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MINIFORO CYTED IBEROEKA June 9, 2008. CONFIDENTIAL. Summary. DAS Photonics profile Development lines Possible collaborations Experience in EU funded projects. CONFIDENTIAL. Profile.
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MINIFORO CYTED IBEROEKA June 9, 2008 CONFIDENTIAL
Summary • DAS Photonics profile • Development lines • Possible collaborations • Experience in EU funded projects CONFIDENTIAL
Profile • Spin-off from the Valencia Nanophotonics Technology Centre (NTC) at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. • Target markets: • Defence and security • Avionics • Space • Telecom • AIM: development of innovative products based on proprietary photonics technology towards our target markets. CONFIDENTIAL
Evolution • 2005: creation of DAS PHOTONICS S.L. • guiding the knowledge and expertise from the NTC throughout two decades of research in the field • our strategic spin-off link enables access to the extraordinary facility of the NTC for micro/nanofabrication on silicon and the collaboration from a human team of more than 70 researchers in the stat-of-the art of the technology • 2006: first financing round of DAS incorporating... • FERMAX Electrónica (industrial partner) • Caixa Capital Semilla S.C.R. (“La Caixa” group) • Principia Technology Group (spin-off from the MIT) • Polytechnic University of Valencia (strategic collaboration agreement) • TODAY • DAS counts on a human team of 26 employees, including 23 university graduates, engineers and PhD’s, mainly in the field of Telecom/Electrical Engineering with strong industrial experience in companies like (IBM, Celestica, Hewlett-Packard, INDRA, Rymsa,…) CONFIDENTIAL
DAS-NTC FACILITIES • DAS-NTC facilities located at Valencia • Unique capabilities in Spain. Well reputed in Europe • Industrial Nanophotonics line for Silicon Optics • System Labs • Test & Characterizations Labs • 500 m2 Clean Room. Class 10-100-10.000 • ISO 9001:2000 CONFIDENTIAL
Technology • SILICON PHOTONICS • Photonic Integrated Circuits (PICs) • fabless approach • NTC nanofab facility • up to 10nm resolution • class 10-100-10.000 clean room • SYSTEM INTEGRATION • implementing innovative solutions from both own and COTS devices proprietary fabrication processes CONFIDENTIAL
Development Lines • RADIO FREQUENCY • W3P • WEIRD • OPTICAL INTERCONNECTS • MICROWAVE PHOTONICS DISTRIBUTION (radio-over-fibre) • PHOTONIC SENSORS • SIGNAL PROCESSING • OPTICAL BEAMFORMING • PHOTONIC INTEGRATRED DEVICES • PHOTONIC ADC
Possible Collaboration Projects • W3P: Deliver “Triple Play” (television, voice and data) services to extend, in a flexible and transparent way, CATV networks through a wireless RF interface in the 3.5GHz band, allowing broadband services on spread residential areas where current network deployments are not financial viable • WEIRD: WiMAX in-building deployment based on Radio over Fiber Technology • TELE PERSONAL MEDICINE: Based on nanobiosensors for personal diagnosis provide a new service for Telemedicine in collaboration with Hospitals and service providers CONFIDENTIAL
W3P W3P CONFIDENTIAL
W3P Partners • CATV Operator • Business case development • Functional specs • Define contents to be delivered and current CPEs (cablemodem and STB) personalization • Trial definition and deployment • Customer feedback • Validation based on field trial • Telecommunication consultant • How to extend W3P to other markets / cable operators • Legislation related with w3p in other countries and possible standardization opportunities • Specs related with legal issues • Develop final exploitation plan CONFIDENTIAL
WEIRD CONFIDENTIAL
NANOBIOSENSORS • In-Vitro diagnosis: • Quick • Multianalisis • No marking • Good sensibility • Increase reliability • Portable • Easy of use • Low cost • Disposable sensing transducer • Near patient testing • Videoconference for remote results monitoring Ultrahighsensitivityphotonicnanosensors CONFIDENTIAL
Current EC projects • WEIRD: EC FP6 Wireless Extension of Isolated Research Data Networks. Development of radio-over-fibre modules for the transmission of WiMAX signals in the 3.5GHz band • UCELLS: EC FP7 Ultra wide band spectral monitoring of RF signal, in real time and using a unique device, bandwidths of tens of GHz with extremely good dynamic ranges • HELIOS: EC FP7 pHotonicsELectronics functional Integration on CMOS (HELIOS): integrate photonics components with integrated circuits as a joint effort of major players of the European CMOS Photonics community, in order to enable an integrated design and fabrication chain that can be transferred to EU manufacturers CONFIDENTIAL