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VI Systems GmbH
Company Description
VI Systems GmbH is a fabless developer and manufacturer of optical components. The company offers ultrahigh-speed 850nm VCSEL and photodetector chips, integrated circuits such as transimpedance amplifiers, VCSEL driver and modulator driver ICs. The product range includes also APDs, 1300 nm VCSEL and fiber coupled modules.
Contact Information
Hardenbergstr 7
Berlin
Germany
Press Releases
| VI Systems and Technical University receive “Green” Photonics Award
VI Systems GmbH and the Technical University of Berlin will be honored with The Green Photonics Award for Green Photonics in Communications. The Award recognizes outstanding contributions toward the next generation of optical networks that will operate with increased bandwidth and reduced power consumption.
January 11, 2012, Berlin -- VI Systems GmbH and the Technical University of Berlin will be honored with The Green Photonics Award during by the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE). The Green Photonics virtual symposium is held with the contribution of over 50 scientific papers in photonics research. In 2012 the Symposium is chaired by Dr. Stephen J. Eglash, Executive Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy at Stanford University in the USA.
The Award recognizes outstanding contributions toward the next generation of optical networks that will operate with increased bandwidth and reduced power consumption.
The Green Photonics Award will be presented on Wednesday, 25 January 2012 at the Plenary Event at SPIE’s Photonics West Conference and Trade Show in San Francisco, California. The conference exhibition runs from 23-26 January 2012.
VI Systems GmbH will attend the Photonics West exhibition 2012 in booth #4131.
About VI Systems
VI Systems GmbH, based in Berlin, Germany, is a fabless developer and manufacturer of optical engines and optoelectronic components for communication, industrial, and consumer applications. More information on VI Systems can be found on the Internet at: www.v-i-systems.com
About the Technical University of Berlin (TUB)
The TUB is located in Germany’s capital city in Berlin. The University is organized in seven schools with more than 320 professors and over 2,300 research associates. There are 30,000 students. On average 30 habilitations and 400 doctoral degrees are granted each year. More information on TUB can be found on the Internet at: www.tu-berlin.de
Press Contact:
George Schaefer
VI Systems GmbH
Hardenbergstrasse 7
10623 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 30 831 43 41
fax: +49 30 30 831 43 59
email: George.Schaefer@v-i-systems.com |
| VI Systems completes national project on 40 Gbit/s VCSEL com
VI Systems GmbH, a leader in ultra-high speed engines for data- and tele-communications reported the successful realization of the challenging goals of the HiTrans Project that was supported and managed by one of the major banks in Berlin (IBB). In this project VI Systems coordinated and led the efforts to develop serial 40 Gbit/s fiber-coupled small form-factor TO-can receiver and transmitter modules and including several related electro-optic components. The research consortium included national and international companies with particular expertise in their technical fields: Europe’s leading GaAs epi-wafer foundry, a leading foundry for silicon-germanium-based BiCMOS integrated circuits, a high volume manufacturing partner with expertise in flip-chip and wire bonding process steps and the German technical universities of Berlin (TUB) and Dresden (TUD).
Within the project integrated circuits (ICs) for current or electro-optically modulated lasers, and limiting transimpedance amplifier ICs for the PDs have been developed and prototyped. A high-frequency (40 GHz) transmitter and receiver packaging based on the proprietary integrated-packaging approach of VI Systems for flip-chip and wirebond sub-assemblies was completed. And the characterization of data transmission at ultrahigh data bit rates by using the latest high-frequency test equipment, and microwave and optical characterization techniques were performed. In the end the project partners demonstrated error-free data bit transmission over multimode fiber at 40 Gbit/s using the developed subassemblies and fiber-coupled modules. The power consumption of the receiver and transmitter modules is below 150 mW allowing integration into standard commercial SFP (small form-factor pluggable) transceivers. Additionally the small size (<6 mm x 6 mm) and the power consumption levels of the new prototype modules allows their integration into QSFP (quad small form-factor pluggable) transceivers with SerDes ICs, all at an expected low power consumption of 3W per module. The production of both single- and multi-mode fiber versions of the QSFP transceiver is possible.
The project and follow-on involvement of an industrial partner will enable scalable mass production at a low cost. Active Optical Cable (AOC) applications and IEEE 802.3bg standard extensions towards low cost low power applications can be targeted for follow-on product exploitation helping to move Berlin toward the technical forefront of the optical datacom components market
Product sample are available now.
Visit VI Systems at the Photonics West exhibition in San Francisco, CA from January 25-27 in booth #5217 |
| VI Systems ships first circular VCSEL arrays for data commun
VI Systems GmbH, a leader in ultra-high speed optical components for data communications, introduces the first circular chip arrays of its Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) with 7 channels for data rates of up to 5 Gbit/s per channel. The operating wavelength of the VCSEL is specified with 850nm. The chip arrays are available in a ringlike 6 + 1 channel configuration with one emitter in center.
The chip arrays are designed for wire-bonding as well as for flip-chip bonding. The VCSEL arrays can be contacted directly from the top and feature a high-speed pad layout.
Target applications are short reach and very short reach optical receivers and transceiver modules used in optical communication networks as well in chip-to-chip optical interconnects in the computer industry. Future serial standards at data rates at 28 Gbit/s are currently developed within Common Electrical Standard (CEI-25/28 Gbit/s), Fiber Channel 32 Gbit/s and Ethernet IEEE 40/100 Gbit/s as well as in a number of custom specific application.
About VI SystemTechnologies
VI System GmbH is a fabless developer and manufacturing company of optoelectronic components for communication, industrial and consumer applications based in Berlin, Germany. Originally spun-out of the Technical University of Berlin and the A. F. Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in St. Petersburg, Russia, VI-Systems GmbH offers laser and photo detector semiconductor chips and modules for applications in optical data communications and related consumer markets.
Press Contact:
George Schaefer
VI Systems GmbH
Hardenbergstrasse 7
10623 Berlin, Germany
phone: +49 30 30 831 43 41
fax: +49 30 30 831 43 59
email: George.Schaefer@v-i-systems.com |
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