EPIC Newsletter October 2012 Volume 9

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In This Newsletter EDITORIAL Titele 1 NEWS HORIBA Article2 New Members MARKET REPORTS Photovoltaic LED Components ACTIVITIES ANNOUNCEMENTS AGM 2013 -5 March EVENTS REPORTS EVENTS EPIC Biophotonics Workshop EPIC Business Roundtable on Photonic Sensors Upcoming Partner Events

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NEW MEMBERS

Southern European Cluster in Photonics and Optics (SECPhO) is a business oriented cluster initiative for the optics and photonics sector, bringing together Large Enterprises SMEs, and research centers around this fundamental idea: Improve competitiveness in the Photonics and Optics sector in Southern Europe. SECPhO is a not-for-profit organization founded in April 2009 located in Terrassa (Barcelona) Spain. EPIC contact: Andrs Cifuentes Email: acifuentes@secpho.org Website: www.secpho.net

Diafir, created in June 2011, has designed an innovative diagnostic system as an alternative to biopsy. Ensued from the results of the Glass and Ceramic Lab of the Rennes 1 University and Inserm, the diagnostic system is based on a patented IR sensor which enables identifying a sound or pathological environment by a simple contact. EPIC contact: Hugues Tariel, CEO Email: hugues.tariel@diafir.com Website: www.diafir.com

Soitec is the world leader in generating and manufacturing revolutionary semiconductor materials for electronic and energy industries. Soitec is developing and manufacturing SOI (Silicon-onInsulator) materials. Soitec is a truly international company, with R&D and industrial manufacturing activities in France, Germany, Singapore, and the United States with headquarters in Bernin, near Grenoble, France. EPIC contact: Nelly Kernevez, Partnership Director Email: nelly.kernevez@soitec.com Website: www.soitec.com

Zumtobel has decided to expand its EPIC membership to the entire company, not only Tridonic. Zumtobel is an internationally leading supplier of integral lighting solutions for professional indoor and outdoor building lighting applications. As an innovation leader, Zumtobel supplies an extensive range of premium luminaires and lighting control systems for various professional building lighting application areas. Zumtobel is located in Dornbirn, Austria and has an international customer presence thanks to its own sales organisations in 23 countries and commercial agencies in more than 50 other countries. EPIC contact: Heinz Seyringer Email: Heinz.Seyringer@zumtobel.com Website: www.zumtobel.com

VLC Photonics is a spin-off company from the Telecommunications and Multimedia Applications Institute (iTEAM) located at the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, where was developed research in optical systems, photonic signal processing and photonic integrated circuits for more than 20 years. Created in 2011, VLC Photonics is devoted to the design and manufacture of custom photonic integrated circuits, that would allow anyone to access the advantages of photonic integration without the need of a deep expertise and investment in the field. EPIC contact: Iigo Artundo Martinez, Chief Marketing Officer Email: inigo.artundo@vlcphotonics.com Website: www.vlcphotonics.com

The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE conducts research on the technology needed to supply energy efficiently and on an environmentally sound basis in industrialised, threshold and developing countries. To this purpose, the Institute develops systems, components, materials and processes in the areas of the thermal use of solar energy, solar building, solar cells, electrical power supplies, chemical energy conversion, energy storage and the rational use of energy. The Fraunhofer ISE is located in Freiburg, Germany. EPIC contact: Prof. Eicke R. Weber, Director Email: Stephanie.Wieschmann@ise.fraunhofer.de Website: www.ise.fraunhofer.de/en

