The event where the latest advances are shared by the optics and photonics community in lasers, biomedical optics and biophotonic technologies, quantum, and optoelectronics.
Our minute of the event: Photonics West 2023, the place to be…
In addition to a strong emphasis on the commercialization of photonics and laser technologies, Photonics West 2023 reflected their importance in new application fields, such as medicine, energy, transportation and AR/VR and the significant economic impacts on global markets.
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The main discussions were about research in biomedical optics, biophotonics, industrial lasers, optoelectronics, microfabrication, MOEMS-MEMS, displays, quantum technologies, including quantum 2.0, and other similar topics with a focused, engaged audience. The product requirements with top optics and photonics suppliers at either of the two exhibitions, and participate in the strong industry program for learning about the innovation happening in our industry.
Yole Group was part of it with:
INDUSTRY PROGRAM: 3 sessions
- Co-Packaged Optics and Silicon Photonics for Data Center Applications – Wednesday, February 1st – 11:30am – 12:45pm: read more…
with Martin VALLO, Ph.D, Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Photonics and Lighting, Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group - MicroLEDs for Consumer Applications – Wednesday, February 1st – 01:30pm – 02:30pm: read more…
with Eric VIREY, Ph.D, Principal Analyst, Display, Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group - 3D Sensing for Consumer Applications – Wednesday, February 1st – 04:00pm – 05:00pm: read more…
with Ali JAFFAL, Ph.D, Technology & Market Analyst, Compound Semiconductor, Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group
CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
Martin VALLO, Ph.D
Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Photonics and Lighting
Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group
Wednesday, February 1st
Session: Next-Generation Optical Communication: Components, Sub-Systems, and Systems XII
10:45am – 11:00am: Global insights into the key photonics technologies enabling transceivers with terabit capacities
QUANTUM WEST
Eric MOUNIER, Ph.D
Market Research Director, Fellow
Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group
Tuesday, January 31st
Key note and Market Report
10:00am – 10:30am: How photonics will contribute to quantum technologies and applications
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CO-LOCATED EVENT: SPIE. AR | VR | MR
Zine BOUHAMRI, Ph.D
Team Lead Analyst, Imaging and Display
Yole Intelligence part of Yole Group
Tuesday, January 31st
Panel Chair and Moderator
05:00pm – 05:50pm: Reflective versus diffractive waveguides: what should the industry target?
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Martin Vallo, PhD
Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Photonics
Martin Vallo, PhD is Senior Technology & Market Analyst, Photonics at Yole Group.
He is specialized in optical communication and semiconductor lasers within the Photonics & Sensing activities at Yole Group. With 12 years’ experience within semiconductor technology, Martin is involved today in the development of technology & market products as well as the production of custom consulting projects.
Prior his mission at Yole Group, he worked at CEA (Grenoble, France), with a mission focused on the epitaxial growth of InGaN/GaN core-shell nanowire LEDs by MOCVD and their characterization for highly flexible photonic devices.
Martin graduated from Academy of Sciences, Institute of Electrical Engineering (Slovakia) with an engineering degree in III-nitride semiconductors.
Eric Virey, PhD.
Principal Analyst, Display
As Principal Analyst, Display at Yole Group, Eric Virey, PhD. is a daily contributor to the development of LED, OLED, and display activities.
Eric Virey has authored a large collection of market and technology products as well as multiple custom consulting projects on subjects including business strategy, identification of investments or acquisition targets, due diligence in buying and selling, market and technology analyses, cost modelling and technology scouting.
Thanks to his deep knowledge of the LED/OLED and display industries, Eric has spoken at more than 30 industry conferences worldwide over the last five years. He has been interviewed and quoted by leading media all over the world.
Previously, Eric has held various R&D, engineering, manufacturing and business development positions with the Fortune 500 Company Saint-Gobain, based in France and the United States.
Eric Virey holds a PhD. in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble.
Eric Mounier, PhD
Chief Analyst, Photonics & Sensing
Eric Mounier, PhD is Chief Analyst, Photonics & Sensing at Yole Group.
With more than 30 years’ experience within the semiconductor industry, Eric provides daily in-depth insights into emerging semiconductor technologies such as quantum technologies, the Metaverse, terahertz, photonics, and sensing.
Based on relevant methodological expertise and a significant technological background, Eric works closely with all of Yole Group’s teams to highlight disruptive technologies and analyze business opportunities through technology & market reports and custom consulting projects.
Eric has spoken at numerous international conferences, presenting Yole Group’s vision of emerging semiconductor technologies, markets, and applications.
Previously, Eric held R&D and Marketing positions at CEA-Leti (France).
Eric Mounier has a PhD in Semiconductor Engineering and a degree in Optoelectronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (France).
Ali Jaffal, PhD
Technology & Market Analyst, Semiconductor Substrates & Materials
Ali Jaffal, PhD is Technology & Market Analyst, Semiconductor Substrates & Materials at Yole Group.
He is deeply engaged in the development of dedicated collection of compound semiconductors market & technology products.
Previously, he worked at CEA-Leti (France) as a research engineer. His mission was focused on the design, growth and clean room processing of GaAs semiconductor nanowires for Visible-Infrared photodetectors. During its PhD, Ali deeply investigated the epitaxy (MBE) on InP nanowires-quantum dots dedicated to telecom applications.
