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You'll find Luxmux’s presentation en page 15 under MEMS / PHOTONICS

GERMAN-CANADIAN Symposium - 24October 2016, MUNICH
http://www.tumtech.de/uploads/pdfs/GCCIR%202016/Alberta%20Company%20Profiles.pdf

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Dear lumenge

please (thanks go to robvanhooren)
https://light2015blog.org/2015/04/14/enlightened-moments/

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and

"We are also in the R&D stage of a very exciting single frequency laser that could potentially change the face of the telecom industry."

Uppsss .....

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BioPhotonics - Power, Price and Portability by Editor James Schlett

Power is not everything. If it costs too much, too few may wield it. And if it restricts freedom, it will only be tolerated for so long. This is especially true in the years-old competition between lasers and LEDs. These photonics technologies have vied to be light sources in many applications, and brain research is emerging to be a major battleground for them. Over the years, LEDs have relied on their low price to make up for their lack of power, which is lasers’ forte. While LEDs’ low cost has gotten them far and their power is increasing, it has not come far enough to oust lasers in fields such as optogenetics and diagnostics, particularly when it’s acceptable for test subjects to be restrained. However, as two feature articles in this month’s issue highlight, the introduction of portability, namely in the form of test subjects’ ability to freely move around, could help balance LEDs’ power-price dynamic.

In “LEDs and Lasers Battle for Dominance in Brain Research,” contributing editor Marie Freebody examines how LEDs are gaining ground in optogenetics not only because they are cheap but also because of their flexibility. LEDs can be implanted into tissue and their light delivery can be wirelessly controlled, enabling the observation of neural circuits of freely moving and interacting mice. Similarly, Arthur DiMartino of TechEn in “Near Infrared Spectroscopy: Delving Deeper in the Brain,” describes how LEDs are driving down the costs of near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) brain monitoring systems while also advancing researchers’ understanding of seniors’ and children’s cognition, and mobility of children through the use of wireless NIRS headbands. With these trends, in part spurred by LEDs, he says, “From daily fitness monitors to continuous medical brain monitors, NIRS technology in everyday devices will matter, and will be transformative for years to come.”

Oct 2016, BioPhotonics, James Schlett - Power, Price and Portability
https://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61215

oct 2016, BioPhotonics,  Arthur DiMartino of TechEn -  “Near-Infrared Spectroscopy: Delving Deeper in the Brain,” http://www.photonics.com/Article.aspx?AID=61072&PID=1&VID=138&IID=905

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The Holk, TF1

You are welcome - isn't it nice, for the first time a almost monolytic integrated tech is presented to the forum and as we dig up the information we are looking at patents hold by Mr. Musk, BB Photonics, today POET Technologies.

And Dr. Venkatesan has already informed us about the next steps in regard to BB Photonics integration

THM 00:23:09 – The technology like I said itself is integration. On the POET side we’ve got our first integrated opto-electronic platform that we are working to monetize. And on the indium phosphide side we now have access to quantum-well intermixing technology that DenseLight has invented several years ago, that allows us to create integrated photonic ICs. Then with BB Photonics now we’ve got a new integrated dielectric solution that allows us to differentiate our roadmap. There’s tremendous interest in that kind of technology for most customers that are dealing with what they call Dense WDM system, or Wavelength Division Multiplexing. That’s basically a scenario where you can have lasers with multiple wavelengths coexist on a chip. So that’s really what we’re going to be talking about going downstream with some of these acquisitions and IP. But the common theme in everything that we will build will be integration and we will strive towards integration in everything we do going forward, because that really is the next wave of photonics.

THM 00:29:42 – The other thing we’re working at, we talked about it in the press release, is a new technology with BB Photonics called athermal. We call it wavelength-stabilized. Basically, most lasers require cooling at the system level, because if you don’t cool it the wavelength drifts as a function of temperature. But if you have IP or technology that allows you to stabilize the wavelength as a function of temperature then you can really lower the system costs, because now you don’t need to provide the cooling solution and now you can space your wavelengths really close to each other, which is what BB Photonics brings into play and there is a lot of interest in that technology from big OEMs in the US as well as in Asia. And indium phosphide photonics integration which we talked about.

Further it seems Mr. Musk has always been very involved in all European Photonics Initiatives, be it with Paradigme or today EPIC.

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The Holk

please see EFFECT Photonics patents and patents applications

here the last one:

Optical subassembly, optical system and method
Patent number: 9488785
Abstract: Disclosed is an optical subassembly (1) including a carrier substrate (2), a photonic integrated circuit (3) (PIC) including a first optical waveguide (4) having a first longitudinal central axis, the PIC being arranged on the carrier substrate, an external optical system (5) including a second optical waveguide (6) having a second longitudinal central axis, a component (7) for supporting the external optical system on the carrier substrate and maintaining alignment of the first and second longitudinal central axes with respect to each other, and an adhesive material (8, 9) being arranged between the component and the carrier substrate and between the component and the external optical system, the adhesive material having a total thickness of less than 10 ?m. Also disclosed is an optical system (12) including such optical subassembly and a method of fabricating such optical subassembly.
Type: Grant
Filed: July 24, 2014
Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
Assignee: EFFECT PHOTONICS B.V.
Inventor: Robert William Musk - Please see Rainer's post here

http://patents.justia.com/assignee/effect-photonics-b-v

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