety of advanced silicon based systems. www.iqep.com

JDSU designs and manufactures optical products and test and measurement solutions for the communications industry. JDSU, known formerly as JDS Uniphase, has its headquarters in Milpitas, California. JDSU's solutions are indispensable to enabling a wide range of products. Among its field of specialties are communications solutions for telecom, wireless and cable markets, lasers for macro and

micro machining, core optics for gesture recognition, and authentication technology for currency and pharmaceuticals. The company is also a leader in tunable XFPs, transport blades, and reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs). www.jdsu.com

JePPIX is a broker that assists organizations around the globe to get access to advanced fabrication processes for Photonic Integrated Circuits. JePPIX aims at low-cost development of Photonic ICs and rapid prototyping via Multi-Project Wafer runs. JePPIX closely collaborates with Europe’s key players in the field of photonic integration, including manufacturing and packaging partners, photonic CAD software partners, R&D labs and photonic IC design houses. With JePPIX you can get access to the Indium Phosphide: InP-based monolithic integration platforms of Oclaro, Fraunhofer HHI and SMART Photonics and the low-loss dielectric TriPleX waveguide technology of LioniX. www.jeppix.eu

Juniper Networks is a developer and marketer of networking products, such as, routers, software-defined networking technology, switches, network security products and network management software. The company firmly believes that network is the most significant vector for knowledge, understanding, and human advancement the world has ever known. Juniper provides service to a wide range of customers, including the 100 biggest service providers in the world, large financial institutions, energy and utility companies, educational and healthcare institutions, and government entities. www.juniper.net

JX Nippon Mining & Metals is primarily involved in developing and mining of non-ferrous metal resources. It is also active in smelting and refining, and marketing of non-ferrous metals, such as copper, gold and silver. JX Nippon Mining also manufactures electro-deposited and treated rolled copper foils, precision-rolled copper, copper-alloy, and special steel products, and thin film materials, such as, sputtering targets, surface treatment agents, and compound semiconductor materials. JX Nippon Mining's thin film materials are used in applications like semiconductor, flat panel display, and data storage. The company's head office is in Tokyo, Japan and it has operating sites in Australia and Chile. www.nmm.jx-group.co.jp

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) was established in In October 2009 by a merger of Universität Karlsruhe (TH, founded in 1825) and Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe GmbH (founded in 1956). The KIT pursues both the mission of a university with teaching and research tasks and the mission of a national research center of the Helmholtz Association conducting program-oriented provident research. Within these missions, KIT is operating along the three strategic fields of action of research, teaching, and

innovation. With about 9400 employees, including 6000 staff members in the science and education sector, and 24,500 students, KIT is one of the biggest research and education institutions in Europe. KIT is involved in various international projects, e. g of the EU and other international partners. www.kit.edu

Keysight Technologies is an electronic measurement company producing test and measurement equipment and software. Keysight traces its origins from HP and Agilent Technologies. Keysight provides solutions used in wireless communications, aerospace and defense and semiconductor markets with world-class platforms, software and consistent measurement science. Keysight's solutions are a vital aid to engineers, researchers and scientists who rely on precision measurements. Among its products are electronic design automation (EDA) software, multimeters, oscilloscopes, signal generators, logic analyzers, vector network analyzers, spectrum analyzers, atomic force microscopes (AFM), automated X-ray inspection (5DX), automated optical inspection as well as in-circuit testers. www.keysight.com

Linkra leads in the support of Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEM) in the design, manufacture and integration of electronic products. Based in Milan, Italy, the company’s manufacturing services aim to optimize the manufacturing process, support client on prototyping and pre-series activity for new products, and perform design to cost program effectiveness. Linkra also performs repair services with its repair capabilities cover the complete range of TLC technologies wireless, wire-line, data, optical, transmission and microwaves. Its microtechnologies division, Linkra Microtech, develops and manufactures Microwave Transceivers and RF Filters/Diplexers from 2 GHz to 80 GHz primarily geared for the telecommunications market. www.linkra.it