Ali (co-)authored numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and a patent on III-V nanowires at CEA-Leti. He also delivered several presentations and was invited to numerous seminars within national and international conferences.
Ali Jaffal obtained his master’s degree and PhD in material science and optics from INSA (Lyon, France).
Zine Bouhamri, PhD
Activity Manager, Imaging & Display
Zine Bouhamri, PhD is Activity Manager, Imaging & Display at Yole Group.
He is managing the expansion of the technical expertise and the market know-how of the company.
In addition, he actively assists and supports the development of dedicated imaging and display collection of market & technology products, as well as custom consulting projects.
Prior to Yole Group, Zine oversaw numerous R&D programs at Aledia. During more than three years, he developed strong technical expertise as well as a detailed understanding of the display industry.
Zine Bouhamri holds an Electronics Engineering Degree from the National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (FR), one from the Politecnico di Torino (IT), and a PhD in RF & Optoelectronics from Grenoble University (FR).
Co-Packaged Optics and Silicon Photonics for Data Center Applications
Accelerating the adoption of Co-Packaged Optical Interconnects
Speaker: Manish Mehta - Broadcom Copper I/O is approaching a limit as data rates continue to move to higher speeds and more complex modulation. As the line rate increases for high-speed systems from 50G to 100G to 200G, losses through a standard system increase from under 10dB of loss to over 20dB of loss. As you reach 200G/lane, the board level complexity increases to where almost all board traces have a length that will exceed the loss budget to achieve even 1m DAC cable transmission out of the box. So how do you overcome this? Well, there are definitely great investments in technologies such as flyover cables and Active DACs. And these will generate meaningful adoption. But if you truly plan to scale, the right way to overcome this scale problem is to drive optical directly from the ASIC package.
CPO Opportunities & Challenges: A Transceiver Implementer’s Perspective
Speaker: Vipul Bhatt - Coherent While co-packaged optics presents an opportunity to reduce power consumption, it also faces several technical and business challenges. From a transceiver implementer’s perspective, the two form factors – CPO and pluggable – are competing choices available to the customers, and therefore, must play by the same rules of success in the transceiver market. We will describe this balance and conclude with an opinion on what it will take for CPO to compete successfully in the market.
MicroLEDs for Consumer Applications
Stacked-RGB micro-LED micro-displays for AR and MR
Speaker: James Kim - Sundiode (United States) We present the ongoing development of micro-LED micro-displays having vertically stacked multi-junction micro-LED pixels for application in AR/MR devices. Specifically, the micro-displays utilize RGB micro-LED subpixels that are stacked vertically in a single pixel, yet fully independently controlled, and thus allows full-color emission from essentially the entire area of the pixel. Stacking RGB subpixels in a single pixel eliminates the need for pixel-transfer processing entirely and reduces the pixel footprint to make single-panel, full-color micro-displays with high pixel density suitable for AR/MR devices, and offer improved color gamut from point-like RGB pixels. In addition, the Stacked-RGB micro-LED pixel design encompasses a novel concept in a CMOS drive scheme which significantly enhances the utilization of the small pixel area of a micro-display.
Single wafer platform for micro-LED displays
Speaker: Matthew Hartensveld - Innovation Semiconductor, Inc. (United States) Innovation Semiconductor's technology supports improved micro-LED display resolution, efficiency, and scalability. In place of mass transfer or other proprietary processes, Innovation uses a monolithic material system allowing fabrication of complete micro-LED displays on one wafer using only common process steps available in commercial foundries. Innovation has also developed novel color tunable micro-LEDs that emit light from 640 to 425 nm and can act as single LED pixels. Sizes from 500 µm to 2 µm have been demonstrated and maintain performance.
3D Sensing for Consumer Applications
Lasers for advanced optical sensing in consumer electronics
Speaker: Gerald Dahlmann - Coherent Semiconductor diode lasers have become ubiquitous in consumer electronics devices. Many advanced mobile phones and tablets contain lasers for various sensor functions, such as proxiity, autofocus, biometric and 3D scanning sensors. New use cases for lasers have recently emerged in augmented and virtual reality headsets, as well as in wearable devices. These applications are creating new challenges and driving the industy to develop lasers with higher efficiency, more compact form factors and expanding the spectrum of wavelengths. The paper will give an overview of the status of the industry and emerging trends. It will discuss laser technology platforms from the near-infrared to the mid-infrared range, and edge emitter as well as VCSEL diode architetures.
The Evolution of InP as a Key Enabler of Sensing Technology in Consumer Electronics
Speaker: Dr. Mark J. Furlong, IQE Plc, GaAs has been the mainstay of many recent developments in consumer product sensing, enabling new functionality in facial recognition and camera imaging to achieved, providing a much needed feature boost for mobile devices where technology innovation has been stagnating. But sensing is evolving to support future consumer electronics platforms with applications requiring devices which can detect and emit light at longer wavelengths, this enabling a raft of new technologies to be developed in healthcare, wearables and autonomous driving platforms as well as higher performance proximity sensing.