Vixar extends its line of 940nm VCSELs

As part of Vixar’s commitment to serving the rapidly growing industrial and consumer sensor market, we are pleased to announce expansion of our 940nm VCSEL product line. The products are suitable for spectroscopic sensing, IR illumination, structured illumination and time of flight (TOF) sensors for 3D sensing and imaging and gesture recognition. The product line consists of multiple chip designs ranging from single mode, multi-mode and arrays emitting up to 4W of optical power. The 940nm wavelength is compatible with low cost silicon photodiodes while also reducing the visibility of the beam for unobtrusive sensing.

Performance, reliability and manufacturability are intrinsic to the designs, and are being produced on a high volume manufacturing line capability of producing 10’s of millions of units per month.

VCSELs provide advantages over both Light Emitting Diodes and conventional lasers in terms of their speed (for TOF applications), narrow spectrum (for compatibility with filters used to reduce the effect of ambient light) and compact packaging.

Vixar’s 940nm VCSEL designs are available in a variety of packaging options, including surface mount packages, chip on submount, and TO-can packaging, and can also be combined with optical elements such as diffusers or diffractive optical elements (DOEs).

Vixar’s full product lineup of VCSELs with wavelengths ranging from 660nm to 940nm, provides our customers with great flexibility in tailoring solutions to optimize for visibility, compatibility with detectors, and desired spectral and beam divergence characteristics.

Please contact us with your specific needs and requirements and we will help to craft the optimum solution for your application.

Sales contact:
Mr. Todd Schieffert
Vixar Inc
www.vixarinc.com
tschieffert@vixarinc.com
763-746-8045 X305

Vixar announces a family of high power 850nm and 680nm VCSEL arrays for consumer, medical and industrial applications

Applications include 3D scanning, gesture recognition sensors, IR illumination for security systems and medical scanning

Plymouth, MN: Vixar announces a family of high power Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL)arrays targeting consumer, medical, industrial and automotive applications. Samples are available at both the 850nm and 680nm wavelengths and are optimized for output power ranging from 50mW to 10W.

Applications include 3D scanning, gesture recognition sensors, IR illumination for security systems, medical scanning and medical low light laser therapy. The VCSEL arrays combine high power, high energy efficiency, narrow spectral width, narrow beam divergence, low speckle, and high-reliability characteristics into a single miniaturized light source. Custom die layout, packaging, and integration with optical elements such as diffusers or lenses can be tailored to the customer’s application.

“Vixar’s approach is to create products designed simultaneously for performance, reliability and manufacturability,” explained Klein Johnson, CTO and co-founder of Vixar. “In parallel with the product design we have established a production capability and supply chain that allows us to ship several million units per month of these high power arrays”.

Samples are available now in industry standard PLCC surface mount packaging and also on evaluation boards. For more information, please contact:

Todd Schieffert
Executive VP of Business Development
Vixar, Inc
763-746-8045 x305
tschieffert@vixarinc.com
www.vixarinc.com

 

About Vixar: Vixar is a high volume supplier of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) devices and subassemblies in the red and near IR. The company was founded in 2005 by a team with two decades of experience in developing and bringing VCSEL products to market. The company has a portfolio of standard chips and packaging, as well as the ability to customize products by wavelength, die configuration or alternative packaging.

CES 2014: Vixar VCSEL Technology Drives Wide Range of New Applications

January 5, 2014 CES: Las Vegas, NV: /from PRNewsWire / — Vixar designs, develops, and manufactures short wavelength (670nm to 1000nm) Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Lasers (VCSELs) in a variety of packages for multiple applications. Vixar is building a reputation for designing and developing “hard to do” VCSELs for new applications.

Vixar has invested heavily in 680nm (red) VCSEL technology, becoming the first to offer product in single mode and multi-mode packages along with multiple VCSELs in power array formats with additional investment in 770nm to 795nm as well as 850nm to 895nm wavelengths.

Vixar and Partners Demonstrate A Low Cost Revolution for Multi-Gigabit Optical Interconnect

January 2, 2013
Vixar Inc., Chromis Fiberoptics, Silicon Line, and Unive Inc. collaborate to demonstrate 1st POF-based compact mobile high-speed HDMI AOC.

Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, NV, January 2, 2013: Vixar, a supplier of high performance, energy efficient, optoelectronic components and subassemblies, has worked closely with Chromis Fiberoptics, Silicon Line GmbH, and Unive Inc. to be first to demonstrate a compact mobile high-speed HDMI Active Optical Cable (AOC) using Plastic Optical Fiber (POF). The demonstration will be at the 2013 International CES event (Booth #75508, located in The Venetian), January 8-11, 2013.

Data rate increases in standards-based media interconnect are beyond the limits of copper for practical cable lengths, yet the price of glass fiber is prohibitive for many applications from 3 to 100 meters. While copper is the lowest cost for the very shortest bandwidth-distance needs, it has severe practical reach (distance) limits, e.g., a few meters for USB

Vixar Raises $2.5M in Series B Funding from Phoenix Venture Partners

April 30, 2012

Plymouth, MN: Vixar, a supplier of high performance, energy efficient, optoelectronic components and subassemblies, raised $2.5M in Series B financing from Phoenix Venture Partners (PVP).

Vixar specializes in components and custom subassemblies of a type of semiconductor laser known as a VCSEL (Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser). These devices enable miniaturization and improved energy efficiency for wireless industrial and medical sensors, the reduction in size and cost of medical diagnostic equipment for personalized medicine, and higher speed, lower cost links for consumer-based networks and equipment. The Series B funding allows Vixar to put in place the personnel and processes required for expanding our strategic partnerships, customers, and scaling our production capability.

NSF awards Vixar a Phase I SBIR (Small Business Innovation Research) contract to develop a 40-100Gbps VCSEL

January 3, 2012

The NSF has awarded a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I contract to demonstrate the feasibility of a Composite Resonator VCSEL (CRVCL) achieving a 40-100Gbps serial data transmission rate. The continued rapid increase in Internet bandwidth demand requires higher speed data links at all distances, including within and between cabinets in servers and high performance computing, and even between and on boards within a cabinet. VCSELs have been the engine driving bandwidth increases at shorter distances (<300 meters) for more than a decade, but it appears that conventional VCSEL technology may be running out of steam somewhere between 20 and 30Gbps. Straightforward design enhancement of conventional VCSELs will not satisfy the requirements. The novelty of the design proposed in this project has been validated by the allowance of claims in our patent application. The approach avoids relaxation oscillation limitations on modulation speed through the use of a dual cavity VCSEL operated in a push-pull configuration. The goals of the Phase I project are to fabricate a CRVCL, demonstrate the push-pull nature of the modulation to a minimum of 20GHz, and demonstrate the elimination or dramatic reduction in relaxation oscillations.

In addition to allowing continued expansion of bandwidth in Storage Area Networks or High Performance Computing, a 40Gbps+ VCSEL will be essential for the development of optical interconnects within a cabinet or circuit board. Copper based interconnects are increasingly the limiting factor in system performance due to their size and power consumption, but the replacement by optical interconnects will require high speed per channel (40Gbps), very low power, high reliability, and low cost. Vixar’s concept addresses all four considerations. Higher speed devices feeds the bandwidth expansion allowing the continued improvements in business productivity, management of medical information, and entertainment options we have come to expect, and helps maintain the U.S. competitiveness and employment in the networking market. The reduction in power consumption helps achieve the industry and government goals for reducing the power consumption of data centers. Vixar personnel have a long history of commercializing VCSEL component technology and have already identified potential commercialization partners for a high-speed VCSEL.

For further information, contact Wade Campbell, at wcampbell@vixarinc.com or (763) 746-8045, x-305.

 

About Vixar:

Vixar manufactures high performance, cost-effective Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting Laser (VCSEL) products in the wavelength range from 650nm to 800nm. VCSEL based components and subassemblies enhance customer value for sensor and device applications within the biomedical, industrial, office product, military, automotive and consumer industries.

Our product offering includes both standard products and custom designed solutions. Vixar is dedicated to providing the highest levels of performance, consistency and reliability in our product offerings.