LioniX is a provider in development and small to high volume production of innovative products based on micro/nano system technology: MNT and MEMS. Its core technologies are integrated optics and micro-fluidics. LioniX’s customers operate in telecom, industrial process control, life sciences and space markets and include OEM's, multinationals, VC start-up companies as well as research institutions from around the world. LioniX offers design to manufacturing and horizontal integration by partnering with MEMS/MST foundries and suppliers of complementary technologies, such as in: food biotech/genomics, chemistry/pharmaceuticals and water technology. The combination of micro-fluidics and integrated optics gives LioniX expertise in the emerging area of Lab-on-a-Chip. LioniX has its own clean-room facilities with equipment for the proprietary technology and dedicated test/analysis equipment for integrated optics and micro-fluidic devices. www.lionixbv.nl

Luceda Photonics offers software and services for photonics designers. The company is a spin-off of imec and is based in Belgium. IPKISS, Luceda's main product, is a complete design framework for photonic integrated circuits taking you through component design and simulation, circuit definition and layout, all the way to tape-out and testing. Its services include front-end design (design of (sub)circuits and development of device models), layout (support on fab-specific layout implementation for faster turn-around-time), and tape-out (help in applying fab design rules and getting design to tape-out). Luceda's expertise in the development of process design kits (PDK) and the design and validation of photonic integrated circuits helps R&D industries and research institutions throughout the globe. www.lucedaphotonics.com

Lumerical delivers photonic design software known for pioneering ground-breaking simulation technologies that help bring new photonic and optoelectronic product concepts to life. From the first 3D computer-aided design environment aimed at microscale and nanoscale optics, to the most robust parallel computation tool for microscale optics available today, Lumerical empowers their academic, government research lab and FORTUNE Global 500 customers with best-in-class solutions to innovate across the biomedical, display technology, communication, optical storage, semiconductor manufacturing and solid-state lighting industries. Lumerical’s photonic design tools are designed to be applied in various applications, including nanophotonics, photonic integrated circuits, plasmonics, metamaterials, photonic crystals & diffractive optics, particle & surface scattering, microscopy & lithography and more. Lumerical is also active in collaborating with scientists and researchers, providing licenses to high-performance computing centers to further photonics research. www.lumerical.com

Luxtera Inc. is a California-based semiconductor company offering silicon CMOS photonics. Luxtera’s CMOS Photonics™ devices are fully integrated with CMOS electronics and are also orders of magnitude smaller (and hence in many cases faster) than traditional photonic elements. It has been the pioneer in building photonic solutions that is truly “fabless”. Luxtera’s products are designed scale up not just in their ability to move huge amounts of data from one chip to another (with virtually no regard to distance or bandwidth), but also to leverage Moore’s Law to build exponentially increasing amounts of data processing inside the network interface itself. www.luxtera.com

Mellanox Technologies supplies end-to-end InfiniBand and Ethernet interconnect solutions and services for servers and storage. Mellanox interconnect solutions increase data center efficiency by providing the highest throughput and lowest latency, delivering data faster to applications and unlocking system performance capability. Products include the following: adapters, switches, software and silicon that accelerate application runtime and maximize business results for a wide range of markets including high performance computing, enterprise data centers, Web 2.0, cloud, storage and financial services. Mellanox Technologies was formed in 1999 and currently has offices in Sunnyvale, California and Yokneam, Israel. www.mellanox.com

Mentor Graphics is a leading electronic design automation (EDA) company that offers software and hardware design solutions for the quick and cost-effective development of high-quality electronic products. The solutions provided by Mentor Graphics help in overcoming design challenges in the area of board and chip design. Mentor Graphics' is the only EDA company with an embedded software solution. With a headquarters in Wilsonville, Oregon, the company has 5,200 employees worldwide that help in marketing its products and services to enterprises involved in aerospace, computer, communications, consumer electronics, semiconductor, transportation, multimedia, and networking. www.mentor.com

Microsoft is a technology company developing, manufacturing, licensing, supporting as well as selling a broad range of software and services. Microsoft is primarily known for its line of operating systems (Microsoft Windows), office suite (Microsoft Office) and website browser (Internet Explorer). Microsoft Office has been used by enterprises in developing Web 2.0 ideas and technologies to create high-value, user-driven applications for the Internet and intranet. Its .NET Framework, which runs mainly through Windows, is also used by developers in Web 2.0 applications. Founded in 1975, the company has grown to become the biggest software company in the world. www.microsoft.com

