Members of NanOp

Infineon Technologies AG, Berlin / Munich Fiber Optics: Dr. H. Karstensen, Dr. K. Schulz Corporate Research and Development / Photonics: Dr. J. Heinen

In April 1999 the former semiconductor departement of Siemens AG was transformed into a separate company: Infineon Technologies AG. This step was taken in order to provide higher flexibility and increased financial independence in the rapidly growing and highly competitive market of semiconductors. Today Infineon Technologies belongs to the top 10 semiconductor manufacturers of the world.

Infineon covers all essential areas from R&D activities to large scale production and marketing. Thus Infineon has the great advantage of comprising activities as a research house, component manufacturer and systems house. The core technologies are mainly developed at the corporate division "Corporate Research and Development" supporting projects on research and basic development for material, product, and systems technologies in stategically relevant areas, such as VCSEL development. The work within the NanOp Consortium is strong related to the product development and will be performed in Berlin  and Munich.

Infineon Fiber Optics is one of the world's largest suppliers of fiber optic components for datacom applications in LANs, WANs and point-to-point connections. The main products are the ESCON-link for IBM and IBM-compatible mainframes and components for multi-standard applications like links for FDDI, Fiber Channel-, Ethernet and ATM-applications. Large parts of the business are optical connectors and jumper cables which includes special connectors and cables for parallel optical transmission.