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EPIC MEMBERS NEWS

HORIBA EUROPE Opens its Research Center in the Paris-Saclay Science-Pole
Your contact: Didier-Luc Brunet at Didier-luc.brunet@horiba.com On 15 September 2012, HORIBA Europe inaugurated its new research and technology center at the Saclay Technopole. Atsushi Horiba, President of the HORIBA Group cut the ribbon opening the doors to scientific innovation and cooperation center. The new center boasts 7500 m2 of operations space with the possibility to expand to 18000 m2 in the future. The center is the headquarter for the HORIBA Group in Europe, heading up 1700 employees in France, Germany and the UK, as well as the R&D activities of HORIBA Jobin Yvon, specialist in scientific instrumentation, Genoptics, specialist in biophotonics, and HORIBA Medical, specialist in haematology. HORIBA Jobin Yvon is a real patriarch of the optics industry, being founded in Paris in 1819 in order to produce optical lenses design by Augustin Fresnel. Today, HORIBA Jobin Yvon is a world leader in the production of precision diffraction gratings, and scientific instrumentation and diagnostics based on optics and photonics.
Newly-opened HORIBA Europe Headquarters at Saclay

Atsushi Horiba (2 from the right), Group President cuts the ribbon opening the 6500 m2 center. Others present are the Ambassador of Japan in France, the President of the Paris Saclay community, the VicePresident of the Essonne Regional Council, the Mayor of Palaiseau and the Prefect of Essonne

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HORIBAs location in the Science Pole anticipates cooperation with scientific research organisations such as the Institute of Optics, the Ecole Polytechnique, the Soleil Synchrotron, and the Extreme Light Institute, as well as with companies like Thales TRT and Danone and a cluster of start-up companies. HORIBA produces products for five main commercial markets: sciences, environment, medical analysis (European leader for blood analysis), automotive diagnosis (80% of the world market for exhaust gas analysis), and semiconductors (mass-flow controllers). Its annual revenues topped 1.1 billion euros in 2011.

EPIC Opens Office in Brussels

EPIC has opened an office in Brussels to establish a closer collaboration with the European Commission, European Parliament, European Council, as well as other European stakeholders, to more intensively advocate the interests of its members. Visit us at: 14 Rue de la Science, 7th floor 1040 Brussels, Belgium Tel: +32 473300433

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Amplitude Systemes Named International Company of the Year
Amplitudes Systmes and its CEO, Eric Mottay, received the award for the International Company, South West region, from Ernst & Young and 'l'Express' magazine. The Entrepreneur of the Year is a prestigious award, created in 1986 and running in more than 140 towns in 50 countries. www.amplitudesystemes.com a split optic and semi-automated subroutines for the operator to manually adjust while reaching high precision thermal bonds. The die bonder is the ideal tool for lower throughput productions or for R&D. www.ficontec.com

Innolume announces next generation of Quantum Dot based LD-12XX-series laser diode
Keeping output characteristics the same - 350mW kink-free output power and Fiber Bragg Grating stabilized spectrum in 1180nm up to 1270nm wavelength range, new LD-12XX-series lasers has substantially improved wall-plug efficiency. The main differentiation compared to the previous generation is a higher operating temperature of the laser chip which allowed shifting the maximum of wall-plug efficiency to higher environment temperatures. As a result, the wall-plug efficiency of the butterfly packaged laser including TEC (thermoelectric cooler) exceeds 16% at 40C case temperature which is typical for the environment in PON equipment racks and by that leading to a significant reduction of power consumption. This optimization supports our customers in further improving of their products already introduced to the market, says Guido Vogel, Managing Director of Innolume, and by that bring even more benefits of Raman based GPON Reach Extension to network operators compared to conventional Reach Extenders based on Semiconductor Optical Amplifiers (SOA). www.innolume.com

IREC (Catalunya Institute for Energy Research) Involved in LED4ART

The illumination of art certainly belongs to one of the most ambitious tasks in interior lighting with respect to requirements towards the light quality. Thus in many museums today, the existing lighting installations lack energy efficiency as it is considered less important compared to lighting quality or design. In this pilot project a consortium of 6 partners, including EPIC member IREC, from 5 countries plan to demonstrate and prove that both, a superior light quality and high energy efficiency, can be realized. This goal will be reached by replacing the existing illumination system of the Sistine Chapel by latest LED illumination systems developed especially for art. www.led4art.eu

ficonTEC now provides a thermocompression die bonder as well as a semi-automatic tabletop die bonder
The number of upcoming applications in the broad area of micro assembly tasks which are or need to be automated is rapidly increasing. Within, the larger variety of handled components, bond materials, and most importantly assembly processes call for new and innovative tools. To serve that demand ficonTEC released two brand new products. The BL100 is a eutectic die bonder which expands ficonTEC's die bonder product family to the more manually operated side. The table-top BL100 utilizes

