EPIC Members Event ReportTechnical Conference: 17-21 March 2013

Exposition: 19-21 March 2013Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, USA

www.ofcnfoec.org

Prepared byRonald BroekeBRIGHT Integrated Photonics BVMaarssen, the Netherlandsronald.broeke@brightphotonics.euwww.brightphotonics.eu

About the EPIC Members Event Reports

Initiated by the founder of EPIC Dr. Thomas Pearsall in 2003, these reports are prepared bymembers of EPIC to the benefit of the wider community. If you did not have a chance to attendthe event but would like to know some key highlight, this report is for you. Emphasis is placedon exploring technical and business opportunities for the members of EPIC. If you are an eventorganizer and would like your event covered by EPIC, if you would like to volunteer for writinga report, or if you have any comments to this report, please contact info@epic-assoc.com.

Contents

1 Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Exhibition and Showfloor . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

3 MarketWatch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

4 Technical sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

5 Workshops . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

6 OFC/NFOEC-2014 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Early morning, the Anaheim Convention Center,800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, home for

OFC/NFOEC-2013.

1 Overview

The OFC/NFOEC (Optical Fiber Communica-tion/National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference) isthe leading conference and exhibition on optical fibercommunication. This years OFC/NFOEC was heldin the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim CA, lo-cated across the street of Disney World. The confer-ence had a very strong technical program, incorpo-rating advances in research, development and engi-neering, while simultaneously having a strong busi-ness focus with an exhibit of 550+ key-players in op-tics showing their latest products and services. Theconference featured up to eleven parallel sessions fortechnical papers next to exhibition hall sessions onthree showfloors, with shows like “MarketWatch” paneldiscussions and sessions on industry trends and newproducts. OFC/NFOEC-2013 in numbers looks likethis:

• 5 days• 550+ exhibitors• 21 tutorial presentations• 800+ technical presentations• 12 workshops• 57 short courses• up to 11+ parallel sessions• 2 technical poster sessions• 7 showfloor panels• 12000 attendees

In addition, for the attendees who were faced with toomany parallel sessions during the day, many presen-tations were videotaped and made available within 24hours.

Topics at OFC/NFOEC included

1. Fiber and waveguide-based devices2. Optical and optoelectronic devices3. Transmission subsystems and systems4. Optical processing5. Core optical networks6. Optical access networks and FTTX7. Telecom network services8. Network technologies9. Datacom

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Focus in 2013’s conference was on (in arbitrary order)

• Silicon Photonics

• High-speed Photonic Integration for CoherentDetection

• Convergence of Optical and Wireless Networks

• Virtualization and Software-Defined Networks (SDN)

• 100G/400G Network Design

• Cloud and Data Center Networking

• 1 Tb and beyond optical networking

The exhibition, part of one of three halls.

2 Exhibition and Showfloor

Hundreds of companies were on hand in the exhibi-tion, showing their latest product offerings and ser-vices, and announcing the latest in areas such as100G deployment, photonic integration, tunable SFP+transceivers, data center interconnects, and new inno-vations on the client side. Basically all companies thatmatter in networking, components, fibers, FTTx, data-centers, packaging, photonics, and test and measure-ment, etc, can be found as exhibitor or visitor. This in-cludes Enterprises such as Oclaro, Google, TE connec-tivity, Ciena, Synopsis, Infinera, Finisar, Juniper, Nex-trom, Gigalight, Huawei, Nokia-Siemens, NEL, YemistaOptics, DSM, Kyocera, Ericson; Research institutessuch as Fraunhofer Geselschaft and companies likeVertilas, Acacia, One Chip, Phoenix, and Photon De-sign, among many others.

The exhibition.

The three show floor theaters in the exhibition halls fea-tured expanded programming this year to include top-ics on cloud services, silicon photonics, SDN and pho-tonics. An overview of the showfloor sessions:

• New Product Introductions. Exhibitors highlightedtheir newest developments, products and services in30 minute showcase presentations.

• Software Defined Networks Session. Various top-ics on SDN: drivers for SDN for very large serviceproviders, the SDN role in the cloud, inter-cloud ar-chitecture, etc.

• OIF Program: Physical and Link Layer-Focused Ses-sion. A session by the Optical Internetworking Forumcovering the types of

• VIP Industry Leaders Networking Event.

