Bookham Technology will acquire the business and assets of Cierra Photonics, a developer of thin-film filters and other optical components. Cierra has developed an Advanced Energy Deposition (AED) technology, which is a specialized process for wafer-scale deposition that results in thin-film components that will have lower costs, higher yields and better optical performance than conventional components. The acquisition was valued at £2.25 million. Cierra Photonics is based in Santa Rosa, California and has approximately 39 employees.
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- In September 2002, Bookham Technology and Cierra Photonics formed a technology and commercial partnership for WDM products, such as optical add/drop multiplexers (OADMs). Bookham Technology is contributing its ASOC design and manufacturing technology for fabricating integrated optical circuits on a silicon substrate, together with its integrated GaAs and InP tunable lasers and modulators. Cierra Photonics brings to the partnership its thin-film filters, based on the company's Advanced Energetic Deposition (AED) technology for waferscale integration. Under the two-year deal, Bookham will also be the exclusive distributor for Cierra Photonics' optical channel filters in Europe.