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EPIC MEMBERS NEWS

White Paper Towards Fabless Photonic Integration
VLC Photonics has released a new whitepaper entitled "Towards fabless photonic integration." In this paper, Pascual Muoz, CEO of the company, describes the emerging business model of pure-play photonic foundries and design-houses for multiple technological platforms, like InP, SiN, and Silicon Photonics (SOI). Moreover, it discusses current and future trends in the field of generic integration at a European and global level. The whitepaper is freely available as a download from VLC Photonics' website. http://www.vlcphotonics.com/technologies/Fabless _Integration_WP_v1.0.pdf

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TECHNOLOGY AND MARKET REPORTS

Analysis and Study - Value Chain Mapping of EPIC members
This report has been written by Thierry Robin and Jacques Cochard of Tematys Consulting with the goal of mapping EPIC members positioning and statistical analysis of EPIC members.

Photovoltaic Report
Photovoltaic industry revenues reached a record $US 93 billion in 2011, a 13.4% increase over $US 82 billion in 2010, and a 150% increase over revenues in 2009. World-wide, 27.4 Gwatts of PV were installed, bringing cumulative PV electrical generation capacity to 68 Gwatts at the end of 2011. Our data show that installations grew by 56% compared to 2010. Europe remains the leader for deployment, accounting for more than 63% of the PV installations world-wide. These percentage figures are lower than those for 2010, and they indicate the growing importance of PV markets outside of Europe, and in particular in China. For the first time ever, more PV generating power was installed in Europe than any other energy source, surpassing both natural gas and wind turbine generation.

Worldwide Market Statistic Data

Every year the International Optoelectronics Association meets to share market data for photonics from Asia, North America and Europe. The result is an unusually complete view of photonics commercial markets world-wide. Reports from Japan and Taiwan underlined the slow-down due to the flat-panel display market that drives photonics activities in Asia. Contact us to receive the presentations which all contain valuable intelligence! Material from Canada, Europe, Germany, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, UK , USA.

17th meeting of the International Optoelectronics Association in Yokohama. The next meeting will take place in Brussels in conjunction with EPICs 10th Anniversary event on 13 December 2013.

More than 40 Gwatts of new electrical energy installations were completed in Europe in 2011. Photovoltaic power was the leading product. Renewables account for 67% of the total mix.

LED Manufacturing and Market Report

This report has been written by YOLE Dveloppement with the help of EPIC members and presents a detailed analysis of front-end LED manufacturing processes, equipment and design trends. Each report contains over 300 slides of valuable and up-to-date data. The LED report are available to EPIC members as part of their membership benefits.

In terms of production, inventories at the end of 2011 amounted to less than 1 month. Our figure of merit, (the ratio of total sector revenues to installed PV generation capacity) for 2011 improved significantly to US$3.53 per watt by 24% compared to US$4.6 per watt in 2010. PV production volume is now dominated by manufacturing in Asia where China and Taiwan now account for about 74% of the world supply. Production by European companies declined sharply in 2011 to less that 6% of the global total. The EPIC Photovoltaic Report is is available to EPIC members as part of their membership benefits.

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EPIC MEMBER BENEFIT

Free Access to Technology and Market Report. Reports developed by industry / for industry!