• Monetizing Cloud Services: Industry Trends andBest Practices for Service Providers. A session onmarket opportunities and business models, and anexploration on what role Software-Defined Network-ing (SDN) and Optical Transport will play in enablingcloud networks. Speakers include leaders from ADVAOptical Networking, Current Analysis, Juniper Net-works, IDC and others.

• Advancing Optical Solutions in Cloud Comput-ing Communications and Networking. A sessionwith special attention to current capabilities and fu-ture visions for the role of optical technologies andassociated challenges. OFC/NFOEC Plenary Sessionkeynote Nick McKeown joined speakers from Ciena,Verizon, Tellabs, and Telx.

• OIF Carrier SDN Drivers Session. The Optical Inter-networking Forum addressed the drivers for carrierSDN in optical/transport networks.

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• FTTX Session Organized by The Light Brigade. A ses-sion to educate and address options on the types ofactive and passive components and splitter locationsused in FTTH networks.

• Ethernet Alliance Program. Ethernet Alliance is aglobal community of ehternet end users. Topics ontrends in interconnects and integration and the needfor speed at 40G/100G.

• Service Provider Summit. Telx’s Joe Weinman pre-sented the keynote on “What Cloudonomics Meansfor the Network.” Speakers from Sprint, TDC, Level3,Sidera, XO Communications and Zay discussed“Monetizing the Network” and “Acquisition and Inte-gration Strategies.”

• Workshop on Photonic Startups and Entrepreneur-ship. Erik Pennings of 7-Pennies hosted a panelwith Acacia, One Chip, Cyan, Pilot Photonics andIntune Networks on what is required for a pho-tonic start-up, from the proper channels for fund-ing to the statement that a good mentor is essential.

Showfloor Panel on startups.

• Branding Your Digital Self: Using Social Media to PutYour Best Foot Forward in Today’s Optics Industry.

• OpSIS Silicon Photonics Design Seminar. The OpSISMPW Foundry presented the latest on their photonicdevice developments and costs involved in develop-ing and processing silicon photonics R&D prototypechips, including a demonstration of the design tools.

• POF Symposium. What Cloudonomics Means for theNetwork. Panel I: Monetizing the Network: AchievingValue out of Infrastructure; Panelists examined issuessuch as whether big data can help service providersin today’s economy as they look to squeeze the mostrevenue as possible from their assets, while only in-vesting in new infrastructure that has the fastest-possible ROI.Panel II: Acquisition and Integration Strategies:

Consolidation in the Service Provider Realm. Thispanel explored acquisition and integration in the SPrealm. Is today’s environment is more or less likely tospur consolidation?, as well as what makes a success-ful acquisition for all parties involved.

The exhibition, discussions.

3 MarketWatch

A number of panels discussed what technologies willbe used or become dominant in the next few years,i.e. where will the market go.

• State of the Industry. Industry experts discussed howthe optical networks industry is doing in the currenteconomical environment.

• High Speed Pluggable Optics for Data Centers. Datacenters and super data centers have experiencedrapid development in recent years. What is the lat-est industry status? When will 100G pluggable opticsbecome dominant? What is the outlook for the nextfive years?

• Components Looking for the "Booster Rocket”. Theburden of supporting faster traffic at lower cost ul-timately rests on advances in component technol-ogy. As data rates push to 100G and beyond, the mar-ket is being forced to consider dramatically new ap-proaches to increase per lane speeds while keepingcosts down. Is the key integration? Is it more elec-tronics processing? Is it volume consolidation?

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• Metro 100G Applications. 100G transport has beenemerging as a long haul transport new normal ap-proach. Verizon announced the massive metro 100Gdevelopment will start from 2013. What will happenfor the metro 100G? Is the standard PM-QPSK will ex-tend from LH to metro? How about 16QAM? Is there aroom for direct detection based metro 100G solution?

• Packet Optical Convergence. After a 10G non-startand 40G test water for IPoWDM, packet optical iscoming back with 100G using coherent solutions.What will be the major benefit for packet optical con-vergence? Are there clear paths specified by stan-dards?

A large crowd showed up for the Rump Session onSilicon Photonics.

