Product category: Optical Transceivers, Transponders and Repeaters
News Release from: Bookham
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 30 May 2002
Silver medal for Bookham's Rickman
Dr Andrew Rickman, Chairman Bookham Technology, has won a prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for his outstanding contribution to British engineering
Dr Andrew Rickman, Chairman Bookham Technology, has won aprestigious Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal for hisoutstanding contribution to British engineering. Dr Rickman (42)founded the company in 1988 to capitalise on the explosion indemand for bandwidth that he anticipated, well before thecommunication boom really took off.
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 May 2002 at 8.00am (UK)
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He realised that there was ayawning gap in the market for components that could combinecomputing power with controlling light signals and set aboutfinding the technology to solve the problem.
Working with topuniversity researchers, Bookham came up with ASOC, a way ofintegrating processing and fibre-optic functions on a singlesilicon wafer.
The key advance was a rib-waveguide that conductslight around the circuit - and the beauty of using silicon isthat it is the best-characterised engineering material on earth.'Traditional fibre-optic networking components were bulkydevices with lots of different parts to integrate optical,analogue and digital technologies', says Dr Rickman.'We can achieve the same functionality in a single siliconchip and we can do it cheaper because we use the techniques thatthe semiconductor industry spent billions developing'.
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