REMINDER TO MEMBERS: ALL EPIC REPORTS ARE AVAILABLE AT NO ADDITIONAL COST To download, request your username/password with Martine Keim-Paray at keim-paray@epic-assoc.com
Telecommunications ECOC 2012 Symposium on Energy Consumption of the Internet 21 September 2012, Amsterdam ECOC 2011 Symposium on WW Developments in Internet Technologies - - 19 September 2011, Geneva Symposium on FTTH Technologies: Components, Systems, and Smart Design - FTTH Council - February 2010, Lisbon Lasers LIFT Workshop 2011 - 12 July 2011, Lannion LIFT / ALPINE Workshop on Lasers in Photovoltaics - September 2011, Bordeaux OPTECH Consulting Fiber Laser Report 2009 OLEDs & LEDs LED Mantech (Manufacturing Technologies) Report 2012 written by YOLE Dveloppement and EPIC members. Detailed analysis of front-end LED manufacturing processes, equipment and design trends (Commercial report). July 2012. Report on the Lighting Trade-Show LIGHTFAIR International - May 2011, Philadelphia Photonics Manufacturing HARLIN report on Manufacture of Photonics Components: A European Perspective published - February 2012 (Commercial report). Workshop on Manufacturing Processes for Photonic Devices - October 2011, Berlin Nanophotonics Nanophotonics Foresight Report - June 2011 Photovoltaics EPIC Report on Photovoltaics / PV Market Overview 2011 - August 2012 Silicon Photonics Workshop on Packaging and tests challenges for industrialization of silicon photonics - Laser World of Photonics, May 2011, Munich Biophotonics Workshop on Biophotonics Business / Opportunities and Challenges for European Companies - 1 October 2008, Paris An updated report will be available after the Biophotonics workshop on25 October 2012 Arab Gulf EPIC Mission to the Gulf States - 26 September -1 October 2009

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ENERGY CONSUMPTION OF THE INTERNET

ECOC Symposium Draws Crowds and Sparks Debate

Organized by EPIC and IBBT

EPIC and the IBBT of Ghent University presented the Symposium on Energy Consumption of the Internet at ECOC 2012. The presentations and panel discussion quantified the energy footprint of different components of the network: local access, core networks, data centers and user equipment. Electrical power consumption is not directly proportional to the level of traffic. While traffic growth is increasing at the current time at about 40% per year, electrical power consumption is rising at a rate of about 9% per year, according to a study presented by Mario Pickavet of IBBT. Electrical power resources, however are increasing at a far smaller rate, about 3% per year. At the present time, the internet consumes about 5% of world electricity generation. Paolo Frankl, director of renewable energies at the International Energy Agency emphasised the need to develop new green energy sources in the electricity mix, noting that more photovoltaic power was installed in Europe in 2011 than from any other source. Presentations from systems provider Ericsson and network operator France Telecom described efforts to lower energy consumption through installation of systems that can be dynamically reconfigured, allowing some parts of the network to be shut down during lower traffic periods. Early retirement of legacy equipment will also accelerate reductions in consumption. Results from the Eu project TREND (http://www.fp7-trend.eu) showed that the electrical consumption of the core network is dependent on the level of traffic, and this would be the best place to implement such innovations. The access network power consumption, on the other hand is not as strongly affected by the level of traffic. Peter Vetter presented the Green Touch consortium which has been formed by AlcatelLucent to focus on energy-saving strategies.

Stphane Gosselin, Orange Labs, France Telecom

Mario Pickavet, IBBT

During the panel discussion, it was learned that figures from energy consumption due to datacenter traffic are probably understated, because most of the available data predate the explosive growth in cloud-computing and video transmission. However, based on current trends, the power consumption of the internet should rise from 5% of total resources today to 8% of total electrical power generation by 2020.

Panel Discussion with, from left to right: 1. Marco Ajmone Marsan, U. Torino, TREND 2. Stphane Gosselin, Orange Labs, France Telecom 3. Peter Vetter, Alcatel Lucent 4. Mario Pickavet, IBBT 5. Bjrn Skubic, Ericsson 6. Paolo Frankl, International Energy Agency

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EPIC Members Shine in the Show at ECOC 2012