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is engaging in several research activities in the area of photonics. The Electronic Materials Research Group at MIT (EMAT) actively explores silicon-based microphotonics with focus on materials processing and device engineering for the creation of micron and sub-micron scale device elements for vertical integration with circuit systems. The Quantum Photonics Group of MIT, on the other hand, develops quantum technologies in scalable semiconductor systems. MIT's Integrated Photonics Devices and Materials Research Group creates and develops advanced and future technologies utilizing photons through its NanoPrecision Deposition Laboratory. MIT also has the Microphotonics Center (MPhC), a research community dedicated to optimizing interdisciplinary academic and industrial collaboration to advance basic science and pre-competitive technology in areas relevant to applied microphotonics. http://www.rle.mit.edu/qp http://photonics.mit.edu http://web.mit.edu/cbegroup/www https://mphotonics.mit.edu

Molex is an electronic components and solutions provider. Molex focuses on designing, developing and distributing solutions that serves engineers and product designers involved in a wide range of industries, such as, aerospace and defense, automotive, alternative energy source, consumer/home appliance,

commercial vehicle, data/computing, industrial automation, industrial electrical, medical, scientific, smart phones and mobile devices, solid state lighting, and telecommunications/networking. The portfolio of Molex is one of the most comprehensive in the world with over 100,000 reliable products from electronic, electrical and fiber optic interconnects to switches and application tooling. www.molex.com

Multiphoton Optics develops high-tech 3D lithography equipment for manufacturing of optical packages. The newly available 3D lithography process allows the integration of optical wire bonds at the locations required by the components, with the required precision and repeatability. The company supplies a process that automates high-precision optoelectronics assembly and allows interconnecting optical components, Silicon or III/V Photonic chips, and the creation of novel optical component packages. The technology allows scaling optical packaging operations to large volumes as it is compatible with standard assembly processes known from electronics manufacturing. Target markets include hardware for Big Data computing and storage systems as well as optical transport infrastructure. www.multiphoton.de

Nanofoot Finland, founded in 2006, has gained a deep experience on laser technology and photonics by working with Tampere University of Technology, Optoelectronics Research Centre, Finland. Nanofoot Finland designs and manufactures testing, characterization and quality control systems for Laser Diode/ LED manufacturing industry. The company develops systems ranging from low power single chip testers to high power automated bar or bar stack measurements systems, complemented with VISual Inspection, Far Field, Near Field, Smile, Facet, LIV, Spectrum, Burn-in and lifetime testers. www.nanofoot.com

nanosystec offers customized systems for high-precision micro assembly and micro production technology. nanosystec understands its collaboration with customers as a long lasting relationship. Its main goal is to provide systems which perform exactly as it is required by their customers. When customers achieve a new level of technology and productivity with nanosystec’s systems and processes, the company feels satisfied with their job. All key functions of nanosystec’s systems are developed in house, including the process programming as well as the electrical and mechanical design. Their process engineers and qualified mechanical and electrical technicians form a team to provide clients with excellent support. www.nanosystec.com

Newport is a leading supplier of advanced technology products and solution. Since its creation in 1969, Newport has delivered products for a broad range of fields, such as, lasers, photonics instrumentation,

sub-micron positioning systems, vibration isolation, optical components and subsystems and precision automation to enhance the capabilities and productivity of its customers' manufacturing, engineering and research applications. The primary industries Newport products serve are research, life & health sciences, aerospace & defense, industrial manufacturing, microelectronics, and photovoltaics. Among the leading brands manufactured by Newport are Corion®, New Focus™, Oriel® Instruments, Richardson Gratings™ and Spectra-Physics®. Newport maintains presence worldwide and has manufacturing facilities in the US, China, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. www.newport.com

NXP Semiconductors is a semiconductor company based in the Netherlands. NXP's focus include High Performance Mixed Signal: Automotive, Identification, Infrastructure & Industrial, Portable & Computing and Standard Products. Among its customers are 10 of the biggest OEM companies (Apple, Bosch, Continental,Delphi, Gemalto, Giesecke & Devrient, Huawei, Nokia, Siemens Network, Samsung and ZTE). The company has locations worldwide where it performs research and development activities. Its manufacturing functions are mainly carried out in facilities located in Europe and Asia. www.nxp.com

Oclaro is one of the largest providers of lasers and optical components, modules and subsystems for the optical communications, industrial, and consumer laser markets. The company is a global leader dedicated to photonics innovation, with cutting-edge research and development and chip fabrication facilities in the U.S., U.K., Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Korea and Japan. It has in-house and contract manufacturing sites in China, Malaysia and Thailand, with design, sales and service organizations in most of the major regions around the world. www.oclaro.com

