Diversifying applications for Fibre Components and Implications for

Company Development

Dr Andrew Robertson – Director Product Management

Presentation Contents

• Introduction to Gooch and Housego

• Early history 1985 through 1999

• Telecom boom and bust

• Diversification– Fused product development

– Photonic Packaging

– Integration

• Case studies– Aerospace and Defence – PON demo

– Bio medical – OCT

– Industrial – fibre laser

• The future

Gooch & Housego Group

• Optical Components & Materials

• Lifesciences

• Inertial Confinement Laser Fusion (ICF)

Components & Materials Division

• Gooch & Housego is global supplier of precision optical components & sub-assemblies

– Acousto-optics

– Electro-optics

– Crystal Optics

– Fibre Optics

– Precision Optics

G&H (Torquay) capabilities

Formerly SIFAM Fibre Optics, the Company was

acquired by Gooch and Housego in May 2007

Capabilities are:

• Fused Components (passives)

• Photonic Packaging (actives)

• Integration (modules)

Fibre Optic Facility Basics

• UK Factory– 20,000 sq ft (ext. increasing by 7,000)

– ISO 9001

– 115 employees, 2 shifts

– Submarine qualified

• Czech Republic– Contract Manufacturing

– ISO 9001

– 45 fused operators, 3 shifts

Fused Manufacturing

Early History 1985 through 1999

• EDFA components– Fused offers highest

performance (low loss)– Fused offers highest

reliability (<1 FIT)– SIFAM became and

remains market leader

SIFAM – Sociéte Industielle pour la Fabrication d'Appareil

de MesureNumber of fibre optics disciplines undertaken in R and D,

Fused proved to be the technology most suitable for

exploitation

Telecom Boom and Bust

• SIFAM Fibre Optics was acquired by JDS Uniphase in Dec 1999

• During the first half of 2000, 2 new facilities were opened and headcount reached 916

• Principally manufacturing fused EDFA components for most of the major players including those engaged in sub sea repeaters

• Slowdown commenced in autumn 2000, by autumn 2002 JDSU closed all UK operations

• SIFAM Fibre Optics was established on 1st

October 2002, an MBO from JDSU, initially employing 32 people.

Diversification Strategy

• Retaining and developing the existing telecom business was essential, enabling;– Development of fused technology

– Introduction of photonic packaging

– Creation of integration capability

• New capabilities enabled targeting of new markets– Aerospace and Defence

– Biomedical

– Industrial

Fused Technology Development

• Developing the process and working in partnership with the fibre manufacturers

• 3 principle areas of focus– Improvement across the wavelength range, eg

development of very high specification 820nm couplers for fibre interferometers

– Ongoing development of polarisation maintaining (PM) fibre components

– Creation of high power fibre laser component capability

Fusion Process Development

Pulled

Ongoing development of control of process and heating

profile required for uniform low loss taper and optimum

device performance

light never leaves fiber

- robust device, high power

Photonic Packaging Capability

• Introduced in January 2005

• Actives design, manufacture, test and qualification

• Dedicated expert resource with extensive previous experience

• Fully equipped, purpose built, antistatic facility certified to ISO 9001/2000

Photonic Packaging Products

• Fibre pigtailed, recepticalized & free space sources– Lasers & LEDs

– SLEDs & SOAs

– DFB, FP & VSELs

• Fibre pigtailed & recepticalized detectors– APDs & PIN diodes

– Arrays

Integrating Optical Modules

• Full design or “build to print”, fibre routing,

components, PCBs

• Complete supply chain management of core

technologies

• Extensive knowledge of passive & active

components, power supplies, computer interface,

motion control

• Assembly technicians skilled in handling, routing and

splicing all types of fibres & components

Optical Integrated Modules

• OEM sub-assembly

• Turnkey systems

Case Study – Aero & Defence

• SIFAM was part of FONDA consortium 03 - 07. DTi funded group developing application of fibre based comms for civil aircraft

• Used telco photonics principles, developing components in line with harsh environment requirements and specific applications

• Built strong relationships with key aero industry companies and doing ongoing photonics business with them currently

• Culmination was the delivery to Airbus of a fibre based PON demonstrator in January 2008

• Gooch and Housego has filed patent relating to aircraft PON application

Aero & Defence modules

Case Study – Biomedical

• Market leading expertise in “short” wavelength fused

components led to significant activity in

interferometric techniques such as OCT (Optical

Coherence Tomography)

• Gooch and Housego is now supplier to leading OCT

application companies providing ophthalmic scanning

systems

• In many cases the customer takes an integrated

solution, comprising of passives and actives, design

and assembled

Biomedical modules

Case Study - Industrial

• Fibre Laser technology is similar to EDFA so was a logical market to approach

• Novel fibre components are required and high power handling requirement means that fused technology is the logical approach

Fused Combiner Technology

Fiber Bundle

7x1 waist 6+1*1 waist

Tapered Bundle

Cladding

MM Core

Double Clad Fiber

Buffer

SPLICE

The Future

• Gooch and Housego acquired SIFAM Fibre Optics in May 2007

• G&H (Torquay) continues to develop its expertise in fibre optics

• G&H increasingly utilises its strength across the Group, developing higher added value products

• Fibre coupled Q-switch & Isolator– Ilminster, Torquay, & Cleveland

– Holistic approach to manufacture of component using telecom manufacturing techniques

Advanced Component Roadmap - fibres

• Multimode power combiners

– 2x1 to 19x1

– Signal feedthrough

– PM feedthrough

• Large Mode Area (LMA) fibre

– High power pulsed systems

– Combiners with feedthrough

– Tap monitor devices

• Custom components

19x1 combiner waist

Custom combiner

Fibre Coupled Isolator

Fibre Coupled Q-switch

Presentation Review

• Introduction to Gooch and Housego

• Early history 1985 through 1999

• Telecom boom and bust

• Diversification– Fused product development

– Photonic Packaging

– Integration

• Case studies– Aerospace and Defence

– Bio medical

– Industrial

• The future

For more information contact

Andrew RobertsonProduct Management DirectorTel: +44 1803 407808Cell: +44 776 988 2657e-mail: arobertson@sifamfo.com

Key Points

• Management team

• Core technology

• Management team shareholders

• Contract manufacturing

• Strategy of diversification

• Strategy of moving up food chain– Recognition that existing customers are module

customers