Amsterdam, 19 September 2012 Contact www.epic-assoc.com The exhibition at the European Conference on Optical Communications took place in Amsterdam 17-19 September 2012. Participation was up from last year with 329 companies and organisations making up the show. Twelve EPIC member companies exhibited new products and services: Aifotec, Fiber Optics, Fraunhofer Heinrich-HertzInstitut, Innolume, Oclaro, OpticsValley, Photonics Bretagne, 3S Photonics, Time-Bandwidth Products, u2t Photonics, Vertilas, and Yenista Optics. More than 5500 people visited the exhibition over the 3day period. Yenista Optics presented new tuneable lasers and filters The TUNICS highpower T100S-HP/CL laser provides an output power of at least 10 dBm over the whole tuning range from 1500 to 1630 nm. The demo by Etienne Decerle of Etienne Decerle that I Yenista Optics saw was doing quite a bit better. It guarantees a signal to source spontaneous emission ratio (SSSER) higher than 90 dB. Important innovations in the lasers external cavity design have been implemented, enabling significant increase in the output power and stability without any compromise on other specifications. Yenistas XTM-50/W and XTA-50/W wide bandwidth filters increase the maximum achievable bandwidth to 3 nm. The bandwidth is adjustable from 50 pm (6.25 GHz) to 3000 pm (375 GHz) with very sharp filter edges (500 dB/nm). The filters cover the 1520 to 1570 nm wavelength range and have an insertion loss of less than 5 dB in combination with a top flatness of 0.2 dB. The Fraunhofer HHI team demonstrated a hybrid InP-polymer tuneable DBR laser. The DBR tunes 34 nm across the C-band using a thermally tuneable polymer grating. Output power is larger than 8 mW. Direct modulation at 10 Gbit/s shows an open eye diagram. The hybrid laser consists of a curved-stripe InP-based gain chip and a N. Keil, H-J Grallert and W. Schlaak in front of the FhG HHI Laser Demo waveguide integrated thermo-optically tuneable polymer Bragg grating using HHIs PolyBoard integration platform. The Market Focus sessions, sponsored by Oclaro with 1700 people attending the seminar series. Presentations from HHI on photonic integration and from Oclaro on solutions for 100 Gbit/s transmission were among the highlights. Oclaro used the occasion to introduce its new logo, following the merger with Opnext on their stand which was the centrepiece for the ECOC Show. There was a significant presence of companies from China in the exhibition. Overall about 15% of the exhibition represented Asia-based companies. The products on display in the Chinese Pavillion are both more complex and cover a wider range of functionality that those proposed in previous years. The organisation under a national banner gave a new dimension to these offerings. B. Resan of TimeBandwidth Products meets with a client. P. Brgi of OpticsValley and D. Mchin of Photonics Bretagne

EPICs Director General Carlos Lee with W. Schlaak from FraunhoferHHI

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INDUSTRY ADVOCACY
As industry association we advocate for a regulatory environment that benefits our industrys interest. For instance we held 2 meetings with the European Commission on the topic of REACH and InP and GaAs. But there is also a need to spread the message within industry and the general public. With the support of our members EPIC has been quite active in recent months communicating on the needs and potential of Photonics related technologies. Market expansion, and promoting further applications of photonics related technologies is one of the major benefits that EPIC as an industry association can bring to its member and industry at large. We signed an MoU in Korea with international organizations, and joined Jury Panel of ISA Global SSL Showcase Top 100 in China. Public appearances include: Keynote presentation at Electronics Goes Green Blue Semiconductors and Photonics Panellist at Carbon Expo Supporting Transformation of Energy Efficient Lighting Industry Panellist at European Commission Exchange of good practice policies promoting the deployment of Key Enabling Technologies Participation at European Commission Workshop on Photonics KET (Key Enabling Technologies) Expert Validation Presentation at 3rd International LED & Display Expo in Korea Presentation at Europische F&E Frderung fr optische Technologien und Mikrosystemtechnik Presentation at Global Chemical Industry Sustainability Summit The Future of the Photonics Industry and what it means to Chemical Suppliers Presentation at InterOpto in Japan on European Developments in Solid-State Lighting and Photovoltaic Speaker at OptechBB (Cluster Optik BerlinBrandenburg) on European horizon in order to push internationalisation