3.1 Rump Session on silicon photonics

A special event on where the market may go was a rumpsession, i.e. an atypical session driven by spontaneousaudience presentations and discussion (either submit-ted in advance or on the spot) and built around a con-troversial topic in industry. This years session was “Sil-icon Photonics: Disruptive Technology or ResearchCuriosity”, organized by Micheal Hochberg from Op-sis. The interest for Integrated Photonics, and whetherit unlocks a new future, was clearly demonstrated. Inthe room across to the conference dinner, the seatingwas for 250 people and 500 showed up in an event thatlasted over two hours, despite only few people came

prepared with slides. Although industry representa-tives did not seem to show all their cards, there seemedto be the wide spread believe that silicon photonics willplay a significant role in some of the fields where it istrendy now, but work remains before it will be fully ma-ture, on the software level (design kits) as well as on thetechnology level (efficient lasers).

4 Technical sessions

Technical sessions provided attendees with insightsinto the latest research being conducted at top insti-tutions worldwide. With over 800 technical presen-tations in up to 11 parallel sessions, the OFC/NFOECvisitor is forced to make hard choices. The most well-attended program, the Plenary and Awards Session,featured three high-level speakers on three diverse top-ics. Caio Bonilha, president and CEO of Brazil’s state-owned service provider Telebras discussed the coun-try’s efforts to establish a national broadband net-work amid varying challenges, such as deploymentin and amongst the Amazon terrain. Stanford’s NickMcKeown, credited with co-inventing software-definednetworking, gave insights into what exactly SDN andOpenFlow is and what it will mean for future networks.ADVA Optical Networking CEO Brian Protiva gave acomprehensive look at the coming transformation ofthe network, from growth drivers and state of the in-dustry to specific solutions needed to meet future chal-lenges. Some other key presentations are highlightedin the next subsections with some emphasis on inte-grated photonics (paper number in brackets).

The exhibition.

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4.1 Integrated Photonics

Integrated photonics is finding its way at an increas-ing pace into advanced commercial products, as theexhibit showed. To have an idea what comes next, thetechnical talks give an good indication. Main technolo-gies are Silicon and InP. Silicon Photonics is CMOScompatible, while searching for the breakthrough toincorporate good lasers. InP-based devices are un-matched regarding the very versatile range of build-ing blocks, including commercial grade lasers, but itlacks the leverage of existing CMOS infrastructure. AlsoPolymer-based devices with hybrid InP integration forgain showed state of the art performance.

• Progress in Polymer-Based Components for Next-Generation PON Applications (Norbert Keil, Fraun-hofer HHI, Germany). A demonstration of poly-mer components for next-generation WDM PON incl.8 ch OLT-Tx and OLT-Rx devices using polymer AWGsand InP-based DFB laser and photo diode arrays to-gether with a 40 nm wide tunable InP/polymer Bragggrating laser. (OW1A.3)

• A Novel Photonic Integrated Regenerator (NicolaAndriolli, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Italy). All opti-cal regeneration on an InP Photonics IC was demon-strated at 10 Gb/s based on cross gain suppression inSOAs. The conversion conserved the wavelength ofthe input and offered an additional wavelength con-verted copy of the input. (OW3J.4)

• Demonstration of Cascaded Operation of Active-Passive Integrated 4×4 SOA Switches with On-ChipMonitoring for Power Control and Energy Consump-tion Optimization (K. Wang, Univ. of Cambridge,UK). A 4x4 switch as a component for 16x16 switchmatrices was demonstrated on an InP Photonic IC.The switch employed integrated power monitors andwas optimized for low power consumption with apredicted 3.5 W for the 16x16 matrix. (OW3J.1)

• High-Efficient InP-Based Balanced Photodiodes In-tegrated with 90◦ Hybrid MMI for Compact 100 Gb/sCoherent Receiver (Hideki Yagi, Sumitomo ElectricIndustries, Japan). A monolithic receiver with an2x4 MMI was demonstrated using Dual-Polarization-QPSK. It had a responsivity of 0.14 A/W and a 3 dBbandwidth of the photodiodes of 22 Hz. (OW3J.5)