Optocap provides contract package design and assembly services for microelectronic and optoelectronic devices. The turn-key packaging services of Optocap is vital in helping customers reduce costs of development and manufacturing, quicken the time to market as well as minimize the risk associated with new product developments. Their expertise in packaging solutions spans the full product life-cycle: from design through prototyping, process optimisation, product qualification, failure analysis, volume manufacturing and transfer to low-cost volume manufacture. Optocap product applications include laser diode packaging, RF module packaging, optoelectronic packaging, system in package, flip chip assembly, microelectronic packaging, MEMS packaging, LED packaging, CPV concentrator photovoltaic packaging, chip on board assembly, and harsh environment packaging. www.optocap.com

The Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Center is a world leading research organisation with roots going back to the invention of the optical fibre in the 1960's. Many of the major developments in today’s

global technology were pioneered by our researchers including the optical fibres and amplifiers that power the internet and the fibre laser which is used for a variety of applications ranging from manufacturing to defence. Led by leading figures in photonics, our vibrant research community is a constant hive of activity with over 170 staff and students working on cutting-edge research to provide innovative solutions for real life problems in health care, manufacturing, communication, technology, defence, renewable energy and the environment. www.orc.soton.ac.uk

Optoscribe is a supplier of trusted, high performance 3D waveguide solutions. The company was formed in 2010 as a spin-off from School of Engineering and Physical Sciences at Heriot Watt University. Optoscribe provides a wide range of products designed to dramatically increase the amount of data transferred across networks, whilst minimizing network costs and maximizing cable performance. Assembled through industry standard fiber-waveguide alignment processes, the products of Optoscribe gives reliable low-loss connections which are specified to operate in telecoms environments and can be integrated into hybrid assemblies containing a host of photonic components, including photonic integrated circuits (PICs). www.optoscribe.com

Optowaves manufactures and supplies passive fiber optic components and modules for the optical fiber-based industry, in both communications and medical applications. Optowaves' strict testing standards ensures delivery of the most sophisticated and reliable fiber optic components to our clients in a timely and cost-effective manner - whether they are single mode, multimode, or made from customer-supplied design. Optowaves' products include attenuators, circulators, couplers, CWDM/DWDM, FTTH, HWDM, isolator, OADM, single-mode WDM, and test equipment. www.optowaves.com

Oxford Instruments is a manufacturer and designer of high technology tools and systems for research and industry. The company is the first spin-off from Oxford University. Its equipment are designed to fabricate, analyse and manipulate matter at the atomic and molecular level. Oxford Instruments' tools and systems include analysers, atomic force microscopy, coating thickness measurement, cryogenic systems, CT & MRI systems, maintenance and parts, electron spectroscopy, microanalysis systems, nanomanipulation and nanofabrication, plasma, ALD and ion beam, scanning probe microscopy and more. The products of Oxford Instruments are used in a broad spectrum of industries and applications, such as, electronics, information and communication technology, nanotechnology, semiconductors, research and academia and more. www.oxford-instruments.com

PETRA is an Incorporated Technology Research Association, established on August 24, 2009. The organization is approved by METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry) under Japanese Act on an Incorporated Research and Development Partnership. PETRA carries on National Research and Developments Projects on leading-edge “Photonics and Electronics Converged Devices and Systems” in Information and Communication Technology area, where photonics technology and electronics technology are mutually incorporated. www.petra-jp.org

PhoeniX Software is an independent high-tech company headquartered in Enschede: the Netherlands developing, supplying and supporting world class software solutions for micro and nano technology corporations and institutes. Based on a history going back to 1991, PhoeniX Software is offering a unique fully integrated mask layout, process flow design and simulation environment and the only dedicated Manufacturing Execution System and Technology Knowledge Base for the industry. Furthermore PhoeniX Software is supporting Multi Project Wafer runs at various foundries with process design kits for InP, TriPleX, silicon photonics and microfluidics. Today, customers worldwide benefit from PhoeniX Software’s solutions and services to enhance research, improve quality and reduce time to market. Every single member of the PhoeniX Software team is dedicated and driven to create innovative software solutions based on customer needs and wants. www.phoenixbv.com