MoU signed among organizations PIDA (Taiwan), DLEDA (Japan), KLEDA (Korea ), TEEAM (Malaysia), LEDMA (India ) and EPIC (Europe)

EPIC Director General makes keynote presentation at Electronics Goes Green conference in Berlin

Picture Fraunhofer IZM Matthias Stief

Articles Published by EPIC Members

Visible Light Communication. Broadband Communication from the LED Ceiling Light by Hans-Joachim Grallert, Head of the Fraunhofer Heinrich Hertz Institute. Energy Efficient ICT by Optics. Designing Low Carbon Footprint Optical Access Networks by Bart Lannoo and Peter Van Daele from INTEC, Department of Information Technology at the Ghent University. LED (Light-Emitting Diodes). A disruptive Technology and a New Lighting Resource by Carlos Lee, Director General of EPIC.

Do you want to support EPIC in publishing articles to promote the Photonics industry towards public authorities and the general public? Send your proposal to carlos.lee@epic-assoc.com 10 EPIC Newsletter October 2012, Vol. 9

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EPIC TRAVEL GRANTS AND UPCOMING EVENTS

EPIC Travel Grants
EPIC offers every year support to volunteers who will write a report on events of interest to our members. The purpose is to share among all EPIC members the highlights, key learnings, and items of particular interest of key photonic industry events. We are happy to report that the following events will be covered: EPIC will report directly about ECOC in Amsterdam, Netherlands EPIC will report directly about FiSC in Dresden, Germany VI Systems will report on IEEE Photonics Conference in Burlingame, California, USA Centre Nacional de Microelectronica (IMB) will report on mTAS, Okinawa, Japan ALPHANOV will report on Photonics West 2013, California, USA SAES Getters will report on Light Fair International LFI 2013, Philadelphia, USA

Upcoming Events

International Laser Symposium Fiber & Disc (FiSC) 16-18 October 2012 Dresden, Germany www.lasersymposium.de

CHINASSL 2012 9th China International Exhibition and Forum on Solid State Lighting 5-7 November 2012 Guangzhou, China www.sslchina.org

EPIC workshop on Biophotonics 25 October 2012 Paris, France www.epic-workshops.com/biophotonics2012/

VISION 6-8 November 2012 Stuttgart, Germany www.vision-fair.de

Congrs Fibre Optique 23-25 October 2012 Paris, France http://www.cien-expo.com/conferencescongres/congres-fibres-optiques/congresfibres-optiques

EPIC Business Roundtable on Photonic Sensors for Dual Optical Technologies for Aeronautic / Space / Defence & Security Applications 22 November 2012 Rennes, France www.photonics-sensors.eu

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PARTNER EVENTS

ForumLED EPIC members benefit 10% discount to the conference. 21-22 November 2012 Paris, France www.forumled.com

FTTH - Fiber to the Home Conference EPIC members benefit 100 EUR discount. Use discount code LOFTTH28 19-21 February 2013 London, United Kingdom www.ftthcouncil.eu/ftth-conference/welcome

Printed Electronics USA EPIC members benefit 30% discount. Use discount code PE-EPIC 5-6 December 2012 Santa Clara, CA, USA www.idtechex.com/printed-electronics-usa

World Sustainable Energy Days - Conference "LED - Innovative Lighting Solutions" 27 February - 1 March 2013 Wels, Austria www.wsed.at/en/programme/led-conference

Invest in Photonics Bordeaux, France 12-13 December 2012 www.invest-in-photonics.com

CS International 4-5 March 2013 Frankfurt, Germany EPIC members benefit 15% discount www.cs-international.net

Smart Lighting Valencia, Spain 6-8 February 2013 www.smartlighting.org

EPIC 10th Anniversary Celebration

Mark your calendar for next years anniversary celebration of EPIC. The event features: Guest Speaker and Keynotes Executive Round-Table International Press Conference Gala Dinner Sponsorship opportunities available!

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