• Coherent Receiver Chips (Martin Schell, FraunhoferHHI, Germany). A comparison of coherent receiverPICs in monolithic InP and in hybrid integration withpolymers for 100G Ethernet. InP solutions are moresuitable for high-speed and high-power, whereas thehybrids may be better for polarization multiplexingand tunable local oscillators. (OW3J.6)

• 112 Gb/s DP-QPSK Transmission Over 2427 kmSSMF Using Small-Size Silicon Photonic IQ Modu-lator and Low-Power CMOS Driver (Biljana Milivoje-vic, Cisco Optical GmbH, Germany). This modulatordemonstrates comparable performance relative to acommercial LiNbO3 modulator. (OTh1D.1)

• Adiabatic Microring Modulators (Aleksandr Biber-man, MIT, USA). Silicon microring modulators yield-ing a 6.92 THz (56.12 nm) free spectral range. Mod-ulations of up to 12.5 Gb.s were demonstrated.(OW4J.1)

• Silicon Microring Modulators for Advanced Mod-ulation Formats (Po Dong, Alcatel-Lucent, USA). A56 Gb/s QPSK signal generated by two nested siliconmicroring modulators. (OWJ4.2)

• 60 Gbit/s Silicon Modulators with Enhanced Electro-optical Efficiency (Xi Xiao, Chinese Academy of Sci-ences, China). Microring resonator modulators andMZI modulators are compared. Suitable for WDMapplications and demonstrated at 4x50 GHz in a cas-caded configuration. (OW4J.3)

• 40 Gbit/s germanium waveguide photodiode (Lau-rent Vivien, CNRS, France). High speed Ge photode-tectors integrated in Si waveguides with very low darkcurrent (25 nA @-1 V). 40 Gbit/s operation under zerobias has been reported at a wavelength of 1.55 um.(OM2J.3)

• III-V Quantum Dot Laser Growth on Silicon andGermanium (Andrew Lee, Univ. College London,UK). Studies of the development of room tempera-ture continuous-wave lasers near 1.3 um on both sil-icon and germanium substrates with threshold cur-rents near 100 mA. (OM3K.1)

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Presentation at InP chips session.

4.2 SDN

Software defined Networking (SDN) comes down toseparating the control plane from the forwarding plane.The benefits are control abstraction, be able to adoptsoftware engineering best practices, and it is easier toadd new control programs. In addition, the networkcan be customized locally, and the traffic distributioncan be solved once rather then for every protocol sepa-rately. It is suitable for any network: Packet, Circuit andRadio. Very importantly, it allows for horizontal inte-gration with open interfaces between planes, in steadof vertical integration

• Software Defined Optical Networks Technology andInfrastructure: Enabling Software-Defined OpticalNetwork Operations (Dimitra Simeonidou, Depart-ment of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Univ. ofBristol, UK). Software defined networking or SDN isdefined as a control framework that supports pro-grammability of network functions and protocols bydecoupling the data plane and the control plane,which are currently integrated vertically in most net-work equipment. The SDN technology allows the un-derlying infrastructure to be abstracted that can beused by applications and network services as a vir-tual entity. This paper introduces a control plane ar-chitecture based on OpenFlow (an open standard)for software defined optical networks and demon-strates improved path setup times and control sta-bility when OpenFlow is applied directly to opticaltransport technologies. (OTh1H.3)

• Software-defined Transport Network for Cloud

Computing (Jianfei He, Huawei, China). Core net-works need to convey distinct DC-to-DC (DataCen-ter) traffic for cloud computing. To meet this require-ment, software defined optical transport networkis introduced with an intelligent and open controlplane and a flexible data plane, which can provideconnections with variable bandwidth. (OTh1H.6)

4.3 Datacenters and interconnects

Big challenges for datacenters are energy efficiency,multi-mode versus mono mode optical links and ex-tending these links from the centimeters range to 100sof meters.

