专注于激光芯片--采访德国Innolume公司, 业务发展经理Alexey Shkolnik

                                                                                           德国Innolume公司, 业务发展经理Alexey Shkolnik

 1.     《激光制造商情》: Alexey , 您好！请为我们的读者介绍一下Innolume公司。

Alexey：Innolume的历史要追溯到2003年。Innolume 从一开始的很长一段时间里就实现盈利，多年前营业收入就达到数百万欧元，现在继续保持年均增长40%的发展势头。最初Innolume的团队有着把“量子点”技术商业化的想法，这个可以弥补砷化镓（GaAs）和磷化铟(InP)材料所欠缺的11XX-12XX nm波长范围，但后来Innolume大大地扩展了波长范围，现在能够提供780nm-1340nm之间的任何种类的激光二极管芯片。
 

Innolume 拥有从激光二极管芯片到集成光电子生产所需的垂直产业链的所有设备，包括两台工业级的MBE系统，整套晶圆处理线，独特的芯片谐振腔反射镜镀膜技术以及后端处理的自动化设备。我们主要专注于芯片的生产(目前每年产能超过1000万颗芯片)，Innolume拥有高度可靠的单模光纤耦合技术，用于样品阶段和小批量的现场制造，而在亚洲进行大批量生产。
 

2.     《激光制造商情》: Innolume 公司的产品系列有哪些，请介绍一下。

Alexey：我想把我们的产品分成几个类别：高功率单模激光器，高功率多模激光器，SLDs,增益芯片，SOAs，DFB, LEDs等。在所有这些类型产品里，我们的设备性能与可靠性在同行里都是处于领先地位。

3.     《激光制造商情》:据我所知，Innolume的产品涉及波长范围很广，那么贵司提供的激光二极管有什么优势呢？

Alexey：我们的优势在于可以基于标准产品的产品定制—由于我们现场拥有所有设备，我们可以调整现有的产品或者快速开发完整的新产品，并负责任地为客户提供顶级性能和高可靠性的产品，完全符合客户的目标规格需求。

4.     《激光制造商情》: Innolume 已经开拓了中国内地市场，包括也参加中国的展会，带来了哪些产品？

Alexey：目前阶段，我们主要集中在用于光纤激光器组件的高功率激光二极管产品，具体一点，我们的目标市场是光纤激光器的种子源应用。我们在此可以提几个比较热门的波长：1030纳米，1064纳米，1080纳米，我们可以根据需要提我们芯片可以覆盖波长范围内的供任何波长。
 

5.     《激光制造商情》: 激光源市场在过去几年增长较快，Innolume 公司是否从中受益并扩展了市场？

Alexey：在中国的市场发展尚处于起步阶段，然而在未来几年内，我们将开始与中国的客户一起，期待开拓更多的市场份额，共同成长。

6.     《激光制造商情》: 那么目前Innolume 在中国的存在与市场发展情况，可否进一步透露一下？

Alexey：我们是德国公司，要远程开拓中国市场是非常艰难的，我想介绍我司在中国的代理经销商--上海宽捷光电科技有限公司(Delight Photonics),是一家高效、可靠的合作伙伴。我们推荐对我们产品感兴趣的人士跟他们联系，可以从宽捷光电得到快速和专业的帮助。

7.     《激光制造商情》: 您如何看待中国激光市场，有什么期待？

Alexey：中国市场是一个很好的机遇，我们公司可不想错过在这里的机遇。也期待未来我们的产品可以在这里取得更多的份额。

1.     LMN: Would youplease make a short introduction of Innolume to our readers?

Innolume counting its history since 2003. Being a start-up for a long time Innolume became a profitable company with a multi-million revenue a few years ago continuously showing CAGR > 40%. Initially Innolume team had an idea of commercializing of Quantum Dots technology which would allow to cover the 11XX-12XXnm wavelength gap between GaAs and InP material systems, but later on Innolume strongly expanded the wavelength range and currently is offering any type of laser diode chips in 780nm-1340nm range.

Innolume runs full vertically integrated fab having in-house all required equipment for production of Laser Diode chip and Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC). That includes two industrial scale MBE systems, complete wafer processing line, unique proprietary laser chip mirrors coating and back-end equipped with automated machines. Mainly concentrated on the chip production (current capacity exceeds 10M chips/year) Innolume holds highly reliable single mode fiber coupling technology for prototyping and low volume manufacturing on-site and to run high volume production in Asia.

2.     LMN: What are the product portfolios of Innolume, and how many series do you have?

I would split our products in a few main categories – high power single mode lasers, high power multi-mode lasers, SLDs, gain chips, SOAs, DFB, LEDs, etc... Basically in all of these categories our devices are taking the leading positions by performance and reliability.

3.     LMN:As I know, Innolume have a broad range wavelength of products, what’s the advantage when you provide the laser diode?

Our main advantage is our flexibility in customizing of standard products–as we have all equipment on site we can adjust existing products or develop completely new ones very fast being always responsible for providing customers with top performance and high reliability fully meeting target specifications.

4.     LMN: What products does Innolume bring to Laser World of Photonics China 2016?

At this period we are mainly concentrating on the high power laser diodes which can be used as components for the fiber lasers, namely we are targeting to enter market of the seed lasers for fiber lasers. I want to remind that on top of standard wavelength e.g. 1030nm, 1064nm or 1080nm we can make any wavelength on request.

5.     LMN: The laser source market is growing well in the past several years, did Innolume benefit from this and extend your market?

We are starting to take off together with our Chinese customers expecting more volume in coming years.

6.     LMN: would you talk about the existence and market development of Innolume in China?

It is very hard to work on Chinese market remotely and I want to introduce our distributor – Delight Photonics, who has shown themselves as an efficient and reliable partner in China. We would recommend everybody who might be interested in our products to contact this company – they will get immediate and professional assistance.

7.     LMN: what do you think of China market and expectation? (any opportunity, or challenges ? )

It is a good opportunity and we will work on not to miss a good chance here. 

Johnny Li