Photon Design provides professional quality software to the photonics industry. Its range of photonics tools cover active and passive components design as well as photonic circuit design. Photon Design solutions are used by a wide number of telecoms companies and laboratories around the world in developing next-generation telecoms components. Photon Design is also experienced in modelling and is capable of developing custom solutions. From modelling of laser diodes and photonic integrated circuits (PIC) to rigorous Maxwell equation solvers for the simulation of optical components, Photon Design tools can provide innovative solutions. www.photond.com

Physik Instrumente (PI) is a leader in nanopositioning products and systems. PI positioning systems are of essential application in industry and research, including semiconductor manufacturing, medical engineering, biotechnology, plant engineering, surface metrology, and automation technology. PI has 10 subsidiaries and a worldwide presence. Its design and manufacturing activities are performed in three continents. www.physikinstrumente.com

PI miCos was founded in 1990 and has been part of the PI (Physik Instrumente) Group since 2011. It develops and produces positioning units with up to 6 motion axes for applications that require high precision down to the nanometer range. In addition, PI miCos designs complete systems by integrating precision axes in other system components, such as machine vision or pick-and-place robots and by combining them with an application-specific software. Optical metrology or Photonics Packaging are possible application areas of these motion control components and integrated systems which are used for producing components for telecommunications or high-speed data transfer. Especially for the production of Silicon Photonics devices, PI miCos develops production and test machines for fully automated processes. www.pi.ws

SABIC (Saudi Basic Industries Corporation) is among the biggest petrochemicals company in the world and is a leading manufacturer of chemicals. SABIC's performance chemicals are used in a variety of applications, including in the electronics industry. SABIC offers engineered plastics for the semicon/electrical segment, such as, highly heat-resistant imidized and semi-crystalline products; flame retardant materials; and static dissipative grades. Primarily based in Saudi Arabia, SABIC also maintains manufacturing, sales and technology and innovation activities throughout the Middle East, Africa, Asia, America and Europe. www.sabic.com

Samtec is an electronic interconnector manufacturer. Among Samtec's line of products are electronic interconnect solution blocks, including IC-to-Board/Ultra Micro, High Speed Board-to-Board, High Speed Cables, Future-Proof/Active Optics, Flexible Stacking, and Micro/Rugged components and cables. Samtec is also active in developing innovative interconnect solutions through its Technology Centers. Samtec's headquarters is in New, Albany, Indiana, USA, but it also has locations in 18 countries worldwide. www.samtec.com

SATRAX is to become the market leader in true-time-delay-based electronic beam-steering antenna systems (no mechanically moving parts) in the market for real-time broadband SatCom applications for high-speed vehicles. With 2 demonstrator products tested and qualified, SATRAX is ready to enter the SatCom market for 10-12 GHz, Ku-band, applications. SATRAX's product improvements and further technology development will expand communication applications in the aerospace and avionics industry. Further mobile applications will include high-speed public transport and military or civil operations in areas with poor infrastructure. www.satrax.nl

SENTECH Instruments is a developer, manufacturer, and seller of advanced quality instrumentation for Plasma Process Technology, Thin Film Measurement and Photovoltaics. Its plasma etching and deposition applications include RIE Etching, PECVD Deposition and Atomic Layer Deposition. Thin film measurement solutions provided by SENTECH include Spectroscopic ellipsometer, laser ellipsometer and reflectometer. SENTECH is also active in R&D and innovation projects with various universities, institutes and companies. www.sentech.com

SET (Smart Equipment Technology) is a leader in supplying high accuracy Die-to-Die and Die-to-Wafer bonders. Based in France, SET is a pioneer in the development of flip chip bonders for infrared sensors and optoelectronics applications. Main applications of SET's products are device bonding, nanoimprinting lithography, and direct metallic bonding. SET has installed a base of more than 300 Device Bonders worldwide and has been hailed for superior sub-micron post-bonding accuracy and the flexibility of its systems. www.set-sas.fr

Skorpios Technologies provides highly integrated communications products based on their proprietary, wafer-scale, silicon photonics process. Skorpios designs, develops and manufactures integrated optical modules and subsystems in support of the entire opto-electronic communications ecosystem. The technology offered by Skorpios permits generation, detection and modulation of light to be monolithically integrated with high-speed electronic circuits in a standard CMOS-compatible process known as Composite-Semiconductor on Insulator (C-SOI) and is fully supported within existing standard CMOS foundry processes. Among the applications which Skorpios' platform can be applied are high-speed video, data and voice communications for networking and cloud computing, storage, wireless and cable TV. www.skorpiosinc.com