• Network Energy Efficiency in the Data Center (MikeBennett, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,USA). This paper examines the motivation for energy-efficient networking in data centers and the roleenergy-efficient Ethernet could have in making thedata center network energy-proportional when com-bined with optical network technology. (OM2H.1)

• Network Services Interface: An Interface for Re-questing Dynamic Inter-datacenter Networks (To-mohiro Kudoh, AIST, Japan; DANTE, UK; ESnet, USA).The Network Services Interface Working Group in theOpen Grid Forum has been working to define an openinterface standard to enable interoperability betweendynamic circuit services, which can be used for inter-datacenter networking. (OM2D.3)

4.4 Multi core fibers

Space division multiplexing (SDM) over multi-corefiber (MCF) and few-mode fiber (FMF) is an attractivetechnology to overcome the capacity limit of the cur-rent optical communication systems. The potential ofSDM has been demonstrated through transmission ex-periments.

• Recent Progress in Multi-core and Few-mode Fiber(Shoichiro Matsuo, Fujikura, Japan). This paper re-views research activities concerning multi-core fiber,few-mode fiber and few-mode multi-core fiber. Thecharacteristic of the 12-core fiber that was used forthe first 1-Pb/s/fiber transmission experiments ispresented. (OM3I.3)

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• Automated Alignment and Splicing for MulticoreFibers, (Wenxin Zheng, AFL Telecom- munications,USA). A novel method for aligning multi-core fibers(MCF) provides a systematic approach for MCF splic-ing in the lab, in cable factories, and in the field.This method also provides possibility of loss estima-tion for side-cores using IPA method and central corewith WSI images. (OM3I.4)

4.5 High Speed Communication

High speed has a different meaning in various fields:

• 35-Gb/s VCSEL Optical Link Using 32-nm SOI CMOSCircuits (Jonathan Presley, IBM, USA). An optical linkthat enables massive amounts of data to be transmit-ted in supercomputers, which cuts supercomputerpower consumption by more than half. Link powerefficiencies of 1 pJ/bit at 25 Gb/s and 2.7 pJ/bit at35 Gb/s are achieved. (OM2H.2)

• 320 GB/s All Optical Clock Recovery (Nicola Cal-abretta, Eindhoven Univ. of Technology, Nether-lands). Clock recovery and time demultiplexing (to40 Gb/s) for high-speed transmission systems wasdemonstrated, error free at 1 dB power penalty us-ing low power, small footprint quantum-dot mode-locked lasers, rather than phased-locked loops.(OTh4D.5)

• 30.58 Tb/s Transmission over 7,230 km using PDMHalf 4D-16QAM Coded Modulation with 6.1 b/s/HzSpectral Efficiency (Hongbin Zhang, Tyco SubseaCommunications, USA). (OTu2B.3)

Poster session in the exhibition hall.

5 Workshops

The conference offered 50+ short courses and 12 three-hour workshops on various topics. To give an impres-sion, some workshops are listed below (with organiz-ers in brackets). A hot topic was Spatial-Division Multi-plexing (SDM).

• Laser Sources for Silicon Photonics: Overcomingthe Final Bottleneck. In this work shop leading ex-perts from Intel, MIT, IMEC, o.a. presented theiropinions on the most promising laser source, if any,for CMOS compatible Silicon Photonics. The activ-ity in this field was later demonstrated in the post-deadline session, where about five papers presentedapproaches that could lead to efficient lasers (Lim-ing Zhang, Alcatel-Lucent, USA; Jonathan Klamkin,Scualo Superiore, Sant’Anna, Italy).

• Can Access Networks Afford to be Wavelength Ag-ile? Next generation access systems (especially PON)will deploy multiple wavelengths. The optical distri-bution network (ODN) is equally vital. (Klaus Grobe,ADVA, Germany; Micheal Wale, Oclaro, UK)

• Is the Technology There for SDM? On the optionsof Spatial-Division Multiplexing with multicore andmultimode fibers. From system architecture to SDMfiber amplifiers. (Kazi Abedin, OFS, USA; Anping Liu,Corning, USA; William Shieh, Univ. Melbourne, Aus-tralia; Masatoshi Susiki KDDI, Japan)

• If the Technology for SDM Exists, Do We Want toUse It? About the cost and competitiveness ofSDM. (Chongjin Xie, Bell Labs, USA; Georgios Zervas,Univ. of Bristol, UK)

• What Is the Best Technology for Wavelength- andSpace-division Cross Connects? Planar LightwaveCircuits (PLC) loose terrain to LCOS and MEMS inadd-drop multiplexers, but coherent receivers maychange this. (Chris Doerr, Acacia, USA; Roland Ryf,Bell Labs, USA)

