ULM Photonics, which makes flip-chip-ready VCSEL arrays and 10 Gbps VCSELs, has opened a new manufacturing facility in Ulm, Germany to meet and serve a growing VCSEL market.
The facility is equipped with additional quality assurance equipment and a new Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) system, a technique that grows VCSELs on gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductor wafers as single crystals and can also work on other materials like indium phosphide (InP).
The new equipment will help ULM Photonics create more efficient VCSELs by even better controlling the growth of the crystal, thus meeting the demand of its growing customer base, officials said.
ULM said it is currently shipping flip-chip ready VCSEL arrays and high-speed devices at up to 10 Gbps to more than a dozen European and North American customers.
Moving forward with the facility addition, ULM will also be increasing its distribution by working closely with its North American partner, Schott Optovance. Schott Optovance, an optical interconnect company, is based in Southbridge, MA and is the lead investor and exclusive North American distributor of ULM Photonics' products.
ULM Photonics was established by key researchers from Professor Karl Ebeling's VCSEL research group at Ulm University in 2000. This group was the first in Europe to develop oxide-confined VCSELs. ULM Photonics is one of the first companies to ship high-density VCSEL arrays and 10 Gbps VCSELs to a dozen customers.
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