SMART Photonics, located in Eindhoven The Netherlands, offers its customers an expert team with a proven track record in III-V R&D and production. SMART Photonics help customers to become successful with their products. The company offers customers their knowledge, experience and the environment to change their ideas into concepts and – in a minimum of time – create from those concepts released products for manufacturing. SMART Photonics provide those III-V foundry services in a dedicated state-of-the-art III-V ecosystem. www.smartphotonics.nl

Soitec generates and manufactures revolutionary semiconductor materials for electronic and energy industries. Soitec is developing and manufacturing SOI: Silicon-on-Insulator materials, advanced substrates for microelectronic and CPV power plant for high irradiance countries. Soitec is an international company, with R&D and industrial manufacturing activities in France, Germany, Singapore, and the United States with headquarters in Bernin, near Grenoble, France. www.soitec.com

Source Photonics is a recognized provider of innovative and reliable technological products that enable communications and data connectivity. The products developed by Source Photonics allow next-generation mobile access, broad-band fixed-line access, and next-generation internet. Source Photonics' technology enables FTTx networks to deliver bandwidth, flexibility, and connectivity solutions for consumer’s data needs. The company is committed to inventing next-generation solutions to provide data centers with low power, high data rate technology to meet the demands of the rapidly growing cloud data industry. Source Photonics is based in California, USA but also has a presence throughout the world. www.sourcephotonics.com

STMicroelectronics is a global semiconductor supplier, the largest European semiconductor company. STMicroelectronics 2012 sales revenues have been 8.49 B$. ST has approximately 48,000 employees worldwide of whom 11,000 people are involved in technology, design, product & system R&D in 7 main technology R&D Centers and 39 Design Centers with a total portfolio of 20,000 patents. ST Microelectronics has 12 manufacturing sites with 78 sales offices in 36 countries and is listed in the New York Stock Exchange, Euronext Paris and Borsa Italiana of Milano. www.st.com

Sumika Electronic Materials produces epitaxial wafers and distributes IT-related chemicals and engineering plastics to the NAFTA region. Key technologies served by Sumika include: InGaP HBT, LED, Diodes, pHEMT, Solar Cell Development, Specification of LCP & PES Engineering Polymers, and Development of Photoresist & SDM process materials. Sumika is a solely owned subsidiary of Sumitomo Chemical Group and has locations in North America. www.sumikamaterials.com

SUSS MicroOptics is a manufacturer of high-quality refractive and diffractive micro-optics in 200mm: 8’’ wafer technology, based in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. SUSS MicroOptics meets highest demands as required for applications in photolithography, optical networking, laser, medical and metrology. In 2013

SUSS MicroOptics moved to a new cleanroom facility: class 100/1000. SUSS MicroOptics is ISO9001:2008 qualified and SGS attested. www.suss.ch

SUSS MicroTec supplies process equipment for microstructuring in the semiconductor industry and related markets. SUSS MicroTec's portfolio includes a broad spectrum of products and solutions for backend lithography, wafer bonding and photomask processing, complemented by micro-optical components. Key markets include 3D Integration/Advanced Packaging, Wafer Level Packaging, Flip Chip, Wafer Level Optics, Compound Semiconductors/LED, and MEMS/3D MEMS. SUSS MicroTec is also committed to development of cutting-edge technologies in the industry and has forged collaborations with various research institutions like blz (Bayerisches Laser Zentrum), Fraunhofer IISB, imec, and more. www.suss.com

Synopsys is a leading electronic design automation (EDA) and semiconductor intellectual property (IP) company. Its portfolio of system-level, IP, implementation, verification, manufacturing, optical and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) solutions help address the key challenges designers face, such as, power and yield management, system-to-silicon verification and time-to-results. The solutions provided by Synopsys are vital in the development of electronic products as well as software applications that are relied upon daily. With a head office in Mountain View, California, Synopsys maintains a world-wide presence with about 90 offices in North America, Europe, Japan, Asia and India. www.synopsys.com