• Will Flexgrid Networks be Worth the Investment forJust 30% Improvement? (Akira Hirano, NTT, Japan;Hans-Juergen Schmidtke Juniper, USA; Luis Velasco,Univ. Poli. de Catalunya, Spain)

• Paths to Additional 3dB Capacity Performance GainHow Far Can We Go and Is It Worth the Price? (Chris

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Fludger Cisco, USA; Ezra Ip, NEC, USA; GabriellaBosco Politechnico de Torino, Italy)

• Does Analog Photonics Have a Role in a DigitalWorld? Analog photonics have a big role in spe-cial purpose links, e.g. militairy and radio astronomy.(Paul Juodawlkis, MIT-LL, USA; Michael Sauer, Corn-ing, USA)

• SDN in Large Backbone Networks: Is There a Fit?Software Defined Networking is the most hyped net-work technology having an extremely broad scope,which reflects the flexibility of the concept. (EdCrabbe, Google, USA; Dave Ward, Cisco, USA)

6 OFC/NFOEC-2014

For anyone with an interest in photonics that wishes to experience the richness of OFC/NFOEC, to exhibit thereor present, the next chance to catch one is 2014:

Technical Conference 9-13 March 2014Exposition 11-13 March 2014Moscone Convention Center,San Francisco, California, USA

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About EPIC – European Photonics Industry Consortium

EPIC is a membership-led not-for-profit industry association that promotes the sustainable developmentof organisations working in the field of photonics. Our members encompass the entire value chainfrom LED lighting, PV solar energy, Silicon photonics, Optical components, Lasers, Sensors, Displays,Projectors, Optic fiber, and other photonic related technologies. We foster a vibrant photonics ecosystemby maintaining a strong network and acting as a catalyst and facilitator for technological and commercialadvancement. www.epic-assoc.com

EPIC Members (1 July 2013)

3S Photonics Group, ACREO Research Center, Advanced Fibre Optic Engineering, AIFOTEC Fiberoptics,AIM Infrarot-Module, AIXTRON SE, ALEDIA, ALPHA Route des Lasers, Alphanov, ALSI, Amplitude Systèmes,ASE Europe, ASE Optics Europe, BRIGHT Photonics, CD6, CEA-LETI, Centre for Nanophotonics FOM,Centre for Physical Sciences & Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, CIP Centre for IntegratedPhotonics, COBRA Research School, CSEM, DIAFIR, Dow-Corning, Edmund Optics, Eolite Systems, ESP KTN,EXALOS, ficonTEC Services, Fraunhofer for Solar Energy Systems, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics andEngineering, Fraunhofer Institute for Laser Technology, Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology,Fraunhofer Institute for Reliability and Microintegration, Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute, Haute EcoleARC , Heraeus Noblelight, Horiba Jobin Yvon, IBAKH, ICFO - Institute of Photonic Sciences, IDIL FibresOptiques, IHP Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics , Imagine Optic, Innolume, INTEC Departmentof Information Technology, IQE, IREC - Catalonia Institute for Energy Reseach, iXFiber, KONICA MINOLTA,Laser & Medical Devices Consulting, Laser Diagnostic Instruments, Laser World of Photonics, LayTec, LioniX,Microelectronics Institute of Barcelona/CSIC, Multitel, Next Scan Technology, nlight, NOVAE , Oclaro, Onefive,ONERA Security & European Defence Business , OpTecBB, Opticsvalley, Optoelectronics Research Centre Finland,Photonics Bretagne, Pie Photonics, PNO Consultants, PolyPhotonix, PopSud, Quantel, Quebec Photonic Network,Robert Bosch, Rofin Sinar Laser, SAES Getters, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, SECPhO, SMART Photonics, SOITEC,SPI Lasers, STMicroelectronics, Süss MicroOptics, SWISSPHOTONICS, Technical University of Berlin , Time-Bandwidth Products, TNO, u2t Photonics, University College London, University of Barcelona, University ofSheffield, Vertilas, VI Systems GmbH, VLC Photonics, VTT, WJA Electron, Wroclaw University of Technology,Yenista, Yole Développement, Zumtobel / Tridonic.

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