Europe sets up one-stop shop for photonics deployment support
Photonhub Europe has been awarded a 19 million euro investment from the EU’s Horizon 2020 program.
Bedrijf: Photondelta
Effect Photonics’ optical transceivers tune in to the market
It’s been quite the journey, but Effect Photonics is finally ready to take the telecom market by storm with its tunable optical transceivers. In doing so, it will give the Dutch Photondelta integrated photonics ecosystem a most welcome boost, too.
Photondelta takes a stake in photonics assembly foundry Phix
Phix has secured an investment from Photondelta, the public-private organization tasked with boosting the Dutch integrated photonics ecosystem.
Effect Photonics secures 8 million series-B funding
Eindhoven-based Effect Photonics has announced the successful completion of an 8 million euro series-B funding.
Government steps in to keep Smart Photonics Dutch
In a rare move, the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy (EZK) is investing 20 million euros to prevent integrated-photonics foundry Smart Photonics from falling into foreign hands.
A corona test for the masses
Dutch companies Lionix, Qurin and Surfix, along with public-private partnership Photondelta, have set out to unlock the potential of integrated photonics for corona testing. Their ultimate goal: a fast, reliable, yet inexpensive corona test.
Photondelta project takes PICs in space
Collaborating within the Photondelta Flagship project, the better part of the Dutch integrated photonics industry has started working with TNO’s Space and Semiconductor departments to qualify photonic integrated circuits (PICs) for space applications.
Technobis secures 7 million
Photondelta and ABN Amro bank are joining Active Capital Company (ACC) in funding Technobis’ efforts to scale up its integrated photonic sensing business.
Photonic myths
Thankfully, former Philips and NXP executive René Penning de Vries has injected the sector with a healthy dose of reality.
Building a billion dollar integrated photonics industry
Working in high tech for 35 years, René Penning de Vries has never seen more potential waiting to come to fruition. The technology, the ideas, the means: it’s all there. But creating a billion euro integrated photonics industry in the Netherlands will require a lot more hard work and persistence. “Our biggest pitfall is complacency,” says the chairman of PhotonDelta, a collaboration founded to steer the effort.