Technobis group is a developer and supplier of high-tech instruments and modules for OEM companies around the world. Technobis tft-fos is specialized in the development and supply of fibre optic sensing systems and applications. All developments are spectrometry and or interferometry based. Starting with free-space optics 17 years ago, nowadays all new developments are based on integrated photonics. Application Specific Photonic Integrated Circuits: ASPICs allow custom and highly dedicated system designs for a versatile range of improved performance requirements. Technobis ipps is a specialized solution provider for ASPIC packaging by supplying dedicated and mid-range volume packaging services. As ASPIC packaging requires complex dedication, our key values are thermal: and mechanical stability, high performance, low-noise, low power consumption, easy but versatile integration, reliable and repeatable quality. Technobis mechatronics is specialized in carrying out complete product development projects, going from an idea to a successful turnkey product, prototype or series product. www.technobis.nl

TE Connectivity designs and manufactures electronic connectors, components and systems. Solutions provided by TE Connectivity are used by a wide range of industries, such as, data communication systems, automotive, aerospace and defense, consumer electronics, industrial equipment and more. Main products include connectors and connector components, fiber optics and fiber management solutions, enterprise network and broadcast products, filters, identification products, passive components, relays & switches, and wireless solutions. As a leader in broadband connectivity, 10 of the biggest telecommunications carriers use TE Connectivity's solutions for networking. TE Connectivity is a global company with 21 global centers and more than 80,000 employees. www.te.com

Tektronix is one of the foremost suppliers of test and measurement equipment in the world. Tektronix serves various industries all throughout the globe like communications, computer, semiconductor, military/aerospace, consumer electronics, education, and broadcast. Tektronix solutions are invaluable in the measurement, analysis and testing of next generation devices. Among its main products are oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, protocol analyzers, bit error rate testers, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, digital multimeters, power analyzers, frequency counters and timers, RF power meters, coherent optical solutions, video test, and probes and accessories. www.tek.com

TeraXion provides state-of-the-art optical components and modules for high-speed fiber-optic transmission networks, fiber lasers and optical sensing applications. Among the company's range of chromatic dispersion management solutions are Telcordia-qualified low-loss static and tunable dispersion compensators for terrestrial and submarine networks. TeraXion offers customized filtering solutions and narrow linewidth semiconductor laser sources for RF photonic and coherent detection systems and chromatic dispersion emulators with very high levels of dispersion, used for manufacturing and R&D labs. The company has also added silicon photonics (SiP) product design and manufacturing to its mastered capabilities, a new technology platform that paves the way for developing new high-end products where size, power and performance are key requirements. www.teraxion.com

The Tyndall National Institute, University College Cork is one of Europe’s leading centres for Information, Communications and Technology: ICT research and development. It is the largest facility of its kind in Ireland. Tyndall, formally known as the National Microelectonics Research Centre, was established in 2004 to provide a critical mass of researchers that would support the growth and development of a smart knowledge based economy in Ireland. www.tyndall.ie

University of California Berkeley (UCB) is active in photonics research. UCB's Integrated Photonics Laboratory (IPL) has performed several photonics research and projects, including, NanoPhotonic MEMS, Si-based photonic integrated circuits, Optoelectronic tweezers, MEMS endoscopic optical coherence tomography and microscopy, Single-chip WDM switches and crossconnect (CSWDM), High performance optically injection-locked semiconductor lasers, Balanced optoelectronic downconverting receiver for RF photonic networks, and Optical code-division multiple access (OCDMA) encoders. nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu

University of California, Los Angeles, through its JALALI-LAB @ UCLA, carries out silicon photonics and real-time instruments research and development. The laboratory's R&D activities are primarily aimed for application in biomedicine, communication and defense. The laboratory has two objectives: to solve critical problems faced by industry and in national security and to produce creative scientists and engineers who can spearhead innovation and technological breakthroughs. Facilities used include California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Cleanroom, Nanoelectronics Research Facility (NRF) Cleanroom, UCLA Center for High Frequency Electronics (CHFE), and California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI) Bio-Suite. www.photonics.ucla.edu

University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is actively performing photonics research, mainly through its Optoelectronics Group. The Optoelectronics Group hybrid silicon platform integrates active optical components on a silicon chip by coupling light evanescently from a waveguide to a bonded III/V layer. The group's silicon photonics current research include PICs, particularly development of high efficiency, high-speed free-space beam controllers with integrated amplification, phase control, and feedback on a silicon substrate. The Optoelectronics Group operates several facilities to carry out its research, including Nanotech Facilities, Optoelectronics (FEMTO) Lab and Thermoelectrics and High-Efficiency Photovoltaics Lab. http://optoelectronics.ece.ucsb.edu

