ADC Forms Advanced Photonics Integration Center
Source: Compound Semiconductor staff
ADC (Minneapolis, MN) has formed the Advanced Photonics Integration Center, which will develop customized, integrated and fully-packaged photonics solutions.
The center, based in ADC s headquarters in Minneapolis, will draw on the company s human and technological resources in optical components for fiber-optic systems. A core team of engineers and product managers has already been established, and the Center should grow to 40 to 50 team members within the next year.
ADC has research and development/production facilities for passive and active optical components in Minnesota, New Jersey, Sweden, Denmark and Australia, as well as other ADC manufacturing facilities throughout the world.
"With five fiber-optic acquisitions in the last six years, including the purchases of Altitun and IBSEN Micro Structures in 2000, ADC has the critical mass to provide a broad range of active and passive optical components and modules and to develop innovative photonic technologies in-house," said Rick Masloski, VP and GM of ADC s Fiber Optics Division.
ADC has been manufacturing products for fiber optic applications since 1985. In March 2000, the company released its first active optical component, a 980nm pump laser diode and module, and sales and product performance have exceeded projections. ADC has recently expanded into tunable lasers (through its acquisition of Altitun), and is incorporating other key technologies, such as Phase masks and fiber Bragg gratings (from the IBSEN Micro Structures acquisition), as well as optical MEMS capabilities, into new passive and active components and modules.
ADC s Fiber Optics Division has achieved triple-digit growth, with 2000 sales running at an annual run rate of about $500 million. The company intends to leverage its expertise in photonics via the Advanced Photonics Integration Center to become one of the leading global suppliers of fiber-optic solutions for manufacturers of telecommunications systems.
See www.adc.com.
Contact: Rob Clark, ADC Corporate Public Relations, 952/914-6355, rob_clark@adc.com Mark Borman, ADC Investor Relations, 952/946-3338, mark_borman@adc.com
© 2000 Franklin Publishing. All rights reserved.
Rob Clark, ADC Corporate Public Relations, 952/914-6355, rob_clark@adc.com
Mark Borman, ADC Investor Relations, 952/946-3338, mark_borman@adc.com
© 2000 Franklin Publishing. All rights reserved.
E-mail: mark_borman@adc.com
Web site: http://www.adc.com
