FYI:
High Power Laser Startup Technology Ramps Up Activity
Record revenues and high yields reported
Semiconductor Laser International Corporation of Endicott, NY USA (Nasdaq: SLIC), a
manufacturer of high power lasers has announced that it has achieved yields that are much higher
than those achievable with conventional manufacturing technology.
According to the company, the achievement is a result of a USAF manufacturing technology known
as Desorption Mass Spectrometry (DMS) feedback control. SLIC has an exclusive 10 year license
for the manufacture of HPDLs (High Power Density Lasers ) from Wright, but recently hired
Dr.Keith Evans, formerly of Wright and the person credited with inventing DMS.
The process is MBE based; DMS optimizes the precision of MBE and, through a computer
feedback control system, it precisely and automatically corrects for any variations that may occur.
As a result, SLIC has been achieving yields never before possible in this area of GaAs high power
semiconductor lasers. Most recently, the company demonstrated the ability to reproduce detailed
growth structures on a run-to-run and wafer-to-wafer basis over a period of two and one half years
with virtually no variation in yield.
SLIC, which only went public in March (raising $7.1 million), is obviously ramping up. July orders
for its laser diodes totaled $350,000. Over this summer they have hired a number of key personnel,
all heavyweights in III-V optoelectronics, and began work on their new 60,000 square foot
manufacturing facility located in the Kirkwood Industrial Park in Endicott. First phase construction is
scheduled for occupancy in October and full production is expected to get underway in the 4th
quarter of '96.
Contacts and *new personnel:
Geoffrey T. Burnham, President & CEO
Tel: + 1 607 754 - 0112
fax: + 1 607 754 - 5974
* Dr. Glenn Kohnke, Processing Manager
* Dr. Kamran Mobarhan, Manager of Operations
* Dr. Xinqiao Wang, Manager R&D Development |