Verizon Communications is a broadband and telecommunications company. It serves three main lines of businesses: wireless, residential and small business services, and enterprise services. Solutions offered by Verizon are designed to empower its customers, from individuals to businesses and communities. The company is known for providing a range of powerful technological solutions like 4G wireless and FiOS Internet, secure cloud computing, Machine-to-Machine communication, and robust omnichannel experiences. Based primarily in America, Verizon also has operations in about 150 nations worldwide. www.verizon.com

vario-optics, founded in 2009 as a spinoff of the well-known Varioprint AG, with location in Heiden (Switzerland) is a leading supplier of Electro Optical Circuit Boards (EOCB). With this new technology, vario-optics has made significant investments, not only in the product technology but also in thedevelopment of the production process technology and the necessary infrastructure. The products are sold globally, to all major markets, such as telecom, industry, medical, automotive, military and aerospace. www.vario-optics.ch

VERTILAS develops, produces and distributes innovative laser diodes for optical communications technology, sensor engineering and measurement methods. VERTILAS laser diodes emit normal to the wafer surface, hence the name Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Lasers. These VCSEL diodes stand out for their high-speed data transfer capabilities: up to 10 Gbit/s, as well as for their small structural shape, low current threshold and low power consumption. Long wavelength VCSELs constitute a core component of future laser-optic communication networks through which fiber-to-the-home plans are being made possible in a cost-effective manner. With its newly-developed laser diodes having a wavelength range of 1.3 µm to 2 µm, VERTILAS is one of the leading global providers in the field of long-wavelength VCSELs. www.vertilas.com

VLC Photonics is a photonic design house who provides its expertise in optical chip design and fabless manufacturing and packaging of custom photonic integrated circuits. VLC Photonics closely works with all major photonic foundries and optical materials: Silica: SiO2, glass/PLC, Silicon Photonics: Silicon-on-Insulator, SOI, TriPleX: Si3N4/SiN, InP/GaAs, etc. Additionally, VLC Photonics can provide optical chip characterization and testing services, high-level optical engineering services and process design kit development. www.vlcphotonics.com

Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co (VPEC) is a provider for solutions in wireless communications, optical fiber communications and solar cell applications. VPEC is a leading GaAs epitaxial wafer manufacturer. Its GaAs HBT devices can be applied in a wide range of applications, including mobile handsets, wireless LAN, Blue Tooth, base stations, automobile radar, optical fiber communications, MMIC, RFIC, and satellite communication system. The company was founded in 1996 and is based in Taiwan. www.vpec.com.tw

VPIphotonics provides professional photonic design software and services for optical component and system vendors, as well as system and network integrators. VPIphotonics offers a flexible software environment supporting requirements in photonic integrated circuits and fiber-based component designs, optical system and network designs, as well as cost optimization of equipment choices leading to performance reports and bill of materials. The solutions provided by the company are applied in research and development as well as in marketing by hundreds of companies throughout the globe. www.vpiphotonics.com

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is a non-profit government organisation operating under the auspices of the Finnish Ministry of Employment and Economy. In photonics, VTT's technology offering covers the whole value-chain from devices to modules and systems. VTT aims towards developing wafer-level, sheet-level and large-area packaging and integration technologies by combining mature processes with novel fabrication methods. VTT's strength is in system level integration. Applications include optical and electrical sensors, photonic and electronic components and modules, large-area electronics and optical sensors and instruments for process control. www.vtt.fi

XiO Photonics is a supplier of optical devices based on Photonic Integrated Circuits: PICs for visible light and near infrared applications. XiO Photonics use TriPleX™ technology, a low loss on-chip waveguide technology which allows for control of wavelength, intensity, phase, mode size, polarization and input-output geometries. The technology is optimized for wavelengths from 400 up to 2000 nm. XiO Photonics has built an extensive expertise in coupling optical fibers to chips in various configurations including combinations with electronic interfaces to create functional electro-optical or active optical devices. www.xiophotonics.com

Yelo, located in Carrickfergus, near Belfast UK, manufactures custom Automated Electrical & Electronic Test Equipment for testing printed circuit boards and Lasers. Yelo photonic and electronic test knowledge combined with mechanical, electrical, electronic and software design disciplines and CNC and production capabilities all under one roof provide reduced test costs for the Photonics Industry, Telecommunications & Electronics, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Rail, Electricity, Water, etc. www.yelo.co.uk